HELP - documentation and bizarre client requirement(s)

Gentlepersons of this list --

For those who know me, you know I don't ask for help one-tenth as much as 
I've proffered.

I've been out of the loop of MAPICS development for a little too long. 
And, I am starting a client project with XA6 "tomorrow." 

They've got a system with (this is what they've volunteered so far) 867K 
item masters and are at 76% disk utilization (don't, yet, have any info on 
overall machine capacity, etc.). 

Requirement is to change item numbers on somewhere between 20K and 40K of 
the item numbers as a result of a merger consolidation. 

I've got XA4 documentation -- they're at XA6. 

I've been "doing" MAPICS since S32/34 days -- been out of the loop for 
past 3 years though. 

Can ANYONE proffer documentation resources, ideas, thoughts, ideas, 
suggestions (I _have_ been reading archives -- which only validate my 
concerns!) -- esp., need CURRENT Mapics logic documentation -- client is 
either (1) totally out of it; (2) deliberately hiding information; (3) 
totally clueless; (4) you name it!?! ;*)

I have yet to get them to even tell me the installed modules and they 
won't -yet- provide any access to the system (it's in IL, I 'm in CA). 
Would REALLY like to be able to walk in (9 hours or so from now) -the CA 
location- with at least SOME understanding of what's changed / where to 
look on the IL machine -- esp., since the changes of the past 2-3 years. 

Not to push the "sympathy button" on why I've gotten obsolete here, but 
(uh huh!), my father passed of cancer last August -- and it wasn't a quick 
passing. 

Thanks to any / all who can provide any kind of support / resources (I 
can't even find my XA v4 documentation CD)! 

Again, thanks in advance -- this is the first "work" I've been able to 
garner in nearly 18 months ... between the economy and family issues: it's 
really important that I get back into the real world, if you know what I'm 
trying to say here! 

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Jeffrey J Silden : Silden SOFTWARE Solutions!, Inc. 
5922 Lubao Avenue : Woodland Hills  CA   91367-5611 USA
Voice - 818/887.6920 : Fax - 818/716.6488

- It's the silence 
  between the notes 
  that makes the music
  --  JJ Silden 
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