RE: XAR4

Our installation was much more aggressive... we upgraded directly to XA4
from DB4 (pre-y2k) back in September of 1998.  At the time, a new migration
tape to allow this without an intermediate step to XA3 had just bee
released.  Here is a excerpt of my installation notes and a brief
description of the problems that I ran into.

                MAPICS Error Message - E AM 0228 was displayed after
approximately 23 hours of run-time to notify that QSECOFR did not have
sufficient authority to automatically apply the tailoring questionnaire as
the final step of the upgrade.  In addition, when attempting to sign-on as
AMAPICS to grant proper authority, a system error - CPF2479 was displayed,
tracing back to a level-check on file QGPL/AMZDAA.  At this time, I applied
the License Key Authorization using the WRKLICINF command, hoping that this
would eliminate this problem.  The command completed without further error,
but did not resolve the level-check when attempting to process the
environment selection screen displayed while initializing MAPICS.  After
contacting MAPICS Support, the file was deleted from QGPL and a duplicate
was re-created from AMALIBX.  This allowed AMAPICS to sign-on and grant
authority to QSECOFR, which in turn completed the install/tailor segment.


regards,
Tom Ashworth
MIS Manager, Altec Lansing Technologies Inc.
Routes 6 & 209
Milford,  PA  18337
tashwort@altecmm.com            570-296-1276

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Arnold [SMTP:rmarnold@hpproducts.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 10:01 AM
> To:   'MAPICS-L@Midrange.com'
> Subject:      XAR4
> 
> Has anyone made the jump to R4 or R5 from Release 3?  We're having a devil
> of a time with the conversion.  It AB-Ends on us.  The hot-line has been
> of
> little help so far. 
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