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from Al Macintyre BPCS 405 CD Rel 2 OS/400 V4R3 One of my collegues tracked down what is triggering this problem that we have discovered in the last 2 days, and there is now a modification request to change the JIT600 screen to prevent negative input to rejects or good quantity. We previously did a modification to block fractional quantities because some people had been keying the hours data into the quantity fields. We also have an occasional problem with people keying the shop order number into the hours field, so there has been some discussion about blocking hours input that exceeds 25 (valid for a machine running continuously on the day that the daylight savings changes). I had previously suggested that it was valid to deliberately key negatives there as a way of backing out discoveries of incorrectly entered transactions, but since the field minus key is very close to the field exit key on some keyboards, this can happen by el typo error. We now speculate that quantity minus in JIT600 is a scenario that was inconceivable to SSA programmers so that their testing failed to explore that the software working correctly there, so that negative input there is not a safe action. We found 10 other apparent field minus errors dating back to February. Using our test environment Jerry duplicated the scenario, so we are pretty certain of the explanation. When different people are entering labor transactions, BPCS assigns ticket numbers that apply globally to everyone who is entering them, in sequence. When one person enters a negative quantity rejected, apparently BPCS grabs other transactions that have not yet been posted, from current batches in process, and declares them to be under lot control, and some of the relevant actions get processed & some do not. Which transactions get doubled or tripled is all the timing problem of whose data is in unposted batch status at the time that the negative input gets processed. Al Macintyre ��� http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor +--- | This is the BPCS Users Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to BPCS-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to BPCS-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to BPCS-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: dasmussen@aol.com +---
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