Reading data from a word document

srekant · Post by **srekant** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:15 am

Hi,

I want to read data from a word document and load to target.

How can i achieve this( reading from a word document (.doc) file).

I am working on DS 7.5 EE

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:34 am

There is no "driver" to do this in DataStage. The simplest way is to use Word to convert the file to a .txt file and then read that file into DataStage and I have seen tools that will convert a word document into other forms. The main problem is that Word documents can contain unstructured data which DataSage might be able to read but which won't be processable.