IBM i series Handbook page 719

• For Lotus users:
– Support for 97 Edition file types .123 is added. The .WK4 file type was previously
supported. Both of these Lotus file types include the capability to read and write
records to multiple sheets within a single workbook. These file types are also included
in the Create iSeries Database File wizard.
– Support for numeric formula cells in Excel and Lotus sheets. Previously the formula
cells were ignored and the default value of the field type was used. Data Transfer now
determines if the formula is for a numeric value, and if so, pulls the result of the
formula from the cell and passes it to the iSeries database file. If the formula does not
resolve to a numeric value, Data Transfer will continue to pass the default value for the
cell type.
• Data Transfer changes:
– Additional support for e-business (Web serving). Default autosize for HTML
downloads is 128 KB. Now users can change this value. HTML details panel now
includes support for writing to a UTF-8 file (used by Netscape Navigator and Internet
Explorer). This allows Web pages to contain characters from many different character
sets.
– APIs provided for Data Transfer. In response to customer requests for a way to have
programmatic control over transfer requests, ActiveX automation objects have been
added to meet these requests. Both high-level and low-level interfaces are provided.
The high-level interface provides a fast path approach for running database transfers.
It requires minimal input and defaults many behaviors. The low-level interface
provides programmatic access to most aspects of the Data Transfer GUI application,
including the ability to create and save transfer requests.
– Support of BIGINT data types. Data Transfer now supports this new column type for
upload and download. For some files types (such as BIFF and WK4 where double is
the largest numeric value supported), rounding may occur. Users will be warned when
this happens. The BIGINT data type is not supported when using DOS Random, DOS
Random2, and BASIC Random file types.
– Support of floating point. Data Transfer now supports float and double columns for
upload and download. Floating point data types are not supported when using DOS
Random, DOS Random2, and BASIC Random file types.
– An option was added to Data Transfer Properties, Connections page, to allow users to
configure which User ID to use with a specific transfer request when it connects to an
iSeries.
• Other usability improvements include:
– A Status Bar added to the main Data Transfer windows and an SSL icon will appears
if Data Transfer is connected over SSL
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