Re: Newbie needs printer file help -- BPCS-L

BPCS may have changed dramatically since the version I'm on (405 CD) buthopefully part of what I am saying can point you in direction you want to go.

# 1 ... everyone used to have a pop-up menu in which the first option wastheir settings ... which OUTQ JOBQ etc. they used ... there was some stuffunwise to change, without first reading the BPCS Logic Manual (DocumentSSALOG00 in the BPCSDOC collection of documents) The Logic Manual explainswhere the default rules for on-line and batch are stored. Depending onwhat areas of BPCS you are newbie to, perhaps you should be exploring thefile BPCSDOC (each member is a different manual) since there's lots othergoodies in there.

# 2 ... there used to be a collection of fix-it options via SYS/23 menu inwhich one was for IT to fix the pop-up/1 settings for any user/workstationthat managed to get them messed up ... since many of the options on SYS/23should only be run at particular times in end fiscal cycle, we copied keyfixit anytime options to our own fixit menu, which has got some options noton original SYS/23, such as a mass fixit for in-use flags, like if shippingselects one customer, then bombs, and all orders on that one customer arenow in use.

We have our settings setup to default to the settings desired where MOST ofour users are located, then as new users work station addresses pop up inother locations, we change their default settings to the appropriateprinter OUTQ tec. for them. We also alert new users that we have theoption of creating an OUTQ just for one person, or one department, thendefaulting all their reports to go there, so they not have to dig throughreports of many other people to find theirs.

Our 400 security is set so that different people can access each other'sreports (spool control) and some people profile set to let them know whensome other person prints one of their reports. That also works great whenyou printing on a remote printer (remote to where you are) and you want toknow when it gets done.

# 3 ... there are some reports we wanted to go to a particular printerirrespective of who ran the job, so we modified the CL involved. Forexample, suppose someone alters a customer order ... perhaps you wantacknowledgement of the change printing in the Customer Service dept so thepersonnel there can verify the action.

# 4 ... if you look in WRKSYSVAL from command line, you can find rules thatapply to the entire AS/400/i/Series/System/i/whatever ... if you do the*PRINT option it shows which values got changed relative to how they wereshipped from IBM. You have to be a 400 Security Officer to be changing anyof those values & ought to seriously study the documentation involvedbefore doing so, since some of them are non-reversable, and can really messyou up if you not know what you are doing. Anyhow, one of those valuestells the entire system what is the system printer. The IBM WorkManagement manual lists all the SYSVAL, but I have an old hand-out from aCOMMON that someone on MIDRANGE-L gave me, that explains most of them, thatI could forward (ask off list please).

# 5 if you are new to BPCS but your consulting firm is not, ask about BPCSmanuals. There are a lot out there, and any firm in the BPCS consultingbusiness ought to have several kinds. Relevant to your questions might bethe IBM Redbook on BPCS, and the documentation that originally came withBPCS with respect to installation.


Al Macintyre

I am working in ERP LX (8.3).  I have changed the packing list format
(OLM591O) to print portrait.  Works great interactively when I do an
override printer file on the command line.



Where do I change the 'system' printer control so the batch print works?
Also, where do I indicate different printers for various warehouse users
in different states?





Thank you,

Bonnie Lokenvitz

  Technology Consulting Inc

  320.679.2599