For those moving off BPCS

To All,

My company is an iSeries BP who has partnered with VAI Vormitagg Associates
as a ERP/MRP solutions provider.  We are BP in North East US.  We have had
success with migrating some industries over to this product, but I am
curious what type of exposure VAI has in the industry.

Has anyone who has looked at ERP / MRP for as/400 ever look into VAI's
System 2000? and what was your impression of the product.

More importantly anybody current implemented or have experience with VAI
that you can share with me?

Thanks

Craig


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clare Holtham" <Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "SSA's BPCS ERP System" <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101


> Nathan,
>
> True, however IBM said when they provided it for V5R1 that they would not
> provide it for V5R2. They have though....
>
> Clare
>
> Clare Holtham
> Director, Small Blue Ltd - Archiving for BPCS
> Web: www.smallblue.co.uk
> IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Professional
> E-Mail: Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Mobile: +44 (0)7960 665958
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan Bennett" <nabennis@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "SSA's BPCS ERP System" <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:02 PM
> Subject: RE: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101
>
>
> > Please bear in mind the QAQQINI 'solution' provided by IBM is temporary.
> No
> > promise that they won't remove the supress warning option where you
select
> > more fields than you have defined to receive.
> >
> > Ultimately you will need to change the code.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Clare Holtham
> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:48 PM
> > To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
> > Subject: Re: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101
> >
> >
> > Yes, I have helped several clients upgrade to V5r1 and V5r2 with
versions
> of
> > BPCS that were not 'fixed'. The only thing you have to do is make a
small
> > change to QAQQINI to tell the system to ignore SQL errors. You do have
to
> > ensure you have all required PTFs beforehand though, and this means cum
> plus
> > Database Group plus any extras, check the latest ones on the IBM
website.
> > Also you need to run the STROBJCVN against all the objects, otherwise
you
> > can get locking problems as the objects are dynamically converted on
first
> > use, causing BPCS programs to fall over. The upgrade takes a long
weekend!
> > V5R2 is better than V5R1. It's a good idea to upgrade all the client
> access
> > at the same time. If your client has different languages on the system
> this
> > could cause a few problems too. If you would like more details or help,
> > contact me offline,
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Clare
> >
> > Clare Holtham
> > Director, Small Blue Ltd - Archiving for BPCS
> > Web: www.smallblue.co.uk
> > IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Professional
> > E-Mail: Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Mobile: +44 (0)7960 665958
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Statt Craig" <stattcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:26 PM
> > Subject: Upgrade to v5r2 with BPCS v5.101
> >
> >
> > > Dear All;
> > >
> > > I have a customer that has heard not so good stories about upgrading
to
> > V5R2
> > > while running BPCS v5.101 due to 5.101s inbedding of the SQL.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any experience in this?
> > >
> > > Thanks
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