Adapter for Lawson: Overview

The Adapter for Lawson works behind the scenes to control end users' access to the data in the Lawson system. When a user makes a request against a Lawson table, the Adapter for Lawson asks the following questions:

Once these questions have been answered, the Adapter for Lawson does the following:

In order for the Adapter for Lawson to work properly, you must complete the following steps:

  1. Verify that the server is installed.
  2. Configure the Adapter for Lawson.
  3. On the machine where Lawson is running, extract the Lawson security information into flat files using the lawsdmp.sh utility.
  4. Copy or FTP the Lawson security information flat files to the server.
  5. Refresh the security extracts to change the flat files into a format the server can understand.
  6. Configure the data adapter and create the synonyms for the tables you plan to report from.

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