Re: Update from WABUG (Western Area BPCS User Group) Meeting

[Jesus de la Peña <jdelap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:45 AM 8/14/98 +0100, you wrote:

I´m a BPCS V6.02/Informix- Unix User. I can give you some tips for increase
the performance but need to know specific in wich program a typical problem
is in customer order entry and is only to set some parameters in the jobq,
smcUser Table and also in the Client for get a substantial performance.

Customize reports is easy: BPCS report is a data file that we reformat and
manipulate with a external program C program for example the customer Order
format.

Regards

 
>
>
>DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:
>
>> (BTW, your mention of BPCS-L must have helped -- we've had about 20 people
>> enroll this week!)
>
>Cool!
>
>> The training alone is enough of a reason for large businesses to
consider other
>> packages, ODW is just icing on the cake.
>
>
>
>> Performance is really a moot point, although it is a _BIG_ problem now
for V4
>> and lower users.
>
>You do contradict yourself, but do reinforce my point which I did not
state well.  I
>should correct myself by saying that I will never go to V6 as long as it is
>codeveloped with UNIX.  The true statement is - I will never go to V6 as
long as I
>have to upgrade my box several levels, and work with a software package I
can only
>"configure" but not customize.  The windmill that I continue to joust is
that the
>package has suffered greatly trying to serve two masters and they would do
themselves
>a great favor by rethinking this policy.
>
>> . . . and knowing a few simple techniques
>> can fix what SSA didn't see when they tested performance against the
infamous
>> education database (Can you say PENS?  I knew you could!).
>
>Dean, you have supplied at least one example of helping the performance.
Would you
>care to share the full suite of tips?  Maybe identifying which version(s)
each tip
>applies to will help everyone.  I encourage everyone to share their
performance
>tips.  Here's mine:  ACR300 performance got you down?  You may have one of
the
>versions of code that is written to perform a security check on every
record it reads
>for the inquiry screens.  Modify the code to check to see if the company
has already
>been checked through security.  In our case, company security was not
necessary, so
>it was skipped entirely. (I just checked CD and it seems they have
corrected this
>problem).
>
>Bill
>
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