Product Maintenance and Control (PMC)

To manage software updates to your LN system, Infor offers the Product Maintenance and Control (PMC) tool.

The PMC module is an efficient, highly effective tool for managing and installing software updates (individual solutions).

Without a tool such as PMC, software updates can be installed irrespective of other software updates that were already installed. Technically, an update that contains an earlier version of a software component than the version already present on your system, can be installed. In this case, you lose the updates contained in the original software components.

The PMC module contains two sub-modules.

PMC Benefits

The PMC module is a tool that enables you to install, configure, and run new software with confidence. The PMC module simultaneously addresses a wide range of software update challenges, including these features:

Automatic checks for updates for any previous dependencies, to ensure that these exist on the system on which you install the update.
Analysis of potential conflicts with system customizations at installation time, which enables the user to identify any conflicting customizations.
Option to maintain copies of all previous software components. This feature enables the user to roll back updates to any point in history.
Overview of all individual solutions that are installed.

Note: A customization component does not have a ‘maintenance date’ in its object. Therefore, if you deliver customization components to a customer whose maintenance license has expired, the customer can still deploy the components.