Changing dates in batch process jobs

[Chris Kelleher]

System Environment:
IBM H/70 AIX 4.3.2
Progress 8.3b
MFG/PRO 8.5h

Does anyone in the group have a program that will change batch process jobs
Date fields to "TODAY"'s date.
For example at "18.22.9 Post Accumulated Usage Variances" I need to change
the
Effective date to today's date and process the job. I currently just run
18.22.9 but
I'm running into more jobs that need to be in batch mode but have a date
issue.
I believe that I saw a post about this last year, but have been unable to
find them.

TIA

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Bryan Holman 972.242.2116 ext.157
Manager Information Systems 972.242.2902 fax
Hilite Industries Inc.
bholman@hilite-ind.com http://www.hilite-ind.com

 

[Chris Kelleher]

Bryan,

You might want to look into UBiSoon from COGITA.
It is a batch management system with support for
date macro's like you mentioned. You can find information
at http://mfgpro.pics.com

Regards,

Terry
PICS

 

[Chris Kelleher]

We have the similar situation here. What we did is simply updating the
report, so "today" will be used if the date is left blank(?). And it worked
very well for us so far.

Yizhi wang
Leatherman Tool

 

[Chris Kelleher]

The way we handle this, is by letting the user request the report within
MFG/PRO using predefined batch-ids. They tell me what report requires
dynamic parameters when run in batch. (We batch using a Unix scheduler and
NOT MFG/PRO Batch processing). I have a program that will update bcd_parm
field on bcd_det. To locate the position in this field, I use ENTRY( X,
bcd_parm, " "), X means field number and then just assign new value and
submit the job.

regards,

Karim