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DYNAMIC 3i VERSION 2.3 RELEASE NOTES

(July 01, 1996 - January 28, 1997)

Program    Description    Release Notes    Reference
ALL       Convert all forms to a 6 by 15 point grid. Visually this means text items will appear slightly shorter with more balanced white space above and below text. Also allows more fields to be shown in window.    24840
AP/AR       Multi-branch refinements.
1) A/P repetitive invoice update - update bank code using vendor
currency and user branch to access bank (bnkmst) table.
2) A/P invoice entry - display default bank code using vendor currency and user branch to access bank (bnkmst) table.
3) A/R New Record Entry - default gl_branch using customer warehouse branch.
4) A/R Cheque Entry -display gl branch using customer default warehouse branch.
-display default bank using customer currency and warehouse branch.
5) Statements,Past due letters, Finance charges
- include branch prompt.
6) Reports requiring company address like Sales Invoice, Packing Slip, Order Acknowledgement, Bill of Lading, and AR Statement; based on System Flag, use warehouse address, gl branch address or global address for company name & address.		    20890
AP1100    Invoice Entry    Currently GL Distribution default accounts are being displayed in branch/account sequence. The program has been changed to display the branch/accounts in the same order that they were set up in the Vendor Table Maintenance.    24685
AP1201       Program now prints total number of cheques printed at bottom of report.    22946
AP1300    Cheque Print    New character-mode versions of AP Cheque Print and Sales Invoice.    23695
AP1320    Cheque Reprint Inquiry    New Cheque Reprint Inquiry. This is an audit of all cheques reprinted. It shows both the old and new cheque numbers.    21991
AP2500    Manual Cheque Entry    Allow zero value cheques. This will allow clearing of invoices where amounts are equal and offsetting.    25114
AP2610    Account Payables Payment Release    AP Release Payment Entry. New program that allows Invoice Payments to be taken off hold.    24005
AP3500    General Ledger Distribution Journal    GL Distribution Journal allows selection of currency. This allows for separate reports for each currency.    22581
AP7400    Accounts Payable Re-evaluation Report/Posting    AP Revaluation program now has report, report and update, and update only capabilities.    24396
AR1100    Accounts Receivable Screen Inquiry    Add 'Payments' and 'Sales' buttons for access to drill-down information.    25390
AR3300    Cash Application Report    Print Total Cheques, Cheques Applied, Cheques Not Applied, and Total Invoices following Bank Totals.    10696
AR4100    Detailed Account Receivable Aged Trial Balance    Add ability to select Beginning and Ending Collector Codes.    22580
AR4600    Not Sufficient Funds Entry    New NSF Cheques Report.    23848
AR6400    Accounts Receivable Revaluation Report / Posting    AR Revaluation Report screen now has report, report and update, and update only selections.    24397
BP0900    SDC Batch Server    Add Start/Stop buttons to Batch Server Program.    23423
EDI       EDI programs re-packaged as separate module with it's own menu. There are options to receive sales orders, send order acknowlegments, send shipping notifications, and send sales invoices.    22855
GB0080    Department Maintenance    Add Department Maintenance selection to Global Menu.    24775
GB0090    Employee Master Maintenance - Personal Information    New Employee Listing added to Global Menu. Ability to print employees who are buyers, salesman, or planners or all employees.    24411
GB0100    Global File Maintenance    User-defined text to print on special documents. This text can be defined at Global (gb0100), Product (in0100), Customer (gb0900), Vendor (gb1000), and Customer Special Names (oe0600) Maintenances. You can specify text to print on Packing Slips (PS), Invoices (IN), Purchase Orders (PO), PO Receiving Copy (RC), Bill of Lading (BL), and Order Acknowlegement (OA).    24422
GB0900    Customer Information    New Export Order Flag on Customer Table. If flag is set and Duty paid on product being sold, Duty Recoverable will be calculated and Cost of Goods Sold reduced by amount of Duty Recoverable.    23281
GB0900    Customer Information    New AR Statement-to flag. If set will cause invoices to be sent to Statement-to customer instead of Bill-to customer.    25582
GB0900    Customer Information    Customer accounting branch now being validated vs Branch table. It can now be over-ridden in Order Entry (oe2100). This impacts AR and AR exchange GL postings, and the branch that is passed to the AR Invoice table.    24526
GB1000    Vendor Maintenance    Vendor Hold Flag now has 3 possible settings.
'H' - do not allow cheques to be issued.
'P' - do not allow new purchases, but allow cheques to be issued.
'N' - do not all new purchases, receipts, or cheques to be issued.		    24395
GB2100    Error Log Inquiry    New Application Error Log Inquiry. Captures all ORA errors to a table in addition to being display at bottom of user screen.    23549
GB2400    Program Operator Notes Entry    New User Defined Help by program. See Program Operator Notes (gb4200) under Global Menu. Once entered, this help will automatically be displayed when operator hits Help toolbar icon.    23557
GB2800    System Flags Maintenance    Allow for multiple print formats of special document programs like packing slips, invoices, AP cheques etc. All have one or more character-mode formats. Some also have bit-mapped formats.    22986
GB4200    User Maintenance    Software would ignore any program access records for application role entered in user maintenance if application role was a heirarchy. Programs changed to also check these records.    25830
GB4200    User Maintenance    Each user can now define own directory for 'disk' printing.    23134
GB4260    Toolbar Configuration    New program to allow user to customize his/her toolbar. See Global Menu.    23115
GB4270    User Program Audit Listing    New User Audit facility records all programs a user has executed. There is a flag which allows this feature to be enabled or disabled.    23479
GB4500    Active User Inquiry    New Active User Inquiry displays all users logged into database, what program they are running, PC they are using, and when started. Requires ORACLE 7.2. or greater.    25317
GB4600    Printer Maintenance    Deleting a printer is disallowed if it is being reference by User or Default Printer tables.    23151
GB5800    Account Table Maintenance    CHANGE SCREEN TO DISPLAY 12 PERIODS.    24680
GB6300    Application Role Hierarchy Maintenance    Parent role field-level security now takes precedence over that defined in any children roles (for same field).    24595
GL0300    Branch / Account Duplication    Now possible to copy all accounts in a real branch to a statistical branch.    23711
GL1300    Journal Listing / Update    Automatically does currency conversion when consolidating branches of different currencies.    22508
GL6000    Budget File Maintenance    CHANGE SCREEN TO DISPLAY 12 PERIODS.    24682
GL6100    Budget Inquiry    CHANGE SCREEN TO DISPLAY 12 PERIODS.    24681
GL6300    Actual vs Budget Variance Inquiry    CHANGE SCREEN TO DISPLAY 12 PERIODS.    24683
IN0100    Product    New segmented product code feature uses the same concept as the was used with the segmented General Ledger code..    22360
IN0100    Product    List Price removed. To enter or change prices, see oe1700 (Price Maintenance).    25399
IN0100    Product    Unit of Measure Conversion factors defaults now displayed from Unit Master table.    24967
IN0200    Stock Maintenance    Do not allow receipts where product has no standard cost. Notify user that Standard Costs Exception report should be run. This is a new report to allow user to focus in these products.    23947
IN0200    Stock Maintenance    Purchasing Lead Time Days has been broken up into Shipping and Lead Days. Shipping days is a component of Lead Days. This allows system to calculate Suggested Shipping Date based on Required Date (function of order date and lead days) less Shipping days.    23323
IN0200    Stock Maintenance    Distribution Requirements Planning (rp0100) now calculates what inventory is to be supplied to a warehouse in the supply chain from which warehouse. The rules are established in Stock Maintenance (in0200) and an Interwarehouse Transfer extract is provided (rp2000).    23545
IN1110    Product Cost File Maintenance    Allow query on the 'Last Update Date'.    23722
IN1400    Kit Requirements Update    Now shows quantity on-hand, reserved and on back order.    23298
IN2500    Adjustments Journal    Expand print width of the Comment field.    24686
IN3900    One-Step Warehouse Transfer    Modify this program so that it can only be used where the receiving branch is within the same country as the shipping branch.    24394
IN5500    Inventory Alert Report    Report can now be run for user-defined Product Class and Product Type ranges.    22577
LOTS       Salesman table merged into employee table.    23668
LOTS       Enable user/warehouse security. ie Prevent user from viewing/changing information in warehouses to which he/she does not have access.    23413
LOTS       Planner table merged into employee table.    23667
LOTS       Merge buyer table into the employee table with a flag to designate buyers.    23518
MENU       Procedural documentation now accessible from main menu for each module.    23473
MENU       Bill of Materials (BM) and Engineering (EG) modules replaced by Structures/Routings Module (SR).    23321
MENU       New Kit Processing menu under Inventory menu. Contains Kit Maintenance, Requirements Update, Requirements Listing, Inventory Update, and Purge.    23294
MENU       New high-level menu combines Manufacturing, Distribution, and Financials so users do not have to log-off DYNAMIC*2000 and log back in to switch between major funtions.    24785
OE       New order type 'W' which works exactly like current 'T' (transfer) order type except that Sales Analysis is not updated.    23445
OE       Order Reports (OE Module) now prompt for branch and display currency recap at bottom of report.
NOTE: SA Reports will get same enhancement for Version 2.4.		    24693
OE       All Order Reports now display in Ordering Unit of Measure.    23801
OE/SA       Change order entry/ sales analysis to allow more than 1 salesman per order.    23465
OE1800    Price Listing    Add an Effective Date selection range to the report.    25071
OE2100    Order Entry    Bill-to Customer Address now displays.
    23174
OE4100    Invoice Update    Price Adjustments. If Reason Code 'Return to Stock' flag not set, then price adjustment order quantity will be ignore by sales reports but dollars will be included.

It is also possible to use one reason code to designate returns, but have system use Product reason code to retreive GL Posting information. To take advantage 		   25243
OE4100    Invoice Update    New column in SAINVOICE (Sales History) to record exchange rate used when SADETAIL cost converted from currency of shipping branch to currency of sold-by branch.    24676
OE5100    Back Order Report By Product    Reformat report not to use as much paper.    23948
OE5350    Stock Reallocation by Product    New Stock Re-allocation by Product program allows stock to be de-allocated from one or more orders and re-allocated to one or more different orders.    23519
OE5350    Stock Reallocation by Product    Available should show actual available even if negative. Currently it is showing 0 whenever available is negative.    24514
OE9700    Cancelled Order Inquiry    New program.    23179
PO2000    Purchase Order Entry    Add PO Print button.    22799
PO2000    Purchase Order Entry    Prepaid/Collect column now accepts following entries.
P - prepaid
C - collect
H - prepaid and charge
null - none (for services etc.)		    21916
PO5100    Stock Receipt By Purchase Order    Add the capability to identify in po receipts the work order for which this material is being received and carry this information with the receipt number into po receipts history.    24844
PO5220    Receipt Listing By Product Code    Product Group selection range added.    23411
PP0100    Yearly Sales Forecast Entry    Display Product Stocking Unit of Measure.    24779
PPV       System now tracks purchase price variance for freight, duty, and other.    23218
SA       Sales Analysis Reports. Performance Tuning.    23626
SA0300    Sales Summary Inquiry    Sales Summary table (SAHMST) replaced by a view by the same name. The view references the SAINVOICE, SAHEADER, and SADETAIL tables and has the same column names as the old table did.
    25581
SA0400    Sales Movement Journal by Invoice    Print customer name, salesperson name, warehouse and product descriptions.    24404
SA1220    Sales Commission Report    New Salesperson Commission Report. Uses commission rates entered in Commission Rates Maintenance (gb1210).    25007
SR0510    Formula Maintenance    New program.
Much like the structure file maintenance it will allow the building of a structure where the amount of components will be in relation to a mix either by weight or percent.		    24795