Hi all,  
 
I'm new to this forum and also to DBA in general. I have just started working with my current company, to update their method of scheduling. They currently use manual scheduling and have grown and the method of manual scheduling is no longer meeting the company’s needs. As I said I have never worked with DBA before and almost no one who is currently working with the company has enough understanding of DBA to help me on this project. So with that my question is how far can you go or how much can you change in DBA, as far as finite scheduling, work centers, routings, and the like goes, before your type of scheduling actually changes methods. For example, can I setup a shop calendar, work center and routings and not effect the current setup of DBA? Basically I don't want to do anything that is going to mess up the current method until the finite scheduling is in place and ready to go. Any help would be greatly appreciated and if anyone needs more info on what I am doing here please just let me know.

Thanks for the help David. I was in the process of setting up a copy of the current company data and did so, but the Copy Company doesn't include all of the actural company's part numbers and inventory. I think I'm sure that I copied all of the actural company's file, is there some way to check this by acturally looking at the files or by some other means.

Just so everyone knows, my company is running DBA Version 2004.1 with IS Tech Support Update 10/8/04. The person in charge of updates and such tells me the company has tried to update to a newer version but with no luck in doing so. I looked at the subdirectory for the copy company that was setup using UT - I and it contains *.B and *.B89 (the copy company was setup as 89). I should also note that the copy company 89 was already setup but the data was out of date. So the tech guy here was going to copy the company's current date and replace the old data in the 89 company, but the copy didn't work, I still have the old data in the copy company.  
 
I would like to thank everyone for their help and I hope that the version of DBA my company help you all help me.

My tech guy has tried to make a new copy company and was unable to do so. He tells me that "the operation timed out." I'm not sure why you would get such a message and he doesn't either. When we attemped to make this new copy company there were people logged into DBA. Would all DBA users need to be logged out to setup a new copy company. If not, does anyone know why DBA could be giving an error message and not setting up a new company. We went about setting up the new company through UT - I. Thanks again everyone for your help.

Everyone needs to be out of the company you are copying from to avoid record locks and missing or corrupt records. You might even have everyone out and still have files open on the server I.E. ctl-alt-delete to close a hung program. You can see all users and files open with your pervasive control panel. It should be an easy task and doesn't take all that long to run either depending on your current data file sizes!
 
John