Is there anyone that has gotten a copy of "Ezijobz" to review?  As of a month ago they were suppose to be available.  
 
Thanks,
 
R. Hitch

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If this is true, I am not suprised.  This is probably the only way to get significant acceptance from existing DBA Customers.
 
I, for one, have no plans for ezjobs in the forseeable future.  I'm still trying to change our culture to use Dates!!  AAARRRGGGGG!!!!!
 
(See, I can't even spell it correctly!!)

Same here, we also received our copy last week and have only been able to transfer vendors, customers & inventory items. However some of the field names were unclear as to their previous match in DBA.  
??? (e.g. suppadd3=city) We did receive an email clearing some of these up yesterday.
 
We tried to transfer the BOMs, but could not decipher the correlating field names.

Got ours about 2 weeks ago. Looks very pretty on the screen, but we don't have anything loaded yet to evaluate it. Tried to upload our inventory and it repeatedly stopped at 375 records. After much experimentation, we found that if we limited the import to 4 fields, we could get all the items in. It offers to import many, many fields. Guess we throw away the other data and re-enter by hand. We were not importing the file from DBA. Rather, we were importing a text based data file, per documentation. Tried to get answer to failure to import in spite of proper proceedure. Was told we would be allowed one e-mail message and response. Ezijobz couldn't answer the question and they were going to ask "someone else" (maybe in India?). We are still waiting for an answer after 1 week. Ezijobs also offers ZERO support without immediately forking out $1000.00 (10 users) for first 6 months, $500 per six months thereafter. Documentation is voluminous, but not user friendly. Read the configurator docs and still pretty confused. I understand the concepts but wouldn't be able to set it up in the program yet for our situation. Going to have to read it several more times. The lack of screen shots doesn't help. I thought DBA docs were much easier to digest. Apparently, the program offers extensive customization and adaptability --- if you can grasp how to take advantage of it. I am excited about this potential for our company, but this is going to take a long, long time for us to figure it out to the level we need. Even then, I don't know if it warrants the switch with all that Lynn has done. I am beginning to think a custom program on DBA will be much easier to solve our needs.  
I remain open minded (as opposed to empty headed) ???

Lorne,
The purpose of my post was more to inform of my experience. I did not intend to sound whiney. I have not made any final decision either way on Ezijobz or DBA. Just so you know my mindset, I have not been tight in this endevour. I have hired a guy full time just for the implementation of either Ezijobz or DBA who has database, crystal reports, and manufacturing software experience. I agree with you on the consultant spending (which I have done plenty in the past) when it is appropriate. I am sure you are quite frugal in your business in some areas, too. But I think what I am pointing out is a little more basic than just hiring a consultant: 1) I don't think it is unreasonable to hope for an answer after 5 days about a problem. It has always been DBA's and now Ezijobz's problem in not communicating adequately or in a straight foreward manner with their customers. Lynn is the standard they should look at. (Just look at how she kept us informed on the server changeover) 2) I ought to be able to glean enough from the docs to get a working understanding of the software in case my consultant decides to have personal problems big enough to fail to meet my needs. Hate to hang my whole business on one outside person.  
As a side note, when we reviewed the little movie Ezijobz has on the data import today, we noticed on the demonstration that the # of records imported was a grand total of two. I have more records than that in my file. Again, I know this is a new program and there will be alot of bugs everywhere. Shoot, Lynn is still fixing DBA! And doing a great job at it! I am just pointing out my present experience.
We will put our nose to the grindstone and figure it out. I might even hire you when the time is right!  

Fogot to say our inventory database is about 1500 records. Not huge. Thanks Lorne
Steve

One thing you may want to do is check out the http://www.44group.net/ forum, which is just for Ezijobz.

Jillrae:
 
It sounds like you have NetBEUI protocols running.  The Firebird engine will not route properly with NetBEUI since NetBEUI is not a routeable protocol.  Remove the NetBEUI protocols and make sure that you have TCP/IP installed.