Getting the most out of your Lawson Data

In this webinar we discuss some of the reporting and BI options available to use with your Lawson data. The main options covered are: Infor Business Intelligence for Lawson (aka LBI) Microsoft Addins Crystal Reports SSRS …

Infor Completes Acquisition of Starmount

Infor announced the completion of their acquisition of Starmount, a modern store systems provider serving large and mid-market retailers with point-of-sale, mobile shopping assistant, and store inventory management products along with cross-channel…

Scheduling a Process in IPA

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Upload Your Process from IP Designer Log into IP Designer Create a new process Upload the process to your server by clicking the up arrow icon , or by clicking: Tools > Manage Processes > Select Open Process …

Scan for Files in IPA

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Open Infor Rich Client  At the login prompt, enter the Lawson username and password The canvas is now open. Look in the upper left corner and make sure you are pointing to the prod or test data area (not gen)  In the upper right…

Troubleshooting BSI Database Connection during Install

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Your install is successful, but when you log on to the BSI Interface (Screen Print #1) you receive an error (Error Message. Exception is: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Login failed for…

How to tune the performance of a Lawson 4GL program

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Lawson programs, especially batch jobs, can sometimes take hours to complete. In rare instances, a badly written 4GL batch job can even take days to complete depending on the number of records it has to process and how it goes about doing so.…

Infor Acquires Predictix

Six months after announcing their strategic investment, Infor acquires Predictix, continuing to push to modernize the retail industry. A ground-breaking provider of cloud-native, predictive, and machine-learning solutions for retailers, Predictix…

How to transfer a user’s jobs from one productline to another using jobdump and jobload

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Note: Though possible, I would not recommend using jobdump and jobload from one version of Lawson to another as fields may change. Use at your own risk.   For this article, we will be doing jobdump and jobload in v10 between Prod…

Newest Iteration of Infor Fashion Product Lifecycle Management Now Available

Infor announced the next generation of Infor Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a rich, industry-specific solution designed to help organizations keep up with rapid adjustment to what's happening in retail and assist retail companies…

Create a File Channel in IPA

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File Channels are a feature in IPA that is similar to the ScanFile Client feature in ProcessFlow. A File Channel scans a directory periodically for files which will kick off processes in IPA. The files and processes are configured in File Receivers.…

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