Point of Sale transactions may be imported from some database onto the production database. This occurs when BookNet is run on a remote PC (e.g. laptop) and a local version of the Point Of Sale database is created. When the laptop is later connected to the main network, it is necessary to copy all these Point of Sale transactions across from the laptop onto the production database (that is usually located on a server). The “changes file” that is targeted as the input file, is the Point of Sale file located on the laptop. Its name is POSTRAN1.V01. When the copy is completed, this file on the laptop must be erased by the operator.

While this copy is proceeding, normal Point of Sale processing elsewhere in the installation may continue simultaneously. In addition, the Transaction Processor does not have to be stopped.

The code that must be entered in the MLE box is:

POSTRAN aa

where aa is optional, and is the shop code that must be assigned to the copied data. (You would only use this parameter if the Shop Code on the file being read in is known to be different to the master transaction file.)