64bit Proseries

[davejercinovic]

Hi, I'm a new IT personnel at a CPA Firm.

While most of my workload involves IT, I am helping submit extensions in the last few weeks before deadline.

I hate to have to be the one to drop this question partly because i feel responsible for not providing a sufficiently responsive computer system for accountants to work on, efficiently-- I usually judge computer usability by processor frequency, cores, and ram and don't personally notice how slow proseries is, but working in proseries is **UNBEARABLY*** SLOW even on what is otherwise a STRONG machine.

My question is: Will proseries eventually be rewritten with 64bit data path compatibility?  it's been 15 years at least since the hardware has been made available that has upgraded from the 32 bit data path to 64.  Essentially we have the option to send traffice down a 64 lane highway, but the proseries software will only let us take advantage of 32 lanes.

[IRonMaN]

You are asking the wrong folks.  We have a hard enough time trying to figure out when forms are going to be released, let alone know when they are going to make overhauls to their system.

[qbteachmt]

There is an entire rewrite required, and some things do not play well with others. For instance, QB and Excel, as Microsoft tells us, don't install Excel-Office as 64-bit for ODBC reasons.

Quickbooks 2022 is the first 64-bit of QB Desktop.

I think it is too soon to have any expectation.

The best thing you can do with those systems is install maximum memory. I also shop only for Gamer systems, with the most and fastest GPU and memory. Disk speeds or SSD retrieval is not much of an issue; no human notices that.

[User FIDO 61]

Fairly certain Intuit rather you infinitely subscribe to their hosted products than commit to complete a ground-up overhaul of their lumbering behemoth tax applications.