RE: Virtual device names and impact on dataarea

[Dwight Slessman <dslessman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Go to a newer version of client access and name your device sessions your self 
on each PC.

Dwight Slessman

-----Original Message-----
From:   Rick J. Carter [SMTP:rickcarter@holley.com]
Sent:   Friday, March 26, 1999 3:17 PM
To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Virtual device names and impact on dataarea

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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