Re: Mapics data extract

Asok, I guess the simplest answer to your question is no. There is no tool
that I am aware of.. As far as I know you would have to write all your own
pgms to pull the data from the mapics database to your database.. A very big
job if you do not understand how mapics works and where info is... But if
you stay with Mapics.. Which of course would be the easiest thing to do..
And Being a MAPICS BIGOT... Mapics has upgrade paths from their lower
releases to the current release. Depending on the size of you data files and
how much history you have, could take less than a day to get current in
Mapics...
I recently completed a BPCS to Mapics conversion and we had to write all of
the pgms. Either to populate files directly. Or build what they call offline
load files and run a mapics canned pgm to create the data...I believe we had
at least 2 guys more than a year maybe longer doing this...
    Deciding to going to another software is probably an easy decision.. The
difficult part is getting there..

Hope this helps
Just curious.. What release of Mapics are you currently running??
Pete Olshavsky
Independent Mapics Programmer/Systems Analyst
----- Original Message -----
From: "Asok Rathnasabapathy" <arathnasabapathy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "MAPICS ERP System Discussion" <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:31 AM
Subject: RE: Mapics data extract


> Paola,
>
> Thanks for your reply. We have recently acquired a company that has a
> MAPICS system from the 80's and it has never been updated since. We are
> still in the deciding phase to either go with a MAPICS upgrade or for a
> custom based system. We are in NO way a competition to MAPICS. I
> understand that you have all put in the hard time and effort to learn
> things. But please do remember that someday somebody helped and guided
> you.
>
> All I asked you was a simple question and if you and the others who
> concurred with you think that I have no business here, I'll unsubscribe
> from the group and thanks for all of you who have replied me sharing
> their wealth of knowledge.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Asok.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paola Groeber [mailto:pgroeber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:56 PM
> To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
> Subject: Re: Mapics data extract
> Importance: High
>
>
> Asok,
>
> It strikes me as very odd that you would come to this board to try to
> get a tool to extract data from the MAPICS applications.  I went to your
> website www.cauto.com which stands for Creative Automation.  Your
> company offers Computer Services, Data Enhancements and Database
> Management.  Sounds like you are the competition to MAPICS and you can
> go figure out how to "extract the
> data" someplace other than this board.   Do like the rest of us have -
> learn
> the product and the file structure in the school of hard knocks.
>
> Sorry, but I won't help you take another customer away from MAPICS, Inc.
>
> Paola Groeber
>
>
> Asok Rathnasabapathy wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are looking to replace our Mapics system with a custom built
> > system. Is there any tool/product that we could use to extract the
> > existing data from Mapics?
> >
> > Any help in this regard is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Asok.
> >
> >
> >
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