Re: 4.05 CD Batch INV500 pgm ? -- BPCS-L

I have used CimPath extensively in releases 5.x through 6.x with great success. 
 Collecting data on the shop floor via RF have posted over 20,00,000 
transactions in the last 5 years.

Does INV500 in 405CD have a interactive data entry function then calls a 
"batch" program from the interactive program to post the transactions??

Charlie Borill
804-659-1014


>>> macwheel99@sigecom.net 08/14 11:50 AM >>>
It is overcast here, we been storming.

Eons ago on a version of BPCS before 405 CD, before I knew as much as I do now.

I made a clone of INV500, that simulated the input of a particular
transaction effect, fed to the program from a work file that some other
program supplied.  Instead of the fields being populated by some human at a
keyboard, they were populated from the work file and the logic.  Damned
inefficient code, but it worked.  Hundreds of transactions went into BPCS
every day without a human being having to key them.  We were using it to
automate scrap reporting, something that comes with 405 CD and was not
available on the earlier version.

405 CD people can do this kind of thing because we have the source code,
not available at later versions of BPCS.


>Good day.......hazy, hot & humid.......
>
>Here's a multiple choice quiz.
>
>We are going to interface a warehouse management system
>with BPCS 4.05CD.
>We will pass Purchase Order Receipt data, Shop Order Receipt data, DRP
>Receipt data
>to BPCS using a data que.
>
>Would you:
>   A. Try to use CIM520 ( never been used before here)
>   B. Write a "batch" version of PUR550, DRP550
>   C. Write a "batch" version on INV500
>   D. Write a new pgm(s) that only has the code necessary
>       (rather than the "extraneous " code in the above)
>   E. buy & implement SAP  ( just kidding..)
>   F. none of the above
>
>Thanks,
>Jim Barry

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