Re: Upgrade Issue -- MAPICS-L

Good reply Dale , ref rel 7 upgrade !!  Yea i didnt know Java was Dead ??

 Also, I have not had any issues with EPDM / PDM sync.  At rel 6 and
above the P/S and RTN files go away, only the Itemas a,b,c survive in
PDM.  ( for Purch, COM) The sync is performed under the covers, any item
you 'rel' to pdm WILL stay in sync.

  Be careful , if same item exist in 2 or moe 'sites' in EPDM. ONLY 1 can
will be rel to PDM.

  As for product costing, the b-record-pdm is synced with only the latest
rel item from epdm.  I/M will still use the itembl cost fields.

Jeff Snyder CPIM

Ind. mfg consultant


-----Original Message-----
From: "De Vlieger Kris" <devlieger.kris@village.uunet.be>
To: <mapics-l@midrange.com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:59:43 +0200
Subject: Re: Upgrade Issue

> There's an easy way to automate the open and save of queries:
>     Start recording in client acces
>     Do one screen and then page down
>     stop recording
>     Edit this recording to eliminate all the waits
>     Select all commands and then paste them about 20 times
>     save this recording
> Now each time you run it, you've done 20 screens of queries (=about 250
> queries). At the end it'll get an input inhibited and you can move to
> the
> next library.  It speeds up nicely this way without programming for any
> gazillion dumb sequence.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Kris De Vlieger
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DaleGindlesperger@fft-inc.com>
> To: <mapics-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 01 May, 2002 01:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Upgrade Issue
>
>
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> > Connie,
> >
> > We usually make an effort to stay current, with one exception over
> the
> > last several years - we skipped XA/R4 and went straight from R3 to
> R5.  As
> > we implemented EPDM at the same time, that was a BIG conversion.  On
> the
> > other hand, our conversion from R5 to R6 was VERY easy.  We basically
> only
> > recompiled our add-on code (in a separate library).  As we were in
> the
> > middle of a major project at the time, I actually outsourced the
> upgrade
> > prep to my affiliate, who did it remotely in a couple days of
> compiling
> > and checking on their system.  Then they brought the source code on a
> > tape, loaded it on my AS/400, recompiled everything, and we were
> ready.  I
> > love library lists!
> >
> > The actual upgrade was done on a Sunday afternoon, took me about 6
> hours.
> > Quite easy, and about the easiest upgrade we've done since we went
> from DB
> > Mod 3 to DB Mod 4.  Most of the users never really noticed, except
> for the
> > new functionality.  (FYI, we are on an AS/400 Model 720-2062.)
> >
> > Query conversion, on the other hand, is always a pain.  We have about
> a
> > gajillion and two queries, and we have to open and save all of them
> to
> > prevent the annoying level checks.  Serious annoyance.  My operator
> > basically gets a listing and spends a couple days just opening and
> saving
> > them in sequence.  Boooooring!  And definitely not a "value add" use
> of
> > his time and abilities.  I'd love an automated way of doing that.
> (Hint
> > hint - any of you system geniuses out there figure something out for
> > that?)
> >
> > I am actually very much anticipating our upgrade to R7.  Our MAPICS
> > Browser implementation has been very successful (EPDM, CSM, AMPlus,
> and
> > Integrator), but since we are using applications that aren't
> converted to
> > Java yet, we have to wait.  I am quite eager to be able to extend
> EPDM
> > inquiries to the plant floor on thin clients, instead of limiting it
> to a
> > couple PCs placed in fairly clean offices.  (Plus the ability to put
> > certain apps out on the web.)  I am curious as to how much AS/400
> > horsepower will be required.  We had to add an addition 500MB of
> memory to
> > my existing 1GB of memory in my AS/400 to get acceptable response
> time
> > with CSM and MDCC, all allocated to QSERVER.
> >
> > I noticed a comment earlier on this thread about not wanting to move
> to
> > "obsolete" technology like Browser or R7?   I must be missing
> something
> > there - I think that the move to Java for R7 (with EZ-Link, too!) is
> > pretty darn current!  We are quite pleased with how current MAPICS
> has
> > stayed, especially with all the user exits and off-line loads that
> let you
> > hang custom stuff on and off MAPICS without modification of base
> code. And
> > the new COM_Net, woo-hoo sweet!  Now with the free enhancements
> MAPICS is
> > offering, like off-line shipping to take care of the (in my opinion)
> > cumbersome pick-pack-ship process, it's even better.  (No, I don't
> work
> > for MAPICS, just use it a lot....)
> >
> > Incidentally, I also don't understand why MAPICS keeps the old PDM
> files
> > as actual physical files after you implement EPDM.  It would seem to
> me
> > that they should be able to convert them to logical files and just
> use the
> > actual EPDM files for the data.  Then the other apps that use the
> > ITEMASA/B/C, PSTRUC, ROUTNG, and so on would just use the EPDM
> databases
> > via the logicals.  Of course, not being personally conversant with
> the
> > couple million lines of code using the PDM files, I don't know how
> > reasonable that is.
> >
> > Dale Gindlesperger @ Fleetwood
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Connie Webb <cwebb@grahamwhite.com>
> > Sent by: mapics-l-admin@midrange.com
> > 04/30/02 10:29 AM
> > Please respond to mapics-l
> >
> >
> >         To:     "'mapics-l@midrange.com'" <mapics-l@midrange.com>
> >         cc:
> >         Subject:        Upgrade Issue
> >
> >
> > Has anyone moved to REL 7 or have immediate plans to do so?
> >
> > I am interested in the resources you consider necessary to move from
> > different releases of MAPICS. Do you migrate with internal resources?
> Do
> > you
> > have programmers on site?  When did you move from REL 4 to REL 6?
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