RE: Significance of BPCS - Mixed Mode / AS / CS -- BPCS-L

OK, I give... I know what mix mode is, i.e., combination Green Screen and
GUI or Client Server (I'm assuming CS is abbreviation for Client Server).
But what is AS?  Is it an abbreviation for SSA's Asset product?
Abbreviation for ASP...  Please don't say I don't deserve my title as
Project Leader :)

DeeDee Virgei
Nelson Stud Welding, Inc.  

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Alister Wm Macintyre [mailto:macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:   Monday, December 22, 2003 12:10 PM
To:     SSA's BPCS ERP System
Subject:        Re: Significance of BPCS - Mixed Mode / AS / CS

Ravi

Your question strikes at the root of contemporary computing, and a reality 
that we have lived through for several decades.  It is almost like asking 
what is the difference between a PC, an NC and a dumb terminal, and where 
one would logically best use each.  Do you know what a high level language 
is, the advantages of a complied language, and what a pre-compiler 
is?  Your question implies that you have no idea what the differences are.

IBM has education in what their computers are, and what they can do, at 
about $1,000 a week, the last time I attended any.  If you truely do not 
know what is the difference between Mixed Mode and Client Server, you need 
to get down to basics, and take the classes that are aimed at an entry 
level person who knows nothing about computing, or whose only exposure has 
been a single user desk top environment.

I also suggest you change your sig "title" from Analyst.
It implies know-how that you are several years away from attaining.
I spent almost a decade as a Junior Programmer and Systems Operator before 
my title was Programmer, and another decade before I could call myself a 
Programmer/Analyst.
I have met several Full Analysts, and the know how that they have aquired 
is staggering.
Analyst is not an entry level position.
Analyst to entry level is like PhD to Secondary School diploma.

If in fact your employer has attained the ISO 9001 alleged on the web site, 
there must be in-house education to teach entry level personnel the kind of 
know-how that the web site claims are included in the staff.  Perhaps you 
should avail yourself of your corporate training opportunities, so that 
your know-how can begin to approach that which the web site implies are 
among your co-workers.

>Dear L.Ravi Chander,
>
>Your employer's website (www.itti.co.in) claims to 'take your IT needs
>offshore' (i.e. India), and also claims to have built up 'core competencies
>in ERP, including BPCS'.
>So why are they not providing training for you in this basic BPCS
knowledge?
>I would be happy to give you a BPCS Technical Orientation course, which I
>wrote and taught internally and externally when at SSA - providing your
>employers will pay me.
>
>best regards,
>
>Clare
>
>
>Clare Holtham
>Director, Small Blue Ltd - Archiving for BPCS
>Web: www.smallblue.co.uk
>IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Professional
>E-Mail: Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Mobile: +44 (0)7960 665958
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ravi Chander" <ravichander@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Dear Members,
> >
> > It will be helpful, if someone can educate me on what BPCS - Mixed mode
/
>AS
> > / CS are, its major differences and Pros & Cons.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > L.Ravi Chander
> > Analyst


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