Program Description
This program can be found on the Billing Custom menu (BI-5). BCL stands for Business Credit Leasing. This company bills and collects lease payments and maintenance and meter billing overage charges for La Crosse System dealers. BOLT (On Line ) is the on-line application software for the remote uploads to BCL. A Bill-to customer needs to be set up as the BCL customer number. Contracts are then created and billed through the Contract Billing program. The customer should not set up contracts with accessories on them. This information is then sent to BCL through the BCL Download program. Please contact LMS Sales to purchase this system enhancement.
Rev 15 Changes
Code was added to prevent the Invalid Subscript stop at line 1758.
An option was added to this program to allow it to download a range of Branch Numbers or All branches. The program will check the Branch Number 1 in the Invoice Header File (INVHDRD) to determine whether it is in the range of Branch Numbers entered by the operator.
The BCL Download also had a logic change in regards to Batch Bill contracts. Prior to Revision 15, on meter format, the overage dollar amount would show only on the last machine on the Batch Bill. The other machines had $0 overage. Per request from US Bank, the overage dollar amount will show on each machine.
Rev 14 Changes
Internal custom changes were made in Rev 14 to handle the BCL customer number of a couple dealers.
Rev 13 BCL Download Instructions
Create the contracts and bill them through the Contract Billing program. Do not set up the contract with accessories on it.
When you are ready to send this information to BCL, run the BCL program from the Billing Custom menu. Running the program takes about 5 minutes and no one should be billing contracts for BCL during this time. The following will display:
Beginning Date Or A'll
Ending Date
Enter the range of dates to download to BCL. The program will be looking at the transaction date of the invoices to determine if they are within the date range entered at these prompts.
M'eter Format or B'ase Format
The download will need to be run once for meter information and once for base information. One file will be created for each format. The base information, the file created is called BCL.BSE. The meter information is in a file called BCL.MTR. These two files will need to be transferred to where the BOLT software is loaded. These files will be overwritten with new information every time you run the BCL download program.
Use A'ccessory Sw, I'tem Type Fld, Or B'oth To Determine Accessories
Accessories should be excluded from the BCL download. At some dealer sites, the Accessory Y/N field in the Item File is set to Y for yes on accessories. At other dealer sites, accessories have an Item Type in the Item File set to a certain Item Type. Some dealer sites use both methods. Determine how your site distinguishes accessories and answer accordingly.
Enter Item Type For Accessories
If I for Item Type or B for both are entered at the previous prompt, you will be prompted to enter the item type used for accessories. This is the Item Type in the Item File.
BCL.BSE will have the following similar information of:
Serial#, Model#, Multiple S/A#, Invoice#, Coverage End Date
9999,SF90,GMA-S,96243,7/14/99
F21,F2500,GMA-S,96244,7/14/99
F23,F2500,GMA-S,96252,9/30/98
F23,F2500,GMA-S,96253,10/31/98
F23,F2500,GMA-S,96254,11/30/98
F23,F2500,GMA-S,96288,7/31/98
F23,F2500,GMA-S,96289,8/31/98
BCL.MTR will have the following similar information:
Serial#, Model#, Invoice#, Overage Charge Amount, Overage Coverage End Date, Current Meter Reading, Service Copies
F23,F2500,96288,0.00,6/30/98,450,
F23,F2500,96289,3.75,7/31/98,1250,
File Location of BCL.BSE/BCL.MTR
For SuperDOS, the BCL.BSE and BCL.MTR files will be created/written to the first drive and user group of the search list and will most likely be 5:15 or 6:15.
To verify this, log into Billing and enter two colons (::) at the > prompt.
Type MMI SE and enter to show the search.
To verify there is information in these files, enter at the > prompt: TYPE BCL.BSE or TYPE BCL.MTR.
For Non-SuperDOS, the BCL.BSE and BCL.MTR files will be created/written to the first directory of their environment. This will usually be the UBL\LMS\DATA\AMSRC directory.
To verify this, log into Billing and enter two colons (::) at the * prompt.
Type RUN"PATH and return
At filename enter ? and return to display the first directory.
Or at filename, enter: BCL.BSE or BCL.MTR to display the directory the programs will be located on.
To verify there is information in these files, enter at the * prompt: !TYPE BCL.BSE or !TYPE BCL.MTR.
Transferring BCL.BSE/BCL.MTR to BOLT
The files will need to be readable and accessible to the BOLT Remote Upload software. The BCL.BSE and BCL.MTR files are created in the ascii format with comma delimited fields. The following instructions are to transfer the files to BOLT for each LMS Operating System:
SuperDOS
There are a couple of different processes the customer can use, depending on what they have and what they are comfortable with. If they have questions on using PC Connect or FTP/Tiny Term to transfer the programs, they will need instructions from hardware support. The set up that all SuperDOS LMS customers can do is the following. They will need a blank diskette and access to the main server.
Insert the diskette into the diskette drive.
At the main server, on the main task 1, log into their BEGIN password.
At the > prompt, enter: PCXFER/S 5:15:BCL.* A:\. This will copy all BCL files from SuperDOS drive 5, user group 15 to a DOS floppy diskette in drive A.
They are then able to take this diskette to where the BOLT software is loaded and copy it on. The BCL Company can help at this point.
IP address information for SuperDOS is displayed on the command line of the SOCK password.
Unix
The only way to transfer the program is through File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The customer should know what their IP address is. There are a couple of ways to find out depending on what they are running.
If they are running Tiny Term, the Comms will show the IP Address under the Network Node.
If they are running UGI, open the session, click on Preferences, click on Comms, the TCP heading will display the IP address.
Otherwise, log into the root login and at the # enter in netconfig and return. This will bring up a gui screen that you can tab to move around.
Under the Network Card section, highlight the SCO TCP/IP.
Then tab to the VIEW PROTOCOL CONFIGURATION and return. This will show information including the IP address.
Click OK.
Tab to HARDWARE and choose Exit to get back to the # prompt. At the # prompt, enter exit to log off.
For the first time, the customer will need to create a BOLT directory to hold the files. This should be done on the PC desktop that the BOLT software is loaded on.
You can go into Windows Explorer and under the C drive, create a folder called BOLT.
Or at the MS DOS prompt, under the C drive, create the directory by typing md BOLT.
Once the BOLT directory is created, at the C:\> prompt, enter cd BOLT to display the prompt C:\BOLT>.
Enter the ftp IP address#. You should connect correctly and will display the User logon.
Enter in root and return.
It will then display the Password logon for root, enter this password. When you have connected correctly it will display an ftp> prompt.
At this prompt, enter cd /lms/ubl/data/amsrc and return. This directory is where the files are located from the above instructions. The valid directory should be displayed and you will be back at an ftp> prompt.
At this prompt, enter mget BCL.* and return. The program will display that it transferred properly the two files of BCL.BSE and BCL.MTR and return to the ftp> prompt.
At this prompt, enter quit and return. This will return you to the C:\BOLT> prompt.
These files are now located on the C:\BOLT directory and are then ready for the BOLT Remote Download. The BCL Company can help at this point.
Windows NT
For the first time, the customer will need to create a BOLT directory to hold the files. This should be done on the PC desktop that the BOLT software is loaded on.
You can go into Windows Explorer and under the C drive, create a folder called BOLT
Or at the MS DOS prompt, under the C drive, create the directory by typing md BOLT.
In Windows Explorer, you can click and drag the files of BCL.BSE and BCL.MTR from the drive and directory these files were located (D:\UBL\LMS\DATA\AMSRC) to the C:\BOLT folder. These files are now located on the C:\BOLT directory and are then ready for the BOLT Remote Download. The BCL Company can help at this point.
To find IP address for NT, right click on Network Neighborhood,then on the Network icon. The IP address will display.
Rev 13 Changes
The following changes are described below:
Prior to Revision 13, when the contract was a batch bill contract, the last machine did not always show up in the file when performing base or meter downloads. This has been corrected.
Credit Memos will now be skipped by this program.
Program changes have been made to skip accessories. Additional prompts have been added to determine the accessory: Use A'ccessory Sw, I'tem Type Fld, Or B'oth To Determine Accessories and Enter Item Type For Accessories. Enter A to have the program check the Accessory Y/N field in the Item File (ITEM) to see if the item is an accessory. Enter I at this prompt to have the Item Type used for accessories. The Item Type field in the Item file (ITEM) will be checked.
A correction was made to pull the correct dollar amount if there was a metered machine after a non-metered machine under certain circumstances.
Prior to Revision 13, the ASCII text file would not always be initialized prior to use, therefore it contained leftover information from a previous download. This has been corrected.
To learn more about BCL, click here to visit their website.