Re: The Future of the System i - the Domino theory

Ah, I remember the platform agnostic Domino group in Fort Wayne.  One 
Domino Windows administrator said that he was migrating to iSeries and 
couldn't wait to get his weekends back.

We bought that http://www.etq.com package for the main purpose of 
completing stuff for our QS/ISO people.  They use it for:
- Corrective Actions
- Document Control
- Engineering Change Notices
- Training
- Audits and Surveys
- Calibration
- Preventive Maintenance
- APQP
- Nonconforming material

They love it.  We've made some modifications.  Like the ECN's will run a 
BPCS bill of material report and stick that spool file in as an "activity" 
document attached to that ECN.

The tailorability of the workflow is outstanding.  For instance, the 
Document Control database.  You can set up multiple document types.  Like 
a "form" may have to go through certain levels of approval, but another 
document, like your employee handbook, may go through a whole different 
approval process.  And the automatic escalations... like if a document is 
being held up by "Joe" then there's three level of escalations, Joe, Joe 
and his manager, Joe his manager and his manager's manager.  We joke that 
the 4th level automatically prints out the pink slip.

To populate some of their databases, like "In-Contact" and "Material 
Control" we use LEI (Lotus Enterprise Integrator) to pump data from BPCS 
into those files.

Rob Berendt