Re: Workstation Data Areas

Gordon,

I wrote a program that loads the workstation data area by user profile. I
did this to combat several problems.

1st) Virtual workstations create a rather long name over 8 characters. This
causes problems with BPCS.
BPCS adds a Q as a prefix to the workstation data area name.  example
QQPADEV000.

2nd) With BPCS 6.002 Device names drive document prints & re-prints it is
very important that you do not have your device names longer than 8
characters.
Example: Device: QPADEV0001 would create a data area QPADVE000 that means
devices 1 through 9 would all use the same data area.

If you were ship confirming on device 1 and lets say running an open orders
report on device 2 you could run into problems printing the wrong report
through the wrong interface (we experienced this problem at one time).

Note: You can rename your virtual device names after the system has created
them. This will stop the above problem.

Sincerely,


Chris Ertz
Manager of Software Development
American Metal Products


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