Re: Seeking adivce

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, they are not loosing theirs which makes me think somehow there is
data in the file when I do the CRTDUPOBJ. But I am also always
clearing the file to make sure it it empty. I think this data area
will help drastically.


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:35:53 -0500, rick.chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<rick.chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <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
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [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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