Re: Where's the JBA technical documentation that...

Randy,

Appreciate your comments.  Ditto my previous response to Doug...  I concur with
everything you said, except your last paragraph.

I had to chuckle at your comment:  >>There is no purpose in "fighting" it or
complaining, it just is and probably won't change.<<  It sounds like the battle
cry of the Star Trek borgs, "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."

No, as far as I have been informed, we are on JBA's latest version, 3.51, I
think.  Hopefully, that's Y2K compliant.  Our shop bought the JBA package late
last year to replace an old package that had been heavily modified and was not
anywhere near y2k compliant.  We've had to convert some of our old system's
reports to use the JBA data files.  We've also had some EDI conversion issues.

- Dan Bale


>>The infobase would have come on a CD-ROM.  It may have a lot of information on
it, but you would have to go searching though the CD for it, and pretty much
know what you're looking for in the first place.

>>There really is no place telling you the database "model" with important
rules" or "validations" or allowable "values".  Even if there was, Version 3.4
(as is true with earlier and later versions) has many inconsistencies in the way
"values" are handled.  Some hard coded within programs, both logic statements
and tables, some within DDS for the screens (some even attached to indicators),
some within message files, or by passed parameters.  Plus some PTF's change
objects, relocating validation logic that isn't tracked by the documentation.

>>It makes for an interesting environment.  There is no purpose in "fighting" it
or complaining, it just is and probably won't change.  By the way, is there
concern that you are not on a Y2K complaint version?

>>Randy Smith
>>OMRON Electronics, Inc.<<





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