JPH06348635A - Data processing control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To control the data on a server device and then to control the data processing order. CONSTITUTION:A client device 21 processes the design data, the document data, etc., through a data processing part 11 and stores these processing results in a file 13. Meanwhile a server device 23 serves as a plotter, a printer server, etc., to receive the processing request data via a LAN 22 and to output the drawings and documents. At the same time, a control data producing part 12 extracts the information out of the processing request data stored in the file 13 in order to identify the request data and then produces the control data. The control data are sent to the device 23 and stored in a control data storing part 33. Then a control number deciding part 32 gives the control numbers to the control data. An operator controls the storing order of the control data through an operating part 24 and based on those control numbers can control the data processing order.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data processing management system such as a CAD system for performing design work and outputting drawings.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the progress of EWS (engineering work station), a CAD system is shifting from a large computer to an EWS. Figure 2 shows the C mounted on such an EWS.
An example of the connection form of an AD system is shown. As shown in the figure, a plurality of CAD client devices 1 are connected to the LAN 2. On the other hand, the plotter server 3 is connected to the LAN 2. A plotter device 4 is connected to the plotter server 3 via a communication cable 5.

The CAD client device 1 creates design data 6. The design data 6 is sent from the CAD client device 1 to the plotter server 3 via the LAN 2 by the data communication means of the EWS operating system (hereinafter referred to as OS). Plotter server 3
Sends the design data 6 to the plotter device 4 via the communication cable 5. The plotter device 4 is composed of an XY plotter or the like, and outputs design data 6 to drawing data 7.

FIG. 3 shows a conventional procedure for creating a drawing in the EWS system described above. First, in the CAD client device 101, the design data 111 is read out to the CAD control unit 112. The CAD control unit 112 has a plot data creation function 113. With the plot data creation function 113, the CAD control unit 112 creates an instruction group necessary for the plotter device 104 to operate. Such a plotter operation command group is stored in the spool directory 1
14 and is stored in a predetermined storage area as the plot data file 115. Incidentally, the allocation of the data storage area to the directory is automatically performed by the file management system as is well known.

After that, the OS 116 of the CAD client device 101 sends the plot data file 115 registered in the spool directory 114 to the spool directory 131 of the plotter server 103 via the LAN 102.
Automatically send to. Then, the transmitted plot data file is registered in the spool directory 131 and stored as the plot data file 132. The scheduler 133 of the plotter server 103 automatically transmits the plot data files 132 registered in the spool directory 131 to the plotter device 104 via the communication cable 105 in the order of reception.

[0006]

However, the above-mentioned conventional technique has the following problems. (1) When a large number of plot data files are simultaneously transmitted from a plurality of CAD client devices, it may be difficult for the plotter device to display the drawing. Therefore, even if there is a drawing to be output urgently, it may be necessary to wait several hours, for example. (2) As the number of CAD client devices increases,
It becomes difficult to manage the drawings output from the plotter device,
Sometimes the output drawings were discarded without knowing who they were. In addition, the above-mentioned problems also apply to workstations that process documents and similar data. The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a data processing management system capable of controlling and managing the output of a drawing from a plotter device.

[0007]

A data processing management system of the present invention is a management data creation unit for creating management data for identifying and managing processing request data when transmitting processing request data from a client device to a server device. And a management data storage unit that stores the management data created by the management data creation unit, and a management number assignment that assigns a management number corresponding to the management data when storing the management data in the management data storage unit Section, a processing control section that controls the processing of the processing request data in the order of storing the management data stored in the management data storage section, and the management data stored in the management data storage section by the management number. And a storage control unit that changes the storage order.

[0008]

In the data processing management system of the present invention,
The client device is a data processing device such as CAD, and the data processing unit processes design data, document data and the like, and stores the result in a file. On the other hand, the server device
An output device such as a plotter server or printer server,
It receives the processing request data sent via the LAN and outputs a drawing or a document. In this case, the management data creation unit extracts management identification data from the processing request data stored in the file and creates management data. This management data is transmitted to the server device and stored in the management data storage unit. Then, the management number assigning unit assigns a management number to each management data. The operator controls the storage order of the management data by the operation number through the storage control unit through the operation unit,
The order of data processing can be controlled.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the data processing management system of the present invention. In FIG. 1, FIG.
Only a part of the system shown in FIG. 2 is shown, and only one client device 21 is shown. A client device 21 and a server device 23 are connected to the LAN 22. The client device 21 includes a data processing unit 11, a management data creation unit 12, and a file 13. Data processing unit 1
1 creates drawing data such as design data or document data. These data are stored in the file 13.
Further, the data processing unit 11 transmits the processing request data to the server device 23 in order to output the data stored in the file 13 as a drawing or a document.

The management data creating unit 12 creates management data to be sent together with the processing request data when the processing request data is sent from the client device 21 to the server device 23. This management data is for identifying the processing request data. For example, in the case of a drawing, it is the drawing number, drawing size, user ID such as the name of the requester for drawing output, and the like. Further, the request date and time, the node number of the client device 21 that transmitted the request data, and the like may be included in the management data. Such management data is stored in the file 13 together with the processing request data. The processing request data and management data stored in the file 13 are automatically transmitted to the server device 23 via the LAN 22. The server device 23 stores the management data sent from the client device 21 in the management data storage unit 33.
And the processing request data in the data file 34.

The server device 23 comprises a processing control unit 31, a management number giving unit 32, and a storage control unit 35. In the management number assigning unit 32, the processing control unit 31 controls the management data storage unit 3
When storing the management data in 3, the management number is given in correspondence with the management data. This control number is, for example,
It is a series of numbers starting from "0". Further, the processing control unit 31 processes the processing request data stored in the data file 34 in the order of storage of the management data stored in the management data storage unit 33.

The management data stored in the management data storage unit 33 is displayed on the display of the operation unit 24. In this case, the management number of the management data is also displayed on the display. By inputting the management number from the operation unit 24, the operator of the server device 23 can re-store the management data corresponding to the input management number in an arbitrary storage position of the management data storage unit 33. As a result, the processing request data identified by the management data can be processed by the server device 23 in preference to other processing request data. As a result, for example, the data file 3
Even when a plurality of processing request data is stored in 4,
It is possible to extract processing request data to be urgently processed from those processing request data and preferentially process the data, and output a drawing or print a document.

Next, an example in which the data processing management system of the present invention is applied to a CAD system will be described. 4, 5, and 6 show details of the CAD system according to the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 4, the CAD client device 1 processes the design data 1-1 by the CAD control unit 1-2.
The plot data processing unit 1-4 registers the plotter operation command group in the temporary directory 1-7 and stores it as a plot data file 1-10. On the other hand, the management data creation unit 1-5 extracts the drawing number and size of the output drawing, the name and affiliation of the requester, the request date and time, and the node number from the design data 1-1 and uses these as management data.
Then, these management data are registered in the temporary directory 1-8 and stored as the management data file 1-11.

The data transfer processing unit 1-13 registers the plot data file 1-10 in the temporary directory 3-5 of the plotter server 3 via the LAN, and the management data file 1-11 in the temporary directory 3 of the plotter server 3. Register at -6. As a result, the plotter server 3 stores the plot data file 3-7 and the management data file 3-8.
As shown in FIG. 5, in the plotter server 3, the drawing control unit 3-1 creates a formal management data file 3-1-8 from the management data file 3-8 registered in the temporary directory 3-6. It That is, the drawing control unit 3-1 outputs the format conversion command 3-A to the format conversion execution unit 3-1-1, and the format conversion execution unit 3-1-1 outputs the format conversion processing unit 3-1-6.
And outputs the management data file extraction command 3-B to the job number extraction / editing processing unit 3-1-3.

The format conversion processing unit 3-1-6 converts the management data file 3-8 registered in the temporary directory 3-6 into a format corresponding to the plotter server 3, and the formal management data file 3-1. -8
To create. If the CAD client device 1 and the plotter server 3 have the same data format, such a format conversion process can be omitted. On the other hand, the job number extraction / editing processing unit 3-1-3 assigns a series of job numbers starting from “0” to each management data and stores it in the management data file 3-1-8. After the format conversion is completed, the format conversion processing unit 3-1-6 outputs a management data deletion command 3-D to the file deletion processing unit 3-1-5, which causes the file to be registered in the temporary directory 3-6. The managed data file 3-8 that has been deleted is deleted. As a result, the official management data file 3- is stored in the directory 3-1-7.
1-8 are created. Then, the file conversion completion command 3-E is input from the format conversion executing unit 3-1-1 to the drawing control unit 3-1.

When the file setting completion command 3-E is input, the drawing control unit 3-1 displays the drawing execution command 3-F in FIG.
Output to the plot data transmission processing unit 3-2 shown in FIG. The drawing execution command 3-F includes the file name of the plot data file 3-7. The plot data transmission processing unit 3-2 includes a file read processing device, a communication control device, and the like, and includes a plot data output command 3
The plot data file 3-7 registered in the temporary directory 3-5 is read by the output of -G,
It is transmitted to the plotter device 4 via the communication cable 5.

The plotter device 4 is composed of an XY plotter or the like, and operates according to the plotter operation command group which is the contents of the plot data file 3-7. Thereby, a predetermined drawing is drawn. Then, when the plotter device 4 finishes the series of operations, the plotter device 4 returns the drawing processing flag 3-H to the plot data transmission processing unit 3-2 via the communication cable 5. The drawing processing flag 3-H shows completion information indicating that the operation has been normally completed and the drawing has been correctly output, or error information indicating that the drawing has not been correctly output due to an abnormality in the plotter device 4. This drawing processing flag 3-H
Is sent to the drawing control unit 3-1 shown in FIG.

Upon receiving the drawing process flag 3-H, the drawing control unit 3-1 outputs a flag registration instruction 3-I to the flag registration execution unit 3-1-2. As a result, the flag registration execution unit 3-1-2 causes the time detection execution unit 3-1-9.
The current time, that is, the time when drawing is completed is detected by. Then, the flag registration executing unit 3-1-2 uses the detection time as a key for the job number and the management data file 3
Write to the applicable management data in 1-8. When this process ends, the drawing control unit 3-1 performs control for outputting the next drawing in the same procedure as described above.

FIG. 7 shows the contents of the management data file. As shown in the figure, each management data of the management data file includes a job number 71, a request drawing number 72, a drawing size 73, a request terminal number 74, a request date and time 75, a business unit 76,
It consists of employee code 77, completion output date and time 78.
The management data file stores, for example, one day's worth of management data. That is, the job number 71 is given a series of numbers from "0". Requested drawing number 72, drawing size 73, requesting terminal number 74, requesting date and time 75, business unit 7
6. The employee code 77 is extracted from the design data 1-1 through the management data creation unit 1-5. The completion output date and time 78 is written when the output of the drawing is completed. When the output of the drawing is not completed, the completed output date and time 78 is blank.

The drawing control unit 3-1 shown in FIG. 5 refers to the completion output date and time 78, and transmits plot data corresponding to the management data stored at the beginning of the blank portion to the plotter device 4. Then, the drawing is output. In the example of FIG. 7, the management data of job number “6” is plotted. The request terminal number 74 is adopted as the file name of the plot data file 3-7, and the plot data transmission processing unit 3-2 can read the corresponding plot data from the plot data file 3-7 using this as a key. .

The contents of the management data file shown in FIG.
It is displayed on the display 30 of the plotter server 3 shown in FIG. The operator of the plotter server 3 looks at the contents of the management data file shown in FIG. 7 on the display 30 and the drawing to be output next is not the drawing with the job number “6” but the drawing with the job number “10”, for example. At this time, enter the number "10" using the keyboard. As a result, the management data of the job number “10” is brought to the beginning of the management data whose drawing has not been completed. That is, the job number “10” is brought after the job number “5”.
This operation is automatically performed only by inputting the job number "10" by the operator.

That is, when the operator inputs an arbitrary job number, for example, "10" from the keyboard, the job interruption control section 3-3 in FIG.
J is output to the drawing control unit 3-1. The drawing control unit 3-1 refers to the completion output date and time 78 of each management data of the management data file 3-1-8 by this job interruption instruction 3-J. Then, the job number "1" keyed in immediately before the first management data in which this part is blank
Move the management data of 0 ".

On the other hand, the contents of the management data file shown in FIG. 7 can be displayed on the display of each CAD client device 1 shown in FIG. That is, by pressing a predetermined key of the keyboard of the CAD client device 1, the file extraction processing unit 3-shown in FIG. 5 from the CAD control unit 1-2 shown in FIG. 4 through the screen display request unit 1-6.
The file extraction request command 3-K is output to the No. 4 command. By this file extraction request command 3-K, the entire contents are read from the management data file 3-1-8 and sent to the CAD client device 1 as file data 3-L. In the CAD client device 1 shown in FIG. 4, the temporary directory 1 is transferred via the data transfer processing unit 1-13.
This data is stored in -9, and a copy 1-12 of the management data file is created. The contents of the copy 1-12 of the management data file are displayed on the screen display unit 1-3 via the screen display requesting unit 1-6.

The drawing designer at the CAD client device 1 is requested drawing number 72, request terminal number 74,
Identifies the management data of the drawing requested by the employee code 77 etc., and outputs the completion date and time of this management data.
Look at 8. Then, if the completion output date and time 78 is written, it can be known that the drawing has been output from the plotter device 4. If the completion output date and time 78 has not been written yet and is left blank, the drawing is output. You can see that is not output. Next, the operation of each part of the above system will be described.

FIG. 8 shows the CAD client device 1 of FIG.
5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the plot data processing unit 1-4 in FIG. First, in step S141, CA
The design data is displayed on the display of the D client device 1. Then, in step S142, the design data is converted into
Data is converted into data of a plotter operation instruction group for operating the plotter 4. This process is repeated until all the conversions are completed in step S143. The converted data is registered in the temporary directory 1-7 as the plot data file 1-10. Then, in step S145, the data transfer processor 1-13 C
Temporary directory 1 of the AD client device 1
The plot data file 1-10 is read from the data storage area designated by 7, and transferred to the plotter server 3.

FIG. 9 shows the CAD client device 1 of FIG.
7 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the management data creation unit 1-5 in FIG. First, in step S151, the design data is displayed on the display of the CAD client device 1. Then, in step S152, the information forming the management data shown in FIG. 7 is extracted from the design data. These pieces of information can be easily extracted using the function provided by the CAD system. This process is repeated until all information constituting the management data of FIG. 7 is extracted in step S153. After the extraction of these pieces of information is completed, these pieces of information are registered in the temporary directory 1-8 as the management data file 1-11 in step S155. Then, in step S156, the management data file 1 registered in the temporary directory 1-8 of the CAD client device 1 by the data transfer processing unit 1-13.
-11 is transferred to the plotter server 3.

10 and 11 are flowcharts for explaining the operation of the drawing control unit 3-1 in the plotter server 3 of FIG. First, in step S301, the CA of FIG.
It is determined whether the management data file 3-8 has been transferred from the D client device 1. When the management data file 3-8 is transferred, its data format is converted by the format conversion processing unit 3-1-6 from the data format compatible with the CAD client device 1 to the data format compatible with the plotter server 3. The drawing control unit 3-1 issues this conversion command to the format conversion execution unit 3-1-1 in step S302.

In response to this conversion command, the format conversion execution unit 3-1-1 issues a conversion command to the format conversion processing unit 3-1-6 in step S303. As a result, the format conversion processing unit 3-1-6 takes out the management data file 3-8 registered in the temporary directory 3-6 in step S304 and converts it into a data format compatible with the plotter server 3. The management data file 3-1-8 after this conversion is registered in the regular directory 3-1-7.

On the other hand, when the management data file 3-8 is transferred, the job number extraction / editing processing section 3-1-3 gives a job number to the management data file 3-8. The format conversion executing unit 3-1-1 issues a command for this purpose to the job number extraction / editing processing unit 3-1-3 in step S306. Based on this command, the job number extraction / edit processing unit 3-1-3 first determines in step S307 whether the management data file 3-1-8 already exists. When the management data file 3-1-8 already exists, the last job number registered in the directory 3-1-7 is taken out, and the job number counted up by one is added to the newly transferred management data. For example, in FIG.
In this example, the number “14” next to the job number “13” is given. On the other hand, if the management data file 3-1-8 does not exist yet, the job number is assigned as "0" in step S310. Then, in step S309, the management data file 3-1-8 is updated to add new management data.

In step S311, it is determined whether the drawing processing flag has been transferred. When the drawing processing flag is transferred, it is determined in step S312 whether the flag indicates completion of normal drawing output or an error. If the flag does not indicate an error,
In step S313, a command is issued to the time detection execution unit 3-1-9 via the flag registration execution unit 3-1-2,
At 314, the completion time of drawing is detected.

Further, in step S321, it is determined whether or not a job interrupt command is received. When a job interruption command is received, the order of the drawing jobs is changed by changing the order of the management data shown in FIG. 7 in step S322. After the writing or updating of the management data file 3-1-8 is completed, a command to send the next plot data is issued in step S323.

FIG. 12 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the job interruption controller 3-3 of the plotter server 3 of FIG. First, in step S331, it is determined whether or not an interrupt request has been issued to the job interrupt control unit 3-3 by operating the keyboard or the like of the plotter server 3 by the operator. When an interrupt request is received, the job interrupt control unit 3-3 issues a job interrupt command to the drawing control unit 3-1 in step S332. As a result, the drawing control unit 3-1 changes the storage order of the management data according to the flowchart of FIG. 10 described above.

FIG. 13 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the screen display requesting unit 1-6 of the CAD client device 1 of FIG. First, in step S161, the data transfer processing unit 1-13 issues a request for extracting the management data file 3-1-8 to the file extraction processing unit 3-4 of the plotter server 3. In response to this request, the file extraction processing unit 3-4
Transfers the entire contents of the management data file 3-1-8 to the CAD client device 1. The CAD client device 1 stores the management data file transferred from the plotter server 3 in a predetermined storage area and uses it as a copy of the management data file of the plotter server 3.

When the transfer of the management data file is detected in step S162, the entire contents of the copy of the management data file are displayed in step S163. It is possible to determine whether or not drawing has been completed based on the contents of this display.

FIG. 14 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the file extraction processing section 3-4 of the server plotter 3 of FIG. First, in step S341, it is determined whether or not there is a display request from the screen display request unit 1-6 of the CAD client device 1. When there is a display request, step S34
In step 2, the entire contents of the management data file 3-1-8 are taken out. Then, in step S343, the management data file 3-1 is sent from the plotter server 3 to the CAD client device 1.
-Transfer the entire contents of -8.

As described above, the output order of plot data or the like for controlling the operation of the plotter is controlled by the job number (management number) given to the management data, and the output of the drawings is controlled to make the drawings urgently needed. Etc. can be output quickly. Further, by displaying the contents of the management data on the display of the client device, it is possible to notify the client side whether or not the output of the drawing or the like is completed.
Further, by storing the management data, it is possible to manage the output amount of the drawing or the like for each department or each individual. In the above-described embodiment, the entire contents of the management data file are displayed on the display of the CAD client device 1, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, each CAD client device may request a request. You may edit and display only the management data which was output.

[0037]

As described above, according to the data processing management system of the present invention, the management data is created by the information extracted from the processing request data such as the plot data, and this is sent to the server together with the processing request data. Since a series of management numbers are assigned and managed, it is possible to change the processing order by the management number when a large number of processing request data transmitted from multiple client devices are accumulated in the server device. Become. Therefore, when there is urgent data to be processed in these processing request data, the data can be processed with priority.
Further, when the data processing management system of the present invention is applied to a CAD system, the output time of the drawing by the plotter server is very long, so that it is possible to operate in the order of data processing as described above. Especially, the effect of effectively using can be increased.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a data processing management system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a connection state of a CAD system.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an example of a conventional data processing system.

FIG. 4 is a detail (1) of a CAD system according to the present invention.
FIG.

FIG. 5 is a detail (2) of the CAD system according to the present invention.
FIG.

FIG. 6 is a detailed CAD system according to the present invention (Part 3).
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FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the contents of a management data file.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a plot data processing unit.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a management data creation unit.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart (No. 1) for explaining the operation of the drawing control unit.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart (part 2) explaining the operation of the drawing control unit.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a job interruption control unit.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a screen display request unit.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a file extraction processing unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 data processing unit 12 management data creation unit 21 client device 22 LAN 23 server device 31 processing control unit 32 management number assigning unit 33 management data storage unit 35 storage control unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A management data creating unit that creates management data for identifying and managing the processing request data when transmitting the processing request data from the client device to the server device, and a management data created by the management data creating unit. A management data storage unit to store, a management number assigning unit that assigns a management number corresponding to the management data when storing the management data in the management data storage unit, and a management stored in the management data storage unit The processing control unit controls the processing of the processing request data in the data storage order, and the storage control unit extracts the management data stored in the management data storage unit by the management number and changes the storage order. A data processing management system characterized by the above. 2. A management data creating unit for creating management data for identifying and managing the drawing data when transmitting the drawing data from the CAD client device to the plotter server, and storing the management data created by the management data creating unit. A management data storage unit, a job number assigning unit that assigns a job number corresponding to the management data when storing the management data in the management data storage unit, and management data stored in the management data storage unit A drawing control unit for controlling the drawing data to be drawn in the order of the job numbers assigned to the drawing data, and a job interruption control unit for changing the drawing order of the drawing data by the drawing control unit to an arbitrary order. A data processing management system characterized by being formed.