Infor XA is commercial

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used to control the operations of manufacturing companies. Its prior name, MAPICS, is an acronym for Manufacturing, Accounting and Production Information Control Systems. MAPICS was created by IBM, International Business Machines, but the product is now owned by

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. Originally all MAPICS code ran only on IBM midrange systems like the IBM System 34, 36, 38 and the

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, via succeeding versions of the platform - currently

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. Early versions were written in IBM RPG, augmented with

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programs. IBM's version of SQL is also utilized on the OS integrated

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system called Db2 for i . Recent development efforts have added object oriented components written in the Java programming language, which extends a portion of the XA product to servers running

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. However, the Infor XA product still requires the IBM i operating system. The Java components provide an application runtime which allow user customizations, a rich user interface, an optional web-based interface as well as support for

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interfaces.

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