RE: JBA ML - Other-Worldly upgrade

For the record, last I knew, GEAC no longer officially supports the concept of
the separate WORLD...  JBA-UK never did...!!!  I think it was more of a local
phenomenon started by Randy Hazzard in the Novi office in late 1997.

The problem is that you could run multiple Worlds on the same CPU and only pay
for one set of authorization codes...!!!

You could turn your little AS/400 into an A$P...  (Application $ervice Provider)

This would not be conducive to generating revenue for Geac...  It's probably
highly illegal too...

Also, there are some limitations such as not being able to run 2 copies of the
Machine Manager after PTF MM V3 0014 is applied...
Prior to that you had to have a special piece of source code for MM026CLP that
allowed you to run two copies simultaneously...

That, being said, however, there is a valid use for the World concept and we
continue to use it here, alas, with just one copy of Machine Manager running.
It's a great way to pre-install PTFs and test out the changes...

Good Luck.







"Mex Davis" <mis@bekumamerica.com> on 11/09/2001 03:12:13 PM

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>From experience I'd suggest who contract your Geac Support Team. Geac has a
tool (program) that creates the 'World' for you. This is a pretty sleek
process. There are lots of things to do to create a 'World' and it can be a
little scary. This is what we did and we're very pleased with the results.

Mex Davis
MIS Manager
Bekum America Corp.

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Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:55 PM
To: 'jbausers-l@midrange.com'
Subject: JBA ML - Other-Worldly upgrade

Greetings!
I am a system21 newbie who is about to have a huge learning experience.
Having just started at my current company, I have been given the task of
taking the company's software through what looks like several revisions
(uplifts? upgrades?). To make things more interesting, I am supposed to
install these upgrades to a set of libraries which duplicates our production
libraries. I am told that this duplicate set of libraries is called a
"World" by the Geac folks and I have reviewed a document describing the
creation of this "world".

Does any of this sound familiar to the list members? I am looking for
comments, suggestions, warnings, and any other information to help me reduce
the number of pitfalls in this process.

Thanks in advance,

Wayne Johnson
Programmer Analyst
Aetna Industries
wjohnson@aetna-ind.com
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