Re: Billing Invoice Process

["David Shea" <dshea@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a client running MACPAC that had a similar problem.  Their A/R Aging
and invoice printing job, which had to run nightly, was running for an hour
and a half on an E45.  The architecture of that process was such that the
entire database of invoices had to be chugged through to roll up the aging.
The concept of aging invoices is about as old as dirt, so perhaps BPCS runs
the same way.

They had five years of invoice data swimming around in the database.  They
purged and archived the oldest three years.  They actually archived 1.2
million records (headers, details, etc) and reduced the size of the physical
data files from 1270MB to only 502MB.  All the logicals (and there are
dozens) dropped dramatically, too.  After the archive, the job ran for only
21 minutes.

They used our archiving tool - ARCTOOLS - to do the archiving.  They left
the data on disk (in a different library) but out of the way of the
production system.  They saw similar results in other areas.

Let me know if you would like more information.

David Shea
DCSoftware, Inc.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick J. Carter <rickcarter@holley.com>
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 3:05 PM
Subject: Billing Invoice Process


>AS/400 Mix mode v 6.0.02
>
>Our current invoice process that runs nightly is running for about 5-6
>hours.  This is the BIL500 job stream.  We only run invoices in batch once
>per day.  THis job runs quite long no matter the number of invoices being
>processed.  Most of the processing appears to be in t he CEA related
portion
>of the job stream.  Does anyone no of any logicals, etc that could help
>improve this job performance.
>
>

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