Re: BPCS/36 to BPCS/400 Conversion Nit Picking

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

> Subj:     ** BPCS System/36 4.4B to AS400 BPCS 6.1Mixed Mode **
>  From:        Forwiw@aol.com (Sandy)

Some of the fix programs we had to write, before we gave up on using SSA's 
conversion tools:

Records coded for deletion on BPCS/36 get forwarded to BPCS/400 in that state 
- we wanted to purge some stuff as part of the conversion.

ABK plug in 'USD' (US dollars) to ABCURR because blank currency was 
acceptable on BPCS/36 but not BPCS/400

AMH plug in 'USD' to AMHCUR & 'C' to AMHYTP
AML plug in 'USD' to AMLCUR & 'C' to AMLTYP
APH plug in 'USD' to APHCUR & 'C' to APHTYP
AVM plug in 'USD' to VCURR

CDP plugged in the corresponding warehouse to our facilities

CIC plug in 'A' to ICORDP
CIC populate a lot of fields from corresponding IIM fields

ECH had to get the backorder flag fixed
HPH needed PHVTXC blanked
HPO needed to blank POVTXC & POITXC

IIM needed a whole bunch of substitutions, because the rules for item types 
changed & we had been using some on BPCS/36 that were valid there but not 
valid on BPCS/400 so we had to come up with a conversion algorithm.  e.g. we 
had to change item type 4 to item type 7, some values that were 0 needed to 
be reset to 1, some values that were blank had to get some other defaults 
substituted, then when we switched from SSA conversion to a more flexible 
approach, the users needs also became more complex.

RAR plug 'USD' into RCURR
RCM plug 'USD' into CCURR
SIH plug 'USD' into SICURR

There was other stuff in backlog to write when we abandoned SSA conversion 
utilities.

Al Macintyre
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