Re: ITH transactions of the type #

Sometimes individuals enter transactions after the fact, but use date for 
transaction when the activity really happened ... this puts inventory history 
in sequence it was actually recorded ... then other individuals ask why the 
history is not in date sequence.

We are now on 405 CD & have learned from BPCS/36 experience that messing with 
 sequence #s is something we do not want to touch with a 10 foot pole.

Since ITH is used a lot more places than INV300 history, such as CST900 for 
example, I would not want to modify complexity there.

We had a modification during physical inventory to insert a record in the 
history when there was a physical inventory & no tag for some item that BPCS 
had thought was non-zero, so that the on-hand went to zero, but we wanted to 
show the thresh hold where that happened.  The IIM remembers the last ITH 
sequence # issued ... what if those 2 #s get out of sync ... can you lose 
transactions?

Then there was BPCS/36 code that assumed the sequence #s were contiguous, 
like we would delete unwanted records from ECL & some other program would 
read record 1 2 3 4 5 ... oh, there is no 5 (because we deleted it) but the 
program would end at that point thinking it was done ... without going on to 
process 7 8 10 12 etc.

>  From:    brobins3d@yahoo.com (Bill Robins)
>  
>  Unless someone has direct knowledge of the reverse (btw, these statements
>  are my experience with 405CD), messing with the sequence numbers will only
>  affect the INV300 historical display of transactions.  This display is NOT
>  date sensitive, it is sequence number sensitive.  So, changing the sequence
>  numbers -or- introducing duplicate sequences will only effect the inquiry
>  screen and will not adversely affect the "system".
>  
>  Bill

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor

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