Monitoring MAN Status

Monitor Window

Selecting this option will open up a Manipulation Module Status screen as per figure 1 below. This process has two specific purposes:

Monitor live run:

Provides an improved mechanism for the user running the process to monitor the progress of the manipulation during the run which may last from minutes to hours. As any SYSPRO user will be aware, any batch process loses impetus if it spends too much time trying to communicate the details with the user at the same time. For this reason, the batch “crunching” process is separate from the status monitoring process. This requires that two instances of SYSPRO are utilised, one for the batch manipulation and one to monitor the details.

View results from completed run:

Interrogate the results of the last manipulation run in any of the available modules.

Figure 1

Module Information – displays status of a specific module’s run along with the relevant settings

Table Details – lists all the tables being modified by the current module along with status icon flags

Table Information – displays the specifics of the records processed based on the highlighted table in the Table Details list.

Button functionality:

Refresh – will refresh all active windows displaying revised information during an active run (dependent on the “Monitor refresh delay period” value recorded against the module – see HERE).

Monitor – will only be active should an instance of the selected module be running and will enter into an auto-refresh mode which will effectively refresh all active windows based on the “Monitor refresh delay period” value recorded against the module (See HERE).

Stop Monitor – will deactivate the monitor mode.

Terminate – will initiate a terminate request through to the module running in the second instance. The associated module will receive the termination instruction based on the “Monitor refresh delay period” value recorded against the module and proceed to terminate the run at the end of that functional point.

Preferences… – will invoke the Manipulation Preferences Maintenance screen (See HERE) allowing the user to view and modify relative preference criteria pertaining to the selected module.