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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 11, 2023

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In ACS on the command line when you run a transfer from IBM i to excel without a dtfx you can not specify the locale values such as date format or decimal point

Anybody using ACS and doing batch transfer of data. This is a basic setting in countries outside US and it is blocking larger adoption of this functionality.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Maria del Carmen Ruvalcaba Cevallos
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    |     Dec 12, 2023

    The CAAC has reviewed this IBM Idea.

    We agree with IBM's assessment.

    Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual IBM Ideas on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your Idea.

    For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac

    Carmelita Ruvalcaba - CAAC Program Manager

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 30, 2023
    If you need additional assistance getting the provided solution to work, please contact the IBM Service team. Since the requested enhancement is already available by changing the locale as specified, this request is being Declined.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 12, 2023
    The external comments seem to be having issues so I'll try again...

    Setting these JVM properties from the command line should change the locale:
    -Duser.language=de
    -Duser.country=DE

    However, testing on my Windows PC with the above properties does not seem to work correctly...not sure why but either an issue with Windows or the JVM.

    However, when setting the locale within ACS to de_DE from Edit-->Preferences and restarting ACS does impact the format of the date. Also, the following works correctly when running on the IBMi:
    JAVA CLASS('/QIBM/ProdData/Access/ACS/Base/acsbundle.jar') PARM('/plugin=cldownload' '/system=localhost' '/hostfile=library/dates' '/display') PROP((user.language de) (user.country DE))

    For example, here is the date format I get when using my default locale in the US:
    03/27/96

    And here is the output I get for German when I specify PROP((user.language de) (user.country DE):
    27.03.96

    So it should just be a matter of finding the correct language and country combination that will work for you. Please confirm.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 12, 2023
    Setting these JVM properties from the command line should change the locale:
    -Duser.language=de
    -Duser.country=DE

    However, testing on my Windows PC with the above properties does not seem to work correctly...not sure why but either an issue with Windows or the JVM.

    However, when setting the locale within ACS to de_DE from Edit-->Preferences and restarting ACS does impact the format of the date. Also, the following works correctly when running on the IBMi:
    JAVA CLASS('/QIBM/ProdData/Access/ACS/Base/acsbundle.jar') PARM('/plugin=cldownload' '/system=localhost' '/hostfile=library/dates' '/display') PROP((user.language de) (user.country DE))

    For example, here is the date format I get when using my default locale in the US:
    03/27/96

    And here is the output I get for German when I specify PROP((user.language de) (user.country DE):
    27.03.96

    So it should just be a matter of finding the correct language and country combination that will work for you. Please confirm.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 12, 2023
    Thank you for submitting your Idea to enhance IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS). The default format of the date, time, and decimal separator is determined by the locale of the Java Virtual Machine which inherits its default from the host Operating System. If we provided a way to override the locale from the command line to the various locales we support from the ACS main GUI at Edit-->Preferences, Locale (see the values in the dropdown box), would that satisfy the request? Then the various formats would be determined by the provided locale. Or do you need to be able to specify the various date, time, and decimal format options explicitly from the command line?

    IBM Power Systems Development
    3 replies

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