Initiate Asynchronous Monitors

If the asynchronous monitors are being initiated as auto start jobs, this processing may be bypassed.

The procedure to start online processing consists of initiating those asynchronous monitors that will be used during the business day. The Initiate/Cancel Monitors Menu is used to initiate any or all of the asynchronous monitors. The system actually initiates each monitor by submitting a job with the appropriate job description. The job description for each monitor is provided in the Processing Methods key concept within this chapter.

Please note that only monitors for the modules installed will be displayed on the Initiate/Cancel Menu. For example, if Just-In-Time is not installed the JIT Async Monitor (JTASYNCMON) would not be displayed. Likewise if SYNCHRO is not installed, the SYNCHRO Report Request (GAASYNCMON), SYNCHRO INVOICE Message Extraction (GAIITMON), and SYNCHRO Shipping/Billing (GASBUMON) monitors would not be displayed on the menu.

The user procedures to start online processing are described below.

How to Initiate the Asynchronous Monitors

Display Initiate/Cancel

Step 1.

Select the Initiate/Cancel Monitors Menu option on the System Processing Menu. The Initiate/Cancel Monitors Menu is displayed. A sample of this screen is shown below.

                          INITIATE/CANCEL MONITORS                             

                                                                               

    Main Manufacturing MSQ        A       MON2:MSGQ for Bar-Code        A       

    MON3:MOMNT; LR's; CR's        A       MON4: Overflow                A      

    Shipping/Billing Update       A       Just-In-Time                         

    Consolidated Billing Update           Electronic Data Collection           

    Immediate Picker Print        A       Purchasing                    A      

    Immediate Invoice Print               Purchase Order Generation            

    Immediate BOL Print           A       EDI PO Ackn Update                   

    Immediate SO Ackn Print               EDI PO Receipts Update               

    Immediate Quote Ackn Print            EDI Sales Order Generation           

    Immediate RMA Ackn Print              Synchro/Shipping & Billing           

    Stock Loc Reservation                 Synchro/Invoice Transmitter          

    Sales Analysis Post                   Synchro/Report Requests              

    Control Total Update          A       Load Consolidation Update            

    Synchro/Customer KANBAN               Business Process Manager             

    Manufacturing Configuration   A                                            

                        Option:  1 - Initiate                                  

                                 2 - Cancel                                    

                                 3 - JIT Night Cancel                          

                                                                               

 F3=Exit             F5=Refresh

Initiate/Cancel Monitors Screen.

Initiate Monitor(s)

Step 2.

To the right of each monitor is a status field and an input field. If an A appears in the status field for a monitor, that monitor is already active. Otherwise, this field will be blank.

Enter a 1 in the input field to the right of each monitor that is to be initiated, and press the ENTER key. An S will appear in the status field of each monitor that was specified. This indicates that the request has been submitted.

Return

Step 3.

Press F3-Exit to return to the System Processing Menu.

Note: If the user redisplays the Initiate/Cancel Monitors Menu after returning to the System Processing Menu, S will not appear in any of the status fields. If the request to initiate the monitor(s) has completed successfully, an A will appear. If the request has not yet been processed, the status field(s) will be blank. A second request should not be submitted.