Re: End user guide

Installment # 7 from Al Mac.

If you have command line access, try this:
DSPFD AVM then enter
Or
DSPFD RCM then enter

DSPFD displays file description info
On the control line key B for bottom, then enter
You will now see how many records are in the file, how recently it has been
updated, number fields in the file, total record length, disk space
consumed, and geeky info mainly of interest to programmers.

* AVM = Vendor Master File
* CEM = Employee Master File
* ECH = Customer Order Header Summary
* ECL = Customer Order Regular Lines
* ECS = Customer Order Special Lines
* ESN = Notes for customers and orders
* FSO = Shop Order Summary Info
* HPH = Purchase Order Header Summary
* HPO = Purchase Order Lines
* HPH = Vendor Item History
* IIC = Item Class File
* IIM = Item Master File
* MPN = Item and Engineering Notes
* RCM = Customer Master File
* SIH = Billing Invoice Header Summary
* SIL = Billing Invoice Lines
* SSD = Sales History Detail
* SSH = Sales History another way
There are multiple places, and ways, to get at names of files worth looking
at, such as in other posts which people have made today, and in real
manuals, like the ones from UPI.
Once again, I am listing some examples, not a complete directory.
These should be more than enough to help you with initial explorations.
There are some extremely useful files I am NOT listing, because they are
HUGE files, or extremely geeky, not good starting points, depending on what
tools you have to view their contents.

If you have command line access, try this:
DSPFFD AVM then enter
Or
DSPFFD RCM then enter

DSPFFD displays file field layout description info
On the control line key B for bottom, then enter
On the control line key T for top, then enter
Move cursor to find line then F1-help
There are instructions here for an extremely rudimentary SEARCH function.

First letter list got jumbled . see if this reads better.
* A = Accounts Payable (our use diminished)
* B = Billing
* C = Cost accounting (CIC and CMF are two very critical files)
* D = Distribution planning (we quit using after a fight with Infor)
* E = Customer Orders
* F = Factory floor shop orders
* G = General Ledger
* H = Purchasing
* I = Inventory Items
* J = Forecasting (we don't use)
* K = Final Assembly Scheduling (we don't use) and MRP/MPS (we do use)
* L = Capacity Planning (our use diminished)
* M = Product Structure
* N = CIM Path (we don't use)
* = Cash Planning (we don't use)
* P = Performance (we don't use)
* Q = Fixed Assets (we don't use) and Laboratory (we don't use) and
Quality
* (we don't use)
* R = Accounts Receivable (our use diminished)
* S = Sales History Analysis
* T = Currency Translation (we don't use)
* U = Multi-currency (we don't use)
* V = Just in Time
* W = Payroll (we don't use on BPCS)
* X = cross reference (security problems) and documentation and
multi-facility
* Y = Advanced Process Industries (we don't use)
* Z = System

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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