Re: MAPICS 2.0 (S/36) - Source Needed for AMZ00

At 11:31 PM 6/12/98 -0700, Bob Larkin wrote:
>A fellow consultant needs the source for S/36 MAPICS 2.0 module AMZ00.
>He is modifying their application for Y2k, and does not have source for
>this particular module. Evidently, this module returns an error when
>year = 00. Rest of software source that needs modification is available.
>Vendor no longer supports this release, and has not been able to supply
>the code.
>
>Any suggestions on obtaining this code, short of decompiling?
>

Bob,

No direct help here, but I faced a similar problem recently with several V2 
BPCS programs, and found that it was pretty easy to reverse engineer them and 
write my own. I don't remember what AMZ00 does, but I think it builds some 
stuff in QTEMP and probably the LDA, and maybe validates the program 
registration key against system serial number. It might be possible to examine 
the output and duplicate it without jumping through too many hoops. Since the 
vendor is no longer supporting it and can't provide a fix, I'd guess that there 
would be no enforceable contractual prohibitions against doing that.

Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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