Data Lake Export vs. Application Archive: Why a Raw Dump of Your ERP Fails the People Who Need It

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When a hosting provider or a migration partner offers to “archive” your legacy ERP, ask exactly one question: after the export, can the AP clerk look up a 2019 vendor payment without a SQL prompt and without seeing everyone’s payroll? If…

What Actually Happens to Your Data When You Decommission a Legacy ERP

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Turning off a legacy ERP is easy. Keeping what’s inside it usable is the hard part, and it’s where most decommission projects go wrong. If you’re the person who owns the Lawson, PeopleSoft, or Oracle EBS environment that finance and…

Your Legacy ERP Hosting Provider Gave You an Exit Date. Here’s Your Six-Month Plan.

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It arrives as a polite letter: the managed hosting service for your legacy ERP is being wound down, and you have until a date — often less than a year out — to get off. The provider offers a migration path that turns out to be a copy of…

The Real Cost of Keeping a Legacy ERP Alive Just for Read-Only Access

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Most organizations that move to a new ERP don’t actually retire the old one. They “keep it around for history.” Five years later it’s still there, still patched, still on the DR plan, still consuming a chunk of an administrator’s week,…

Infor Lawson v10 End of Support: What It Means and What Your Options Are

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If you run Infor Lawson S3 on-premises, you’ve probably seen a date. Infor’s published lifecycle currently lists end of maintenance for on-premises Lawson v10 at December 31, 2030, with extended maintenance available for a period after that.…

Requisition Center (RQC) error, “Error 23 – Product line PROD is secure.”

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Problem Description: User’s using shopping in Requisition Center (RQC) and getting the error, “Error 23 - Product line PROD is secure.”   Resolution: These errors can be due to the user not having a GEN user record…

Securing ODBC Access to Amazon Athena Without Making It Painful for Users

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Amazon Athena is a popular choice for analytics because it allows you to query data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. As more organizations want to enable self-service analytics, a common request is to provide ODBC access to Athena so…

Error for Environment identity

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Lawson Portal fails to load with the error: “Profile service returned an error: Error occurred while accessing user data.” The root cause is the affected user does not have a record in the GEN/USER table. This is most caused by a corrupted…

Fixing the InvalidLocationConstraint Error When Creating S3 Buckets with Boto3

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If you’ve ever tried to create an Amazon S3 bucket using Boto3 and run into the following error, you’re not alone: botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (InvalidLocationConstraint) when calling the CreateBucket operation:…

How to setup Lawson email notifications when a file channel errors out

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Follow the steps and visual guide below to learn how to setup Lawson email notifications when a file channel errors out.   In Infor Process Server Administrator, under the administration tab, select Channels Administrator.   Next,…