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

[Dave Shaw <dshaw1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Bob Larkin <blarkin@wt.net>

>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?

If I remember correctly, IBM didn't ship the source for AMZ00 with MAPICS
II.  If MAPICS, Inc., can't give it to you, there's a few other ways.

1) Check with some of the older MAPICS affiliates to see if they have a copy
lying around someplace.  Companies like Lexel in New York or Info Systems of
North Carolina tend to keep stuff for the old S/36 MAPICS II so that they
can help customers convert to a current version more readily.

2) Find a customer who has the S/34 or S/36 source for MAPICS I - AMZ00 was
shipped with that product, and someone knowledgeable about the differences
between MAPICS I and II could probably reverse engineer the changes for
MAPICS II into the MAPICS I source.  (I wish I could help you, but we ran
S/38 MAPICS I and that source is a bit too different from the S/36 version
to be usable.  Plus, I'm not sure where that tape is at the moment... ;)

3) AMZ00 is a fairly simple program, you could conceivably reverse engineer
it from a functional description.  Assimilate the description in the logic
manual, review how it's called, and then write the code to make it work.
Tell your friend it's a good challenge. :)  BTW, MAPICS II didn't do any
license validation, so ignore that part of Pete Hall's note - MAPICS didn't
put anything like that in until MAPICS XA on the /400.

BTW, why is the client updating old, dead MAPICS II for Y2K instead of
upgrading to a current, Y2K-compliant release?

Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW -
Bubba Makes Wheels :)
MAPICS victim since 1980
The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently
persuasive...



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