Re: IFM Customer Numbering

There is good news and bad news. The good news is that IFM does not need
you to change customer numbers, in most cases, if you are at MAPICS XA
Release 5 or higher. The bad news is that the conversion tools do not
support the this feature, and you will have to work around this problem.
Here are the details.

Starting in Release 5, IFM does not need the COM suffix to identify the
personal ledger. This is true as long as you have only one AR personal
ledger in a given currency within a financial division. For example, if you
have one USD AR personal ledger in f/d 01, then IFM are able to identify it
based on the COM company and currency. If you have multiple AR USD personal
ledgers in f/d 01, then you have to reassign customer numbers to include
the COM suffix. (You also have to reassign numbers if you have a vendor and
customer with the same number).

The conversion tools do not let you take advantage of this change. I have
not tried this, but I am fairly certain that you can work around this
problem by zapping the CUSENT file so the "old" customer number and the
"new" customer number are the same. You must do this before the conversion
tools update every customer number occurrence in MAPICS.

The bottom line is that you may be able to avoid changing your 100
non-MAPICS files using this technique. However, it will only work if your
personal ledgers are setup in a way that makes the COM suffix unnecessary.

Bob Tenney,
Bob Tenney Solutions, LLC




Vanessa.King@cussys.com@midrange.com on 06/08/2000 03:46:55 PM

Please respond to MAPICS-L@midrange.com

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To:   MAPICS-L@midrange.com
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Subject:  IFM Customer Numbering


Has anyone passed on purchasing IFM based having to renumber your COM
customers? I have a client who loves IFM, but they have about 100 of their
own files (outside of Mapics) that reference that customer number. They
want to know if anyone else has had a similar issue with IFM.

Best regards,

Vanessa T. King
Custom Systems Corp.

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