RE: Order changes -- BPCS-L

Terri,

I have not done this for a BPCS system, but have done something similiar for
JDEdwards.  Everytime there is a change, add or delete to an order, the
program triggers an email to persons affected by this change.  So instead of
a batch process, it is interactive.

Triggers were not used, however it would have been the easy thing to do.  At
the time, I was afraid of the performance hit on the 400.  If the
performance problem would have been serious, there would not have been an
easy way to adopt a different strategy.  If I had to do another program like
this,  I would try to gauge the performance impact with a throw away
program.  For a sample trigger program, search the IBM web site, they don't
seem very complicated.
 
Mindaugas Bielskus


-----Original Message-----
From: THarteau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:THarteau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:53 AM
To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
Subject: Order changes



Hi,
      I am on V6.02. We have a program that prints any new orders taken out
the previous day and also any changes made to existing orders. It is a
batch program that compares entry date and last maintained date to a record
in a work file. If it is different, there has been a change (in item
number, quantity, price, salesperson or customer). The programs were
written when we first got BPCS many, many years ago. It was maintained to
keep working, but has some serious holes.  I need to rewrite it without the
holes.  Some of the problems are: the work file is keyed by order #, line #
(the item number can and does change), but we have had users resequence the
order, We have had lines deleted, and L01 was used, so it was never
reduced, and several unexplained things where it just did not update
correctly.
      Does anyone have any ideas on how to track the changes? I'm not
looking for any product to purchase, it is home grown and needs to stay
that way. I am just starting to look at different ways to do it, and
thought I would see if anyone else is already doing something similar.

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Terri Harteau
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