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MM-xxxiii     Wednesday

2000-02-02

Still too hot (8C) and we got a little bit of rain. But also a lot of sun, falling straight in my screen.

The Belgians called with a problem in the posting interface (from invoicing to financials).
Basically there are two interfaces to the financial module (OFI) one before invoicing and one after invoicing. Both postings must reach a balance. In December they noticed that they were missing lots of invoices in OFI. This was due to wrongly scheduling of their batch processes, with archiving orders (end removing them from the active files) before they got posted. We informed them that they should change the ordering of the processes. Obviously they didn't do that and now they are missing invoices (for almost 30 Million). So I quickly changed the posting to lookup orders in the archived files as well.

And I got a mail from the Americans about duplicates in the S3. This is a problem that has cropped up in a few places but we never found out why because we couldn't replay it here and the opco's that got the problem were unable to explain when and how they got it. Until the Americans hit the bug. They do use their brain and reported the error with a good indication of the when and how. And now I know it is indeed a bug.
So now I can start to solve it.

It is short shift this evening. I guess I am burned out for the day.

Adios