Re: Printing order acknowledgments

I don't know about the parms, but it is the activation group that's causing the 
file to hang open.  They must be using it for performance reasons, saving the 
startup overhead.

An alternative to signing off would be to run the CL command RCLACTGRP 
ACTGRP(GPS1).  This will shut it down and release the files, at the cost of a 
full initialization the next time you start it up again.

Dave Shaw

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Furniss" <JFurniss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:05 PM
Subject: Printing order acknowledgments


List:
I found out about program AMBF2XFR to print order acknowlegments from searching 
the archives. It's working for me, except the file that gets created remains 
open until I sign out of the session that created it. I noticed in my job log 
that it uses an activation group (GPS1). Could that have something to do with 
it? It acts as if it is waiting for me to print more order acks to the file. 
The parms for this program are a 7 alpha code string (I'm sending all blanks), 
and a 256 alpha string with company number (2/0), internal header type (1A) and 
the 7 character customer order number. Do I need to send another field in the 
256 byte parm?

Thanks,

John Furniss
Allied Machine & Engineering Corp.
iSeries Application Programmer
Phone (330) 343-4283 Ext. 8371
email: jfurniss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx