Automating MS Dynamics AX

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Automating MS Dynamics AX

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Integrating Legacy System + The easy way to integrate Legacy Systems – Platform independent . Runs on Unix, Mainframe and Windows – Large set of integration connectors (Agents) – More than 20 years experience in automating Enterprise Solutions

+ Event based automation – Run AX Job instantly when the legacy system has finished

Legacy Systems

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Overview + UC4 uses the Web Service Agent for the integration – Reliable communication channel – Flexible and powerful

+ UC4 Dynamics AX Integration Extension available – Run an Dynamics AX 2009/2012 Jobs – Execute Dynamics AX 2009/2012 Classes – Execute Dynamics AX Queries

Web Service

+ Currently no support for Dynamics 2012R2

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The UC4 Web Service Agent + Supports WS-I / SOAP Standard

Axis 2 based WSDL Parser

Determine Methods incl. Parameters

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Accessing Dynamics AX Classes + Generic access to all ‚public‘ defined AX Classes – Including methods and their parameters

+ Specify the Class name and method name + parameters – Flexible through UC4 variables – Parameter Type encoding → Numbers, Strings and Dates

+ Just create a UC4 Job to execute a DAX Class Method

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Accessing Dynamics AX Classes (cont.) + Results of the Call are provided in the Job Report – Could be extracted and provided as UC4 Variable

+ Use result of previous call in an follow up UC4 Job

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Run Dynamics AX Jobs + Generic access to the available DAX Jobs – UC4 Job starts the DAX Job and wait until the DAX job is done

+ Check whether a specific Job is available – hasJobByName() functionality

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Run Dynamics AX Queries in DAX 2009 + Generic access to all available DAX queries – Optionally specify the data columns to be listed as result

+ Query Result printed in the UC4 Job report

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Run Dynamics AX Queries in DAX 2012 + Generic access to all available DAX queries – Optionally specify the data columns to be listed as result

+ Query Result printed in the UC4 Job report

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Run Dynamics AX Queries + Generic access to all available DAX queries – Optionally specify the data columns to be listed as result

+ Query Result printed into a text file – For big result sets

UC4 Managed File Transfer

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Start/Stop Dynamics AX Server + Starting and stopping the MS Dynamics AX servers – Using Microsoft PowerShell Technology

+ Starting and stopping the Dynamics AOT Services – Using Microsoft PowerShell Technology

MS Dynamics AX Windows Machine

OSAgent

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