RE: active maintenance batches

Lance,

Have you tried firing squads? <grin>

It's pretty easy to write programs to change ACREC to "S" for unfinished
batches in the batch control files.  If you have something like Help/Systems
Robot/Playback (I think that's the right name), it's not too hard to build
scheduled jobs that process the closed batches automagically.

Publicizing who was naughty about not finishing up properly each day can
have some effect - we embarrassed a few folks into being more careful.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Mason [mailto:lance@mgelectronic.com]
> 
> I also have this same problem with backups.  I would 
> appreciate comments on
> how others handle this.  We miss several backups a week due 
> to too many
> people leaving things running at day end.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapics-l@midrange.com 
> [mailto:owner-mapics-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of ChrisGinaNeely@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 10:21 PM
> To: mapics-l@midrange.com
> Subject: active maintenance batches
> 
> 
> How are you handling those active maintenance batches that prevent the
> mapics
> backup from running? Have you written a program to tell you that there
> active
> batches out there? Are you simply letting the backup fail and 
> then telling
> the users to make sure they have closed out all there batches 
> and signed off
> the system before they leave for the day? Or, is this not a 
> big problem?
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