Taking out old part numbers --- archive + hard delete simultaneously .

Dear Sean, <vendor>

Amen. We've seen a variety of nightmares caused by users who have hard deleted
items without simultaneously archiving all the transactions related to those items.
Another way to invent a mess is to accidentally archive current accounting year
transactions for items that were recently soft deleted (deactivated).

If you have a long enough attention span to actually get INV100 to soft-delete an
item, then our Locksmith Archiving software will handle these steps for that item:


>> find e-v-e-r-y non-current-year transaction and get that moved over into
a library that will support standard BPCS/ERP LX functionality.

>> find and archive transaction records associated with user-invented
(non-vanilla BPCS) iSeries databases.

>> hard delete the item and then automatically re-organize IIM.

>> remove and archive item records from IIM extension files.


Locksmith info: http://www.unbeatenpath.com/software/locksmith/archiving.pdf

If your attention span isn't long enough to cope with INV100, there's a much
better way to deactivate items:
http://www.unbeatenpath.com/software/iu/ItemUndertaker.pdf


Warm regards,

Milt Habeck
Unbeaten Path International
(888) 874-8008
+(262) 681-3151
www.unbeatenpath.com/compass
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From: McGovern, Sean
To: BPCS ERP System
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 2:52 AM
Subject: Re: [BPCS-L] Taking out old part numbers


Before deleting, consider archiving the data to be deleted to a backup
library. So, for example, data deleted from LF/ECH first gets archived
to BLF/ECH (LF being Live Files library and BLF being Backup Live Files
library). If you then ensure all the access paths for ECH also exist in
the backup library, you should be able to put the backup library at the
top of your library list and use standard BPCS functionality to
inquiry/report etc. against the archived data.

Works for us.