Recent content by dianne001

Don't know what type of system you have. We have ellipse on unix system. what we do as part of the process to bring down cics is to first run a custom batch job on ellipse that only runs a script that has a statement mailx -s "Ellipse is coming down in 5 minutes please log off"...

Hello Tim, We currently put contractor costs/hours on an ellipse work order for tracking. We have ellipse 5.2.3.6. Hope this helps. Dianne

Have you tried using the Ellipse Admin Console?

I hope this answers your question. You can go to the mso074 and put in the entity WKO and see the existing values. you can then go to the mso070 to add items to the WKO. if you need more definitions in the WKO entity. Let me know if this helps.

You might want to look at thread725-516294. I had to access mso screens through a vb application. hope it will help you. Thanks, Dianne001

Are you referring to the cycle count process within ellipse?

Hello, We have ellipse 5.2.1 and are upgrading to 5.2.3. I hope the following will help. For example: I created a file called "post-xxx290" that contains the script in /opt/mincom/tools/bin directory on the unix box. look like this: #!/bin/sh # Script name: post_xxx290 # Description...

We had the same problem with the fat client. We were pointing to the wrong instance for the application. This was resolved by changing the instance on the Ellipse configuration on the Control panel. Hope this helps. Thanks, Dianne001

Our accountants currently use an excel spreadsheet to upload manual journal transactions to ellipse. With the Sarbanes Oxley stuff, for us it was acceptable to have the excel spreadsheet exist in a secure lan folder that only the accountants had access to. Policies and procedures were written...

I am new to the web development world. Our company purchased visual studio.net and sent me to training. Have not developed anything yet. Now the company want's to create a web based application using the apache as the web server on a linux box with novell. From what I have read it appears...

On the Ellipse MSO810 - Maintain Employee Details there is a field for work order prefix to assign to the employee. That way whenever they create a work order the prefix will automatically default to this value on MSO810. Also when creating a new work order on the MSQ620 in Ellipse you have...

Hello again Petbul, I thought about this again. I remember having a similiar issue. The users deleted and re-added the work request, and work orders. The end result was the database table msfx51 (work request cross reference table) got corrupted. The table said it was connected to a work...

I had to write a sript that read in a file that contained the results of a directory listing to check if the file name existed in a different directory and if it did, did it have the correct permissions, owner and group. When you do a read each column group of data becomes a field Here's a...

Hello Petbul, The only thing that I can think of off the top of my head is does this user have access to the MSQ541 - work request screen? If they don't that could be why they are getting the message. Hope this helps. If I think of anything else I'll let you know. Thanks, Dianne001

Hello zimson123, We have Ellipse 5.2.1 and are going to upgrade to 5.2.3 soon. The payroll module is integrated with the human resources module, benefits module, general ledger module and work management modules. We have had problems in the past and had to work them out with the vendor...