Re: CIM records

Michael,

In a message dated 98-02-20 05:18:53 EST, you write:

> >With what are you having problems 
>  
>  V6.0.04 Mixed Mode. I want to put some test data in NIN and process some
>  different transactions to ensure, before we have an interface program
>  written that there are no boo-boos in processing. No matter what I do,
>  (work station members etc) I cannot get the CIM programs to see the test
>  data.

Hmmm.  I'm not sure what to tell you.  Like I've said before, we replaced CIM
in 6.0.02 Mixed Mode because SSA told us 5.x users that CIM wouldn't be
available under V6 (aww yeah, SMG's can handle _everything_!).  I could look
at _our_ CIMPath programs, but we're a level down from you because SSA still
wasn't releasing the repository for 6.0.04 in the recent (December '97) past.
If you have verified that you actually wrote the NIN records, have you
performed a DSPFD on NIN to confirm that they didn't get written to _another_
member?  Feel free to write me directly if you have more specific questions...

How are you populating NIN?  More importantly, how does 6.0.04 handle NIN
since one of the primary goals of V6 was to eliminate multi-member files?

>  >(putting aside the fact that the NIN field
>  >descriptions don't tie out with what they actually _DO_)
>  
>  Philisophical question, which is better SSA documentation or no
>  documentation at all ? :-)

In the case of NIN, none.  We tried to get information from SSA on how to
properly populate NIN and NGT when we first implemented CIMPath -- to no
avail.  We ended up just "sticking stuff in" until it eventually worked.
Spell it backwards, see what you get...


Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing
of all is just having it." -- Walter Winchell
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