Re: Virtual device names and impact on dataarea

[Sivasubramanian Chintamani <siva@xxxxxxxxxx>]

BPCS Green Screen need to have standard virtual device names.  If you are using
virtual name beginning with "Q" then you can't control the virtual name it is
allocated by AS/400.  To configure virtual device name is based on the OS
Version you are using if you are on V4.1 then using Client Access Netsoft
Router protocol with Anynet configuration or if you are using V4.2 and above
create a green screen session using TCP/IP protocol.

Siva
SSA NZ
"Rick J. Carter" wrote:

> BPCS V6.0.02   AS400 Mixmode
>
> We had a problem with user output queues changing randomly within our BPCS
> environment.  I finally found out the problem and wonder if anyone knows an
> easy fix.
>
> On virtual device names, the AS/400 may assign up to a 10 position number.
>  ( qpadev000Y)   Within BPCS, when you do a F13 to display or change
> Workstation data, notice the data area name in the top center of the screen.
>  In my example, my workstation device name is QPADEV000Y and BPCS assigns a
> data area for the workstation of QQPADEV000.   Notice, due to the length of
> the name and the extra Q Bpcs puts in front of the dataarea name, the Y is
> dropped from my dataarea.  What this is causing is for anyone else entering
> BPCS with  a similiar device name, once BPCS addes the Q to the front of the
> data area, then my dataarea and someone else's will actually be the same.
>  IF someone else changes their output queue inside this, mine will also
> adapt their change since both are using the same data area, thus my output
> queues are changing randomly.
>
> My question is , can you make the system only use so many characters when it
> assigns virtual device names and if not, how do I stop this conflict from
> happening.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
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