Re: Inventory Month End Close -- BPCS-L

Hello,

Just a quick reminder:

What version and style of BPCS you are running makes a big difference in the
case of work management for BPCS jobs. Please be sure to post what version
of BPCS you are on when listing suggestions. The original question on this
thread came from a user of 6.1.00 Full Client/Server BPCS - all daemons, all
TCP/IP all the time. No green screen, no workstation names, no Client
Access, and very few applications using the old ALAUNCH 1st Generation
daemon. Thus solutions based upon Mixed Mode or BPCS CD installations of
BPCS will be entirely different, and don't apply to the situation faced by
the full GUI users running mostly a NEWI daemon.

TCP/IP connections into C/S BPCS can use various subsystems, as this is
configurable within the daemons. Full Client Server BPCS ships with its own
subsystem for 2nd Generation jobs, so ending QCMN would not accomplish the
task of getting rid of all BPCS interactive users. And in any case, don't
forget about scheduled batch jobs that run automatically with no interactive
user attached at all. . .

For Mixed Mode users, the default for GUI APPC connections was to run in
QCMN, but if you have TCP/IP, again, there is no reason to keep using QCMN
and this could have been configured to run anywhere desired.

Thanks

Genyphyr Novak
SSA

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis <clewis@iquest.net>
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Inventory Month End Close


>Roger,
>
>Ending QCMN when using C/A doesn't kill your job too ?
>
>It is a LOT easier to just add the Work Station Name into the subsystem
description
>for QINTER2 and then when the QINTER subsystem goes down, they come up in
the
>QINTER2. No need to do all that disconnecting and reconnecting. They need
to either
>signoff prior to ending QINTER or have them do a TRFSECJOB into QINTER2...
If you
>don't want them to NORMALLY be in QINTER2 and QINTER2 is not NORMALLY
active, you
>can schedule a job to ADDWSE and STRSBS and then another to RMVWSE at
ENDSBS...
>
>FYI !
>
>Chuck
>
>rhamberg@mother-parkers.com wrote:
>
>>      We use to have the same problem, so I created a second subsystem
call
>> qinter2. You can end subsystem QCMN and Qinter at monthend then have your
I.T.
>> people add a device description to the work station entry for Qinter2.
Assuming
>> you are using client access, you can then click on communications on your
task
>> bar then click disconnect. Next click communications again then click
configure
>> and enter the device description  set up in Qinter2 by I.T. in the
workstation
>> box
>> and click OK. Next click on communications again and connect. this should
set up
>> a workstation setting in Qinter2 only you
>> can log onto. (unless someone else is using the devise ID) I renamed a
couple of
>> virtual devise desc. and always log onto these. Hope this helps......
>>      If you need further clarification, I can be reached at 905-279-9100.
>>
>>      Roger
>>
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