RE: Seeking adivce

<snip>
However,
once in a blue moon, somehow a person gets other people's POs that
they are printing.
</snip>

If they get someone else's what happens to their PO?  Are you losing PO's 
(having to request the print option again)?  If so, I think it may be a timing 
issue with assigning the members in your work file.  Before the first job locks 
the member to your system a second job comes along and acquires the same member 
name.  The last PO number written is the one that prints.

Rick

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 10:20 AM
To: Midrange_RPG400_L
Subject: Seeking adivce


I am looking for adivce on a better way to do a program. What I have
is a vendor application that prints a PO. We didn't like that PO and
because of how complicated it was, I just wrote a new program to print
the PO how we wanted it. This vendor program had a work file that put
the PO number and some information like that into it. I made a copy of
that file and renamed it and put the exact same information into my
file (the vendor code puts the information into a new member in the
file then deletes the memeber when it is done processing) so it
doesn't get deleted. I did some fancy footwork to put my file in QTEMP
so that more than one person can use this program at once. However,
once in a blue moon, somehow a person gets other people's POs that
they are printing. We have never been able to duplicate that.

My question is this, is this the best way? Is there a better way? All
I truely care about getting is the PO number(s) that they are printing
so I can pass this information to my program (there could be 1 or
there could be 1000 or more, in theory). I am basically looking for
some ideas on how to make this better so we don't have this problem I
described above.

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