Hello,

I have some webfocus fexs that have to run on the mvs mainframe environment. These procedures are executed by report caster. Is there a way to position a excel template so the mvs procedure can find it from report caster.

Thanks

Dan Moyer

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Hi Dan,

Info from a case: Bursting an Excel Template document in ReportCaster is supported starting in ReportCaster 713.

If you still have questions, please contact Information Builders' Customer Support Services and open a case.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Kerry

Thanks

Dan you do not mention that you want to burst the reports just that you want to use a template.

Excel templates are supported in your version 7.1.1

The template files must reside in a PDS with a RECFM VB and LRECL 512.

You will need to allocate the PDS to a ddname of MHT

DYNAM FREE FILE MHT
DYNAM ALLOC FILE MHT DS xx.yy.zz SHR REU

where xx.yy.zz is your pds name

You can allocate the PDS either in the server start up procedure,
in the profile or in your focexec.

When you transfer the files to the PDS make sure you do so in ASCII.

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quote:

DYNAM FREE FILE MHT
DYNAM ALLOC FILE MHT DS xx.yy.zz SHR REU

Ok,

I tried

* File IA0033LF.fex
DYNAM FREE FILE MHT
DYNAM ALLOC FILE MHT DS PIA.IA0033LF.XLS.MHT SHR REU

-SET &ECHO=ALL;
SET BYDISPLAY = ON


Later in the program I put

ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'MHT' SHEETNUMBER 1
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,

Then I get an Error

Task error: UNABLE TO FIND DDNAME MHT

No report to distribute.

Any Help

Thanks

Dan

Did you upload your Excel template to PIA.IA0033LF.XLS.MHT? It's been a while since I've done this, but here is the little bit of documentation I put together:

To create the template, open EXCEL.
Insert a blank worksheet
Put blank space in first cell on blank worksheet
Rename sheets if you want
Under Tools, click Macro – Record
Name should be Auto_open
Copy data from sheet2 to sheet1
Do formatting (bold, underline, cell shading, cell sizes, etc.)
Stop Recording
Delete the data from sheet1
Save as mht file (i.e. tempx.mht)

Upload mht file to your MVS PDS, PIA.IA0033LF.XLS.MHT, and name it what you saved your Excel file as (i.e. TEMPX).

In your fex, change MHT to TEMPX:

ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'TEMPX' SHEETNUMBER 2

Dan,

The template file should be a member of a PDS
allocated to the DDNAME of MHT.
It is not a sequential file.