RE: Mapics Release 4, 5

We did a conversion from XA3 to XA5, must go to XA4 first, in our test
environment.  It did not go well at all, but it was do to some things I will
explain.  We only have one AS/400 for development & production, a 620-2175,
so it is running close to the max most of the time.  When we started the
apply, the conversion program would not wait long enough for all the access
paths to be built before it tried to use one of them.  MAPICS thinks that
you are doing the conversions on a dedicated machine, so "performance
issues" is not in their vocabulary.  After convincing MAPICS that they need
to wait until the access paths are built before trying to use it, the rest
of the conversion ran well, L..O..N..G but well (why cant they change them
to run in batch is beyond us).  MAPICS has fixed this problem in the latest
version of ACSAPPLY, (SH11992 I believe that is the SH#).  The conversion
from XA4 to XA5 ran well, with no problems.

Make sure you get the license keys from MAPICS, or you will not be able to
use the new release.

Steve Jones
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Sjones@hpproducts.net <mailto:Sjones@hpproducts.net> 



        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Dave Shaw [SMTP:dshaw1@infoave.net]
        Sent:   Wednesday, May 05, 1999 11:05 PM
        To:     MAPICS-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Mapics Release 4, 5

        The following message is being posted to the list for Dale Walker:

        >We are in the process of planning an XA3 to XA5 upgrade and wanted
to
        >hear from any users that may have recently gone through an XA4 or
XA5
        >upgrade.  We are particularily interested in hearing about the
stability
        >of the conversion routines and of the COM/KBC modules themselves.
        >Feel free to post here or Email me.
        >
        >Thank you,
        >Dale Walker
        >VP, MIS
        >Gross-Given Mfg. Company
        >St. Paul, MN
        >
        >Email    dwalker@automaticproducts.com
        >Voice    651-290-4349
        >
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        Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC
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