Merging two systems..........

[brc]

Hello,

We currently have a headquarters and a subsidiary (multiple companies) running on separate AS/400's (World JDE cume 15, financial/inventory/sales/etc).

We are attempting to merge the systems - basically combining the companies into one set of JDE libraries on the same LPAR. They would remain separate companies.

My specific question deals with handling potential data conflicts - specifically in the financial/dist transaction files - such as duplicate po #'s, invoice #'s, batch #'s, voucher #'s, item #'s etc. Are there any 'white papers' or roadmaps available for this sort of undertaking? Does anyone have any direct experience with this?

Thanks in advance!

Brad

 

[johnknight]

Hi Brad

I've been through this hoop successfully with financials. It's not difficult, just tedious. Email me on [email protected] with a full list of modules.

Regards

 

[Colin_Hugill]

Brad,



There are no "white papers" that I know of. I was involved with the
merge of eight separate environments (one company each) into one
environment with eight companies. Apart from financials (AP AR GL FA)
also purchasing, inventory, service billing, and contract billing. We
did the "conversions" programmatically, that is we wrote a conversion
pgm to process each file. Some "things" required renumbering on the way
through (eg work order numbers, account ids, AB numbers etc) to prevent
duplicates.



John Knight has it about right - not too difficult just tedious. Lots
of analysis to identify "problem" fields and to make sure all
records/transactions will remain unique. Degree of difficulty depends
on how your companies are set up and what has gone through them.



Although it was six years ago, if you have any queries from time to time
then email me direct and I might be able to help.