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The weather is keeping up its brilliance, with almost no clouds and temperatures at around 20°C. Nice to sit in the office behind an computer screen :-(

No holiday today so traffic was back, the warnings for the roadwork were not switched on yet but the works had already started so the traffic jam in Baarlo was twice as long as usual.

Reporting to Peter first. Then to CSC management via e-mail (to Tom and Wilbert).Then checking the VAT solution. All the specific VAT adaptations work as they should, I did however spot an error in the Euro implementation. (see Euro problem). I’ll check and solve that before shipping the code to Germany.

A new remark came in from Austria. Guido and Koen are there to guide the 7.08.0 OCS implementation. While testing the order entry they noticed that Cash Sales orders don’t result in a directly printed invoice. The invoice gets produced in the normal procedure, with a batch run at night, but the intention for Cash Sales is to include the invoice with the goods so when the goods are released from the warehouse the invoice must be printed. Over 90% of the order in Austria are Cash Sales. A solution is required immediately. Of course :-(.

Ronny is implementing the Requested Receipts function for which I should have done some research. Peter did make up some requirements and I did put in some help but not the amount that I should have. I’ll have to check later to see if the implementation corresponds to the actual functionality available now in OLI.

I worked out the file formats required to import data into Lotus Organiser. Now I am looking at a way to do this automatically, without the user having to do it manually but just by executing some kind of single click action.

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The weather is changing with more clouds and wind and cooler. It’s still nice but ...

We got to the root of the Austrian problem. Changing one character in a program solved it but it took us more than a day to find it!! The OLI program that splits the commercial order first accesses the un-split record and then splits it via a service program. Afterwards it starts the calculation and invoicing. The Calculation is started with the key fields from the un-split record and consequentially does not calculate a thing. Invoicing works only on calculated orders so the invoice doesn’t appear. Because all the files are OK the normal bulk invoice processing, which includes the calculation, proceeds normal. There are two programs that do the splitting, both have a bug and we now killed only one of them. The other bug is known so we can get at it easily. If only we know how to kill it without affecting the rest of the program.

While updating the reports Sandri cam around with a CS problem in Norway. While sending the F58060, that is a OCS to OFI transfer file, from one system to another the receiving system crashed due to a ‘disk full’ error. The data was exactly in between the two machines, gone from one, not arrived on the other. Normally CS keeps safety copies on the receiving system and normally a file is sent first to CS on its own system and then, from CS to CS on the other system creating a send-save and receive-save. Obviously the receive save was not made (the saving caused the disk overflow!) and being a special message the send-save is never made for F58060. It is possible to recreate the original F58060 but is a hassle and best avoided. Normally there is a saved copy. But,...
If everything always goes normal there wouldn’t be any programmers with a job left!

I scanned a map for my father and then removed all the text from it, manually.

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The weather reverted to standard Belgian format. Overcast, cool, long spells of rain. Really downcast outside. Ideal to sit inside, keeping the computers company.

The Germans have a bunch of orders that went wrong during the early stages of the 7.08.0 phase. Everything works now so no new problem orders are generated. They want us too clean up. The orders have been handled by the logistics module, goods were delivered but no invoices / credit notes were made. This amounts to a serious amount. We worked out a method to put things right and I did write the required program. Testing it must wait for tomorrow.

In between (I didn’t have time ‘in between’ but ...) I made the local exit programs for the Credit checking that the US wants in the TeleSales order entry program. They are not ready but the Progress side can use them already for testing.

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I finished and tested the correction program for Germany. I then had to bring it in under the OCS development environment to get it posted to Germany. I had made it in my own local library because it doesn't fit any project. After importing in the O-tool, and retesting, I made a PRS and had Tom sent it over to Germany. First to their test system (deoce001) where I tested it. Of course it ran beautifully. And fast. Tomorrow it will be sent to the production machine and be executed there. Of course it will fail in production

A new PRS from France was put forward by Francis. Also for tomorrow.

I made a quick set of programs for the Local Exits on the TeleSales order entry module. Ronny did the Progress side and we tested it together. This is not finished because I still have to make a PRS for them and I must provide two OLE programs as well. Tomorrow. Or later.

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It was misty this morning, all the way from Hasselt to Venlo. By about noon the had risen to a few hundred meter to settle there. Later we had a little bit of sun and a solid thunderstorm to round off the day.

The correction program was transferred and executed on the German production system. We manually added the two problem records. Because I didn’t have authority for the DFU commands Wilbert did that. I prepared a document and added that to the local web site. With links to it from a new specific Opco page.

In Germany there was a problem with the TeleSales server job. When the OLI background job is not running the first job that needs it will start it. The user settings (authority, language, LDA, ...) of that user is then used by the background job and by all the jobs started from there. The user of the TeleSales server job was not enrolled in the OCS authority system and thus didn’t get a correctly filled LDA. Wilbert solved this. Ronny added a button in TeleSales to retrieve the LDA and I wrote a program (rpgle) to pick up the LDA and send it to the PC.

Peter goes on holiday for four weeks (to Cost Rica) so we had an extensive planning meeting.

I did not get at the other problems scheduled for today

I brought again two and a halve kilogram of asparagus along but my brother had only expected a single portion. Last week he had two portions but he had quests. Not that is a problem, we'll just eat a bit more of it.

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Nice and sunny all day, with a treat of a thunderstorm in the evening but it didn’t materialise.

I went to the barber first, then shopping. Afterwards I took my brother to the Kevok but there was no timber of the right size available. Next Monday I have a day off and well go back then to have it made to measure. Back home I peeled the asparagus, which took the best part of an hour, and prepared the rest of the food.

The rest of the day was spent reading and resting.

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Again running without problems. I extended to almost 5 km but along a road I’ve never run before.

Because the roof men are coming to break down the chimney tomorrow we cleared out the attic. Most of the work was already don by bringing down the flowers and seedlings so we only really had to rearrange the projects that are under way.

I missed the first part of the end of the world.