RE: DBCS

["Burns, Bryan" <burnsbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info.  We are not going to change anything.  When it comes to
MAPICS, we have the "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" philosophy.  We don't
even do PCM's.

The Director of Application Support and Customer Retention at MAPICS replied
to me off list that the DBCS field is just for profile information anyway.

I did receive and install new renewal keys successfully.    

-----Original Message-----
From: Konrad Underkofler [mailto:kdunderk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 8:19 AM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: RE: DBCS


Bryan,
 
It would allow you to key in the extended character set for the chosen
double byte language into MAPICS. You could continue to use English or shift
into or out of the chinese, japanese characters. The downside is backlevel
support since all tapes have to be duplicated in DBCS version. I am not sure
they have downloads available for every fix in DBCS either. There could also
be some DBCS only bugs since every shift in character needs to have a shift
out character appended at the end of the field, CAS code handles that but if
it is missing strange things can happen. Unless you have an overwhelming
need I would continue to use the single byte version.
 
Good luck with your decision.
 
Konrad

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Burns, Bryan [mailto:burnsbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
        Sent: Wed 8/6/2003 3:58 PM 
        To: 'MAPICS ERP System Discussion' 
        Cc: 
        Subject: RE: DBCS
        
        

        Thank you Konrad.
        Can you tell me what we would gain by going to MAPICS DBCS on our
next
        upgrade, if we chose to? I do not know what you mean by "character
fields
        set to open".
        We are XAR5.5.