RE: DISAPPEARING INVOICES

["Wolf, Roger" <Roger.Wolf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: DISAPPEARING INVOICES

Al,

I would recommend going to at least PTF-2 for BPCS 405CD.  There was a lot of fixes to the programs.  Right now I am in the process of getting all BMR's for PTF-3 that is available.  On of the big items with PTF-3 is a fix to SYS903B the BPCS date routine.  They made it much more efficient and there was a bug in it that got fixed.  The bug in it effected our MRP system.

-----Original Message-----
From:   MacWheel99@aol.com [SMTP:MacWheel99@aol.com]
Sent:   Saturday, September 11, 1999 11:12 PM
To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: DISAPPEARING INVOICES

>  We are on BPCS V6.04 mixed mode but using client server (GUI) for order
>  entry.  We have a very strange problem where the invoices do not print but
>  seem to disappear into a "black hole" for a while before popping out again.
>  The problem seems to be intermittent and we have tried deleting the user
>  profile, data area etc for this user.  The job seems to end normally and we
>  have checked WRKACTJOB/WRKSBMJOB and all other outqueues. 
> The records are on the ECH/ECL.
>  Has anyone else experienced this problem or can anyone offer some
>  assistance.
> 
>  Thanks

We have had whole bunches of problems due to people updating ECH/ECL for
different purposes concurrently, so we have a company rule ... when billing
is being run ... everyone else get out of customer order updates & shipping
activity.  That solved the problem, except when some people do not pay
attention.  There was a rush customer order after the shipping crew had gone
home, and the customer service people's shipment went into a black hole ...
they were half way thru when their work was sucked up by the invoicing ...
they had neglected to tell billing that there was a need to interupt billing
for their emergency.

We're on BPCS 405 CD mixed mode ... PTF-1 without the Y2K repairs done yet

Al