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Status Not under consideration
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 5, 2013

Provide a parser to handle .xsl files which can map excel file to message tree

Provide a parser to handle .xsl files which could map excel file to message tree. It's better to provide one xsl node for parsing excel file.

Idea priority Medium
RFE ID 29971
RFE URL
RFE Product IBM App Connect Enterprise (formerly IBM Integration Bus)
  • Admin
    Ben Thompson
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    Oct 4, 2021

    Idea / RFE Review. Apologies for the length of time this RFE has been held in Uncommitted Candidate / Future Consideration status. As you may be aware, we have been pursuing a technical strategy for a few years now to simplify the ability of our integration portfolio when communicating with 3rd party SaaS based applications. This has largely involved new connectors for the Designer flow authoring tool, and in this tool we may in future expand to support some kind of Excel connector. Meanwhile, in the Toolkit flow programming model we are now unlikely to create a message domain / parser in support of Excel. As noted in previous comments, DFDL csv support and .NETInput nodes provide two alternative methods to get data from Excel into an ACE message flow and we feel these solutions provide good options for Toolkit flows.

  • Guest
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    Oct 7, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Integration
    Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Connectivity and Integration
    Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB

  • Guest
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    Oct 2, 2013

    Thanks for raising this requirement for an Excel parser, which we would like to implement in time. Today you can either export the spreadsheet data into a format that is easily parsed (e.g. a CSV file), or you could use a V9 .NETInput node to interact with the file directly using (for example) the C# APIs.

  • Guest
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    Oct 2, 2013

    Thanks for raising this requirement for an Excel parser, which we would like to implement in time. Today you can either export the spreadsheet data into a format that is easily parsed (e.g. a CSV file), or you could use a V9 .NETInput node to interact with the file directly using (for example) the C# APIs.