When upgrading from one version of ACCPAC to the next, it is often necessary to go back into the old version and clear out bank recs, print and purge posting journals etc. If you have multiple companies with these issues it can be very time consuming to fix the issue, re-dump and re-load in the test environment (or during live upgrade).
A utility that did the same checks as the data activation upgrade procedure did, but without having to install the latest system manager would be very helpful. That way you could run the util on the company, fix any issues, then dump or upgrade.
by: Stacy D. | over a year ago | General Enhancements
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We've done over 60 upgrades to 5.6 and this change would be a major improvement to the process. The system now only tells you of the first issue it finds. If you clear that and restart with a large database two hours later you can find that there was another unused, unposted batch somewhere in the system, frustrating and time wasting.
This is especially critical for larger installations and databases.
This is part of the reason why we do not push the latest version. To our clients it looks like trial & error, and they do not want to pay for that!
It would be like a DIC on steriods. Please Sage, lets get this one done.
I think in 5.6 this has already improved hugely. leave as is.
Has improved but still leaves room for more. We still have to do trial upgrades, then go back to a copy of the live database to identify the causes of errors, fix them, document them, then redo the whole lot for the live upgrade.