I found this from Chris maybe it will help you.
dave
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From: "Gitzlaff, Christopher" <cgitzlaff@m...>
Date: Fri Oct 3, 2003 9:34 am
Subject: RE: [Vantage] upgade from 5.1 135 to 6.0
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We performed the 5.1 to 6.0 upgrade about 1 1/2 months ago. We looked
at
the documentation and decided to proceed without training on the new
systems. Everything went pretty good. Vantage 6 has changed a bit from
5.1, but not significantly enough to impair your users. I would say
you
would be back to normal operations within 3 days. We would have been
fine,
except for data collection. We use a TT5 data collection system
(barcode
scanners). This system was degraded to the point of being useless for
close
to three weeks. After I replaced nearly every piece of equipment in
our
data collection system, Epicor admitted it "probably" was the
software.
[sarcasm]Some coincidence that data collection stopped working right
after
the upgrade. [/sarcasm] Epicor sent us several fixes for the gateway
and we
had a working program after 4 weeks (unacceptable, though we did
finally get
it).
So, apart from one system (critical to us), the upgrade was not too
bad.
Notes:
- The upgrade process for the server took longer than I expected. It
took 7
hours just to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 to 6.0 with prep, upgrade,
schema
changes, etc... 800 MB database. Once that is done you can split into
teams - one team to replace the software on all of the clients (new
version
of Progress), one to fix all of the reports.
- We're still fixing reports from schema changes. Most notable for us:
they've broken out the sales reps for a quote into a separate table
instead
of keeping them in a semi-colon delimited field. They also eliminated
the
field "EntryPerson" on Quotes.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Rodney Warwick <r.warwick@s...>
wrote:
dave
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From: "Gitzlaff, Christopher" <cgitzlaff@m...>
Date: Fri Oct 3, 2003 9:34 am
Subject: RE: [Vantage] upgade from 5.1 135 to 6.0
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We performed the 5.1 to 6.0 upgrade about 1 1/2 months ago. We looked
at
the documentation and decided to proceed without training on the new
systems. Everything went pretty good. Vantage 6 has changed a bit from
5.1, but not significantly enough to impair your users. I would say
you
would be back to normal operations within 3 days. We would have been
fine,
except for data collection. We use a TT5 data collection system
(barcode
scanners). This system was degraded to the point of being useless for
close
to three weeks. After I replaced nearly every piece of equipment in
our
data collection system, Epicor admitted it "probably" was the
software.
[sarcasm]Some coincidence that data collection stopped working right
after
the upgrade. [/sarcasm] Epicor sent us several fixes for the gateway
and we
had a working program after 4 weeks (unacceptable, though we did
finally get
it).
So, apart from one system (critical to us), the upgrade was not too
bad.
Notes:
- The upgrade process for the server took longer than I expected. It
took 7
hours just to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 to 6.0 with prep, upgrade,
schema
changes, etc... 800 MB database. Once that is done you can split into
teams - one team to replace the software on all of the clients (new
version
of Progress), one to fix all of the reports.
- We're still fixing reports from schema changes. Most notable for us:
they've broken out the sales reps for a quote into a separate table
instead
of keeping them in a semi-colon delimited field. They also eliminated
the
field "EntryPerson" on Quotes.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Rodney Warwick <r.warwick@s...>
wrote:
>Prior to
> We run a Crystal report which lists Sales Orders by Sales Person.
> Vantage version 5.2, we used the "Salesper" field fromthe "OrderHed" table.
> However this field is now obselete, and we can no longer sortreports by
> Sales Person. Does anyone in the Group know how to access the SalesOrder
> Salesperson field from version 5.2? Any feedback would be muchappreciated.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Rodney Warwick
> The Signcraft Group
> Melbourne, Australia