November 2018

Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community

Welcome to the latest issue of The LawsonGuru Letter, a free newsletter providing provocative commentary on issues important to the Lawson Software community. The LawsonGuru Letter is published by--and is solely the opinion of--John Henley of Decision Analytics.

Quote of the Issue

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it." -- Clarence Darrow

Trending Topics

Remove Requester Identity with IPA I have an automated flow to disable my users but I am stuck on the process to remove the Requester Identity. I currently am trying to use a Resource Update node, but it deletes the entire user profile. Any help is truly appreciated!! Read More

What is the difference between GHR and LTM? What is the difference between GHR and LTM - would anyone be able to share GHR project plan/tasks? Read More

Binding JSON data in Mashups I am making a REST call to a third-party API that has a return that is in json format. I'm not finding any good answers on how to display that data in a textBox or List in a mashup. Any help would be appreciated.  Read More

Running VisualCOBOL debugger on a remote machine? Does anyone know how to do the setup to debug batch programs on a remote server. We are on Windows 2012 R2 servers. I was able to get the cobdebugremote64 running and I do see Connection with established and closed when done. What is happening is a have been getting MFRUN.gnt not found. This is not the program that is being debugged. Can anyone help ? Read More

Worthwhile Reading

The biggest issues CIOs face today From security management to seeking out innovative technologies, CIOs are straddling operational and transformational roles to deliver new wins while keeping IT humming.  CIO, July 11,2018 Read More

The Flexible IT Team, Its Strengths and Flaws IT teams no longer subsist on full-time employees alone; they also include contract and freelance talent. The combination of skills helps round out an IT team. However, sometimes contingent and full-time employees don't get along.  Information Week, July 5, 2018  Read More

Protecting against data threats posed by departing employees Countless formal and informal studies show that most employees retain at least some company data when they leave a job.  Information Management, September 4, 2018  Read More

Thanks for your continued support of the LawsonGuru Letter and LawsonGuru.com. Sincerely,

John Henley Decision Analytics

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