We are in the process of installing 9.0 LSF on a test server. We were nearly there when we learned there is no easy to way to convert our 8.0.3 LAUA users to 9.0. As I understand from my admins, there Lawson provides a "template" which the data needs to be in, in order to load them into 9.0, however, what Lawson does not provide is a program to extract the data from 8.0.3, format it into the specified "template" for input into 9.0.

Has anyone else experienced this and if so, what have you done to get around it?

Thanks

Mike Drischler
VBCPS Project Manager

Unfortunately we did not do the upgrade ourselves. We had Lawson do it and someone from Xansa did it. Overall the upgrade went well but this is one area that didn't.

The users were converted twice in two different formats; first initial last name and first name dot last name. Both loging IDs where tied to the same SID. No one could log in. Our convention is first name dot last name and no where on our servers or in our network does first initial last name exist.

When we asked them to clean this up, they some how managed to blame the mess on us. We eventually figured out on our own where to go in LDAP to clean it up but it wasn't easy.

Hi
How about using loadusers command. This is documented in you application install guide. What this command basically does it that it loads a set of users that's in .XML file format.
If I were in this situation, I would try to export all the users from 8.0.3 environment to .XML file & then load all of them using loadusers command in 9.0 environment.

Regards
Ganesh .R