Completed POs in History not seen by IFM: WHY?

Hi list!

We have this consistent situation between the marriage of Purchasing and 
IFM.  If you complete and purge an order, it is moved then to history. The 
problem is that IFM will not be able to see it.  If this PO has not been 
paid yet, we are dead.  We have to leave the purchase order in the regular 
open files because IMHIST will be affected, inquiry screens in IFM will be 
affected.... etc.

MEN, this does not have sense to us in IT and our user community. 
Normally, what I want to see happening is that as soon as I fully pay a 
purchase order, I want to  be able to purge it a move it to history and 
still be able to see on inquiry screens and IMHIST ALL the data related to 
that PO: RD, RP, PQ, RI, CA, etc...

Maybe I do not have all the factor, maybe I do not know the application 
yet to say that this can be done and this can't... I checked in the MAPICS 
support website but I did not found a definite answer to my question in 
the knowledgebase...

Can somebody illustrate me on this matter?  I will really appreciate your 
opinions about it.

Peter Vidal
PALL Corporation
SR Programmer Analyst
5775 Rio Vista Drive, Clearwater, FL 33760-3137