PC*MILER|AS/400 MVS User’s Guide
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1.0 Introduction
Congratulations! By purchasing a PC*MILER product, you have made a
cost-effective investment in high quality software that is simple to learn
and easy to use. PC*MILER for the AS/400 uses simple-to-follow menus
and requires minimal keystrokes to generate routing and mileage
information. Shortest, Practical, National Network, Toll-Discouraged, and
53’ Trailer routes can be calculated in a matter of seconds and can
include up to 30 stops.
PC*MILER for the AS/400 includes all the standard features found in the
PC version, including the Hub Distance Generator, Spelling Helper, route
resequencing, and user-defined time and cost estimates. You are
referred to the main PC*MILER User’s Guide for a more thorough
discussion of these features. With PC*MILER-AS/400, you can quickly
and easily generate point-to-point miles, driving instructions, and mileage
summaries broken down by toll roads and freeways. A route map of a trip
can be viewed and printed from a PC with PC*MILER|Mapping installed.
In-house software can be customized to draw the ETA status of a truck’s
current location during a trip.
PC*MILER for the AS/400 utilizes a unique distributed processing
solution. This solution maximizes the efficiency of your AS/400 by
"farming out" repetitive mileage calculations to a PC. With PC*MILER-
AS/400, you can benefit from having a seamless mileage interface with
your management system. Interfaces have been developed for Innovative
Computing Corporation, Qualcomm, McCormick & Associates, and
others.
Use PC*MILER for the AS/400 to audit driver logs and supplement your
fuel tax reports. Increase driver productivity by using PC*MILER's driving
instructions, ETA's with graphical truck display and trip sequencing. In
addition, your purchase of PC*MILER-AS/400 will eliminate the high costs
of leasing mileage systems or paying exorbitant transaction fees.