Re: Another one...

REQMTS and PLNORD remain after the run - they're the files used by the inquiry. There are multiple records per item, though, so converting them into spreadsheet form takes a bit of work. At one of my past jobs we had a program that transposed that data into a file that could be downloaded into a spreadsheet. It wasn't terribly complex, but the design required a bit of thought.

Dave Shaw

----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Luce" <lwl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'MAPICS ERP System Discussion'" <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Another one...

Lloyd:

You do have a challenge!

I don't know about MAPICS specifically in this regard but all the MRP
programs I'm familiar with do not retain their generation output files -
they clear them during the end-of-run processing. This means there is no
data source from which the user can create that one reeeeeally long row per
item. And given Excel's limitation of 234 columns I'd bet on running out of
columns before they ran out of item data anyway.

With no files the only data source is the spooled output report - regen or
exception - so you're back to Monarch - or some other report parsing tool.
Unless you have a way to email the report from the output queue to the user.
The file could be saved as a txt file and then imported into Excel but
having done something like this in the past I'd get a copy of Monarch first.

Roy Luce

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