Yes, Apache POI (the Java API for Microsoft Documents) should be able to create Microsoft Excel (.xls) format files on z/OS. It's a set of Java APIs, of programming libraries. You would install and use it just as you would any other Java APIs on z/OS. xlsx4j (docx4j) is another possibility if you're OK with .xlsx format. There may be others.
To give some more specific advice, what's the "workflow"? You're starting from what on z/OS (program? data?), and then you want a user with Microsoft Excel to be able to do what? Your status quo and questions imply a batch-oriented workflow, and that might not be what the end users actually want, but regardless it'd be helpful to understand the end-to-end process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
