Use Accumulator Monitor (17.6.6) to check the status of cards in kanban loops that are set up as time or schedule accumulators in Kanban Master Maintenance. See Card Accumulators.

When this program is running, it scans the database for loop records with time or schedule accumulators on which the values in the Next Date and Next Time have been reached. When the total of empty cards reaches the order point, the system automatically authorizes the cards. The length of time the function pauses between scans is specified in Kanban Control (17.24). See Accumulator Monitor Pause Time.

Use the Enter Number of Times to Execute field to avoid potential problems when you run the program in batch mode. The default is 0 (zero). If you do not change this, the process continues to run until you stop it manually.

If you enter a number, the process runs the specified number of times, then exits. This eliminates an issue related to batch processing. Unless you specify a number, the batch processor does not have an exit point for Accumulator Monitor. If other programs are included in the same batch, the processor never gets to them. However, when you enter a value in this field, the batch processor runs Accumulator Monitor the specified number of times, then moves on to the next task in the batch.

You can run this program in several ways: