Re: Month End

No one can be on your BPCS system while it runs, or else it will bomb.
Enforcing this should be part of your end-fiscal check list.

In my reality, Everyone both knows, and is reminded, of the rules for end
fiscal month time frame. When process ready for INV900, we first make sure
everyone is in fact off the system, then do a BPCS backup.
Sometimes there are people who go home, leaving work stations still signed
on.

I typically do EOM via VPN, using QSECOFR or other IBM sign on which is
outside of BPCS to check on its progress. That way it is not me who
inadvertently bombs such jobs. If I catch someone violating the rules,
sometimes we can kill their session without bombing BPCS. Then I tell them
and their bosses that their violation of the rules, sabotaging EOM, has me
however many hours of recovery work, and now everyone will have to stay off
the system an extra day, due to the sabotage repair effort.

By making an example of the culprit, this is a deliberate chilling effort to
undermine temptation for some other saboteur later.

In your case, now you go back to the last backup before this crash, and all
the work since that backup, it has to be done over again. If you lucky, you
did a backup after input completed for the month, but before any 900 jobs
done, because you have a good EOM check list, and it is being followed.

Al Mac (WOW) = Alister William Macintyre
via WOW WAY.com ISP
2012 April I had a serious PC melt down, from which I am still recovering
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 12:04 PM
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Subject: [BPCS-L] Month End

Hi,

I am doing Month end for 31 Aug, 2012. But failed. I found the log in
wrksplf INV901C ended code 20. The Job exceeded end severity.

Can anyone help? Thanks