Re: JBA technical documentation

Status 'X' in stat55/oep55 is cancelled... but it does not mean it will not
qualify as shipped line too... I wrote this account summary program for an
apparel company here in LA and had trouble trying to get an order line to
appear in the report when I am filtering for shipped items only. later I
found out that even if you shipped items partially, you are still able to
cancel lines. so I changed the logic and depended on the quantity fields
itself then use the status fields.

Lito
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Thomas <DThomas@lpw-mdi.com>
To: <JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: JBA technical documentation


> I spent countless hours entering test data and determining the possible
> values of various status fields by looking at the contents of files during
> various steps of these processes.  I was directing several contract
> programmers adding applications to wrap around standard JBA and they
needed
> to know how you could tell if an item was backordered, or a line had been
> cancelled, or an order was on hold, etc.  My personal experimentation was
> not a very efficient way to get this critical information, although some
3rd
> party File Editing Utilities made this process a little more bearable.  I
> also did a mediocre job of documenting what I learned during these
> investigations.  I constantly overestimated what I would recall months
> later.
>
> I really can't imagine any major ERP package being as lacking in technical
> documentation, or having code as poorly written as JBA.  That said, my
> experience has been that JBA is relatively stable compared to some other
> systems like BPCS and JDE OneWorld.
>
> Dan Thomas
> Sr. VP Information Systems
> Medical Distribution, Inc.
> 4500 Progress Blvd
> Louisville, KY  40218-5058
> Phone (502) 454-9013 ext 120
> email  DThomas@lpw-mdi.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@genfast.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 11:47 AM
> To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: JBA technical documentation
>
>
>
>
> On 6/2/99, Dan Thomas wrote:
>
> >>Has anyone reviewed or used the 'technical documentation'
> that is listed as part of the JBA S21 Explorer product?
> Explorer comes with a viewer, but supposedly there is an
> Access database you can purchase that lists "where used"
> cross reference type of info.  I don't know whether it
> documents "status fields", speaking of which can Dan Bale
> elaborate on a few examples of status fields for which he
> is looking for info?  Internal program fields, or status
> fields like order line status (STAT55 / OEP55) where 'X'
> means the line was cancelled?<<
>
> Sorry I forgot to respond to your query...
>
> Yes, I am looking for information on "status fields like
> order line status (STAT55 / OEP55)".
>
> How did you determine "where 'X' means the line was
> cancelled"?
>
> - Dan Bale
>
>
>
>
>
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