Re: ORD700 Posting

["Kevin Harper" <kharper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Great question.  I worked in a 6.00.04 installation where orders were
coming in from multiple sources similar to your web-based front-end
product, and every interface would write and process the orders a
different way.

I wrote a set of fairly simple programs to circumvent ORD700, so as to
allow any extraneous system the ability to do the same functions as
long as they could call and pass parameters to an RPG/LE program:
ORD71X - write order header ECHW
ORD72X - write/change/delete order line ECLW
ORD73X - write order note ESNW
ORD74X - total order
ORD75X - post order
etc etc etc

Each of these programs duplicated the non-interactive logic in ORD700
and then called the BPCS processing programs to total, post, etc.
This approach captured all the business logic in one place, made it
easy to track down any problems, and still left the back-end logic to
your existing BPCS programs.  The only remaining challenge is to have
sufficient validation on your front-end, because there may not be a
simple way to catch and feed errors back to your configurator.

Kevin Harper
Waterfall Data Solutions, Inc.
(866) 778-4209


On 5/30/08, Reinardy, James <jreinardy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We are on a 6.0.04 system, starting to implement a new web based product
> configurator as a front end to order entry.  I am curious if anyone has
> replaced ORD700 as the front end of order entry.  If so, did you
> continue to write to the work files and somehow automate the posting
> process, allow entry of ECH/ECL records directly, make users go into
> ORD700 for final checks and posting or some other method? Any input is
> appreciated.
>
> The front end configurator has been selected and purchased already,
> please no solicitations on that front.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Reinardy
> Badger Meter, Inc.
> Milwaukee, WI
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