December 2, 2021

FlexiWare Jobs
NOTE: You must leave your drives mapped as follows or these jobs will abend:
F: ntherm2\flximprt
K: ntherm2\k_bps

Vendors
This job should be run daily, preferably at the end of the day or in the evening. It can also be run on
request (usually by Mike Gervino in Accounts Payable, or by someone from Merchandising).

1. Open the Dynacomm Elite group.

2. Double click the Vendor icon.
3. Check the output files which are in K:\OUTPUT\VENDOR1.OUT thru VENDOR6.OUT. If any of
the files has an error message, see Bill Davison. (If any of the output files are completely blank,
that’s all right.)

POs & Receipts

This job should be run daily, preferably at the end of the day or in the evening. The job will create a PO
file, a PO terms file, and a receipts file from ARIES. The files will be downloaded to the LAN. Then the
files must be manually loaded into FlexiWare.

1. Open the Dynacomm Elite group.

2. Double click the ‘POs & Receipts’ icon.
3. If any error messages occur, the job may be only part way done. See Bill Davison for assistance and
DO NOT rerun the job until the problem has been looked at.
4. Check the output files which are in K:\OUTPUT\PORCPT1.OUT thru PORCPT9.OUT. If any of the
files has an error message, see Bill Davison. (If any of the output files are completely blank,
that’s all right.)

Load POs into Flexi

1. Open the FlexiWare group.
2. Double click the FPO icon.
3. Sign on as SYSADM with password SYSADM (must be capital letters)
4. Select Documents : Orders : Import
5. Switch to Drive F:\. Then double click on F:\WCD\BU
6. Switch the file type to ‘All Files’
7. Double click on the file to be imported. This is usually the latest PO file, ex. 19950413.PO3. (The
extension on the filename gets incremented each time you run the job on a given day. So the
example above was from the third time I ran the job on 4/13/95.)
8. Click on Setup
9. Click Landscape, then click OK
10. Click OK again. While the job runs you will not be able to use your PC for anything else.
11. Check the printout. If there were any errors, please show them to me.
Load Receipts into Flexi
1. Select Activity : Receiving : Import
2. Click on ‘Import Batch’
3. Click OK
4. Switch the file type to ‘All Files’
5. Double click on the file to be imported. This is usually the latest receipt file, ex. 19950413.RE3.
(The extension on the filename gets incremented each time you run the job on a given day. So the
example above was from the third time I ran the job on 4/13/95.)
Check the printout. If it has any errors, please show them to me. (You will probably get a memory error
on your screen just before the report prints out. Just hit OK to bypass this screen.)

End of Period Processing

Freeze the Files
This job must be run at the end of the period, between 5pm Friday and 8am Monday.

1. Click on the Freeze Flexi icon (this runs f:\wcd\bats\frozrsl.bat). It should take about 20-30 minutes.
2. Check the output file: F:\WCD\FROZRSL1.OUT.

Run the RSL jobs

These jobs should be run on the first Monday of the new period.

1. Click on the RSL to ARIES icon. This will create matched and unmatched RSL files, then upload
them to mainframe. It should take about 20-30 minutes.
2. Check the output files: F:\WCD\RSL1.OUT thru F:\WCD\RSL3.OUT
3. Tell Fernando that the RSL files have been uploaded to the mainframe.
4. Click on the RSL to G/L icon. This will create the RSL file for the General Ledger system. It
should take less than 5 minutes.
5. Check the output files: F:\WCD\RSL2GL1.OUT thru F:\WCD\RSL2GL3.OUT
6. Call Jackie McCutcheon (x4771) and tell her the file is ready. It is called RSL2GL.DAT and is on
the main directory of the Flexi drive.