Re: BPCS Questions -- BPCS-L

> Subj:  BPCS Questions
>  From:    kondoju@usa.net (raju kondoju)
>  
>  Hi ,
>    
>       I need some program names in Inventory module and which  library  
>  contains this programs are in Version 6.02. please explain in detail.  
>    
>  thanks 

We are on BPCS 405 CD but V6 has much of the same tools.

0.  My suggestions assume that you have command line authority & a modicum of 
AS/400 programming navigation know-how.

1. DSPLIB shows you the libraries in your library list ... they should have 
somewhat descriptive names.  This will tell you where the files are as 
opposed to the program objects.  You can put a 5 in front of some library & 
scroll to see the kind of stuff that is in each one.  

WRKOBJ INV50* or some such entry will show you all the objects that are in 
the INV500 family & which library list versions are taking precedence for 
each object in the family.  The numbering system is such that program XXX#00 
might call the same XXX#0 but the 6th digit will change, and there are final 
letters related to type of object but SSA naming conventions are not 100% 
constently followed by SSA.

2. Locate your on-line documentation ... this should be from menu DOC for 
which you need SYS security to get to it.  On 405 CD this is in a file called 
BPCSDOC in one of our two main software objects libraries & we can also get 
to it via PDM.  The most important document you need to find is the BPCS 
Logic Manual.  On 405 CD it is the member called SSALOG00 within BPCSDOC.  
This document explains the naming conventions & the standards that are 
essential to you navigating where everything is.

For example, RPG program INV500 is called by CL program INV500C.  The primary 
interactive DDS screens of INV500 would be in a source member called 
INV500FM, and the PRTF output audit trail in INV500O - you need to understand 
the naming conventions if you are going to get anywhere navigating this stuff 
& keeping modifications consistent.

While you are in there, you might also print out some of the INVENTORY 
sub-system documentation, such as the cross-reference that identifies every 
inventory program that a user can run, from the perspective of whatever they 
want to do, here is the program to do it.  On 405 CD that is in a document 
called SSA RUN & some number that is spelled out in the Logic Manual.

I went into all the SSA RUN documents, other than those for accounting, & 
extracted just the cross-reference part into our own document that has only 
cross-reference and then added some of our queries to the list, so our users 
have a reference document in which "What do you need to do?  Here is the 
program that does it."

The SSA on-line documentation can eat many many cartons of paper to print out 
in their entirety & forget about any decent indexing like modern day hyper 
text help, so before placing enormous corporate reliance on using this as 
your how-to bible, check out the alternative BPCS documentation sources that 
we have often talked about on other BPCS_L threads.

3. On 405 CD we are able to function by messing with the source code for the 
programs ... in some cases not very well ... but on V6 you have to have 
AS/Set to be messing with the source code.

4. Look at the INV menu to see the name of the program that users run that is 
relevant to your interest, then get to OS/400 command line and GO CMDREF ... 
there is an IBM tool to create a cross-reference of all the program objects 
that are called by the program or range of programs that interest you, with 
clues about how the objects are accessed.  You need to pick a very narrow 
range or else you will drown in print-outs.

SSA does have an XREF tool to perform much of the same role & is somewhat 
more user friendly.  However, the only way to get it to work on 405 is to 
make 100% of our users AS/400 security officers with *ALLOBJ authority & I do 
not want SSA XREF that badly.

Something I would like in this department is a cross-reference of CL that 
calls Queries ... when I am looking at a Query I do not know if it is in a CL 
or what CL it is in.  When I run cross-ref on the CL it does not say which 
Query definition is called.  What I want to know is which queries do not have 
CL, and which queries are in more than one CL.  We have hundreds of queries, 
in which sometimes when somebody wants something it is easier for them to 
create a new query than to re-use an existing one.

5. State a question here regarding specifically what you are looking for.  
Perhaps the best answer is nothing to do with modifications or which programs.

Hope you find my reply to be constructive.

Al Macintyre
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