RE: Inventory Month End Close -- BPCS-L

Hi Ho

        PLEASE do not ever issue a ENDSYS command. You have user's
transacting every moment of the day. Transactions may not get posted
correctly. The integrity of your data base will be lost.

        Use WRKOBJLCK using data file ZSC found in your data file library.
Advise user's that the system will be shutting down.   

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> From:         DAsmussen@aol.com[SMTP:DAsmussen@aol.com]
> Reply To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Sent:         Friday, February 04, 2000 6:18 AM
> To:   BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Inventory Month End Close
> 
> Ben,
> 
> In a message dated 2/1/00 5:53:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> bcollett@tokheim.com writes:
> 
> > We are using version 6.1, client server, on an AS400.  Every month when
> I 
> try to
> >  run the inventory month end close program (INV903) it does not
> successfully
> >  complete.  When I ask out MIS manager why, he tells me that there
> probably 
> is
> >  someone on the system.  I have asked him to shut down the system to all
> 
> users
> >  except myself while this program is run but for some reason he can't 
> figure out
> >  how to do that.  I'm not a techie but there must be a way that I can
> run 
> this
> >  program on a regular monthly basis and be assured that it will
> successfully
> >  complete.  Does anyone else out there have this problem and how can it
> be
> >  solved?  Please answer in language that an idiot like me can understand
> so 
> I can
> >  relay it to MIS.
> 
> To put it in simple terms and assuming an AS/400 (which can get much more 
> complicated than this example if you have an MIS Manager smarter than
> yours, 
> or if his predecessor was much smarter), your system console should be 
> running out of subsystem QCTL.  Find it.  Sign onto the console running
> out 
> of QCTL with proper authority, get a command line, and issue an ENDSYS 
> command -- this should end all interactive and batch jobs other than
> yours.  
> Get into BPCS and run INV903 interactively from the console.  When INV903
> is 
> complete, issue a PWRDWNSYS OPTION(*IMMED) RESTART(*YES) to bring all the 
> subsystems back on line.
> 
> There are more painless options than this, but this is the simplest that I
> 
> can think of without more specific information on your configuration.
> 
> EEEEEk!  Just reread and realized that you are full client.  You're going
> to 
> need some help from either a trusted third party or SSA itself -- the
> latter 
> example is only good for mixed mode.  You _really_ need a new MIS manager.
> 
> Without a complete layout of your current system (portions of which should
> 
> _NOT_ be publicized here), it would be impossible to advise you on how to 
> rectify this situation.  Worst case, the MIS manager _SHOULD_ be able to 
> monitor the system and terminate any new jobs against BPCS...
> 
> JMHO,
> 
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
> 
> "The brain is a wonderful organ.  It starts the moment you get up, and 
> doesn't stop until you get to the office." -- Robert Frost
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