RE: Inventory Month End & Other Batch Jobs

We are currently at the SABU conference, at the BUUG (BPCS Unix Users Group)
meeting someone mentioned they were able to do this using a semaphore file
and setup job dependencies.  I don't understand this, so send me an e-mail
and I can give you the e-mail address of the person who is doing this.

Kent Van Horn   
Lozier Corp
KLVanhorn@lozier.com 

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        From:  MJOconnor[SMTP:MJOconno@toyota.co.nz]
        Sent:  Monday, June 07, 1999 9:36 PM
        To:  'BPCS-L@midrange.com'
        Subject:  Inventory Month End & Other Batch Jobs

        It would be appreciated if anyone could offer any assistance with
the
        following query.
        When running Inventory Month End from the SCM/Inventory Menu it
appears
        that a batch job is created, which can take up to several days to
        complete. 
        In regards to this job and other similar such 'batch jobs, is there
a
        facility/process available to:
        (a)     track the existence of such batch jobs, when they are
active,
        when they start and complete etc etc ?
        (b)     determine their User/Process ID ?
        (c)     control the amount and priority of assigned system resource,
in
        order to speed up the completion ?

        Thanks

        BFN
        Martin O'Connor
        TOYOTA New Zealand Ltd
        PO Box 46 PALMERSTON NORTH, NZ
        Email          martin.oconnor@toyota.co.nz
        DDI             NZ 64 6 350 3415
        CellPh       A/Hrs 025 734952
        http://www.toyota.co.nz
        http://www.lexusnz.co.nz

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