Push functionality in M3

BE
Infor Research & Development

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Push functionality in M3 Business
Engine

Framework that offers M3 BE applications the

ability to send information to other applications in
a structured way.

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Consists of

• M3 EPC, for transport and interaction with recipients

• Subscriber, for managing interested parties
• Scheduler, to send table related data.
• Direct call, to send data from M3 BE programs

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 Push functionality in M3 Business
Engine

ODBC pi
M3 program
DC

MSMQ pi
Subscriber EPC

FILE pi
Scheduler
DB

Special pi

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Direct call

Pros
• More complex, multi level XML
• Mix data from several tables
• Better control over when data is sent

Cons
• Requires coding in M3 programs

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Scheduled push

Pros
• Nothing more than a configuration
• No coding required
• Conditional processing

Cons

• One scheduler job per table

• LMTS field in table + index required
• Does not handle deleted records before 14.1
• Deleted records require FAT interaction

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Management programs in
M3

• EVS038 – To configure remote hosts

• EVS040 – To configure subscribers of information
• EVS041 – Define conditions to be filled for sending
• EVS042 – To manage unsent/failed messages
• MNS051 – To configure scheduled jobs
• EVS002MI – Configure remote hosts and subscribers
Send initial data.

• CSCHMSG – Autojob for sending table data

• CSMRSND – Autojob to resend failed messages
• CRSUBSCR – Subprogram for Direct call

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Movex EPC

• For M3 BE to send or retrieve information from other hosts

• Structured way to send to virtually every other application
• Standard plug-ins for ODBC, MSMQ, File creation, MeC
• Write plug-ins suited for the application in question
• Available for Win32, iSeries and Java

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