Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Fran Hensler
Richard - I often send CSV files with a .txt extension. I use a TAB X'05' as a delimiter which is the default for for .txt files. The files are sent to user's network drive. They start Excel, OPEN the file and Excel recognizes the TAB delimiters and automatically pulls the file into the spreads

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Dave Wade
Why Excel then? What about HTML, Postscript or PDF? Or to be really devious send them a REXX Script that runs in Regina, creates a spread sheet and then loads data in using OLE/COM/Active X. Kind of like using Windows as a batch processor Dave G4UGM Illegitimi Non Carborundum -Original

Re: z/VM not seeing storage from SAN

2010-04-20 Thread Raymond Higgs
Daniel, It's much easier to get info about an FCP channel with lszfcp. You don't have to remember those damn sysfs paths that seem to change with each new kernel :) To figure out a subchannel's wwpn do something like this: r...@m12-205:lszfcp -a -b 0.0.7800 0.0.7800 host64 Bus = "ccw" ava

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
Thanks to all who have been responding. I should have enough the keep me busy, er, busier. I will post when I have the solution or if I don't find one among the many suggestions. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@list

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
I have had so many things other than this going on and so many interruptions that I haven't had time to check out all the suggestions Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Martin Se

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Lionel Dyck
I've done some work with text to csv for z/os and never found a way to get the csv to open in a decent view in excel as a csv is the lowest common format. I did find that you can create an html table that can be opened in excel - take a look at www.lbdsoftware.com for the txt2html file - that code

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Edward M Martin
Hello Richard, You are sending a email with attached CSV file correct? Was the example I sent you not what was needed or am I missing something (very normal thing)? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@lists

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:27:09 -0700 Schuh, Richard said: >Does anyone know of a program to create an XLS file from a text file on CMS? >The >file can be sent as a CSV file attached to an e-mail; however, opening the CSV >file with Excel or other spreadsheet programs exposes a few formatting >problem

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
I want them to have a consistent view when it is received. I don't give a damn what they do with it afterward. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: Tuesday, April 2

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
...and you don't want to have to "futz" with Excel macros or scripts? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Les Koehler
You could use OORexx and its support for OLE to automatically fix the inconsistencies. Les Schuh, Richard wrote: Does anyone know of a program to create an XLS file from a text file on CMS? The file can be sent as a CSV file attached to an e-mail; however, opening the CSV file with Excel or

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Peter . Webb
Well if you have money to spend on this, Focus from Information Builders runs on CMS and can save output as HTML, HTMTABLE, PDF, PS, ALPHA, WP, DIF, EXCEL, EXL97, EXL2K, LOTUS, SYLK, TAB, TABT, COMMA, COM, COMT, DB2, FUSION, SQL, SQLORA, SQLDBC formats. I have tried a couple of these, and they do w

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
I certainly do not have Java on CMS :-) I do have Rexx, Pipelines and HLASM. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:31 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
You would have to ask the ISO folks. That is what they specified. I suspect they want to play with it using secret macros. Regards, Richard Schuh > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Schmiedge > Sent: Tuesday

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
Are there programs to do that conversion in CMS? I am not familiar with the SYLK format. Regards, Richard Schuh From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Stace Cameron Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:57 AM To: IBMVM@

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread McKown, John
What languages do you have available? If you have a current Java, then I'd suggest looking at Apache:POI http://poi.apache.org/ John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Ron Schmiedge
Richard, I've a dumb question to ask - why does the CMS file have to be opened by a spreadsheet program? On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Schuh, Richard wrote: > Right now, I am creating a csv file using tab (x'05', which is also the > default field separator in Pipelines) characters as a sep

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
Right now, I am creating a csv file using tab (x'05', which is also the default field separator in Pipelines) characters as a separator. Since I do not have control of the width of cells, I need to be able to selectively specify whether to align right or left and top or bottom in the cells of a

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Edward M Martin
Hello Richard Schuh, We have quite a few CSV files that are sent via email as attachments being opened by Excel without problems other that the making the cell large enough for the number to readable. xx versus 123456, and double click on the column expands it. The files are comma deli

Re: z/VM not seeing storage from SAN

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Tate
No such file exists.. this is the structure of that directory [root] zvmtestd:/sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.5000# ls availability devtype host37 online port_remove uevent card_version driverin_recovery peer_d_id port_rescan cmb_enablefailedlic_versio

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Stace Cameron
Another possibility is the symbolic link format file (SYLK). .

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Wandschneider, Scott
I create several text files on CMS where I use the > or < character as a delimiter and surround special text with ". Thank you, Scott From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:27 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSER

Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-20 Thread Schuh, Richard
Does anyone know of a program to create an XLS file from a text file on CMS? The file can be sent as a CSV file attached to an e-mail; however, opening the CSV file with Excel or other spreadsheet programs exposes a few formatting problems/inconsistencies that must be fixed by manual manipulatio

Re: z/VM not seeing storage from SAN

2010-04-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
It looks like you are not getting logged into the fabric (which you should be able to check from the SE Fabric Login Status page) (see page 19 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4125.pdf ) If you aren't, switch log reviews may be the next step. FWIW, i have the exact same messages a

Re: z/VM not seeing storage from SAN

2010-04-20 Thread Richard Troth
I am a little confused about what WWPN goes where in your case. Based on prior email, C05076FAE3000400 is the WWPN of your virtual FCP adapter (because NPIV is in place). It starts with a "C". But 50060E80042CC20C looks to me more like a storage side WWPN. What is the "real WWPN" of your FCP ad

Re: z/VM not seeing storage from SAN

2010-04-20 Thread Chip Davis
On 4/20/10 13:13 Daniel Tate said: This is the output from SCSIDISC DEBUG. INFO::Choosen FCP Sub-Channel Device(s)=ALL DEVICES ... from all the available chooses ... :-) INFO::For 5000 Choosen WWPN(s)=ALL WWPNs At least it's consistent... :-/ -Chip-

Re: z/VM not seeing storage from SAN

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Tate
To answer someone's earlier question, yes, we've seen every redbook imaginable related to this, tried to do a direct zfcp attach, set edev. I can't give too much info away about our organization but we are using cisco san switches, if that makes a difference. Both the perm and the virtual WWPNs