Creating the long-term plan

Create a new long-term plan by selecting option 7 from the SELECTING LONG TERM PLAN BATCH JOB menu ( EQQLBATP - Selecting long-term plan batch job ).

 EQQLCREP ---------------- CREATING THE LONG TERM PLAN ------------------
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 Enter/Change data below:

 Long term plan:

  START             ===>  13/01/27   Date in format YY/MM/DD

  END               ===>  13/04/30   Date in format YY/MM/DD

See Creating the plans for the first time for general guidance on creating the first plan. When creating the long-term plan, you specify the start and end date of the period that the plan is to cover on the CREATING THE LONG TERM PLAN panel (see EQQLCREP - Creating the long-term plan .)

If a long-term plan already exists, you will receive a warning message when creating a new long-term plan. If occurrences in the existing long-term plan still exist in the current plan and are not yet complete, you cannot use the create function. To create a long-term plan in this situation, you must refresh the long-term plan. You perform an LTP REFRESH from the SERVICE FUNCTIONS panel (option 9 from the main menu), not from the LTP panel.

A batch job that you can edit, or submit directly, is generated when you specify the required dates on the CREATING THE LONG TERM PLAN panel. If a long-term plan already exists, you can specify an end date earlier than that of the old long-term plan.

The create job does not use the existing long-term plan as input. Therefore, any occurrences or occurrence groups that are manually added are not included in the new long-term plan. Nor will manual updates that have deleted or changed occurrences be reflected in the new long-term plan. The long-term plan-create batch job performs the planning process as described in How a long-term plan is created.