What to do when the Java install location changes

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When Java is updated or moved on the Lawson server, the application will also need to updated to use the new location.

First, update the system environment variables JAVA_HOME and LAW_JAVA_HOME.  Also, update those entries in install.cfg so that location will be used for future updates.

You may also need to run the command to update the environment parameters.  Create an XML file with the following data (using your new location for java):

Then, navigate to GEN_DIR/bin and run the LaMgmtCmd.exe command with the -u option to update the environment parameters:

LaMgmtCmd.exe -u <environment> <update file>

To view your environment parameters, run the LaMgmtCmd command with the -r option

Tech Pros Predict 12 Trends That Will Dominate The Industry In 2021

The major disruption of 2020, also known as the COVID-19 pandemic, could not have been predicted by anyone. Even as the calendar year is coming to an end, there are still a lot of unknowns in the coming year. However, a lesson learned from this major disruption is how we need to deal with sudden change and what we need to focus on in the future. Tech leaders are already thinking about the new trends and developments that will dominate in the coming months. The Expert Panel from the Forbes Technology Council share 12 predictions about the technology trends they expect to come to the fore in the coming 2021 year below:
  1. Enhanced CX Through Digital Tech. “We will see an acceleration of digital’s role in creating superior customer experiences. More companies will continue to invest in the cloud, data and digital technologies that make their customers’ lives easier.” – Eugene Khazin, Prime TSR
  2. Aggressive Infrastructure Modernization. “In 2021, we will see budgets shift to support aggressive modernization initiatives, starting with foundational infrastructure, to make business elastic, available, reliable and secure—in a word, resilient.” – Kris Beevers, NS1
  3. New Customer Data Privacy Laws. “Consumers want to know their privacy is being protected, especially now that using more digital services is a necessity. Because legislators have a template to draw upon using legislation enacted in California, Nevada and other states, we’ll see many new data privacy laws introduced in the next year in regions that otherwise might have taken a decade or more to enact similar protections.” – Stephen Ritter, Mitek Systems
  4. Increased Focus On Secure Voting. “This election proved that there is terrible security around applications and accounting for individuals. The solutions on the market are hackable and have a security layer that needs to be worked on to allow all voters to vote once and do it remotely.” – Christopher Carter, Approyo
  5. Expansion Of Smart Spaces. “Smart spaces, with an emphasis on smart cities, have been exploding due to our intense interest in monitoring and optimizing human behavior patterns. We can expect that smart spaces initiatives will evolve in 2021 to match these changes, with particular emphasis on smart homes and home-work spaces.” – Jeff MacMillan, StorMagic
  6. Combination Of Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning With Human Ingenuity. “The collaboration between people, data and artificial intelligence will usher in a massive transformation in how we work and live.” – Heidi Messer, Collective
  7. Growing Acceptance Of Online Payments. “One trend that will continue into 2021 is the need for people and merchants to accept online payments.” – Adi Ekshtain, Amaryllis Payment Solutions
  8. More Creative Uses Of Automation. “We are going to see more tech companies find creative uses for automation, while core teams will focus more on the “human” aspects of the business.”- Thomas Griffin, OptinMonster
  9. Expanded Use Of Autonomous Vehicles. “Autonomous vehicles—specifically robotic delivery—will have a huge impact on the tech industry in 2021. Self-driving technology brings safe, accessible transportation to millions of people in need.” – Ashwini Choudhary, Recogni
  10. Growing Use Of AI In Healthcare. “Artificial intelligence will continue to deepen its footprint in healthcare, especially post-pandemic. Understanding and closing the gaps related to the social determinants of health will lead the population-wide health strategies of the future.” – Trisha Swift, ZeOmega Population Health Solutions
  11. Formalization Of 2020 Stopgap Tech. “The big technology trend for 2021 will be making permanent solutions out of the reactive fixes 2020 required. While many technology implementations were simple stopgap measures, others, such as remote work, will be here for the long haul.” – Joe Onisick, transformationCONTINUUM
  12. Emergence Of New Job Roles. “New trends bring new possibilities, which lead to new job roles to shape tech experiences. For example, the emergence of hybrid events means every event will need an event technologist to design experiences with tech. The integration of AI into work processes and most projects means an AI business strategist’s role will emerge. And there will be a need for a role focused on the integration of inclusion policies in all digital transformation projects.” – Chaitra Vedullapalli, Women in Cloud

 

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10 Benefits of ERP integration for B2B eCommerce

According to Digital Commerece 360’s 2020 report, online sales on B2B eCommerce sites have increased by 18.2% to $1.3 trillion. this significant growth in sales spans across many parts in the channel from manufacturers and distributors to retailers of B2B businesses of all sizes in various industries. one key reason for this is because of enterprise resource planning (ERP). In order to embrace digital transformation and move to eCommerce, a seamless ERP integration is the key. Gartner predicts with integration of tools like ERP, B2B businesses with these strategic investments will grow from 40% in 2019 to 65% in 2024. An article on roboticsandautomationnews.com, below are 10 benefits of ERP integration for B2B ecommerce businesses:

  1. Automate manual processes
  2. Provide accurate pricing
  3. Increase inventory visibility
  4. Eliminate errors during ordering
  5. Offer omnichannel experiences
  6. Make better use of data
  7. Scalability and security
  8. Future-proof your business
  9. Improve compliance
  10. Boost the customer experience

While ERP systems come with a price tag, it’s return on investment and improved customer experiences is a competitive advantages that B2B businesses should not pass up.

 

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Resolving Bouncy Castle Errors

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After a WebSphere fix pack, or an update of some kind, you might see a 500 server error that indicates a Bouncy Castle jar mismatch.

To verify that your issue is related to Bouncy Castle, you can check the ssoconfig/SSOCfgInfoServlet web page to see if the XML will render.  If you see a similar error below, check the ios.log.  The “NoSuchProviderException: No such provider: BC” indicates that the Bouncy Castle jar files need to be updated.

[10/15/20 9:06:31:448 CDT] 000000ef SystemErr     R com.lawson.lawsec.authen.LSFSecurityAuthenException:Message:java.security.NoSuchProviderException: No such provider: BC

Stack Trace : java.security.NoSuchProviderException: No such provider: BC

at javax.crypto.Cipher.getInstance(Unknown Source)

at com.lawson.lawsec.authen.AuthenDat.decryptData(AuthenDat.java:2619)

at com.lawson.lawsec.authen.AuthenDat.getRMPrivUserPass(AuthenDat.java:521)

at com.lawson.lawsec.authen.LawsonAuthentication.getJNDIProps(LawsonAuthentication.java:1087)

at com.lawson.lawsec.authen.LawsonAuthentication.getInitialDirContext(LawsonAuthentication.java:1045)

at com.lawson.lawsec.authen.LawsonAuthentication.getInitialDirContext(LawsonAuthentication.java:1033)

at com.lawson.lawrm.rmMetaMgr.RMContext.getDirContext(RMContext.java:464)

at com.lawson.lawrm.rmMetaMgr.RMContext.getRMMetaDataManager(RMContext.java:798)

at com.lawson.lawrm.rmMetaMgr.RMContext.InitContext(RMContext.java:282)

at com.lawson.lawrm.rmMetaMgr.RMContext.<init>(RMContext.java:162)

at com.lawson.lawrm.rmMetaMgr.RMContext.<init>(RMContext.java:126)

at com.lawson.lawrm.rmMetaMgr.RMContext.getInitialContext(RMContext.java:208)

at com.lawson.lawrm.rmMetaMgr.RMContext.borrowRMContext(RMContext.java:303)

at com.lawson.lawsec.authen.LawsonService.<init>(LawsonService.java:152)

at com.lawson.lawsec.authen.LawsonSecurityXRefImpl.getServiceForName(LawsonSecurityXRefImpl.java:365)

at com.lawson.lawsec.authen.LawsonSSODomainManagerImpl.getDefaultPrimaryService(LawsonSSODomainManagerImpl.java:320)

at com.lawson.security.vulmit.VulnerabilityMitigation.getDefaultPrimaryService(VulnerabilityMitigation.java:193)

at com.lawson.security.vulmit.VulnerabilityMitigation.getStringServiceProperty(VulnerabilityMitigation.java:203)

at com.lawson.security.vulmit.VulnerabilityMitigation.configureAntiCsrf(VulnerabilityMitigation.java:173)

…

 

To update the jar files, navigate to WAS_HOME/java/bin and run the command “java -jar %GENDIR%/java/thirdparty/bcinstall.jar”.  This will automatically check the validity of your Bouncy Castle jar file and update if needed.

D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\java\bin>.\java -jar %GENDIR%\java\thirdParty\bcinstall.jar

Testing for provider … FAIL: No such provider: BC

Installing provider

Installing bcprov-jdk16-145.jar

transferring …….done

Adding java.security entry

Adding org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider to java.security file

backing up ………………………………………………..done

D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\java\jre\lib\security\java.security backed up to D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\java\jre\lib\security\java.se

curity1901856172194836655.bak

placing new properties ………………………………………….done

Testing for strong encryption policy … PASS.

..done

backup D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\java\jre\lib\security\policy\unlimited\local_policy.jar to D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\java\jre\lib

\security\policy\unlimited\local_policy.jar78069013951101779.bak

..done

copied D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\java\jre\lib\security\policy\unlimited\US_export_policy.jar to D:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\java\jre

\lib\security\policy\unlimited\local_policy.jar

Verifying provider … PASS.

Verifying policy … PASS.

Summary :

Provider installed successfully

Policy installed successfully

Crypto policy set

 

Infor Becomes Founding Sponsor of The Smart Factory at Wichita

Infor has become the first founding sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, a new Industry 4.0 immersive experience center launched by Deloitte and Wichita State University in Kansas. Per the press release, Infor, Deloitte, Wichita State and the Smart Factory partner ecosystem is expected to help customers across numerous industries continuously innovate and develop next-generation, value-added services. A smart factory is a highly digitized, connected production facility that uses technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics to help companies manufacture products, create new business value, unlock data-driven insights and automate or eliminate business processes. At The Smart Factory @ Wichita, Infor will create and demonstrate a practical, ready-to-deploy technology package which will address eight key smart factory use cases:

  • Factory asset intelligence and performance management
  • Quality sensing and detection
  • Factory synchronization and dynamic scheduling
  • Augmented workforce efficiency
  • Plant consumption and energy management
  • Smart warehousing
  • Smart conveyance
  • Engineering collaboration and digital twins (digital representations of physical environments)

The new Smart Factory facility is anticipated to open in 2021.

 

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ERF Electrical Switches on the Cloud with Infor

ERF Electrical, a leading UK wholesaler supplying electrical products, services and solutions, has deployed Infor CloudSuite Distribution. The multi-tenet cloud application was chosen to keep ERF on the most current version by continually receiving updated capabilities that will help improve customer service. This is part of a digital strategy to build a comprehensive and integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and online trading platform. With an on time and under budget delivers, ERF was able to capitalize on short bursts of knowledge transfer that could be quickly acted upon, with all consultancy recorded to ensure best practices across the organization. Furthermore, As ERF users become more familiar with Infor CloudSuite Distribution, ERF will introduce new functionality and use extensibility and new workflows to further enhance the user experience and service provided to customers.

 

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CRM’s role in successful digital transformation

Customer relationship management (CRM) and digital transformation have played key roles in the success of companies today. While these two elements are a separate entity, in reality the key to successful digital transformation comes from a successful CRM. Software expert Baburajan Kizhakedath at infotechlead.com shares how CRM plays a key role in successful digital transformation. Often times digital transformation within a company see failure because most businesses don’t have the necessary precursors for digital transformation to succeed. Kizhakedath believes the role of CRM can fix this situation. CRM can improve sales enablement processes as well as sales productivity and effectiveness. Both of these concepts are important for the seamless implementation of digital transformation, says Kizhakedath. Further, CRM can boost digital transformation in the following ways:

  • Data and Analytics: CRM integrates data and analytic tools to improve consumer insight, thus resulting in greater personalization.
  • Social Media: CRM makes it easier for you to receive social insight from your consumers.
  • Customer Engagement: CRM provides tools to integrate with other third-party apps and services to improve engagement with consumers.
  • Emerging Technologies: utilizes tools that drive the next step in a process automatically.

Kizhakedath concludes that the margining of these two process – if integratedd correctly – will be a positive thing for your company.

 

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How to perform a Regulatory Bulletin update for BSI TaxFactory 10

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  1. Download the bulletin.
    1. Log into your MyBSI account
    2. Navigate to Product Maintenance
    3. Select your product
    4. Regulatory Bulletins
    5. Select your bulletin
    6. Click the download button(s)

  2. On the Server where BSI is installed, open a command window as administrator
  3. Navigate to the install directory (i.e. D:\BSI\TF10ClientInstall)
  4. Change directory to the directory that matches your server configuration (win32 for a 32-bit server, or amd64 for a 64-bit server)
  5. Run the command tf10lic /ResetDSN
  6. Run the command set TF10_SCHEMA_NAME=<Your Schema/Databse Name>
  7. Run the command set TF10_DATASET=DEFAULT
  8. Run the command tfmaint “<full file path where you downloaded the bulletin>”

  9. Check the “upd” log file for any error messages
  10. Validate PRTF.1 in Lawson

How Will ERP and Big Data Revolutionize Your Business?

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems allow different departments to work as a cohesive unit. They provide business-critical information to stakeholders, and eliminate human errors, allowing the workforce to focus on other essential issues that require human ingenuity. Big data can boost the effectiveness that ERP systems provide for your business. Content marketing expert Nishant Joshi shares an article on BitNewsToday.com on the effective nature big data can bring to your ERP systems. He focuses on some key areas where ERP systems and big data will revolutionize your business. These areas include:

  1. Big data-enabled ERP systems will provide you a 360-degree perspective of the business
  2. Big data-enabled ERP systems will improve your business performance
  3. Big data-enabled ERP systems allow businesses to understand customer behavior
  4. Big data-enabled ERP systems allow businesses to forecast sales
  5. Big data-enabled ERP systems allow businesses to hire the right talent

Joshi concludes that big data-enabled ERP systems will enable you to gain a comprehensive understanding of your company, customer base, and the industry that you are operating in. This will help you make better decisions that will maximize your revenues and cut expenses, something we all want as a profitable business.

 

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Japan’s Fujikin Selects Infor Cloud ERP for Business Expansion

Infor Japan K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Infor, recently announced that Fujikin K.K., a metal-processing company specializing in automotive components, has selected Infor CloudSuite Industrial, Infor’s cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for manufacturing industries, as part of its business expansion plan with the aim of standardizing its production management processes and reducing operational workloads. Per the press release, Fujikin needed a cloud ERP solution that came packaged with the functionality for supporting its existing business, including the Toyota Production System (TPS) scheduling that it was already using. The solution also needed to support future business requirements and reduce operational workloads through the cloud. Fujikin adopted Infor CloudSuite Industrial as a cloud ERP solution focused on production management, with support for purchasing, sales and inventory management. A huge advantage is that Infor CloudSuite Industrial’s existing standard functions, such as TPS-compliant production scheduling, already accommodate 85% of its existing business. It also had the ability to support the requirements of planned future business partners without customization, and could help standardize systems that do not rely on specific employees. Furthermore, through this standardization and use of the cloud, Fujikin currently expects to reduce its workload by 170 man-hours per month.

 

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