Re: Printing Purchase Orders

Al Macintyre Mixmode 405 CD

Is there anything else running concurrently on your system that would 
logically be updating the POs that are being processed?  For example an MRP 
regen will update the MRP reschedule date in the POs.

Have you tried printing Purchase Orders when no one is doing any POs 
concurrently, to see if that makes a difference?  We have several people who 
enter POs then one person in the department who prints them.  It would be 
easy for us to stop PO input concurrent with the printing.

My understanding is that when anyone enters or updates a PO, it sets some 
flag saying to print this PO or PO change in the next PO print run, so if you 
have people updating POs at same time as PO printing, there would have to be 
some checking to make sure the two runs are not in same one.

When you say thousands of file locks ... are they all in the files related to 
the POs?

Do you seem to have adequate disk work space to spare? DSPSYSSTS 
How often do you re-IPL to reclaim wasted disk space?

Is this a new problem or one you recently figured out that might have been 
there for a while?

> From: RickCarter@holley.com
>  
>  AS400 Mixmode   ver 6.02
>  
>  When we print Purchase orders, our systems disk space spikes tremendously
>  during this process.  We typically print 200-300 PO's toward the end of the
>  day and when this happens our disk space usage will go from 80% to over 93%
>  in some cases.  We've noticed there's a tremendous amount of file locks
>  during this print time, in the thousands.   In some cases, PO's may be
>  being entered while other PO's are being printed.
>  
>  Any leads on what could be causing the file locks and disk storage spikes.
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