Archiving reports
In the course of doing business with your Counterpoint system, a lot of reports are generated. Particularly posting journals, and such. If you are printing those reports to disk, and have version 7 of Counterpoint, these print-to-disk reports need to be purged periodically.
What can happen is that one of the alternate keys fills up, and no more reports are allowed to print-to-disk. This can be particularly troublesome if it occurs during a posting run. If that happens the posting will not be able to finish.
In order to address this, old reports that are no longer needed, must be removed. While this can be a time-consuming process to do manually, we can greatly speed up the process. Especially if, as in most cases, all reports (or all non-archived reports) prior to a specified date are to be removed.
If that is the case, then, what I do, is move the old reports and take a snapshot of the report list in Counterpoint. That way, if one of the old reports is ever needed, then it can be retrieved. Once the reports and snapshot are safely tucked away, then the spooled reports in Counterpoint is updated to clear those reports, and free up space in the spool file.
So, if you have not purged your print-to-disk reports, get a hold of us and schedule a time to go through this cleaning process.
Dave