In this working example, we establish an SQL table which contains the spreadsheets we'd like to have generated. Each row in the table includes the query that will supply the data for the spreadsheet, and the location in the IFS where the spreadsheet should reside. Further, a different procedure emails the spreadsheets to an interested consumer. …

Generating spreadsheets with SQL.sql

-- =================================================================
-- Author: Scott Forstie
-- Email : forstie@us.ibm.com
-- Date  : January 10, 2020
-- =================================================================

--
-- Setup:
-- 1) create and populate the spreadsheet generator table
-- 2) change the procedure source code:
--   2a) Use ACS to upload acsbundle.jar to /home/acs/acsbundle.jar
--   2b) Change forstie@us.ibm.com to your email address. <==== Please don't email me your spreadsheets :)
--   2c) Change /system=COMMON1 to use the name of your IBM i
--   2d) Change the ADDUSRSMTP user profile to be your user profile
--
cl: STRTCPSVR SERVER(*SMTP)  ;
cl: ADDUSRSMTP USRPRF(SCOTTF);

create schema coolstuff;
 
create table coolstuff.spreadsheet_generator
 (IFS_PATH varchar(1000),
  Spreadsheet_query varchar(10000)
  ); 

truncate coolstuff.spreadsheet_generator;
insert into coolstuff.spreadsheet_generator
 values ('/home/SCOTTF/systemnameGroupPTFCurrency', 
         'SELECT * FROM systools.group_ptf_currency');
insert into coolstuff.spreadsheet_generator
 values ('/home/SCOTTF/top10spool', 
         'select user_name, sum(size) as total_spool_space from qsys2.output_queue_entries_basic group by user_name order by total_spool_space desc limit 10');
insert into coolstuff.spreadsheet_generator
 values ('/home/SCOTTF/ALLOBJusers', 
         'select authorization_name,status,no_password_indicator,previous_signon,text_description
  from qsys2.user_info where special_authorities like ''''%*ALLOBJ%'''' or authorization_name in (select user_profile_name
  from qsys2.group_profile_entries where group_profile_name in (select authorization_name
  from qsys2.user_info where special_authorities like ''''%*ALLOBJ%'''')) order by authorization_name');
  
select * from coolstuff.spreadsheet_generator;
stop;

--
-- 1 time setup:
-- =============
-- a) Locate ACS (acsbundle.jar) in the IFS at /home/acs/acsbundle.jar
-- b) Update the code below to use the name of your system
--    change COMMON1 to your system name
--    If you're on IBM i 7.3 or higher, with a current Db2 PTF group, just query QSYS2.SYSTEM_STATUS_INFO.
--    select partition_name from qsys2.system_status_info
--
create or replace procedure coolstuff.generate_spreadsheets()
begin
  declare cmdtext clob(2k);
  declare v_cmdstmt varchar(2000);
  declare v_ifs_path varchar(1000);
  declare v_ifs_full_path varchar(2000);
  declare v_spreadsheet_query varchar(10000);
  declare not_found condition for '02000';
  declare at_end integer default 0;
  declare spreadsheets cursor for
    select ifs_path, spreadsheet_query
      from coolstuff.spreadsheet_generator;
  declare continue handler for sqlexception set at_end = 1;
  declare continue handler for not_found set at_end = 1;
  open spreadsheets;
  fetch from spreadsheets into v_ifs_path, v_spreadsheet_query;
  while (at_end = 0) do
    set v_ifs_full_path = v_ifs_path concat lpad(month(current date), 2, 0) concat
          lpad(day(current date), 2, 0) concat year(current date) concat '.xlsx';
    set cmdtext =
  'STRQSH CMD(''java -Dcom.ibm.iaccess.ActLikeExternal=true -jar /home/acs/acsbundle.jar '
          concat '/plugin=cldownload /system=COMMON1 /clientfile=' concat v_ifs_full_path
          concat ' /sql="' concat v_spreadsheet_query concat '"'')';
    --    call systools.lprintf('Speadsheet being generated: ' concat v_ifs_full_path);
    call qsys2.qcmdexc(cmdtext);
    set v_cmdstmt =
        'SNDSMTPEMM RCP((''forstie@us.ibm.com'' *pri)) SUBJECT(''COMMON1 report:' concat
          v_ifs_full_path concat ''') NOTE(''Common1 report ' concat
          lpad(month(current date), 2, 0) concat lpad(day(current date), 2, 0) concat
          year(current date) concat ''') ATTACH(''' concat v_ifs_full_path concat ''')';
    --    call systools.lprintf('Speadsheet being emailed: ' concat v_ifs_full_path);
    call qsys2.qcmdexc(v_cmdstmt);
    fetch from spreadsheets into v_ifs_path, v_spreadsheet_query;
  end while;
  close spreadsheets;
end; 
stop;

call coolstuff.generate_spreadsheets();

stop;
create or replace procedure coolstuff.email_spreadsheets ()
begin
  declare cmdtext clob(2k);
  declare v_cmdstmt varchar(2000);
  declare v_ifs_path varchar(1000);
  declare v_ifs_full_path varchar(2000);
  declare v_spreadsheet_query varchar(10000);
  declare not_found condition for '02000';
  declare at_end integer default 0;
  declare spreadsheets cursor for
    select ifs_path, spreadsheet_query
      from coolstuff.spreadsheet_generator;
  declare continue handler for sqlexception set at_end = 1;
  declare continue handler for not_found set at_end = 1;
  open spreadsheets;
  fetch from spreadsheets into v_ifs_path, v_spreadsheet_query;
  while (at_end = 0) do
    set v_ifs_full_path = v_ifs_path concat lpad(month(current date), 2, 0) concat
          lpad(day(current date), 2, 0) concat year(current date) concat '.xlsx';
    call systools.lprintf('Speadsheet being emailed: ' concat v_ifs_full_path);
    set v_cmdstmt =
                  'SNDSMTPEMM RCP((''forstie@us.ibm.com'' *pri)) SUBJECT(''COMMON1 report'') NOTE(''Common1 report '
                    concat lpad(month(current date), 2, 0) concat
                    lpad(day(current date), 2, 0) concat year(current date) concat
          ''') ATTACH(''' concat v_ifs_full_path concat ''')';
    call qsys2.qcmdexc(v_cmdstmt);
    fetch from spreadsheets into v_ifs_path, v_spreadsheet_query;
  end while;
  close spreadsheets;
end; 
stop;

call coolstuff.email_spreadsheets();

stop;

-- Create the spreadsheets on a schedule
cl: ADDJOBSCDE JOB(SSHEETS) CMD(RUNSQL SQL('call coolstuff.generate_spreadsheets()') COMMIT(*NONE) NAMING(*SQL)) FRQ(*WEEKLY) SCDDATE(*NONE) SCDDAY(*ALL) SCDTIME(235500)   ;

stop;

--
-- description: Review the setup
--
select *
  from qsys2.scheduled_job_info
  where scheduled_job_name = 'SSHEETS';

I ran the above sql query and it had no records returned.

WRKPTFGRP SF99704 also displays nothing.

Running the following sql shows I am on V7R5M0 TR3:

SELECT CURRENT SERVER CONCAT ' is running ' CONCAT PTF_GROUP_TARGET_RELEASE
CONCAT ' with TR level: ' CONCAT PTF_GROUP_LEVEL AS TR_LEVEL
FROM QSYS2.GROUP_PTF_INFO WHERE PTF_GROUP_DESCRIPTION = 'TECHNOLOGY REFRESH'
AND PTF_GROUP_STATUS = 'INSTALLED' ORDER BY PTF_GROUP_TARGET_RELEASE,
PTF_GROUP_LEVEL DESC
LIMIT 1;

Sorry, this is the query you'll need to run.

select ptf_group_level
from qsys2.grouP_ptf_info
where ptf_group_name = 'SF99950' and
ptf_grouP_status = 'INSTALLED'
order by ptf_group_level desc
limit 1;

The TR level is different from the Database PTF Group level.
Database enhancements ship in the Database PTF Group.

Sorry, this is the query you'll need to run.

select ptf_group_level from qsys2.grouP_ptf_info where ptf_group_name = 'SF99950' and ptf_grouP_status = 'INSTALLED' order by ptf_group_level desc limit 1;

It displays a 5.

Verified also with WRKPTFGRP SF99950. Level 5 and Level 4 have status 'INSTALLED' .

You are exactly where you need to be.
I had hoped to avoid this, but could you please open an IBM Support ticket?

Thank you Scott for your patience and your assistance! Your willingness to assist is what is remembered. I will submit an IBM Support ticket.

Thank you Scott for your patience and your assistance! Your willingness to assist is what is remembered. I will submit an IBM Support ticket.

A ticket was submitted to IBM Support. It is as I had expected; there was a third party Excel solution in the /qibm/userdata/java400/EXT folder. After removing the third party software (in this case it was the Apache POI jar files - 3 of them) from the folder it all started working again.

Ok then!
Thank you for closing the loop on the difficulty.

@VincentKKwan - What exactly were the problematic files? I am getting the "FAILED WITH SQLCODE=-438 SQLSTATE=VSP05" error.

We are on 7.4 and just upgraded to level 26, so GENERATE_SPREADSHEET is brand new for us.

We do have a bunch of files in that directory, but I have no idea what they are, or whether they are needed for something else.

@jkyeung the poi files that caused us problems were specifically (where 20081019 is just the date in yyyymmdd):

/qibm/userdata/java400/EXT/poi-contrib-3.2-FINAL-20081019.jar
/qibm/userdata/java400/EXT/poi-scratchpad-3.2-FINAL-20081019.jar
/qibm/userdata/java400/EXT/poi-3.2-FINAL-20081019.jar

hope this helps?

Thanks. We definitely don't have any of those. But maybe other JARs also interfere with GENERATE_SPREADSHEET.

Just curious - was POI still being used? If so, were you able to keep using it despite removing those three files?

@jkyeung We moved the 3 Apache POI jar files out of the /qibm/userdata/java400/EXT folder and placed them in a new folder. We then changed the CLASSPATH environment variable on the IBM i to explicitly include the 3 jar files by their fully qualified name so that programs could continue to work.

@VincentKKwan - Thanks, that's a helpful strategy to know. It sounds like something everyone learns if they work with Java on IBM i enough.