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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Old Porting Set

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Here are some issues that you might run into if you stay on an old porting set too long:

  • Incompatibility because of operating system patches
  • Printing issues because of out-of-date libraries
  • Potential performance issues if binaries are not updated
  • Updating third party products may not be possible because of dependencies
  • Limited support from Infor
  • Issues with updating database software/patches because of dependencies (if database is also running on same server as application)

Need help getting on a newer porting set? Let us know! We’d be happy to help.

Crossroads RMC Moves Arrowhead from 4.0.05CD to Infor LX

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Arrowhead Products, a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of ducting systems for aircraft and propulsion lines for rocks, has partnered with Crossroads RMC to move from BPCS 4.0.05CD to Infor LX. Crossroads RMC is providing financial business consulting as part of this project. Go live is expected in Q4 of 2017.

Baan/LN Tip of the Week: What Could go Wrong With GRINYA?

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One common GRINYA issue would be incorrectly entered Integration Setups.

Check the Baan/LN manual for recommended Integration setups. If such a mistake were to occur, it is important to know for what period of time the Integration was in error.

It is recommended that the Integrations Setup tables be audited either through Baan or Database Auditing. Corrections can be quickly calculated when an exact timeframe can be determined.

Still have GRINYA questions you need answered?
Contact us. We’d be happy to help.

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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Efficiency– The What & How

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Efficiency is something we all strive for in our personal lives and at work. How can manufacturers increase their efficiency? Take a hard look at the 4 key areas:

  1. Planning
  2. Bill of Material and Job Accuracy
  3. Inventory Planning
  4. Real Time Reporting / Processing 

Need help figuring out how to become more efficient in each of these areas? Contact us, we’d be happy to help.

Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!

BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Actual Versus Standard

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Job costing based on standards is great, but what if reality doesn’t match up to that?

What if jobs are really taking twice as long, and you don’t know that? What if jobs are taking ½ as long as you think, but you’re scheduling based on how much time they “should” take? Either way, you’re losing money and productivity. Getting a handle on start/stop times for jobs, and therefore the total amount of time actually spent allows you to take proper action and be more productive.

 

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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Project Templates

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Project templates are useful because you can specify all of the information that you would normally want to include when creating a new project such as project structure, budget and so on.

In Baan IV/V, project templates do not exist, but you can set up a project template by creating a regular project, and setting the status to simulated or free. This is done so that the project does not create plans. Under this scenario, you can easily copy one project to another.

In LN, when you create a new project, a template can be used as the starting point. This is similar to copying a normal project, but unlike normal projects, no costs or revenues can be posted on a template.

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Infor LX and Crossroads MES Selected by Blonder Tongue

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Blonder Tongue, a global communication equipment supplier for TV broadcasters, cable system operator, lodging video, Internet system, and institutional systems, has selected Crossroads RMC to assist them with a BPCS 6.0.04 upgrade to Infor LX. Crossroads RMC will be providing all applications and technical consulting for this project. Also included as part of the project will be the implementation of the Crossroads MES solution. Go live for both solutions is expected in January of 2018.

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Tips:  LX | BPCS | M3

This enhancement provides additional views, additional order and line details, improved navigation, and additional capabilities to the IDF Customer Order Inquiry cards and to customer order-related business objects such as Allocations, Customer Invoices, Inventory Transaction History, Promotions, Drop Shipments.

Enhanced Order views based on user roles such as customer service, warehouse/logistics, salesperson/commission, data analysis/management reporting

  • Improved sort, select and filter capabilities
  • Enhanced navigation, data organization and data display
  • Improved customer service access to all transactions throughout the entire customer order life cycle – from quote to order, related invoices, and any RMAs, return orders, related credit memos
  • Improved grouping of related fields
  • New cards to present additional order and order line details
  • Consolidation of cards and card details when appropriate
  • Enhanced Display and Maintain capabilities for drillback to related customer, ship-to, item, carrier, terms, and other master file details
  • Improved display of dates, times and applicable time zones when Region Code time zone support is implemented
  • Multi language Description, Name and Address fields displayed in user’s language, if defined, else in base language

This enhancement provides search capabilities on segment value description in Segment Value List window (WINGSVD).

Segment Value List (WINGSVD):

  • Converted to a standard subfile
  • New action code 10=Search

This makes it easier to locate segment values when defining segment values in Model Account Builder or Alias definition. In addition, WINGSVD has been redesigned as a subfile to enable WebTop grid capabilities.

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Infor LX & BPCS Tip: System i Workspace AnyWhere information and Important Support Dates for IBM and Microsoft Products

System i Workspace AnyWhere is a web application framework that provides a common user interface for Infor’s IBM i products.

*** We strongly recommend that you subscribe to this KB to receive automatic notification when it is updated ***

Latest Updates
System i Workspace AnyWhere - Feature Pack 22 is now available - see the Update History section below (as of January 4, 2024)

  • Tomcat 9.0.80 Upgrade Installer Released - see the Update History section below (October 9, 2023)
  • Installer Hotfixes - affects both Silver Copy and Tomcat Upgrade Installers (August 17, 2023)
  • Removed Support for Microsoft Windows 8.1 (January 11, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Silver Copy Build 220930 FP17 (Microsoft Windows 2016/2019/2022 Server - Tomcat 9) has been released (October 6, 2022)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Silver Copy Build 220930 FP17 (IBM i OS/400 - WebSphere Application Server 9) has been released (October 6, 2022)
  • Added support for IBM OS/400 V7R5 (October 6, 2022)
  • Removed Support for Internet Explorer (January 11, 2022)
  • Removed Support for the System i Emulator and Update Manager (January 11, 2022)
  • Removed support for IBM OS/400 V7R2 (July 16, 2021)
  • Removed support for Mozilla Firefox web browser (March 30, 2021)
  • Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (May 18, 2020)
  • Added support for IBM OS/400 V7R4 (November 28, 2019)

Documentation

  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Installation & Admin Guide (December 15, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - FAQ (December 4, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Feature Pack Release Summary (December 4, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Product Guide (August 30, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - InforOS Integration Guide for System21 (August 31, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Quick Install Guide (September 13, 2022)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere (IBM i) - Quick Install Guide (August 25, 2022)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Release Summary (March 3, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - SSO MustGather & Troubleshooting (March 3, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Load Balancing Guide (August 31, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - 5250 AnyWhere Emulator Designer Guide (December 4, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - 5250 AnyWhere Emulator Extensions Guide (June 6, 2023)
  • System i Workspace AnyWhere - Drillback Guide (August 31, 2023)

 

Release Notes

Withdrawal of support for legacy Operating Systems and Products from IBM and Microsoft

Support for the following Operating Systems with System i Workspace AnyWhere has now been withdrawn...

  • IBM OS/400 V7R2 (support ended by IBM on 04/30/2021)
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1 (extended support ended by Microsoft on 10/01/2023)

The System i Workspace AnyWhere documentation has been updated to reflect the removal of support for these Operating Systems.

Advance Notice of 3rd party vendor end-of-life (EOL) dates:

  • Microsoft's retirement date for Windows 10 is 10/14/2025
  • Microsoft's extended support for Windows Server 2016 will end on 12/01/2027
  • IBM's standard program support for IBM i 7.3 ended on 09/30/2023 (extended support available until 09/30/2026)  

Note: An official statement from Infor in relation to our support will be made nearer the EOL date of each product.

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