RE: Passing Parms to BPCS Programs

["Robert C. Noey" <rnoey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alison:

Could you contact me offline to give me more details on the CLs you wrote to
capture the needed parameters.  Thank you very much.

Robert Noey
rnoey@aol.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: uucp@Uucp1.mcs.net [mailto:uucp@Uucp1.mcs.net]On Behalf Of Quinton
> - Alison
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 3:01 AM
> To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Passing Parms to BPCS Programs
>
>
> 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
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