Lawson Insight Technical Documentation


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AM500

AM500 - Asset Conversion

Use this program to convert asset information from a non-Lawson product to
the Lawson Asset Management product. This conversion program converts the
asset, item, and asset book(s) information from the following three files:
Asset Conversion (AMASSETCNV), Asset Item Conversion (AMASTITCNV), and Asset
Book Conversion (AMASTBKCNV). All three files need to be populated during the
same conversion process. It is not possible to populate these files at
different times since the conversion number must be the same number for the
asset, item, and asset books, and asset number assignment is done when this
conversion program is run.

This program also lets you convert non-Lawson attributes to attributes in the
LAWSON INSIGHT Asset Management system, using information in the Asset
Attribute Conversion (AMASTMXCNV) file. You can convert attributes when you
add new assets or attach attributes to existing assets. The attribute portion
of the conversion does not need to be run at the same time as the new asset
conversion, because the conversion number is saved whenever new assets are
converted. Edits on the Conversion Number field prevent users from using
duplicate conversion numbers and duplicating assets.

This program converts the information from the conversion files into the Asset
(AMASSET), Asset Item (AMASTITEM), Asset Book (AMASTBOOK), and Asset
Attributes (AMASTMXVAL) files. Any errors encountered can be corrected online
using the appropriate conversion adjustment program: AM96.1 (Asset Conversion
Adjustment), AM97.1 (Item Conversion Adjustment), AM98.1 (Asset Book
Conversion Adjustment), and AM94.1 (Attribute Conversion Adjustment).

You must run AM170 (Processing Release) to update the new assets. All
information converted can be adjusted using the Asset Adjustment program
(AM20.2, AM20.3, and AM20.4). No journal entries are created for any assets
converted.






Updated Files

    AMACCOUNT  - Used to validate accounts.

    AMACCTGRP  - Used to validate account groups.

    AMASSET    - Primary file updated. Used to store asset records. This file
                 also contains many of the selection and sorting fields that are
                 used for reporting.

    AMASSETADJ - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMASSETCNV - Records are deleted from this file after they are updated to
                 the Asset file.

    AMASTBKADJ - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMASTBKCNV - Records are deleted from this file after they are updated to
                 the Asset Book file.

    AMASTBOOK  - Primary file updated. Used to store the asset book records
                 that are used to depreciate assets. Also used to validate and
                 retrieve asset book information.

    AMASTCOMM  - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMASTITADJ - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMASTITCNV - Records are deleted from this file after they are updated to
                 the Asset Item file.

    AMASTITEM  - Primary file updated. Used to store asset item records. Each
                 Asset Item file record has one related record in the Asset
                 file.

    AMASTMXCNV - Primary file updated.

    AMASTMXVAL - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMASTRECAP - Accessed by common library; not used by this program.

    AMASTRPAIR - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMASTSBADJ -

    AMASTSGBLK -

    AMASTTYPE  - Used to retrieve and validate asset type information.

    AMAUGROUP  - Used to validate and retrieve AMAUGROUP information. This file
                 is used to store information on accounting unit groups, which
                 group and identify the accounting units to use when you create
                 journal entries for processing assets.

    AMCALENDAR - Used to retrieve and validate period-end dates.

    AMCNVASSET - Created by program as a cross reference between the conversion
                 number and the asset number that was created.

    AMCONTROL  - Used to verify that there are no year-end closes pending for
                 the company.

    AMCTLTRANS - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMDIVISION - Used to validate division information.

    AMLOCATION - Used to validate location information.

    AMTAXAUTH  - Used to verify tax information. Used to store tax authority
                 information defined for locations. A value in the District,
                 County or Local, State or Province, or Country fields in the
                 Location file creates a record in this file.

    AMTRANS    - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMTRANSUMM -

    CKPOINT    - Used for restart purposes.

    MXLISTHDR  - Used to validate attribute list header information.

    MXOBJCAT   - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    SYSTEMCODE - Used by a common library, not by this program.


Referenced Files

    AMASSETDSP - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMASSETTRF - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMASTBKTRF - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMBOOK     - Used to verify book information. Used to store the asset book
                 records that are used to depreciate assets.

    AMCOMPUTE  - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMMETHOD   - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMPUCODE   - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMPUHIS    - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMTABLEPCT - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMTABLETAX - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    AMUOPPDS   - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    CUCONV     -

    CURELAT    -

    GLADDRESS  - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    GLCGCPY    - Used to validate the company group.

    GLCHART    - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    GLCODES    - Used by a common library, not by this program.

    GLNAMES    - Used to validate accounting unit information for AMAUGROUP
                 records.

    GLSYSTEM   - Used to validate the company.

    MXCATDEF   - Used to retrieve attribute definition information.

    MXELEMENT  - Used to retrieve attribute element information.

    MXVALIDATE - Used to retrieve MXVALIDATE information.


INVOKED Programs

    ACAC
    IFCR
    IFSG
    IFCU
    IFAC
    IFAU
    SLSE
    SLSU
    IFCC
    IFFC
    IFGT
    IFOB
    IFRS
    IFSC
    SLSB
    SLTV
    SLFD