Re: BPCS' NLV product

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Gary,

This works using the three BPCS message files -- SSAZ01, 02, and 03.  BPCS 
screens and reports are painted not with literals, but with message members.  
When you need an environment with a different language, translated versions 
of the SSAZ02 and 03 message files are placed higher in the library list for 
the new environment.  Voila -- you now have French (or whatever) words on the 
same programs you were using for English.  Translating SSAZ01 is _your_ 
problem ;-).  Problems come in when you have custom programs that painted 
literals instead of messages (often done to save money before you knew that 
you were being bought out by a foreign concern).  Otherwise, SSA maintains 
strict standards for abbreviations and such to ensure clean translation and 
BPCS itself works like a charm...

HTH,

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


In a message dated 6/19/01 4:55:21 PM US Eastern Standard Time, 
gjohnson@iwgid.com writes:

> Can anyone explain how BPCS NLV(national language support) product works?
>  Especially in one environment that would require two languages(English &
>  Spanish). If anyone has had experience setting this up, I would like to 
hear
>  about it.
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