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Suggestion for where to look. There is an IBM command to change stuff associated with a particular work session. We used it in Y2K testing to simulate distant dates to make sure BPCS worked satisfactorily in simulated dates into the future. When a user signs onto 400 in JOB Description BPCS there is a BPCS job that runs before anything else to setup library list and other stuff associated with the user's environment. Let's suppose you modified that, to call a sub-program, to look up a table of work station naming conventions and say "Oh, this is Sydney Australia, or whatever" and from that get parameters to feed into the IBM change job attributes for that work station, so now that user's session is on their local time. You would have to find someplace that makes sense to store particulars on every work station that you have. A lot of BPCS software already has framework for creating work station members of files, or data areas named after the work stations, if they do not pre-exist. Before that modification, you need to do some testing to see what gets impacted. We had a perceptual problem when we used to do inventory transactions dated when the transaction actually occurred ... It is Monday and they keying in transactions for work that was done Friday or over the weekend. History is populated in BPCS in the sequence the transactions actually done, but someone looking at Inventory History is seeing dates jumbled. Well that means some transactions posted right away and some got posted late, but it is confusing to a lot of users.
We are on version 6.01.01 mixed mode. We are about to start selling products world wide through different offices throughout the world. Does anyone know of a way to set date and times for the different time zones. The system is located in NY and we used the system dates and times to process the data, but if our Sydney Office is running they are 1-day ahead and 14 hours different then the system date & time. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.
- Al Macintyre (macwheel99@sigecom.net via Eudora) Al's diary http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/
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