RE: Passing Parms to BPCS Programs -- BPCS-L

Hi Dennis:
Yeap you are right about the string but we really don't have to supply all
those blanks for program to work correctly. Also since security is only
validated at the display program level we are bypassing it by calling the
batch program directly. Also you can assign the user id with all the
schedule jobs.
I have written the CL's for passing dates because I do not want to go and
change my schedule jobs every week or every month. My jobs are independent
of any user/operator intervention.

let me know if you have any additional questions. we are using 6.04

Ashok


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bpcs-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-bpcs-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Dennis Munro
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 2:57 PM
> To: 'BPCS-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Passing Parms to BPCS Programs
>
>
> Ashok,
>
> I noticed in your example that the parms you are passing are
> different from
> what I got when I look at a job log from each of the programs I
> need to run.
> We are 6.0.02 PLf, full C/S.
>
> The actual data from our job log is as follow:
>
> SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(SYSOVRC) PARM('INV260B' X'000F  ---253 hex'40' for
> blanks and the 256 character is a hex'E7' which is an "X"'  '
> X'24040F9F9404040404040404040404040F9F9F9F9F9F9F9F9F9F9F9F9F9F9F9F2F0F0F3
> then hex'40' through the 256th character.'))
>
> What you don't show is how you are getting the BPCS security to pass.
>
> Rather than write a CL program where dates are needed, could you not go in
> and modify each "scheduled" job parms to insert the correct dates?
>
> Dilbert's Words Of Wisdom:
> "I love deadlines.  I especially like the whooshing sound they
> make as they
> go flying by."
>
> Dennis Munro
> Badger Mining Corporation
> dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com <mailto:dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com>
>
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Ashok Singh [SMTP:asingh@kode.net]
>       Sent:   Wednesday, April 14, 1999 1:57 PM
>       To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
>       Subject:        RE: Passing Parms to BPCS Programs
>
>       Hi Guys:
>       I am Also using AS/400 Job Scheduler and submitting all the
> parameters from
>       the scheduler itself.
>       E.g.
>       to submit
>       INV230 Stock Status Summary Report the parameter string should look
> like by
>       Class
>       CALL PGM(INV230B) PARM('I' X'000F' '  99            99999999999999C'
>
>       I have been able to run all of my daily, weekly and monthend program
> using
>       scheduler for couple of programs that need date range input I am
> using a CL
>       program to create the string as described above.
>
>       Ashok
>
>
>
>
>       > -----Original Message-----
>       > From: owner-bpcs-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-bpcs-l@midrange.com]On
>       > Behalf Of Robert C. Noey
>       > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 10:46 AM
>       > To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
>       > Subject: RE: Passing Parms to BPCS Programs
>       >
>       >
>       > 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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