Re: Workstation Data Areas

Check the Logic Manual in BPCS On-Line Documentation - there are tons of work 
areas created for all sorts of purposes, based on work station name - you 
never want a base name longer than 8 characters.

We have the added headaches that: 

we are not interested in the tons of audit trail reports generated by BPCS 
updates, so as a general rule we just put everything on hold, and let users 
release as needed, what they want, moving it to relevant printer if 
neccessary;

we have groups of people within departments who need to extract each other's 
reports; so I made the user group able to look at anyone's reports & tell 
everyone that there is no such thing as a confidential report, so watch what 
you leave on hold indefinitely;

users responding to printer "error" messages have a tendency of not reading 
the message & assuming the message is the more common one of "unneccessary" 
alignment, so we changed all printer defaults to not ask for alignment unless 
absolutely called for.

Every night after backup, I clear the joblogs printer spool unless someone 
has reported to me some problem needing our attention.  I would like to be 
doing the same to some user print spools, if we only had some rules of thumb 
which can be deleted how fast --- eg. modify ORD500 CL to send audit trail to 
a spool that will be purged regularly.

Al Macintyre
Programmer
Central Industries

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