CSV Item Master- IC524 Form, Returns No Results on Second Run

Stace Webley

IC524 allows you to do an item master file extract for a particular location in CSV format. The parameters include the company and picking location to pull from. In the file name field you put .CSV after the title if you want that format, otherwise it creates a file that can be opened with a text editor.

The problem I'm experiencing is that after I run the job once on a picking location I get no results the second time I run it. I ran it last Friday and then tried a second time for a .CSV format and it returned nothing. I tried again today and now only a handful of items show up. Can anyone tell me why the items only pull through once? It seems like after the first pull they won't show up again until they have been on a PO or pass through some other process...

[Updated on 5/13/2013 10:52 AM]

I am running Lawson 9.0.1.8 and working in a TEST atmosphere on a product line that is refreshed daily.

Legacy Contributor

IC524 will create a full file the first time and a differences file thereafter. When you run it the first time, it creates an indexed work file called WORKFILE-IC524 (directory has the same name). The next time you run IC524, it compares various fields for the item and only pulls it into the file if there have been changes. If you want to run a full file again, you need to delete this work file and its associated index file.