Purging Closed Jobs at year end.
When a job is complete how can the Job Cost information be removed from the system at year end?
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The Summarize Job Detail program (P51830) summarizes the job information in the Account Master (F0901), Account Balances (F0902), and Account Ledger (F0911) files. It increases the performance of the system and prepares a job to be removed (purged) from the system.
The job summarization process allows the original detailed job to be copied from its present company to a different one. The program creates summarized copies of the data tables from the original job to a duplicate job. This duplicate job serves as a backup outside of the production company and can eventually be purged. The duplicate job created in this process will have a job number comprised of a two-digit prefix followed by the original job's number. When Summarize Job Detail is run, the F0901 is updated with a posting edit of N is on the original job (indicating the