Re: How to restart an ACP payment run

On earlier versions of BPCS the # 1 thing the user needs to know is
STAY OUT OF THE OPTIONS INVOLVED until someone fixes it

This is because BPCS stores the work-in-progress in a file member named
after the user sign-on session, so if you go back in, without properly
resetting the mess, the effect can be to combine the mess with the now
correct selections, making an even worse mess.

Next thing to consider is how your company gets tech support for BPCS and
what you do with that guidance.

In our case, when we have something go haywire and we cannot figure it out,
there is a call to tech support to get a solution, then that solution is
written up as an addition to BPCSDOC explaining step by step how to get out
of that mess if it ever happens to us again, so we save $ on the call to
tech support the 2nd 3rd 4th .... etc. 100th time for any oen of the
hundreds of such solutions we have added to our BPCSDOC on-line BPCS
documentation trouble shooting.

We have failed to follow this strategy faithfully, thanks to turnover.

The way we usually fix this kind of oops, is to erase or delete the work
area containing the mess, then restart clean.

Your usual staff probably know how to fix this in minutes, because they are
familiar with the core BPCSDOC, but if you have someone starting from
scratch, it could take days to understand SSALOG00 which is the logic manual
that explains the basics of your situation.

If you have urgent payables to go out, or in, I suggest you try using a work
station address other than the one that is currently corrupted.

Al Macintyre

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:44:32 -0500, Hermann, Robert G. wrote

My shop is running BPCS 5.1, which we century-dated ourselves using the
Focus-2000 product.

Today I suffered the double-whammy of having the programmer who normally
handles A/P issues out of the office at the same time the end user
who normally runs A/P checks is out of the office. Of course, this
guaranteed that the backup user ran into a problem running the A/P checks.

(1) She took the first option in the process, ACP600D, Payment
Selection. From what I now understand, here is where she made her
mistake: both credits and debits were listed on her screen. She should
have deselected the credits, but did not. Thus, credits were "selected
for payment", as well as debits.

(2) She then took option ACP620D, Cash Requirements Report.

This is where she realized her mistake. Fortunately, she did not
progress to the next step, ACP650D, Make Payments.

So, my complete neophyte question is, What do we have to do to go
back to Step 1 and deselect the credits? Thanks.

Best regards,
Bob Hermann,

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