Re: Passing Parms to BPCS Programs

[alison_quinton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Quinton - Alison)]

We are using BPCS V6.0.2 plf  on OS/400 4.3 , we use the IBM job scheduler to
run automatic dayends, monthends and lots of reports!

We were unable to use the capture routine within the job scheduler for the
majority of the BPCS programs due to the length of the parameters used by the
AS/SET programs &SLIST and &PLIST.

What we did was construct CLPs to have passed the parameters we needed and
then from this construct the &SLIST & &PLIST and call the BPCS program .. ie

for INV260 which needs to be passed the facility & cost centre

CHGVAR     VAR(&SLIST) VALUE(&SLIST1 *CAT &FAC *CAT +
             &CSET *CAT &SLIST2)

CALL       PGM(INV260B) PARM('I' &PLIST &SLIST)

A bit fiddly to set up initially but it works well!

there are some additional complications with dates being held as characters
in the job schedule parameter list - for which we had to write convert to hex
routines.

I hope this helps.
  Alison
"Robert C. Noey" wrote:

> Does anyone have a method for scheduling BPCS jobs in the AS400 Job
> Scheduler.  Up to this point I have been writing CLs to call the programs
> but am now running into some trouble trying to figure out how to pass the
> proper parms to the BPCS programs (i.e. MRP500).  Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>
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Alison Quinton
Xyratex
D965 IT Central Services
Alison_Quinton@uk.xyratex.com
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