Re: Question about XA conversion from V5R3 to V6R1

Jon

I believe you are correct but I'm not certain.  I can only go by the documentation provided by INFOR.  Please see SH15514 (and related SH15608) which is the code to convert from V5Rx to V6R1 of iSeries operating system.

Please note the many, many times that this list has discussed the maintenance support licenses.

Only the current release and 1 level back are supported by MAPICS now INFOR.  

In order to use the conversion tool to migrate from V5Rx to V6R1 the documentation states that you must be at XA R6, R7 or R7.8.

Please note that approx. March 31...R9 is to be release which means that support as of that date will be for R9 and R7.8.  

Progress marches on.

Paying Maintenance and not staying current with release levels is a waste.  As is writing "programmer annuities" (i.e. custom code, poorly designed and documented).  I am not pointing fingers at anyone.  But a general rule is if you purchase a package system, you need to always have a plan to keep current with the vendor if you are going to write custom code.   This is not only true of INFOR but all the other vendors as well.

I worked with an Oracle shop 2 years ago.  They are approximately $180 million revenue and 400 employees in high tech electronics.  They had to upgrade from Oracle Enterprise Apps 11.1 to 11.5.  It cost them 6 months and $1.2million to perform the upgrade with a dedicated in house team of 12 Stakeholder representatives, 4 IT staff (2 DBA's 1 analyst and 1 developer) plus 8 full time consultants.

I can tell you I've had similar issues with Epicor, QAD, 4th Shift and many other "mid-range ERP" vendors as well. (One 4th shift upgrade for 55 users cost $400K!)

So before everyone buries this list with complaints about cost, support etc.  Stop and think: How culpable are you?


-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Le Roi <[email protected]>
>Sent: Dec 7, 2009 12:30 PM
>To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion <mapics-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Question about XA conversion from V5R3 to V6R1
>
>Hi Orville,
>
>Tegal is at XA 5.5 and when I asked our affiliate about moving up to
>V6R1 I was informed that we could only go to V5R4 with our current
>release of XA. 
>
>
>Regards,
>Jon Le Roi
>Director of I.T.
>Tegal Corporation
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mapics-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
>[mailto:mapics-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>[email protected]
>Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 8:17 AM
>To: mapics-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
>Subject: [MAPICS-L] Question about XA conversion from V5R3 to V6R1
>
>Hello,
>
>I just ran the following command on our I series.
>
>SBMJOB CMD(ANZOBJCVN OPTION(*COLLECT) LIB(*ALLUSR) SPLFILE(*YES)
>OBJ('/'))
>JOB(ANZOBJCOL) JOBQ(QPGMR)
>
>Then ran:      sbmjob cmd(anzobjcvn option(*report) rpttype(*cvnprb))
>job(anzobjrpt)
>
>The results are below.
>
>
>Auxiliary Storage Pool (ASP) . . . . . . . . . . : 00001      ASP
>Resource
>Name : *SYSBAS
>            -------------Counters-------------
>                         Total                 Cannot
> Library          Objects            Convert
>----------         -----------------  ---------------
>AMALIB                 10,060            6,026
>
>
>Our XA is at V2R7 PTF @ 07597 PTF package SH15572.
>
>
>Should I be receiving those results mentioned above?
>
>
>
>
>
>Orville Meredith
>Systems Analyst
>
>
>
>Gecom Corporation
>1025 Barachel Lane
>Greensburg, IN  47240
>
>[email protected]
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