Re: Request for BPCS documents -- BPCS-L

   * There are several vendors who subscribe to this list that would be happy
   to sell you BPCS manuals.  They cost around $ 200 to $ 400 each.  You need
   to spend over a thousand dollars to get a comprehensive collection.  It
   may be that someone at your company bought some of these before you came
   to work there.  You can also download sample pages from some of the sites
   that sell BPCS documentation, or the whole thing in the case of the IBM
   Redbook on BPCS.

   * There are several vendors who subscribe to this list that offer a
   variety of teaching environments to get people rapidly up to speed on
   various aspects of BPCS.  I think the best is when a BPCS professor is
   brought to your work site for about a week, to provide a conference room
   full of co-workers a University level class in various aspects of BPCS ...
   then several months later do that again on a different aspect of BPCS. 
   This is more economical than a bunch of co-workers traveling to the vendor
   site.

   * However, if you are on a zero $ budget, then
   # 1 locate the documentation that comes with BPCS in the file BPCSDOC and
   plan on spending 10-100 times as long figuring it out, as you would spend
   if you had a good $ 250.00 BPCS manual.

   Access to DOC is a subset of SYS security.  Because we want people having
   access to DOC but not to SYS, we have made that stuff available to our
   work force by means other than the DOC menu.

   Also, F1 is universal HELP KEY throughout BPCS.
   If you are on a menu, press F1 and scroll for a summary of what each of
   the options can do.
   If you have started a program, press F1 for access to some documentation
   on that particular program.
   Your company modifications may not have this support if past employees
   have not made use of the documentation ... what is the point of a
   programmer working on something that no one uses?

      Hi All,
       
       Can anyone in BPCS group can send BPCS documents for my learning and
     understanding purpose.
       
       Thanks in Advance
       
       Thiruchelvam

                      
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   Al Macintyre  http://www.ryze.com/go/Al9Mac
   Find BPCS Documentation Suppliers
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   BPCS/400 Computer Janitor at http://www.globalwiretechnologies.com/
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   Part time may get commission from some BPCS vendors for helping them ... I
   will now say in a post if the product I commenting on is also one
   potentially involved with this ... not that I have made anything from this
   yet.