Simulation Tool for Order

Hi,
Is there a simulation tool to simulate order to get preliminary commit date before sales order is created?
Thanks.
Rgds,
Sue

Hi,
I was informed that availability check is too restrictive. Based on my understanding, it only considers based on the lead time of finish products, it does not consider the lead time of its raw or semi finished products in its bom. Pls correct me if I am wrong. Does availability check considers all materials in the BOM and also capacity requirements? Can availability check be used even when sales order is not entered but used in simulation mode?
Thank you.
Rgds,
Sue

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I never had that problem. I use Win XP, Vista 64-bit and Win7 64-bit.
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I am using both a Windows 7 64 bit and a Windows Vista 32 bit OS. I have tried the following options with seemingly no difference: RUN AS Admin, XP Compatibility mode
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Rick Kuhlman | LabVIEW FPGA Product Manager | National Instruments | ni.com/fpga
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and Help System, and Visual Studio Editor.
>>VS.PHP vs PHP TOOLS for Visual Studio : which is the best ?
Based on your issue, since the PHP Tools and VS.PHP are involved to the Extensions tool,
this extension tool is out of support range of this forum.
In my option, I think that there have no specified answer about which is the best in the
VS.PHP vs PHP TOOLS for Visual Studio.
It is just depend on which is appropriate for your requirement, so I suggest you can see the feature about the VS.PHP and
PHP Tools. And then choose which extension tool is appropriate your requirement.
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VS.Php for Visual Studio, click “Q AND A”, you will get better support there.
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Cannot connect to database using the Upgrade Simulation Tool

I have installed the Upgrade Simulation Tool on my system and when I try to run the tool my system works in the for awhile in the background and creates the _Simulation mdf and ldf files and a .bck file. After 3 or 4 minutes it gives me an error "Cannot connect to the database".
It looks to me like it is connecting to the database because it is creating the files in the SQL Data folder. I have tried to run it on several databases and get the same results.
Thank you, Jeff

Hi,
You may not have the ability to upgrade it directly.
He does have the ability.
When downloading Pl 42, it is cleary marked as "Upgrader", which means it can be used for upgrade (in this case simulation) from a lower version than 2007A
Patchlevel which are marked as "patch" are suitable only for updating the PL within the very same version of SAP Business One.
This tool should run under 2007 system I believe.
The Upgrade Simulation tool was designed in orderto test an upgrade, therefore it can run at a machine where 2005 version is installed. Technically speaking it creates a second SBO-common, which can be used only with the special designed (read only) client of the tool.
Jeff, you should check access rights of your SQL Data folder.Maybe grant user "Everyone" modifying rights to that folder. In addition you could try to detach a DB and move the related *.mdf and *.ldf to another folder where no access denied rights were applied.
If using MSSQL 2005 create via ODBC a Native Client connection to the Server, although you might just working locally only.
Regards
Mario

DAC as schedular tool for Informatica workflows(Not for OBIApps repository)

I have to use DAC as administrative / scheduler tool for Informatica workflows. Earlier, I configured the same for OBI Apps. It's running fine. Now I am not refering to Oracle_BI_DW_Base.rep which is the inbuilt repository provided with OBI Apps. I have to run my workflows through DAC. I have gone through the below listed steps to achieve the same,
1) Created New USER
2) Used that user to configure DAC connection as well as for DAC repository tables. (am not sure whether it is a best practice or not)
3) Created a new Source System Container. (no containers were there initially)
4) I have folder in Informatica as "MyRep", so I created task logical and physical folders with the same name in DAC (Tools => Seed Data =>........)
5) Created new Subject Area, tables, tasks, performed Synchronize Tasks.
5) Set up informatica servers, Physical Data Sources. Tested them, no flaws.
6) Added new Execution Plan.
7) Assigned Subject Area to it.
8) Clicked on "generate" button in parameters section of execution plan. No Parameters generated. Now got into confusion.
*9) I couldn't find my tasks listed in ORDERED TASKS tab.*
10) Clicked on BUILD. Then got error message as below,
MESSAGE:::No tasks were found to build this execution plan.
Please do let me know what is the wrong step here.
Thanks,

Thanks Ahsan, it solved my problem.
I forgot to set Configuration Tags properly, later Assembled the subject area. Cheeeeeeerrrrrrsss... It's working
Edited by: ABT on Dec 19, 2011 9:49 PM

A Quality report as a tool for the Quality management of Web services

Hi everybody,
I would like to explain and discuss my current research project with you:
The differentiation from competitors is crucial for the economic success of a product. This differentiation can be achieved in addition to price and the date of the market entry through the product quality. To differentiate the quality of products, it is necessary to distinguish between several relevant product characteristics, to determine their values, to evaluate these values and to relate this evaluation to the evaluation of other products. Techniques for the determination of the quality of a product are used in many areas of the quality management, e.g. in the quality assessment.
Web Services are software systems supporting a machine-machine interaction over a network. Web services are often used as modules in different software architectures, especially in Service-oriented architectures (SOA).
In the course of quality management of a Web service applied in software consequently needs appropriate procedures and quality models as means to determine the quality. As there is a lack, research is needed in this field.
In order to eliminate the described deficit, a procedure is to develop that helps to determine the quality of a Web service. A report is conceivable which integrates all relevant views, all influences on the quality and all phases of the life cycle of a Web services.
During the research a lot of similarities between Life cycle assessments of environmental management and the quality management have been identified. These similarities include e.g. principles, procedures and the terminology. Since the Life cycle assessments relate on the product life cycle, on the stakeholders and on all relevant product characteristics, an adaption of the method on the quality management of software seems to be promising.

I would like to answer the following two research questions:
- Is it possible to adapt the principles and procedures of Life cycle assessment and Sustainability reporting to the quality management of Web services?
- Is a quality report based on these findings an appropriate tool for quality management?
Do you have any experiences with the quality management of Web services? Which procedures do you use to determine the quality of Web services? How are your experiences with that procedures? Where are their weaknesses?
Edited by: Bastian Grabski on Jan 7, 2010 11:36 AM

DW: Diff tools for Windows Users?

Hi,
I was making some changes to a few pages and saw the option to compare files. Then it said I needed a third-party diff tool in order to use this function. I went to preferences and saw where I could add this and started looking through the help files. It says to google diff or file comparison tools. I have been searching for an hour now and I only managed to find 3 programs for MAC users. Some of the sites I found said you need a third-party program/tool...same as Adobe's help info...a lot o help that is LOL. And a lot of this stuff is from 2003 and 2005...I am sure there are people in 2011 using these things?!
Are there some you know of that work on the Windows systems? I have Windows XP Pro 32-bit at this time.
Thanks for anyone's help.

I was looking this up with several different terms/orders and it was not giving me appropriate results. And yes, sometimes I swear these search engines are broken.
#1 I am a firm believer in, "If you don't know, look it up!" And that includes my old dictionary sitting right here next to me on my bookshelf.
#2 I will look high and low for answers and for whatever reason, a specific word combination made the entire difference between searches. I find this amusing,
    because sometimes one can type in the exact word search and still come up with other bologna.
#3 I am brand new to Adobe and from day 1 I had issues with known bugs, so after 2-3 months I am out of the gates and running and trying to learn
    as much as I can about this stuff before this fall. I am working on learning PHP, MySQL, and Apache before my fall classes and rather than just
    give up with something I came here, where Adobe assures me I can get answers on all my questions because everyone is so "friendly and helpful"?!
#4 As you can see, I have not flooded these forums with all my "stupid" questions...but I could certainly change that.
I hate asking others for help, and that first line of yours, including that quaint little video, is the very reason! [Personal comments deleted by moderator]
Well aside from your [deleted] tone, I went ahead and gave you a vote for your answer.
Thank you [deleted by moderator]

Third party tool for burning MP3 CDs?

Hi,
Are there any third party tools for burning MP3 CDs from an iTunes library?
The iTunes functionality is not sufficient for me for two reasons:
*) I have ALAC files in my library and iTunes won't convert them for putting them on the CD. I know I can convert them in iTunes, but I am looking for a more elegant solution.
*) iTunes seems to put all files in the root of the CD. My car stereo does not use MP3 tags but subdirectories to recognize albums, so I need a directory for every album.
Any hints are appreciated!
Thanks, Robert

ed2345 wrote:
Easily done. See iTunes: How to set the play order of songs on an MP3 CD. Basically, if you sort the playlist by album, iTunes will burn the MP3 CD with album folders.
Thanks, that solves the second problem, which was the more pressing anyway.
Do you maybe also have an idea how to get rid of the number in front of the album title in the directory name?
Cheers, Robert

Can anyone help with a good system maintenance tool for ML

Does any one have any suggestions for a good dependable all-in-one system maintenance tool for ML and is it straight forward and easy to use?
Thanks in advance .....

You really have no need for one. That said:
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible. Drive Genius provides additional tools not found in Disk Warrior. Versions 1.5.1 and later are Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.)
If you are using a pre-Leopard version of OS X, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. (These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion and should not be installed.)
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems. For more about malware see Macintosh Virus Guide.
I would also recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX 2.4.3, or Cocktail 5.1.1 that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. (There is no confirmation that this version also works with Lion or later.)
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner.
2. Data Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. SyncTwoFolders
6. Synk Pro
7. Synk Standard
8. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Always have a current backup before performing any system updates or upgrades.
Additional suggestions will be found in
1. Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
2. Mac OS X speed FAQ,
3. Speeding up Macs,
4. Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance,
5. Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
6. Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
7. Maintaining OS X,
8. Five Mac maintenance myths,
9. How to Speed up Macs, and
10. Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X.
Referenced software can be found at CNet Downloads or MacUpdate.
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity or 20 GBs, whichever is greater, as free space.

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