Re: BIL500 and robot scheduling - not so easy

I think you folks mis-understood Betty's original question. 
We are not looking to submit BIL5?? to a batch outq we already do that,
and we are not trying to schedule BIl500 to run without user
intervention.

We have a problem; a user can submit these jobs from a device only a
limited number of times and then the job begins to go haywire. We then
move them to a different terminal and they can submit the jobs once
again for a period of time without a hitch and then for some reason it
begins to go haywire again. 
We have talked to SSA and they suggested it might be caused by our
emulation package so we switched to another package (from RUMBA to
NetManage) on the offending machines with no change. 

Wendy DeCair wrote:
> 
> Hi all-
> 
> After speaking with several people on the BIL500 program I must modify my
> previous statement.  The Robot learn function will  apparently only work for
> programs like MRP, DRP and the reorg programs.  We do not use BPCS order
> entry at our facility and so I was un aware that this would not work for
> that as well.  Chick Doe does seem to know how to do this - so follow up
> with her.
> Thanks for the education.
> 
> Have a pleasant day!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wendy
> 
> wendy.decair@countryfresh.com
> 
> "Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves.  Being
> someone who understands is a great blessing to others.  - Jannette Oke"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chick Doe <Cdoe@barton-instruments.com>
> To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 5:01 PM
> Subject: Re: BIL500 and robot scheduling - made easy
> 
> > if i understand what you are asking for we just did it! once you
> understand how all of the programs work together it turns out to be pretty
> easy. we have automated our nightly billing, using robot, so that we select
> and process invoices totally in batch. as distributed bpcs wants you to run
> BIL501B interactively which selects invoices to be processed. once you
> select the invoices you are given the option of producing the invoices
> interactively or via a batch process. the real trick is to get BIL501B to
> select invoices via a batch job. the neat thing about getting this to work
> is that we are using all native BPCS programs, we've just had to get BIL501B
> to be submitted to batch via ROBOT rather than being invoked by in
> interactive session.
> >
> > it you would like more details please call at (626)837-0395
> >
> > chick doe
> > barton instrument systems
> >
> > >>> wendy.decair@countryfresh.com 06/20/00 07:30AM >>>
> > Barry--
> >
> > Contact me off line.  I can tell you how to change two CL programs and
> > capture the information that you need in Robot every time you want it.  It
> > is pretty simple.
> >
> > Phone - 616-520-2048.
> >
> > Have a pleasant day!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Wendy
> >
> > wendy.decair@countryfresh.com
> >
> >
> > "Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves.  Being
> > someone who understands is a great blessing to others.  - Jannette Oke"
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Blackwell, Barry <bblackwe@kcc.com>
> > To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 6:22 AM
> > Subject: RE: BIL500
> >
> >
> > > Betty,
> > >
> > > This is something I have been asking on how to do for some time.  I
> would
> > > just like to schedule a batch submission of BIL500 each night, but have
> > not
> > > been able to find the right source on how to accomplish this.  We are
> 6.04
> > > (double byte) right now on an AS400 and we have the ROBOT software for
> > > scheduling.  Is there a place you can point me on instructions on how to
> > > accomplish this relatively easily.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Barry
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Betty McDowell [mailto:bm@datrek.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 4:12 AM
> > > To: BPCS-L
> > > Subject: BIL500
> > >
> > >
> > > 6.0.04  MM  April Cum
> > >
> > > We submit invoicing (BIL500) to batch in its own job queue to run @ 8:00
> > PM
> > > each night.  Our problem is that over a period of time from a specific
> PC,
> > > the first batch will not post to General Ledger.
> > > For example my work station IDs are BMS1, BMS2, BMS3, etc.
> > > We submit each batch from a different work station ID, if we submitted
> 10
> > > batches the IDs would range from BMS1 to BMS10.
> > > But after a period of time ranging from 1 week to 2 months the batch
> > > submitted from BMS1 will no longer post to General Ledger.
> > > Has anyone else had this problem in 6.0.04?
> > >
> > > Betty McDowell
> > > Datrek Professional Bags, Inc.
> > > bm@datrek.com
> > >
> > >
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L. S. Russell Programmer/Analyst
Datrek Professional Bags, Inc.
2413 Industrial Drive
Springfield, TN. 37172
mailto:leslier@datrek.com
http://www.datrek.com
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