ECH 100% in-use

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

BPCS 405 CD on AS/400 V4R3

We have managed to do something we have never done before & of course we wish 
we had not done whatever it was that we do not know how we did this, and 
fervently pray that we have not found a Y2K bug that might take SSA a while 
to fix ... the 2nd best kind of problem is something stupid that we never do 
again ,,, the #1 best kind of problem is the one with no damage.

100% of our Customer Orders are in use effective 2nd day of business in the 
year 2000 ... ordinarily at any one time we only have half a dozen people 
updating customer orders & we have a few hundred active orders.  This was 
discovered when shipping tried to select customer order lines & did not get 
the data they expected.  With SSA Help we got a list of orders in-use & those 
not in-use, hence the subject of this posting.  I will write a quickie 
program today to take them all out of use, but unresolved is the question of 
how they got that way.

Yesterday there were no reported problems that we had never had before ... 
there was a long lag before we got a remote site working, but we often have 
troubles with that site.  I felt pretty good that all equipment was working, 
considering we have about a dozen work stations from companies that went 
bankrupt a decade ago, or are old clunker IBM 5291 ... I did power the system 
down for the 99-00 year roll-over without the kinds of concerns expressed 
here, because we use power-down several times a month to re-IPL for a variety 
of reasons, like reclaiming disk space storage from those 20,000 page CST900 
reports.

I had planned to reorganize some files Monday night, because I usually do a 
reorg soon after EOM, but aborted this plan when I saw the condition of error 
lists.

Before our reorgs, we run reports on standard error conditions, like customer 
orders with no detail lines & detail lines with no header records.  As usual 
we had a few of those, no great volume.  But what disturbed me was 7 pages of 
ESN notes of type-O for which there was no corresponding ECH record, and 
several of them dated Jan 3, 2000.  I believe type-O is customer order.  
Normally the list of ESN with no ECH has nothing there ... in other words we 
run a bunch of reports hoping that there will be nothing on them, but if 
there is, then let's resolve those problems before proceding with files 
clean-up.

I hope that from the other folks in BPCS-L there will be no other reports of 
anything remotely like this, which will affirm my suspicion that we have 
managed to do this to ourselves, and it is not a Y2K bug.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©

Y2K is not the end of my universe, but a re-boot of that old chinese curse.
The road to success is always under construction.
Sanity is the playground of the unimaginative.
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Every software improvement comes with some new challenges.
When in doubt, read the manual.
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