Re: BPCS migration from 2.0 to 6.0.04

[Alister Wm Macintyre <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a conversion tool available from SSA GT.
It may have been fixed since we used it several years ago.
It was full of bugs.

You may know that BPCS has a few bugs and BMRS to deal with them due to 
thousands of different companies using BPCS and bombarding SSA with 
grievances about them, but not so many companies use their conversion tool, 
so not so many complaints about the bugs there, so not so many BMRs to fix 
the conversion tool.

The nature of our conversion needs were such that we had to abandon the 
official tool and go with outside packages costing total of about $ 3,000.00.

You also need to be careful about disk space.
We estimated our needs based on original stuff, new data base, and pilot 
data base.
What we did not realize is all the intermediate steps ended up having more 
copies BPCS in intermediate stages, eating a lot more disk space than we 
budgeted for.

In any case, there is serious documentation from SSA regarding doing the 
conversion, that you need to get and study.  It will take many months and 
many people, and probably call for outside consulting help.

, you wrote:
> Dear BPCS User,
>
>            We want to convert our BPCS 2.0 files database to BPCS 6.0.04
> files database .
>            Please sent my, if exist free utility from this conversion.
>             Many thanks in advance.
>
>           With best regards
>
>           Teodor Tundre

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