One of our customers had, many years ago, wanted to give a salesperson access to download data into Excel and interrogate it. A job was set up on their IBM system to populate a set of data files including stock, purchase orders, and sales orders. This was then made available via an ODBC connection to the salesperson.
The customer later became aware that, with no ill intent but a lax adherence to the rules, the salesperson had begun pulling from the live files instead. When the access was originally granted the customer did not consider how they would track usage.
Myer’s has a long and proud history dedicated to making comfortable beds dating back to 1876. Originally based in Vauxhall, South London, Myer’s continued to manufacture beds there until 1982. That year marked the moving of their facility to Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire which is where they continue to make beds today.
Myer’s Beds were looking to outsource their IBMi support, maintenance, and development.
Myer’s used a mix of:
Thus, they needed a company that could work with all of these and ensure smooth interfacing. The chosen partner would also need to work with third parties to ensure Myers were able to meet contractual requirements.
One of our customers had a process set up for generating CSV documents on the IBMi and emailing them to the requesting user. They wanted to improve upon this by allowing conditional formatting on a summary row.
To save time and development they wanted to continue using the existing process to generate the data, the focus was on a new process for formatting.
MNIS Limited contacted the Hanseatic Union to make them aware of Microsoft’s free & discounted offerings to non-profit & charity organisations. Taking advantage of Microsoft 365’s advanced productivity tools and data storage, document management and security solutions to help them become more flexible, streamlined and efficient. The charity had applied in the past, but due to difficulty had postponed looking at it again until a later date.
Following a short phone call to understand the organisation IT setup and discuss the offerings from Microsoft and how MNIS would assist. There were several issues that were impacting the organisations image, risk and efficiency that were identified.
The biggest issue of all is that the charity had limited funds to deal with any of the above and limited time and knowledge on what was the best option going forward.
One of our customers wanted to move away from using pre-printed stationary for their delivery notes. Previously the documents were being produced as basic spoolfiles on the IBMi and output onto a dot matrix printer.
The customer wanted to move to using a laser printer, and have the document produced on plain A4 but with the same formatting.