Upgrades & Updates

Hi Team, My IFS partner has recommended the installation of IFS App 9 on a cloud server (Virtual Machine) and the resolution of issues on our current IFS App 9 system, which is presently operational on our on-premises server. I am seeking your expertise to determine the technical and legal feasibility of this proposal. Specifically, I would appreciate your insights on the following aspects: Technical Feasibility: The compatibility of IFS App 9 with cloud server infrastructure. Potential challenges and considerations in migrating from an on-premises server to a cloud-based environment. Requirements for ensuring a seamless transition and optimal performance. Legal Feasibility: Compliance with licensing agreements for IFS App 9 when transitioning to a cloud server. Any legal implications or restrictions that may arise from this migration.

Hi Team, My IFS partner has recommended the installation of IFS App 9 on a cloud server (Virtual Machine) and the resolution of issues on our current IFS App 9 system, which is presently operational on our on-premises server. I am seeking your expertise to determine the technical and legal feasibility of this proposal. Specifically, I would appreciate your insights on the following aspects: Technical Feasibility: The compatibility of IFS App 9 with cloud server infrastructure. Potential challenges and considerations in migrating from an on-premises server to a cloud-based environment. Requirements for ensuring a seamless transition and optimal performance. Legal Feasibility: Compliance with licensing agreements for IFS App 9 when transitioning to a cloud server. Any legal implications or restrictions that may arise from this migration.

We are receiving this error message from our environments. We have done a Dictionary Cache Refresh but a deployment has not been done for 4 days. Error stack:Bad metadata error:The group: CustomerOrderDeliveryGroup does not exist in dictionary! We do our own deployments and develop in the Cust Layer just as FYI. Did Refreshing the Dictionary Cache do something from our last deployment that caused this issue or how do these groups relate to the Dictionary Thanks

We are currently working on upgrading to 23.2.6 (remote deployment). The middle tier server image files are no longer showing under “manage deployments” in the LE build place. Our current application version 23.2.0 is running on OVA 2.0.1, but I’m pretty sure I saw that new SUs were running a newer middle tier version before we lost access to the dropdown list previously showing under manage deployments. The bootstrap and binary downloads are still there, but the OVA dropdown seems to have been replaced by Oracle version package downloads. Any idea where they went?

Hi All, Anyone with experience in upgrading from IFS Apps 10 Aurena Permission sets to IFS Cloud permission sets? Is it a full rework or can it be upgraded? I know if it is IFS EE to IFS Cloud then it is a complete redo, but guessing we can salvage a lot from Aurena permission sets to Cloud permission sets. Regards, Malik

Hi, I am just looking for the highlevel steps to be followed for a IFS Apps 10 to IFS Cloud upgrade ( remote hosting method) I need the steps including the initial server provisioning and how to use build-place, etc during the IFS cloud upgrade.

Hello, My topic stands in the context of a migration project from APPS7.5 to IFS Cloud 23r2. It seems that module "Support Center" that was part of the APPS7.5 solution no longer exists in IFS Cloud. What the replacement module in IFS Cloud ?Do the core upgrade scripts handle this module (at first from 7.5 to APPS10, at second from APPS10 to IFS Cloud) ? Thanks in advance for any answers. Best Regards. Hervé

I’d like to get an official statement from IFS when the Query Flags and Default Values functionalities for Quick Reports become available in IFS Cloud. Since these functionalities are part of the official Technical Documentation for Cloud – saying they are currently unavailable – I suppose that sooner or later they will be (re)implemented in Cloud as well. Quick Reports - Technical Documentation for IFS Cloud - We have a bunch of Quick Reports in Apps 10 with query flags and default values included, and the usage of these functions (specially the multi-selection and LoV options) save a lot of working time for our users every day, so we’d like to use these in Cloud too as soon as possible.

Hi I am testing notification in IFS Cloud, I have created SO and I am simply changeing status of my SO. I do recive notifications in IFS Cloud, but I am do not recive any email. I have already check my email addres, to make sure it is right, and it is. Is there any other atribut to set or does anyone have a clue what I am missing? Thanks S Cloud, I have

Hi, If i understand well, with a major release bookmarks will be deleted. Is there another way to keep or copy them than copying them one by one for each user profile (i don’t even know if this will works after the update)? Regards, Pierrick

Hello, We have different buttons for different users on the banners at the top of our IFS screens with the same browser. Where can we harmonize it ? We have update our IFS cloud on the version 23r2. Regards

Hello, we have IFS UPD20 running on Windows Server 2016 and need to upgrade to Windows Server 2022. Is an in-place upgrade supported or is a clean install preferred. Obviously a lot more work to re-install everything. I asked this question through support and was directed to this community forum.

According to the Kubernetes documentation We are aware that the K8s certificates, which is used in the IFS middle tier, will expire in one year.This is a concern because it may cause the environment to become inaccessible without any prior notification. Therefore, we would like to know• What the IFS recommended way is to check the expiry date of the K8s certificate.• The IFS recommended method for renewing the certificate.• Any other certificates related to the IFS middle tier that we should check?

Hello everybody, Is there a way to set default mail template when you click on actions and then “Send Ad-hoc mail”? I’d like to set short note with name, surname and “Best Regards” as default value of message

Hello, We are preparing for an on-prem/remote installation of IFS Cloud. Has anyone done this with Oracle 19c Classic EE? What are the drawbacks compared to 19c Premium EE? Thanks!

We are all excited about the journey to IFS Cloud and already we have more than 20 x live customers and 220 x projects in progress. I know you are one of our valued team running or managing IFS Implementations and/or Upgrade to IFS Cloud, and I wanted to personally reach out to you, on a couple of key topics to make sure that you are having visibility of latest information. We are continuously striving to improve the training, documentation and overall experience of customers moving from Apps X into the IFS Cloud. best practises and training available for upgrade to IFS cloud Technical Upgrading IFS Application to IFS Cloud into Cloud Service Additional Learning IFS Cloud - Lifecycle Experience - Course ID: SOCLDOVLE202012 Installation - IFS Cloud - Course ID: SOCLDDEVICLD202106 Upgrading to IFS Cloud - Course ID: SOCLDVICCLDUPDT202206 To ensure that you are enabled and set up successfully to utilize the product, the IFS team have created the IFS Cloud Build Place Curriculum. IFS Cloud

Hi All, We are in the planning phases of our upgrade and would love to hear from customers that have been through the upgrade or are in the process. We are around 800 users and use the following in IFS Financials including leasing, Group consolidation. Procurement. Manufacturing. Project Service and Maintenance including MWO and PSO HR for time reporting. We use Power BI and are currently using Novacura for integration. Timeline - Planned or actual? Benefit of migration vs re-implementation Technical advantages/challenges - Heard about the challenge with permission set migration and not clear about direct database access. Performance improvements that you see compared to Apps10? Thank you for your inputs.

Does anyone know if Oracle 19c Databases Instances using Automatic Memory Management will be supported by IFS 10 application UDP 17?

Hey all, An employee would like to search for the phone number of a customer in Account Contacts to find him/her faster, however, currently there is no formatting standard employed for phone numbers. By this, I mean that a phone number can look like any of the following examples: +46 123 4567 012-345 67 012-34567 0 1234567 etc… This means that if I wanna find all instances of this phone number, I would only get the phone numbers that are uninterrupted (which might not even exist). Before this employee was able to search for any phone number using the following sql search: replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(PHONE,'(0)',''),' ',''),')',''),'(',''),'-','') like '%760400560' or replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(MOBILE,'(0)',''),' ',''),')',''),'(',''),'-','') like '%760400560' The issue currently is that the Advanced search in IFS Cloud does not recognize “replace”: CrmCustomerContact/CustomerContactOverviewPage (server error)Malformed Request.Error details: [{"code":"EXPRESSION

Hi, I am not seeing the 24R1 EA/GA in developer Studio when trying to create on change for a project. And getting this message as usual when deploying the code. Can anyone tell me about changing the target versions or availability? Thanks Mizanul Islam https://www.linkedin.com/in/mizanulislam

I created a custom object in IFS cloud, but it is not listed in the page designer business representatives. Seems custom fields are not used before in the system. Any material which says A-Z flow or any advice?

Dear All, We are currently working on an IFS upgrade project to transition one of our IFS customers from IFS 9 UPD 14 to IFS Cloud. We have completed our first upgrade iteration and have upgraded the customer to IFS Cloud 23 R1. The customer belongs to the telecom sector, and work orders from IFS applications are the main area they are utilizing. During this initial iteration, it took 78 hours and 20 minutes to execute the main upgrade script. Out of this total time, 72 hours and 52 minutes were spent on post-installation data file deployment. Within this time frame, the work order module related files took up 69 minutes and 37 minutes. Below are the files that took the most time: POST_Wo_UpgradeToTaskFramework.sql: 16 hours and 48 minutes POST_WO_UpdateHistAllocations.sql: 2 hours and 48 minutes POST_Wo_UpdateJtTaskPlanning.sql: 46 hours and 26 minutes POST_WO_CreateAssignForDefTask.sql: 1 hour and 50 minutes POST_Wo_UpgradeTransactionsToTaskFramework.sql: 27 minutes POST_Wo_UpgradeOt

We have an IFS 7.5 (IFS on Windows server 8 and Oracle 11g on RHEL 6.1) application, we want to do only OS and DB upgrade. We want to upgrade from Windows server 8 to windows server 19 and oracle 11g to 19C. is the IFS 7.5 will support these latest OS and DB upgrade?

Hello, Is there any way how set up notification, that there are new courses added to IFS Academy?? It would be very helpfull if it would be possible to set subscription, and receive email notifications about new courses. Is there any functionality like this? Or something similar? Thank you

You can’t pass string values through quotation marks to 'select’ queries in custom fields that you are going to use in reports. When you pass string values through quotation marks, it generates an ‘Error ORA-00936’ Oracle error. To avoid this, you have to pass string values using APIs.