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Sheesh, Konrad... Who's been putting vinegar on your Wheaties lately? Geoff, be grateful you are going live with Rel 6 - we went live with Rel 4 almost five years ago, total novices to MAPICS, had no idea it had so many bugs. Every time I applied a cumulative PTF tape, MAPICS was almost unusable for a couple of weeks while we found all the "new" bugs. I was told last year by a MAPICS support line person when we were upgrading from 4 to 6, that MAPICS Inc would be totally relieved when everyone was off of Rel 4! Rel 6 is to Rel 4 like Win2K is to Win95 (IMHO)... There are a few gotchas, but this list is a good place to find them... BTW, apparently neither PTF level 3196 nor 4140 includes the logical files created in SH61688.660 (ptf 3501), but they do include the new level of program AMM53 - which we found out last night when the MRP run bombed! Fortunately, I finally know how to apply a patch like this one without getting dedicate mode! Not that we dare run MRP before tomorrow morning at 3:00 am (after backup) now... We do run a few third-party add-ins (MDCC being the most important one), and we have not had any problems. We run pure-plain-vanilla MAPICS - don't have the source and don't want it! (If I had it, my users would demand that I "tinker" with it so MAPICS "works" like the old system, even 5 years later!!!) Best of luck to you, Geoff - Joan Joan McCready, IS Manager phone: 636-479-4499 MetalTek International fax: 636-479-3399 The Carondelet Division www.metaltekint.com 8600 Commercial Blvd Pevely, MO 63070 -----Original Message----- From: Konrad Underkofler [mailto:kdunderk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:02 PM To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion Subject: RE: We go live one month from now... Geoff, I am curious on the choice of MAPICS overall? Forced on you by a parent company? As far as implementation goes be aware of the gotchas all over the place in functionality. Lots of gaps and bugs cripple what was a good design 15 years ago. Most companies have developed in house code to shore up the weaknesses or adopted third party products to patch things over. Given the declining state of the third party providers and MAPICS Inc's relationship with them, go with the in house solution if at all possible. And of course.............GET SOURCE you will need it for many reasons. Good luck! Konrad -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Richardson [mailto:grichardson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:49 AM To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: We go live one month from now... Hi to everyone on the mailing list. My name is Geoff Richardson and my company have spent the last 22 months preparing to implement MAPICS XA 6.0 We are finally ready to go live at the first sites. I don't really have a specific question for y'all, but I would be very interested to hear your memories, lessons, experiences and advice relating to the implementation and roll out of MAPICS at your companies... TIA, Geoff ************************************************************** IMPORTANT NOTICE: This email is confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. _______________________________________________ This is the MAPICS ERP System Discussion (MAPICS-L) mailing list To post a message email: MAPICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/mapics-l or email: MAPICS-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/mapics-l. _______________________________________________ This is the MAPICS ERP System Discussion (MAPICS-L) mailing list To post a message email: MAPICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/mapics-l or email: MAPICS-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/mapics-l.
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