You can extract it from the existing 5 or 6 database through ODBC.
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dina Hieber
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 7:31 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: Re: [Vantage] Migration from Vantage 6 to Epicor 9
Besides a database conversion, how can you get the information from 5.2/6 into excel spreadsheet to clean it up? It is my understanding the DMT only allows you to import the information into 9.xxx, does not give you the tool to extract from older versions?
Best Regards,
Dina M. Hieber
Vamco International, Inc.
555 Epsilon Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15238
(412) 963-7100 x 203
(412) 963-9511
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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jim_chance@...
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 12:18 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: Re: [Vantage] Migration from Vantage 6 to Epicor 9
Ned, have you ever done a Vantage 5 to 8.03.409c upgrade?
---In vantage@yahoogroups.com, <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Thanks Ned and others that responded. I thought you had to go to Vantage 8 and then 9.04, but wanted to verify.
Chuck Trites
chuck_trites@...
Trites Consulting, Inc.
181 Hillcrest Drive
Laconia, NH 03246
Phone: (603) 219-1500
From: Ned <TechnoBabbly@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 1:25 AM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Migration from Vantage 6 to Epicor 9
There is no direct tool that has been written to do this that I am aware of.
In order to properly do the upgrade, you need to go through these steps.
Upgrade from 6.1 to 8.00, this involves standard schema and conversions, as well as a special task to upgrade the DB from Progress 9 to OpenEdge 10.
Upgrade from 8.00 to 8.03
Upgrade 8.03 to 9.04 – this step can be done with the DUU which is part of the 32-bit version of Epicor 9.05
Upgrade 9.04 to 9.05
It is a long process, that can have a lot of hiccups, many things can be fixed in the end with Updatable dashboards and the DMT tool, however it has been my experience that like other people have said, the massive changes from one to the other is pretty extreme, and while a customer who may have followed this same path over the course of 10 years or so might be just fine, making the jump all at once can be a daunting task where the time and effort isn’t worth the end result. Many customers take this opportunity to step back, re-evaluate their entire process, and do a complete re-implementation which can allow for a cleansing of old non-relevant data, clean up messy data, and give yourself a more efficient database than you could end up with by going through the upgrade process.
Regardless of what you end up doing, I usually recommend that everyone at least do a test upgrade of their database so they can see how their database will actually handle the upgrade process.
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Trites
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:16 PM
To: Vantage list
Subject: [Vantage] Migration from Vantage 6 to Epicor 9
Are there any tools for migrating from a Vantage 6 (Progress) environment to a Epicor 9 (SQL) environment?
Tia,
Chuck Trites
Trites Consulting, Inc.
181 Hillcrest Drive
Laconia, NH 03246
Phone: (603) 219-1500