Infor LX & BPCS Tip: LX 8.4 – Manufacturing Field Size Expansions
This enhancement provides expanded field sizes for many key manufacturing data elements. This expansion impacts panels, reports, work fields, as well as parameters and other technical areas.
The benefits of the expanded field enhancement include:
- Support for companies that have global operations in a single database.
- Improved data accuracy due to additional decimal points.
- Improved data accuracy due to additional capacity for totals and summaries.
- Provides more definitions of additional values, including more meaningful values due to fewer abbreviations.
- Provides a greater number of days for data retention.
- Meets regulatory requirements or industry standards.
- Avoids re-use or duplication of keys.
The programs or areas impacted include:
- Shop Order Number (9N)
- Summary Quantity fields (13,3)
- DWM Summary Weight fields (13,4)
- Transaction History Sequence (16N)
- Instrument Serial Number (50A)
- Item Class (5A)
- Item Discount Code (5A)
- Shop Order Priority Code (2N)
- Catalog String (512A)
- Comment (35A on ECM TITB file)