Regular Procedures

 

Before you start using your Global 3000 system, you should:

§   Establish procedures for taking regular backups of your data, and for incorporating consistency checks (i.e. $BARBL) on the data.

 

§   Establish procedures for monitoring the number of free records available in the databases. If the number of free records falls below 15 - 20% of the total number of records allocated, you should consider allocating additional records using the Database Generation Utility.

 

§   You should appoint someone to be responsible for housekeeping tasks which need to be performed periodically or as a matter of judgement, such as printing audit reports and purging old transactions. As well as laying down guidelines as to how often these functions need to be run, you need to establish audit procedures for storing the printed output.