Recent releases of Epicor 9

We went from 8.03.305i to 9.04.505a about a month ago, and it felt like we had gone to a beta product. We have come across a significant number of bugs. I believe we are up to 9 SCRs at this point. Some of them have supposedly been fixed in 506. I would steer clear of 505 if I had a time machine. I don't know how many of the bugs were introduced in 505, so you may already have them, but they just don't impact you. Here are some of them to give you some things to test:
-Context sensitive help doesn't work in many modules
-Search does not work in help
-Verify GL Balances causes posted invoices from V8 to move to invoiced date, as opposed to posted date.
-Shipping directly from wip does not result in transaction to cost of goods sold.
-Build project analysis hangs when a project has a phase with no job associated.
-When duplicating quotes, some lines don't get duplicated, and some lines that do get duplicated don't print on worksheet.
-Cycle count maintenance will only see cycle groups in the first plant.
-Favorites are now hardcoded to the server and port they were created in. If you restore your database to a test server, and users click on favorites they created in the production server, it will open the module from the production server. They are prompted to authenticate, but that didn't stop our inventory manager who was testing cycle counting. Which leads me to an annoyance, you can't delete cycle counts once they start (new feature in 9).

That should give you a few things to test. If we ever get to a point where the list is stabilizing, we intend to post some lessons learned. Right now, I have dreams of going back to 8.03.
Good Luck!
Craig
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Lepley" <sysadmin@...> wrote:
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> We are currently on v9.04.504b and are planning to upgrade to a more recent
> version of Epicor 9, but we need to choose which version to apply. We would
> greatly appreciate any advice from this list regarding pros or cons of the
> following versions, regardless of whether implemented or just being tested:
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> 9.04.504c
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> 9.04.505
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> 9.04.505a
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> 9.04.505b
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> 9.04.505c
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> 9.04.506
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Regards,
> Scott
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We are currently on v9.04.504b and are planning to upgrade to a more recent
version of Epicor 9, but we need to choose which version to apply. We would
greatly appreciate any advice from this list regarding pros or cons of the
following versions, regardless of whether implemented or just being tested:



9.04.504c

9.04.505

9.04.505a

9.04.505b

9.04.505c

9.04.506



Thanks in advance!



Regards,
Scott





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We applied 506 over the weekend. Very few problems. Data conversion took a long time- almost 12 hours. The earlier upgrades were buggy- lots of customizations didn't work after applying these upgrades.. 506 much cleaner.




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From: Scott Lepley <sysadmin@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 10:45:12 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Recent releases of Epicor 9

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We are currently on v9.04.504b and are planning to upgrade to a more recent
version of Epicor 9, but we need to choose which version to apply. We would
greatly appreciate any advice from this list regarding pros or cons of the
following versions, regardless of whether implemented or just being tested:

9.04.504c

9.04.505

9.04.505a

9.04.505b

9.04.505c

9.04.506

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Scott

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That's good news, except for the "12 hours" part, which seems very long.
From which prior version were you converting? How large is your db?



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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Becky Callahan
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:50 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Recent releases of Epicor 9



We applied 506 over the weekend. Very few problems. Data conversion took a
long time- almost 12 hours. The earlier upgrades were buggy- lots of
customizations didn't work after applying these upgrades.. 506 much
cleaner.

________________________________
From: Scott Lepley <sysadmin@mercuryele
<mailto:sysadmin%40mercuryelectronics.com> ctronics.com>
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 10:45:12 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Recent releases of Epicor 9


We are currently on v9.04.504b and are planning to upgrade to a more recent
version of Epicor 9, but we need to choose which version to apply. We would
greatly appreciate any advice from this list regarding pros or cons of the
following versions, regardless of whether implemented or just being tested:

9.04.504c
9.04.505
9.04.505a
9.04.505b
9.04.505c
9.04.506

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Scott







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It took us only 2 hours to complete the data conversion on a 6GB database when upgrading to 506 from 505c.

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sysadmin@...
Sent: March-31-10 8:07 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Recent releases of Epicor 9



That's good news, except for the "12 hours" part, which seems very long.
From which prior version were you converting? How large is your db?

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
Becky Callahan
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:50 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Recent releases of Epicor 9

We applied 506 over the weekend. Very few problems. Data conversion took a
long time- almost 12 hours. The earlier upgrades were buggy- lots of
customizations didn't work after applying these upgrades.. 506 much
cleaner.

________________________________
From: Scott Lepley <sysadmin@mercuryele
<mailto:sysadmin%40mercuryelectronics.com> ctronics.com>
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 10:45:12 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Recent releases of Epicor 9

We are currently on v9.04.504b and are planning to upgrade to a more recent
version of Epicor 9, but we need to choose which version to apply. We would
greatly appreciate any advice from this list regarding pros or cons of the
following versions, regardless of whether implemented or just being tested:

9.04.504c
9.04.505
9.04.505a
9.04.505b
9.04.505c
9.04.506

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Scott

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Our database isn't that large. It was deleting some old journal entries that had never been deleted- 8 million- may have been part of the original implementation. Not sure why they hadn't been. We only have one company so far. We are checking with Epicor to see what we should do the next time (if anything) to prevent this.



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From: "sysadmin@..." <sysadmin@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:06:32 AM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Recent releases of Epicor 9

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That's good news, except for the "12 hours" part, which seems very long.
From which prior version were you converting? How large is your db?

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From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf Of
Becky Callahan
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:50 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Recent releases of Epicor 9

We applied 506 over the weekend. Very few problems. Data conversion took a
long time- almost 12 hours. The earlier upgrades were buggy- lots of
customizations didn't work after applying these upgrades.. 506 much
cleaner.

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From: Scott Lepley <sysadmin@mercuryel e
<mailto:sysadmin% 40mercuryelectro nics.com> ctronics.com>
To: vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> .com
Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 10:45:12 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Recent releases of Epicor 9

We are currently on v9.04.504b and are planning to upgrade to a more recent
version of Epicor 9, but we need to choose which version to apply. We would
greatly appreciate any advice from this list regarding pros or cons of the
following versions, regardless of whether implemented or just being tested:

9.04.504c
9.04.505
9.04.505a
9.04.505b
9.04.505c
9.04.506

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Scott

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