An update for Japan to support Japanese Calendar Era Change for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3

Summary

On May 1, 2019, the new Japanese era – announced by the government of Japan on April 1, 2019 – and its associated calendar will begin.  This change requires installing an update to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3.

Resolution

After installing this update, .NET and the Windows Registry will be utilized for era determination in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3. Apart from that, it introduces support for Gannen that uses OS APIs for date formatting. All previously existing product-specific parsing of OS formatted dates or manipulating the year value were eliminated.

There is no additional setup or configuration required in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 to enable that behavior. The only condition is to have the OS with newest .NET and Windows updates addressing and adding new Japanese calendar and era.

Here is the list of features where the behavior was changed in comparison to the previous experience.

Generate and receive payment - EFT with JBA format

The specific presentation of dates in payment files formatted according to JBA standard does not indicate the era. After applying this update, the user session date will determine which era will be used during the payment import process. The start and end dates for eras are determined based on the OS.

Consumption Tax Declaration

The set of dates that are auto-populated in the report will remain the same if the start and end dates are within the same era. In case they are not, the dates to be filled in by users will not have an era indicator.

Hotfix information

How to obtain the updates

The updates are available for download and installation:

·       Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3

Prerequisites

You must have one of the following products installed to apply this hotfix:

·       Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3

Restart requirement

You must restart the Application Object Server (AOS) service after you apply the hotfix.

If you are encountering an issue downloading, installing this hotfix, or have other technical support questions, contact your partner or, if enrolled in a support plan directly with Microsoft, you can contact technical support for Microsoft Dynamics and create a new support request.

You can also contact technical support for Microsoft Dynamics by phone using these links for country specific phone numbers. To do this, visit one of the following Microsoft websites:

·        Partners

·        Customers

In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Technical Support Professional for Microsoft Dynamics and related products determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to any additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

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How to test for the new Japanese era

For guidance, see the "How to test the new Japanese Era on Windows" section of "Summary of new Japanese Era updates - KB4469068."