Managing GL,AP, AR interface fallouts

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DougAB
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We are interfacing transactions over from our OMS system to Lawson every 5 mins. There, of course, will be fallouts from either the importdb's or the interface programs themselves - AR550, AR560, AP510, AP520 and GL165. We are planning to gather all of the log files (.prt's) that have errors in them and put them in a central repository so we can easily identify the issue and resolve them.

Couple of questions here:

1) are the output files from either the importdb's or the interface programs stored in a table in Lawson at all? The output files differ in format a bit from AP to AR to GL.

2) if not, has anyone built a process that extracts/parses the data out of these files? if so, what tool did you use?

Thanks.
Ragu Raghavan
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At one instance where we were interfacing requisitions via RQ500, I had a script that would scan the RQ500.prt file for the word ERROR and if found, email the report to certain users.
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Most organizations that I've worked with that use the batch interfaces and want to archive them use shell scripts and/or ProcessFlow integrator, as well as the loadrpts utility to create an archive of print file history. Not a great solution, but it does work. I have worked with a couple of organizations that have used Monarch (don't know if it's still viable or not) to parse the reports into a database.
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