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"I'll chime in with my usual recommendation for handling Excel: Python and in this case xlrd. If you do this on the i using iSeries Python, then you can read the Excel file directly (as an IFS stream file) with xlrd, and write out to your database file using the i-specific features of iSeries Python. I can help with this if you want to try it. Also, there was a recent thread on this list or the RPG list about the difficulty of working with certain international data on the i; something about EBCDIC not suppo..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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