On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Walter Marguccio < [email protected]> wrote:
> > From: "McKown, John" <[email protected]> > > > > Supposedly, but I haven't actually tried. Look at: > > > http://poi.apache.org/ > > as always, thanks to everybody for your valuable input. > I'll try to answer to some of the questions which have been posed : > > we don't have SAS, nor DB2; > > .csv is considered not acceptable because it lacks features which .xls > offers (formatting, graphs, and so on) > > CPAN is worth a try, thanks to John for explaining why it might NOT work > on z/OS. We don't have C compiler, either. > > Radoslaw's comment about creating .xls on z/OS and not on a PC is surely > correct, I forgot that we > already offload some processes to distributed machines, depending on the > process. > As an example, if we need to produce a single .pdf file, we use TXT2PDF on > z/OS, pure. But if we need to produce > 3,000 .pdf files, we offlload TXT2PDF's execution on a Linux box. > Likewise, we can think of producing the raw data > on z/OS, offloading the creation of a .xls on a Linux box, where the > availability of programs to create Excels is wider. > > Sam, may I try your Cobol/assembler API ? > Walter - Yes. Please contact me offline (sam at pscsi.net) for details. Sam > > > Walter Marguccio > z/OS Systems Programmer > BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH > Munich - Germany > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
