Re: Stock Allocation

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Bill,

In a message dated 1/25/00 11:41:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
brobins3d@yahoo.com writes:

<<snip>>
> Boy, I hope you didn't mean this to be as snippy as it seems to be.   Just a
>  reminder to all, there are a great many BPCS users on this list who do
>  absolutely no programming at all and might not even have programming staff
>  on site, so the thought of having to make a change to a program IS a big
>  deal.

Quite true.  I have a client from my "former life" that called me once in a 
blue moon to support their old DMAS machine for the past eight years, usually 
when their files got full.  They called me last fall wanting to convert their 
A/R to a new package on the AS/400 that they were installing -- BPCS.  Since 
I only "did" DMAS for them, they had forgotten my main line of work!  Even 
externally described files and simple programs are hard to do when there are 
no Program Development Tools (PDM, SEU, SDA) or RPG compiler installed on 
either of two AS/400's!  Forget AS/Set!  _IF_ you have access to the IBM 
website so that you can research the column positions that you forgot long 
ago, you _CAN_ create externally defined files (no, no SQL toolkit either).  
CL programs, too.  Just have to use DFU and CPYF with the *CVTSRC parameter 
(no, no DBU either)...

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn't." -- Bern Williams
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