RE: Archiving COM historical orders

Greg,

At my old job we had one that was written for us by our affiliate,
Progressive Systems. The reason the one in COM is slow is because it
archives order by order, which makes the I/O performance pretty poor. The
one that we had archived file by file, and ran at least 10 times faster.  Of
course, it didn't do any of the error checking that the MAPICS one did,
either, which made it very simple - I think they only charged us for about 2
days of programming time. We would have written it ourselves, but we were in
a severe time crunch and couldn't free enough time to get to it.

Dave Shaw
MAPICS-L Moderator
Rauch Industries, Inc.
Gastonia, NC

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Wenzloff [mailto:GWenzloff@beckmfg.com]

We are at XA release 4.

In the past I found it was nearly impossible to archive historical COM
orders because the procedure was insanely slow.
I need to archive and remove about 200,000 orders.   From past experience
this would take days of computer time.  Am I up the creek without a paddle?

Does anyone have a user written procedure to archive records from the 20
couple historical files?
MAPICS seems incapable of doing this.

Greg Wenzloff
Beck Manufacturing
717-762-9141x246