It's cooling down a bit (12°C) and most of the day looks like a typical Belgian summer : comfortably warm, lots of clouds with sunny breaks and a few light showers.

At work I have a fairly standard day as well. Or rather a quite day with no urgent calls and time to check some things out.

OMSI-3 is the old order entry system on the AS/400. Fully character terminal based so not at all 'modern'. It is efficient and quite performant as well but in this day and age it is definitively passé. Which is why TeleSales was developed. Originally TeleSales was a subset of the order entry program developed in Progress. From a fast and efficient subset it has grown to a full replacement for the order entry (losing its performance on the way). Of course today everything must be web based and e-named so an internet program was designed (well 'designed' (comment: censored) ... and became TOS2000. That is still being build.
So, now we are on the brink of having three order entry systems. And now it seems that all three use different business rules to determine which products can be ordered. As I said that is "design". On corporate scale.
Of course now, after the 'design' and when the implementation is all but finished the business rules must be determined.
And BTW OCE is also working on a SAP implementation so in a few years time we have yet another order entry system.

And I make a change to the transaction type file (well, to the maintenance program thereof). I should have done so before but I misinterpreted the problem report.

 

And I find a slightly disturbing inconsistency in the Open Linux installation. I did the install accepting all the defaults, except for the screen where I selected the LG 500LC from the list (being quite surprised to find my desktop LCD listed). I made two users, col and sjon. When I use a terminal windows (bash shell) I can only see the user directory for the user I logged on with. As it should, col cannot access the /root/sjon directory. When however I go via the "explorer" (Kfm ?) I can look into the directory for the other user.
Doesn't look good.

Adios