RE: About BPCS V6.1.01 MM

["Holtham, Clare" <clare.holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Dean, you're right, but I don't work for SSA any more...
cheers,
Clare

Clare Holtham
Principal Consultant/Project Manager
NEON - Powering the New Economy
Bowman House, 29 Wilson Street,
London EC2M 2SJ, UK
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-----Original Message-----
From: DAsmussen@aol.com [mailto:DAsmussen@aol.com]
Sent: 03 October 2000 06:46
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: About BPCS V6.1.01 MM


Clare,

In a message dated 10/2/00 6:06:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
clare.holtham@neonsoft.com writes:

> The Optimiser logic changes with each release of OS/400, and the 'last
>  created' thing went a few releases ago, however BPCS customers may have
>  almost any release out there in the field! But Goran is right, there are
>  many many variables involved. On the workfiles issue, I would say ECHW
etc
>  need to be cleared nightly anyway....

You know Clare, you're the second or third SSA staff member to suggest I 
clear the work files.  I don't mean to be ugly, but WHY DO YOUR PROGRAMS 
_LEAVE_ RECORDS IN THE WORK FILES IN THE FIRST PLACE???  Don't give me that 
"the client crashed" excuse, either.  I haven't had enough clients crash 
within a week of clearing the files to generate 13K+ records.  There is 
something _seriously wrong_ with BPCS, which should be quite easy to
correct. 
 Then again, all serious BPCS work seems to have ceased since Gores took 
over.  We reported an occasional problem with the SSATCP jobs sending the 
wrong number of parameters to a BIL program over six months ago and have yet

to receive a fix.  Is this the level of support to be expected for BPCS
under 
the Gores regime?

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"I put instant coffee in the microwave and almost went back in time." -- 
Steven Wright
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