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July 2023

a) This year's annual SHIMS conference will be held In Florence, KY at the Corken Steel offices on October 16th and 17th. Hotel rooms have been reserved at the Fairfield Inn & Suites Cincinnati Airport South/Florence. Contact Warren Navarre at wnavarre@sanderssupply.net.

b) The Accuterm Viewer has been updated to work with Windows 10 & 11.  This utility allows you to open reports in a NotePad window for viewing instead of printing. The reports can easily be saved and converted to Excel files.

c) All major banks now offer a "Positive Pay" system. SHIMS will generate a file for the bank and the bank will only pay checks that are listed on the file to the vendor listed and amount listed. This will prevent fraudulent checks from being cashed.

d) ACH check processing is now easy with SHIMS. All SHIMS procedures are the same, but no check is printed.  A file is built with the check information which is transmitted to the bank in the nationwide standard NACHA format. 

e) Accuterm was purchased by Rocket Software  from Zumasys last year. For new purchases or upgrades, you can contact Jill Orsini at Accuterm at jorsini@rocketsoftware.com or contact Rocket at rbc@rocketsoftware.com.

June 2022

a) Check your disk capacity once a month by shelling out to AIX unix ( >sh) and entering #df.  Look for the percentage used for your /dbms filesystem.  If it is more than 75%, you need to purge data and then RESIZE the files. You DO NOT want to run out of disk space.

b) You can find your Universe version by entering at TCL  ' > .L  RELLEVEL'  (that’s a period, capital 'L', space, then RELLEVEL).  The AIX and Universe releases must match up; so both may need to  be upgraded at the same time.   

c) If your system hardware is more than 10 years old, you need to upgrade.  It is also a safety issue as one SHIMS user's old system overheated and caught on fire.  A new Linux/Universe system from Nexustek have been the preferred systems.

d) If you are not currently using a VPN with a firewall for external connections to SHIMS, you need to upgrade your security. Unfortunately, there is now a high risk  of hacking. Several SHIMS users have had ransonware attacks. There are many choices.  Some of the most widely used by SHIMS companies are: Sonicwall Global VPN or Sonicwall Net Extender, Open VPN, Microsoft VPN, Firebox and Cisco VPN.