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1. Use Query/400 to organize the data that the PC user desires ... typically they do not want to see all the fields of the BPCS files. In case of BOM they might not want to see entries whose effectivity date is not current. They might not want to see all facilities, etc.
2. Use Operations Navigator to copy the Query output to a PC folder as text file, or into an Excel or wherever they want the info.
There are alternatives, such as embedding SQL/400 inside of an Excel, so that at the time of opening the Excel, you get the latest BPCS data. However, in my opinion this approach has several problems.
* You have to be an extreme geek to know how to set it up so it works properly* This opens the door to an enormous volume of computer security breaches ... for example, a geek sets it up for a user, then the user tinkers with the SQL commands, and the result is a BPCS crash, or worse, bad data being fed into BPCS data bases from the Excel, with no one being the wiser.
Be sure to ask the end user what they want this for.e.g. Industrial Espionage ... they plan to move to work for a competitor and they want to take a copy of our data with them so the new employer can steal some of our business. e.g. Embezzlement ... they have a get rich quick scheme, in which they want to analyse our data to see where they have a good chance of getting away with it e.g. Corporate Sabotage ... they have some idea about restructuring how the company makes the products, in which they plan to rearrange stuff on PC then next upload what they have done back into BPCS, without going through a proper conversion process, in which the result will be BPCS no longer functioning with respect to whatever files they did this with e.g. ERP self-education ... they think BPCS is far too complicated, and they want to teach themselves ERP by using our data to try to figure out how to do things without first getting an education in ERP or BPCS ... this can be very dangerous if they plan to use the output from this exploration in place of the output from BPCS. In these examples, the user will probably say something a little different, but you need to be able to read between the lines.
In my opinion, a valid application is when an engineer needs to share data with a customer for which we are making the part, and the decision has been for the personnel at the customer site to get zero training in BPCS, zero access to our data, but instead send them data in a format that they are comfortable with.
Another valid application would be to use in concert with some PC application such as quoting new parts, where they want access to data on similar parts that we already make.
The main issue is whether the person who wants the data is someone who has a good understanding of how the data is used in BPCS, because if they do not have a good understanding, what this does is invite garbage in garbage out.
Is there currently an option in BPCS to download the BOM to a text file or excel? Thanks, Daniel -- This is the SSA's BPCS ERP System (BPCS-L) mailing list To post a message email: BPCS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/bpcs-l or email: BPCS-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/bpcs-l. Delivered-To: macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx
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