Re: MAPICS Y2K problem

[Dave Shaw <dshaw1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Bailey Dick <Dick_Bailey@MCFA.COM>
>
> I'm new to this newsgroup, so if the subject is inappropriate,
>please let me know.
>
> We are in the process of replacing two ERP systems and closing in on
>conversion, while keeping the present systems afloat. One of the legacy
>systems is MAPICS, an old version heavily modified. Last week  Master
>Schedule processing called for another year of shop calendar - the next
year
>being 2000, which of course is not there. The error caused the M/S run to
>abort, and we have not yet been able to work around it.  Our planning cycle
>goes out only about six months, so we have no real need for the new  year
>until May or June.
>
> I expected this to happen in April, when a new calendar was needed
>last year. And we were prepared for that timing.
>
> Any ideas on possible ways to get around the problem (making M/S to
>run) for a few months?

I doubt very much that there's an easy way to make it go.  Your options are
probably limited to hacking the code to make it work or backdating your
system (and all the data in your files!) to an earlier date when it still
ran okay.  You MIGHT be able to change the code more easily if you get the
source for the Y2K-compliant version of Mod 4 and hack that to work with
your non-compliant files - it's at least worth comparing the differences in
the code to see what it might take.  It's too bad that the timing on your
cut-over is so tight, I know that must be frustrating.

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



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