With this dialog you can modify the query, change the query name, and use the 'Advanced Editor' function (near the upper left) to edit the SQL statement. Selecting the EDIT option opens the dialog box shown in Fig. If you close the 'Queries & Connections' pane, you can reopen it using the 'Queries & Connections' item on the Data ribbon. Note, there is also a refresh icon to the right of the query name and clicking it refreshes the data in spreadsheet. The options in this window provide functions to edit the query and do several other things that are beyond the scope of this technote. If you hover your mouse over the spreadsheet icon just to the left of the query name (it was given a default name of Query1), you get a pop-up window as shown in Fig. Note the 'Queries & Connections' item to the right of the data. Press 'Load' and it loads the data into the spreadsheet and saves the query in it as shown in Fig. 1b.Ĭlick OK and it makes an ODBC connection, run the query and display the results in a table as shown in Fig. Select the data source to connect to Db2 on IBM i and expand the 'Advanced options' twistie and type in your select statement in the 'SQL statement (optional)' section as shown in Fig. Start by opening a blank worksheet and selecting the Data ribbon, then 'Get Data', 'From Other Sources' and select 'From ODBC' as shown in Fig.

In the following examples, Excel 2016 was used but the features exist in older versions of Excel as well.

This technote demonstrates two different ways to retrieve data by using an ODBC data source (DSN) which was previously created and finally by using a DSN-less connection. Excel features a Data ribbon in which you can select different ways to import data into Excel. While the data transfer tools provided by IBM can certainly retrieve data for use in Excel, they are not the easiest nor the most functional way to do that.

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