Re: [U2] Delphi and UniObjects
Yes, works fine. I use it for some of my products including mvDeveloper. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com Sent: 22 May 2012 22:00 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question Does anyone know if uniobjects can be used with Delphi? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question
Have a word with Reflex Data (www.reflexdata.co.uk). They specialize in the textiles industry and their software runs on UniVerse. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Hester Sent: 22 May 2012 22:13 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question We're a commercial upholstery distributor. I'm guessing our needs are similar to any type of distributor. We buy things, store them in warehouses, and sell them again. -John -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Thompson Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:59 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question Our CFO likes Sage MAS 90. The trick is finding a decent consultant that knows what he's doing. I hear more recent versions run on top of MS SQL Server, although ours does not, and its quite a chunk of change to get the upgrade. http://na.sage.com/sage-100-erp We never did try and get it working for anything other than Payable and General Ledger though- which it does pretty well if your only requirement is Batch Updating or importing the data every night. If you import large amounts of data at a time, it tends to be slower than molasses, although I suspect this is because the guys that did the original setup were not very skilled I imagine if you got the SQL server version you could do some fancy stuff with mv.net, and real time updates... Out of curiosity, what industry are you in? I did know of a group in Orlando FL, that had some Accounting software built in Accuterm GUI for the Automotive industry that runs natively on Universe. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question
To me, this is a question for the accounting department there. Corporate accountants that I know favor Oracle financials... for their functionality, reporting, and ease of use. --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question
Or because that's what they know best... On 23/05/2012 15:13, Bill Brutzman wrote: To me, this is a question for the accounting department there. Corporate accountants that I know favor Oracle financials... for their functionality, reporting, and ease of use. --Bill ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question
Thank you to everyone who responded. I have a decent sized list of options to investigate. -John -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Hester Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:45 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] U2 accounting software question We used to have a Pick general ledger software package called FMS that was sold by Price Waterhouse. At some point the software was purchased by a company named IDEAS. In 2004, they stopped supporting the Pick version and migrated us to a client-server package that uses MS SQL as the underlying database. IDEAS is now owned by a company that services the oil and gas industry (which is not the industry we're in) and future support of the software is less than certain, so we're exploring other options. Can anyone recommend a good GL system? It doesn't necessarily need to be Pick-based, but either UV or MS SQL as the database would be preferred. We currently export the UV GL data as a flat csv file at the end of the month and import it into IDEAS. Thanks, John ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question
Please let us know what you decide, if you could. Thanks! --dawn On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:32 PM, John Hester jhes...@momtex.com wrote: Thank you to everyone who responded. I have a decent sized list of options to investigate. -John -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Hester Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:45 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] U2 accounting software question We used to have a Pick general ledger software package called FMS that was sold by Price Waterhouse. At some point the software was purchased by a company named IDEAS. In 2004, they stopped supporting the Pick version and migrated us to a client-server package that uses MS SQL as the underlying database. IDEAS is now owned by a company that services the oil and gas industry (which is not the industry we're in) and future support of the software is less than certain, so we're exploring other options. Can anyone recommend a good GL system? It doesn't necessarily need to be Pick-based, but either UV or MS SQL as the database would be preferred. We currently export the UV GL data as a flat csv file at the end of the month and import it into IDEAS. Thanks, John ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... I wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned a tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your work is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a team of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the needs of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm a little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my opportunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to accomplish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in Illinois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to deliver in a different environment. blockquote A special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly with. I cannot recommend their services enough! /blockquote blockquote Tony Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was asked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation units to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity to work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the time to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe offered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web service that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to meet the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of the IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always believed in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have in the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the outside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the incredible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that has been rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it after years of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play, and forget about it at its best! Not only that but our web service which provides incredibly powerful and complicated pricing blows the web service developed on our corporate as400 system out of the water from a performance standpoint. Thanks Tony, you've made me look a lot better than I really am :) /blockquote blockquote Jeff Fitzerald ( http://www.fitzlong.com/ ): Your write-ups on file performance have really helped me to ensure that our system is always operating at a high level. I wish I could get everyone around here to read it. I was also fortunate enough to have been allowed to use your file maintenance product - FAST. I can't tell you how much time that this saved me. When I first arrived at this company, all the files were dynamic. I made the mistake of converting them all to static because I believed the performance was much better. I was right and the system was screaming. The reason I use mistake is that it brought me into a whole new world of ensuring the thousands of files used by the application continued to perform by spending all my weekends sizing. Yuck! By allowing me to break away from managing the monster that I had created by using your product, I had my weekends free again. Yay! Not only that, your product was doing a much better job than I ever did. Unfortunately, budgets were cut and I could no longer continue to use it. Thanks Jeff, you helped me to spend my time moving the company forward by developing great tools rather than maintaining files. /blockquote FILE SIZING question: As mentioned, I'm moving on. Before leaving I'm trying my best to ease the burden on my friends here in Illinois by automating many of the things that I never got around to doing for myself . That being said, I put together a routine that will analyze our files and resize as necessary. It's pretty slick but not near the software offered by fitzlong.com - refer to previous section. I would like to set it up to execute from cron so that noone has to babysit. Being the scaredy cat that I am, I've always phantomed off the process and monitored over the weekend to ensure that noone is accessing the files in question. I put the CONCURRENT option in there as a safeguard but never really trusted it enough to turn the program loose without policing. My questions regarding CONCURRENT are these: 1. Is the option trustworthy enough to use on a live system while users are possibly accessing the files? 2. Are there any sort of performance issues? In other words, would a file that takes 2 hours to size take 8 hours to size while users are accessing? The routine keeps a history of various statistics including how much time it took to do its business.
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
Well you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, we'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am Subject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... I wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your ork is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my pportunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to ccomplish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in llinois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to eliver in a different environment. blockquote special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly ith. I cannot recommend their services enough! /blockquote blockquote ony Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was sked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation nits to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity o work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the ime to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe ffered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web ervice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to eet the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of he IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always elieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have n the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the utside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the ncredible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that has een rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it after ears of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play, and forget about it t its best! Not only that but our web service which provides incredibly owerful and complicated pricing blows the web service developed on our orporate as400 system out of the water from a performance standpoint. Thanks ony, you've made me look a lot better than I really am :) /blockquote blockquote eff Fitzerald ( http://www.fitzlong.com/ ): Your write-ups on file performance ave really helped me to ensure that our system is always operating at a high evel. I wish I could get everyone around here to read it. I was also ortunate enough to have been allowed to use your file maintenance product - AST. I can't tell you how much time that this saved me. When I first arrived t this company, all the files were dynamic. I made the mistake of converting hem all to static because I believed the performance was much better. I was ight and the system was screaming. The reason I use mistake is that it brought me into a whole new world of ensuring the thousands of files used by he application continued to perform by spending all my weekends sizing. Yuck! y allowing me to break away from managing the monster that I had created by sing your product, I had my weekends free again. Yay! Not only that, your roduct was doing a much better job than I ever did. Unfortunately, budgets ere cut and I could no longer continue to use it. Thanks Jeff, you helped me o spend my time moving the company forward by developing great tools rather han maintaining files. /blockquote ILE SIZING question: As mentioned, I'm moving on. Before leaving I'm trying my best to ease the urden on my friends here in Illinois by automating many of the things that I ever got around to doing for myself . That being said, I put together a outine that will analyze our files and resize as necessary. It's pretty slick ut not near the software offered by fitzlong.com - refer to previous section. I would like to set it up to execute from cron so that noone has to babysit. eing the scaredy cat that I am, I've always phantomed off the process and onitored over the weekend to ensure that noone is accessing the files in uestion. I put the CONCURRENT option in there as a safeguard but never really rusted it enough to turn the program
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. Well, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Well you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, we'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am Subject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... I wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your ork is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my pportunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to ccomplish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in llinois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to eliver in a different environment. blockquote special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly ith. I cannot recommend their services enough! /blockquote blockquote ony Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was sked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation nits to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity o work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the ime to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe ffered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web ervice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to eet the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of he IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always elieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have n the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the utside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the ncredible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that has een rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it after ears of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play, and forget about it t its best! Not only that but our web service which provides incredibly owerful and complicated pricing blows the web service developed on our orporate as400 system out of the water from a performance standpoint. Thanks ony, you've made me look a lot better than I really am :) /blockquote eff Fitzerald ( http://www.fitzlong.com/ ): Your write-ups on file performance ave really helped me to ensure that our system is always operating at a high evel. I wish I could get everyone around here to read it. I was also ortunate enough to have been allowed to use your file maintenance product - AST. I can't tell you how much time that this saved me. When I first arrived t this company, all the files were dynamic. I made the mistake of converting hem all to static because I believed the performance was much better. I was ight and the system was screaming. The reason I use mistake is that it brought me into a whole new world of ensuring the thousands of files used by he application continued to perform by spending all my weekends sizing. Yuck! y allowing me to break away from managing the monster that I had created by sing your product, I had my weekends free again. Yay! Not only that, your roduct was doing a much better job than I ever did. Unfortunately, budgets ere cut and I could no longer continue to use it. Thanks Jeff, you helped me o spend my time moving the company forward by developing great tools rather han maintaining files. /blockquote ILE SIZING question: As mentioned, I'm moving on. Before leaving I'm trying my best to ease the urden on my friends here in Illinois by automating many of the things that I ever got around to doing for myself . That being said, I put together a outine that will analyze our files and resize as necessary. It's pretty slick ut not near the software
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
I don't even see in the list of IT job openings for your company, any indication of a pick system. Surely someone has to keep it running over the three years it will take you to implement the nine hundred SAP tables and configuration settings -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:31 am Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. ell, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - rom: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com o: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org ent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM ubject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL ell you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, e'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a am of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- rom: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net o: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org ent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am ubject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your rk is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a am of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my portunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to complish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in linois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to liver in a different environment. lockquote special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly th. I cannot recommend their services enough! blockquote lockquote ny Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was ked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation its to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the me to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe fered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web rvice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to et the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of e IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always lieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the tside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the credible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that has en rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it after ars of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play, and forget about it its best! Not only that but our web service which provides incredibly werful and complicated pricing blows the web service developed on our rporate as400 system out of the water from a performance standpoint. Thanks ny, you've made me look a lot better than I really am :) blockquote eff Fitzerald ( http://www.fitzlong.com/ ): Your write-ups on file performance ve really helped me to ensure that our system is always operating at a high vel. I wish I could get everyone around here to read it. I was also rtunate enough to have been allowed to use your file maintenance product - ST. I can't tell you how much time that this saved me. When I first arrived this company, all the files were dynamic. I made the mistake of converting em all to static because I believed the performance was much better. I was ght and the system was screaming. The reason I use mistake is that it rought me into a whole new world of ensuring the thousands of files used by e application continued to perform by spending all my weekends sizing. Yuck! allowing me to break away from managing the monster that I had created by ing your product, I had my weekends free again. Yay! Not only that, your oduct was doing a much better job than I ever did. Unfortunately, budgets re cut and I could no longer continue to use it. Thanks Jeff, you helped me spend my time moving the company forward by developing great tools rather an maintaining files.
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
We use CONCURRENT option all of the time on Linux and Unix boxes with our XLr8Resizer tool for either Unidata or Universe. By the way, concurrent option does not work on Windows yet. We did not see a performance hit resizing multi-gigabyte file while 50 users were logged in and accessing it. When you start resizing over 5 files using the CONCURRENT option simultaneously using different thread option in our XLr8Resizer product, there was a big performance hit. This could have been from either resizing all those files and/or the CONCURRENT option. Regards, Doug www.u2logic.com/tools.html ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
I thought no one actually ever finished implementing SAP? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of iggch...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. Well, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Well you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, we'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am Subject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... I wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your ork is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my pportunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to ccomplish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in llinois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to eliver in a different environment. blockquote special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly ith. I cannot recommend their services enough! /blockquote blockquote ony Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was sked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation nits to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity o work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the ime to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe ffered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web ervice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to eet the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of he IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always elieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have n the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the utside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the ncredible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that has een rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it after ears of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play, and forget about it t its best! Not only that but our web service which provides incredibly owerful and complicated pricing blows the web service developed on our orporate as400 system out of the water from a performance standpoint. Thanks ony, you've made me look a lot better than I really am :) /blockquote eff Fitzerald ( http://www.fitzlong.com/ ): Your write-ups on file performance ave really helped me to ensure that our system is always operating at a high evel. I wish I could get everyone around here to read it. I was also ortunate enough to have been allowed to use your file maintenance product - AST. I can't tell you how much time that this saved me. When I first arrived t this company, all the files were dynamic. I made the mistake of converting hem all to static because I believed the performance was much better. I was ight and the system was screaming. The reason I use mistake is that it brought me into a whole new world of ensuring the thousands of files used by he application continued to perform by spending all my weekends sizing. Yuck! y allowing me to break away from managing the monster that I had created by sing your product, I had my weekends free again. Yay! Not only that, your roduct was doing a much better job than I ever did. Unfortunately, budgets ere cut and I could no longer continue to use it. Thanks Jeff, you helped me o spend my time moving the company forward by developing great tools rather han maintaining files. /blockquote ILE SIZING question: As mentioned,
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
All of the other sites are running on an as400. Funny that they have tons of developers, system admins, etc and we kick the snot out of them with just 4 developers. We had meetings a few years ago where we discussed going to a single system and our system was voted best practice and best performing in 90 percent of the areas reference. MV kicks A**! I'm really going to miss it but I can't pass up the opportunity. There are a few developers that worked for me. I've also made arrangements with a friend of mine to step in when things get to be too much for them. Ya know, if you keep this up, noone is ever going to answer my questions, right? :) - Original Message - From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:51:28 PM Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL I don't even see in the list of IT job openings for your company, any indication of a pick system. Surely someone has to keep it running over the three years it will take you to implement the nine hundred SAP tables and configuration settings -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:31 am Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. ell, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - rom: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com o: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org ent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM ubject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL ell you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, e'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a am of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- rom: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net o: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org ent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am ubject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your rk is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a am of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my portunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to complish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in linois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to liver in a different environment. lockquote special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly th. I cannot recommend their services enough! blockquote lockquote ny Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was ked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation its to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the me to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe fered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web rvice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to et the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of e IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always lieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the tside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the credible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that has en rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it after ars of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play, and forget about it its best! Not only that but our web service which provides incredibly werful and complicated pricing blows the web service developed on our rporate as400 system out of the water from a performance standpoint. Thanks ny, you've made me look a lot better than I really am :) blockquote eff Fitzerald ( http://www.fitzlong.com/ ): Your write-ups on file performance ve really helped me to ensure that our system is always operating at a high vel. I wish I could get everyone around here to read it. I was also rtunate enough to have been allowed to use
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
I have only seen SAP implementations from a bit of a distance and through reading stories, but in every case, my understanding was that those in charge of the project were gone before SAP went live. I have seen systems analysts and programmers survive the project, with plenty of stories once they do. It sounds like a really brutal ERP installation. I have not kept current on this front enough to know that people were still selecting it, although a whole lot of people are still maintaining it. Best wishes, Scott, and thanks for taking the time to write up your notes regarding some of those in the industry who have helped you. Cheers! --dawn On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Holt, Jake jh...@samsill.com wrote: I thought no one actually ever finished implementing SAP? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of iggch...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. Well, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Well you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, we'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am Subject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... I wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your ork is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my pportunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to ccomplish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in llinois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to eliver in a different environment. blockquote special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly ith. I cannot recommend their services enough! /blockquote blockquote ony Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was sked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation nits to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity o work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the ime to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe ffered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web ervice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to eet the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of he IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always elieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have n the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the utside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the ncredible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that has een rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it after ears of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play, and forget about it t its best! Not only that but our web service which provides incredibly owerful and complicated pricing blows the web service developed on our orporate as400 system out of the water from a performance standpoint. Thanks ony, you've made me look a lot better than I really am :) /blockquote eff Fitzerald ( http://www.fitzlong.com/ ): Your write-ups on file performance ave really helped me to ensure that our system is always operating at a high evel. I wish I could get everyone around here to read it. I was also ortunate enough to have been allowed to use your file maintenance product - AST. I can't tell you how much time that this saved me. When I first arrived t this company, all the files were dynamic. I made the mistake of converting hem all to
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
A company??? I wish I had the list to market into... work for life :-) ... david ... David L. Wasylenko President, Pick Professionals, Inc w) 314 558 1482 d...@pickpro.com -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Horacio Pellegrino Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:16 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL I remember a company that went bankrupt because they spent so much in SAP ( or was it Oracle? ) It was in the news. Anybody? HP On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Dawn Wolthuis dw...@tincat-group.comwrote: I have only seen SAP implementations from a bit of a distance and through reading stories, but in every case, my understanding was that those in charge of the project were gone before SAP went live. I have seen systems analysts and programmers survive the project, with plenty of stories once they do. It sounds like a really brutal ERP installation. I have not kept current on this front enough to know that people were still selecting it, although a whole lot of people are still maintaining it. Best wishes, Scott, and thanks for taking the time to write up your notes regarding some of those in the industry who have helped you. Cheers! --dawn On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Holt, Jake jh...@samsill.com wrote: I thought no one actually ever finished implementing SAP? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of iggch...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. Well, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Well you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, we'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am Subject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... I wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your ork is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my pportunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to ccomplish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in llinois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to eliver in a different environment. blockquote special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly ith. I cannot recommend their services enough! /blockquote blockquote ony Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was sked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation nits to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity o work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the ime to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe ffered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web ervice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to eet the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of he IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always elieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have n the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the utside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the ncredible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that has een rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it after ears of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play,
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
Is this it? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchivesid=awweg53wmmJwrefer=germany John -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Horacio Pellegrino Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:16 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL I remember a company that went bankrupt because they spent so much in SAP ( or was it Oracle? ) It was in the news. Anybody? HP On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Dawn Wolthuis dw...@tincat-group.comwrote: I have only seen SAP implementations from a bit of a distance and through reading stories, but in every case, my understanding was that those in charge of the project were gone before SAP went live. I have seen systems analysts and programmers survive the project, with plenty of stories once they do. It sounds like a really brutal ERP installation. I have not kept current on this front enough to know that people were still selecting it, although a whole lot of people are still maintaining it. Best wishes, Scott, and thanks for taking the time to write up your notes regarding some of those in the industry who have helped you. Cheers! --dawn On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Holt, Jake jh...@samsill.com wrote: I thought no one actually ever finished implementing SAP? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of iggch...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. Well, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Well you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, we'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am Subject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... I wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your ork is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my pportunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to ccomplish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in llinois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to eliver in a different environment. blockquote special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly ith. I cannot recommend their services enough! /blockquote blockquote ony Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was sked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation nits to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity o work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the ime to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe ffered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web ervice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to eet the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of he IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always elieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have n the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the utside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the ncredible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that has een rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it after ears of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play, and forget about it t its best! Not only that but our web service which
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
YES! I guess you google SAP and BANKRUPTCY ? On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Israel, John R. johnisr...@daytonsuperior.com wrote: Is this it? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchivesid=awweg53wmmJwrefer=germany John -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Horacio Pellegrino Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:16 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL I remember a company that went bankrupt because they spent so much in SAP ( or was it Oracle? ) It was in the news. Anybody? HP On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Dawn Wolthuis dw...@tincat-group.com wrote: I have only seen SAP implementations from a bit of a distance and through reading stories, but in every case, my understanding was that those in charge of the project were gone before SAP went live. I have seen systems analysts and programmers survive the project, with plenty of stories once they do. It sounds like a really brutal ERP installation. I have not kept current on this front enough to know that people were still selecting it, although a whole lot of people are still maintaining it. Best wishes, Scott, and thanks for taking the time to write up your notes regarding some of those in the industry who have helped you. Cheers! --dawn On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Holt, Jake jh...@samsill.com wrote: I thought no one actually ever finished implementing SAP? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of iggch...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. Well, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Well you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, we'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am Subject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Hi All, uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... I wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have learned tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have for your ork is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my pportunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to ccomplish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in llinois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to eliver in a different environment. blockquote special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work directly ith. I cannot recommend their services enough! /blockquote blockquote ony Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS was sked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force automation nits to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the opportunity o work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have the ime to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe ffered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web ervice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not get it to eet the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with one of he IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have always elieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that we have n the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource from the utside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the ncredible service that he provided. He
[U2] matrix dimension
I don't work with MATrices much in Unidata. If I have my hands on a matrix setup from another program is there a function to determine it's dimensions? My reading of DIM doesn't indicate it can do this and I don't see anything in the various MAT... commands that looks promising. -- Jeffrey Butera Manager of ERP Systems Hampshire College 413-559-5556 ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] matrix dimension
Extracted from the UniBasic Commands Reference for INMAT() In the next example, the program segment dimensions two arrays and then prints the dimensions using the PRINT statement and INMAT function: DIM LARGE.ARRAY(23,14) DIM SMALL.ARRAY(9) PRINT INMAT(LARGE.ARRAY) PRINT INMAT(SMALL.ARRAY) This results in the following: 23}14 9 Wally Terhune Technical Support Architect Rocket Software 4600 South Ulster Street, Suite 1100 **Denver, CO 80237 **USA t: +1 720 475 8055 **e: wterh...@rocketsoftware.com **w: rocketsoftware.com/u2 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Butera Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:59 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] matrix dimension I don't work with MATrices much in Unidata. If I have my hands on a matrix setup from another program is there a function to determine it's dimensions? My reading of DIM doesn't indicate it can do this and I don't see anything in the various MAT... commands that looks promising. -- Jeffrey Butera Manager of ERP Systems Hampshire College 413-559-5556 ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] matrix dimension
Hi Jeffrey, Take a look at the INMAT() function. Martin Phillips Ladybridge Systems Ltd 17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton NN4 6DB, England +44 (0)1604-709200 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Butera Sent: 23 May 2012 20:59 To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] matrix dimension I don't work with MATrices much in Unidata. If I have my hands on a matrix setup from another program is there a function to determine it's dimensions? My reading of DIM doesn't indicate it can do this and I don't see anything in the various MAT... commands that looks promising. -- Jeffrey Butera Manager of ERP Systems Hampshire College 413-559-5556 ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[U2] SHA256 digest possible?
Not an expert in U2 so this could be stupid.. I'm using DIGEST and OCONV to
produce a hex digest of plain-text passwords as users enter them. Passwords
created through external sources are SHA256 so I was wondering if there is
a way to get that to happen in UniBasic?
PRSLT = DIGEST('sha1',PWD,1,PDIGEST)
PHASH = OCONV(PDIGEST, 'MX0C')
Michael McGlothlin
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Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
It was a Company in Portland Oregon, here where I live. The Shane Company, a jeweler. Used to run a lot of local radio ads, then the ads suddenly stopped. Turns out they went bankrupt. In bankruptcy proceedings they mainly blamed the costs incurred by the SAP system brought in to replace their in-house customized Universe-based system. The SAP implementation was supposed to cost $8 million, but costs were near $19 million when the company went out of business. I the bankruptcy proceedings the company mainly blamed the SAP implementation. After bankruptcy they resurfaced, which we know as the radio ads came back on a few months ago after being off about a year. However - the ads have stopped again. Perhaps they are just saving advertising dollars for now? Or is it worse? But what really burns me up: I did a google search on this very thing 2 days ago and came across a blogger who was defending SAP, his deal was that the install failure was Shane Company's upper management's fault. G!!! If any company agrees to pay $8 MILLION dollars for a system, the vendor had better provide all the help needed to get the system up and running successfully or that vendor has failed. How about you MV providers, do you ever help the customers do an installation? Or do you take the money and let 'em do the best they can? And if they fail, it's their fault?? I'm just rehashing what I've read. I'd really like to hear from one of the programmers or analysts that worked for the Shane Company when all this happened. Are you out there? An even more damaging a story, if possible, is the implementation of SAP to serve the City of Portland (once again, my home city, but this time it involves my tax dollars). I don't know too many details except that it was supposed to unify 19 separate systems into one, and implementation was to cost about $20 million (already outrageous), but one attempt under an outside SAP implementation specialist failed, a second implementer hired from way out of town also failed, finally SAP themselves came in (where were they all this time?) and it seems finally got the job done. Cost at this point: almost FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS (actually about 48.6 million, but what's an extra 1.4 million dollars?) I recently asked a high-up analyst in the police department how the SAP implementation was doing, and they said, Oh - OK I guess - there are still some problems. Thanks for listening- Harold Oaks Sr. PA Clark County, WA -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Horacio Pellegrino Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:16 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL I remember a company that went bankrupt because they spent so much in SAP ( or was it Oracle? ) It was in the news. Anybody? HP On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Dawn Wolthuis dw...@tincat-group.comwrote: I have only seen SAP implementations from a bit of a distance and through reading stories, but in every case, my understanding was that those in charge of the project were gone before SAP went live. I have seen systems analysts and programmers survive the project, with plenty of stories once they do. It sounds like a really brutal ERP installation. I have not kept current on this front enough to know that people were still selecting it, although a whole lot of people are still maintaining it. Best wishes, Scott, and thanks for taking the time to write up your notes regarding some of those in the industry who have helped you. Cheers! --dawn On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Holt, Jake jh...@samsill.com wrote: I thought no one actually ever finished implementing SAP? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of iggch...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. Well, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Well you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your company, we'll see I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm little partial... -Original Message- From: iggchamp iggch...@comcast.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am Subject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
A few months back I googled for Peoplesoft lawsuit higher ed and found several articles. As an Oracle-based (and now Oracle-owned) ERP, it is also a terribly expensive product, especially compared to the UniData-based Ellucian/Datatel software. While people are still buying SAP, apparently, I don't think Peoplesoft has had (m)any sales in the US in quite some time. --dawn On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Oaks, Harold harold.o...@clark.wa.gov wrote: It was a Company in Portland Oregon, here where I live. The Shane Company, a jeweler. Used to run a lot of local radio ads, then the ads suddenly stopped. Turns out they went bankrupt. In bankruptcy proceedings they mainly blamed the costs incurred by the SAP system brought in to replace their in-house customized Universe-based system. The SAP implementation was supposed to cost $8 million, but costs were near $19 million when the company went out of business. I the bankruptcy proceedings the company mainly blamed the SAP implementation. After bankruptcy they resurfaced, which we know as the radio ads came back on a few months ago after being off about a year. However - the ads have stopped again. Perhaps they are just saving advertising dollars for now? Or is it worse? But what really burns me up: I did a google search on this very thing 2 days ago and came across a blogger who was defending SAP, his deal was that the install failure was Shane Company's upper management's fault. G!!! If any company agrees to pay $8 MILLION dollars for a system, the vendor had better provide all the help needed to get the system up and running successfully or that vendor has failed. How about you MV providers, do you ever help the customers do an installation? Or do you take the money and let 'em do the best they can? And if they fail, it's their fault?? I'm just rehashing what I've read. I'd really like to hear from one of the programmers or analysts that worked for the Shane Company when all this happened. Are you out there? An even more damaging a story, if possible, is the implementation of SAP to serve the City of Portland (once again, my home city, but this time it involves my tax dollars). I don't know too many details except that it was supposed to unify 19 separate systems into one, and implementation was to cost about $20 million (already outrageous), but one attempt under an outside SAP implementation specialist failed, a second implementer hired from way out of town also failed, finally SAP themselves came in (where were they all this time?) and it seems finally got the job done. Cost at this point: almost FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS (actually about 48.6 million, but what's an extra 1.4 million dollars?) I recently asked a high-up analyst in the police department how the SAP implementation was doing, and they said, Oh - OK I guess - there are still some problems. Thanks for listening- Harold Oaks Sr. PA Clark County, WA -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Horacio Pellegrino Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:16 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL I remember a company that went bankrupt because they spent so much in SAP ( or was it Oracle? ) It was in the news. Anybody? HP On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Dawn Wolthuis dw...@tincat-group.comwrote: I have only seen SAP implementations from a bit of a distance and through reading stories, but in every case, my understanding was that those in charge of the project were gone before SAP went live. I have seen systems analysts and programmers survive the project, with plenty of stories once they do. It sounds like a really brutal ERP installation. I have not kept current on this front enough to know that people were still selecting it, although a whole lot of people are still maintaining it. Best wishes, Scott, and thanks for taking the time to write up your notes regarding some of those in the industry who have helped you. Cheers! --dawn On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Holt, Jake jh...@samsill.com wrote: I thought no one actually ever finished implementing SAP? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of iggch...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:31 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do damage. Well, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? - Original Message - From: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL Well you used to be. After
Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL
On 23/05/12 20:14, David L. Wasylenko wrote: A company??? I wish I had the list to market into... work for life :-) Not if they've all gone bankrupt ... :-) Cheers, Wol ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question
Unfortunately the support organization we used to operate with in the USA is no more. If you didn't mind the fact that support would be remote (Australia), our Visage R5 General Ledger Financial Reporting packages might fit the bill. These can be deployed stand alone (ie: without our full ERP offering), though of course you would need to develop interfaces from your subsidiary ledger systems as required -- reasonably straight forward, just throw records into a file pass a select list to our POST routine. There is also scope to include additional modules that you may consider part of the General Ledger banner (eg: Asset Register, Bank Reconciliation/Treasury etc.) if appropriate, now or in the future. Our enquiries typically support drilling through to source transactions, so there may need to be some work done to provide that capability into your existing systems Multi-currency is fully supported if required, as well as multiple consolidations across within corporate boundaries if required. Beyond the basic manual journals auto-reversing accruals there are variety of ratio posting options. Whilst we offer our solution via the cloud, we can also provide on-premise, which I assume is probably what you are after? [ad] If there are any companies, or individuals looking to becomes involved in a broad spectrum ERP product that can encompass Retail/POS, Wholesale/Distribution, Warehouse automation management, Job/Project costing Engineering Services, as well as core accounting functionality, please drop us a line :-) [ad] Regards, Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage Better by Design! -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Hester Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012 6:45 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] U2 accounting software question We used to have a Pick general ledger software package called FMS that was sold by Price Waterhouse. At some point the software was purchased by a company named IDEAS. In 2004, they stopped supporting the Pick version and migrated us to a client-server package that uses MS SQL as the underlying database. IDEAS is now owned by a company that services the oil and gas industry (which is not the industry we're in) and future support of the software is less than certain, so we're exploring other options. Can anyone recommend a good GL system? It doesn't necessarily need to be Pick-based, but either UV or MS SQL as the database would be preferred. We currently export the UV GL data as a flat csv file at the end of the month and import it into IDEAS. Thanks, John ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
