RE: inventory software

["Sims, Ken" <KSIMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne -

>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:36:55 -0500
>From: Wayne Capwell <wayne@redoaktech.com>
>Subject: inventory software
>
>I've been asked to provide a list of software vendors and modules that
>can run inventory on the AS/400.  Now before I get flooded with every
>vendors from JDEdwards to Shoebox, here's the hitch.

Let me make a negative recommendation ... DON'T use anything from
Distribution Information Systems Corporation (out of Charlotte NC).  We have
their Beverage Management Information System and it is a pile of doggy
residue ...

1. Bugs.
2. It was bought back in early 1998 (before I started working here) because
it was supposed to be Y2K compliant, but while the database mostly is, a lot
of the programs weren't.
3. Bugs.
4. A lot of programs with program-described files, extensive use of
indicators, cycle handling of WORKSTN files, and other such RPG II
"features".
5. Bugs.
6. A real lack of validating screen input fields; including date fields with
no validation at all.
7. Bugs.
8. Spaghetti code.
9. Bugs.

Ken
Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, Inc.
Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of
my employer or anyone else.

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