Re: BIL500

I understand what you think I said.

  All billing jobs run from same JOBQ.  Each batch is run one at a time,
submitted consecutively from the JOBQ.  The use of multiple workstations is
at the time the job is placed in the JOBQ for processing, 6.0.04 will not
allow you to submit multiple BIL500 jobs to the JOBQ from the same
workstation.

-----Original Message-----
From: MacWheel99@aol.com <MacWheel99@aol.com>
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: BIL500


>As a 405 CD user, I am surprised that running same identical task in
>different JOBQ has only the one contribution messing up, and that a
>difference between V4 & V6 is that you need 10 work stations to do what V4
>only needed 1 work station to do.
>
>Is the execution time duration of this such that you cannot send them to
run
>one behind the other in the same JOBQ?
>
>Before launching our one batch, we have a Query to list which customer
orders
>are coded "in use", then when no one on the system actually updating any
>more, we exit this status, since we know that co-workers have abnormal
>terminations & do not notify MIS so that we can resolve the implications,
>until such time as they cannot get into those orders again.
>
>>  6.0.04  MM  April Cum
>>
>>  We submit invoicing (BIL500) to batch in its own job queue to run @ 8:00
PM
>>  each night.  Each batch is submitted from a different session.  Our
problem
>>  is that over a period of time from a specific PC, the first batch will
not
>>  post to General Ledger.
>>  For example my work station IDs are BMS1, BMS2, BMS3, etc.
>>  We submit each batch from a different work station ID, if we submitted
10
>>  batches the IDs would range from BMS1 to BMS10.
>>  But after a period of time ranging from 1 week to 2 months the batch
>>  submitted from BMS1 will no longer post to General Ledger.
>>  Has anyone else had this problem in 6.0.04?
>
>
>Al Macintyre  ©¿©
>MIS Manager Green Screen Programmer & Computer Janitor of BPCS 405 CD
Rel-02
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