Re: Problem with pick slip prints going to wrong OUTQ

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are talking about a modification here, since in vanilla BPCS the IWM 
warehouse does not specify OUTQ.
Take a look at what relevant modifications you might have in what libraries 
via:
WRKOBJ ORD56* and WRKOBJ ORD59*
For the PRTF ... do a CHGPRTF and not ENTER key but F4 and review what your 
settings are

We came up with a CL to force some settings after any modification 
re-compile to adjust that which the compile can't touch, because different 
kinds of PC print connections can have indigestion when the width of PC 
paper report is more than 80 wide, resulting in unwanted font size, needs 
HOST control of depth, plus we like to use 8 to the inch where some PCs 
want to use 6 to inch.  With some critical documents, we like to HOLD after 
printing, to help reprint in case of printer mess up.  At end of our CL 
execution, it sends message to QSYSOPR with details of what changes got 
applied to what software.  (We have several such CLs for different special 
forms.)

ORD560C (CL) overall pick slip (we put some report on hold irrespective of 
pop-up 1 settings)
ORD561 (RPG) Pick Slip Printing
ORD562C (CL) determines OUTQ to use for ORD561
ORD595 (RPG) Bill of Lading Print File
ORD595O (DDS) Bill of Lading Print File
ORD596 (RPG) Pack Sheet Printing
ORD596O (DDS) Pack Sheet Print File
ORD597 (RPG) Pack Sheet Reprint
ORD597O (DDS) Pack Sheet Reprint File

You should have the ORIGINAL source (from SSA) in BPCS405CDS (S for source) 
NOT in your library list, and whatever you modified copied some place else, 
which means that PDM-54 can compare original with what you using to 
identify historical modifications that current programmer staff may have 
forgotten details of.

We are also on 405cd.
We modified both appearance of many reports such as shipping forms, and 
which OUTQ they go to ... basically
(a) certain reports for a facility, irrespective of who in the company 
generates them, we want them to go to the OUTQ associated with the 
facility's shipping dept, while the PC in that location needs to have its 
other reports go to the facility's green bar printer
(b) certain critical audit trails, such as customer acknowlegements, 
irrespective of who in the company made the changes, we want them to go to 
OUTQ associated with the people in charge of making sure they were done 
correctly, before the customers get to see them.

Suppose we have someone who does the shipping for a particular facility who 
is located in another facility ... how is the software to know which 
facility's shipping printer something supposed to go to ... it could be 
that the CL modification says "If user on this list then ...." a form of 
logic that means that as there is personnel turn over, new people that this 
applies to, many not be on the list.

In the absence of such modifications, each work station has pop-up menu 
option 1 to set some OUTQ defaults and I tell our people to not touch the 
top half (e.g. JOBD is BPCS) and only touch bottom half (printer and OUTQ) 
but some people can get confused.  There is an option on menu SYS/23 to key 
in some workstation id whose pop-up 1 settings got messed up & I copied 
that to our menu FXS (fixes of stuff that break too often) because I have 
severely restricted security of who may do SYS stuff.

We originally set this up during our Y2K conversion (to 405cd) when we had 
to get tech assistance that did not believe in adhering to BPCS 
conventions, which makes back tracking what got modified where, almost 
impossible, which was a big pain when we recently moved our offices, 
including what printers where.

> Hi
>
> We are on 4.05cd. Have an issue with ORD560 Pick Slip   Printing. ORD561
> should overide the spooled file to the OUTQ specified on the IWM Warehouse
> Master record, based on warehouse. It is working correctly except for a
> handful of users. I run it, overides to the correct OUTQ. I have several OE
> people that it is not working for. It appears to use the last OUTQ, from the
> last P/S printed. I had the user rename workstation, to reflect the same as
> mine(which worked) and when she runs it, same problem in that it puts the
> spooled file into the last OUTQ used when she ran her last ORD560.
>
> Based on my tests, it doesnt appear to be a workstation issue, but more of a
> user profile issue. She signed on her session as me, and was able to run it
> correctly. I tried resetting her workstation data area, no luck.
>
> Any ideas on where else I might have a corrupt file or data area?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim

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Al Macintyre  http://www.ryze.com/go/Al9Mac
BPCS/400 Computer Janitor ... see
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