On Friday, it’s EpiUsers Frideas Day! Have you been to the Epicor Ideas Portal recently? If so, are there some ideas you want to encourage other users to vote for? Maybe want to add comments to an existing idea?
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The idea behind Frideas was to bring the community together to help each other out and bring awareness to ideas that we felt would provide value to the software. With that in mind I would like to lobby for votes for my idea of making Delivery Plans work across order numbers. I believe many businesses would benefit from having the option to make multiple orders ship together and that is the intention of the idea.
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We require the ability to read and write to files outside of the built in Epicor data shares. We have built a number of BPMs and functions that rely heavily on System.IO to interact with files in our network including nesting software and verifying that files exist in engineering files. AFIK Sandbox.IO still does not provide this for on prem customers since it is still an idea:
Sandbox.IO Ability to Map Folders in LAN Outside | Epicor Ideas Portal
Also:
Roll back Custom Code Restrictions that are no | Epicor Ideas Portal
@Schae235 I really do like this idea, but there are complications. For everyone interested, I put some questions in the comment within the idea for you to consider. Just because I started the discussion does NOT mean that it will get in the software soon… but before we can proceed, there are lots of answers. I think i want to see all the ways that customers use this in the future before we start adding more capabilities.
ALSO NOTE that there is at least one other idea for delivery plans: Log In - Epicor Identity
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Dunno if this one’s going to see the light of day. There isn’t a matching Ideas category, and support doesn’t want it.
Provide “safe harbor” policy regarding vulnerability reporting
There doesn’t appear to be a policy at any level.
Support doesn’t have a workflow for safely handling a reported vulnerability.
Users are on their own to guess how to help Epicor respond effectively.
Policy is a company’s commitment to not adversarially “solving” noticing a problem.
Policy informs users how and when performing due diligence is desired and expected.
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Our BOD is also wanting this.
I reached out to Rich two years ago and he put me in touch with Nick Dyer about setting up some type of forum. I followed up with another letter but Nick didn’t respond again. 
Nick is apparently still with Epicor.
Maybe there’s someone else to contact?
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Not sure how many of these are solved but putting this nice post here for review at some point:
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For all you techies.. check out this Epicor ICE idea for Self-Service Data Subscription for Integrations
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Self-Service Data Subscription for Integrations
(for the non Epicor employees)
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On a surface level how is this different to what is already available with CDC? Registering a subscriber as push or pull.
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Here’s an Idea from @Banderson that should get some more votes: Add custom indexes through UI (like in data | Epicor Ideas Portal
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Yes please!
as i understand it.. this data subscription is slightly different. we now have something called “data fabric” which enables faster movement of large volumes of data. but it has to be setup. This concept of “self service” would allow users and integrators to have access to the data fabric model for sending and receiving the change messages.
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Perhaps the key is CDC is ‘net-change’ this idea is more betterer than that. 
@timshuwy in the cloud, on-prem, both? I like the idea as we intend to do a number of integrations to external systems once we’re on 2025.x. But we’re on-prem, so I have to ask.
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For the scenario listed in the idea of a system or integrator wants to ‘subscribe’ to x data change such as a new or updated customer (with filters or extensions out to other tables is fully available in CDC. However I suppose this is just for Kinetic. So I could see data fabric being used as beneficial if it gives the same functionality to other Epicor Systems. However I think that communication would be key along side it to give an idea to customers and partners of what to use when. This new feature / Data fabric, CDC, Automation Studio etc.
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I suppose that is my question, how would it be better than CDC. cDC is very powerful and can give webhook / webhook like functionality across the whole of Kinetic and is most likely an under utilised feature that everyone has.
well.. as I have been told by dev… Data Fabric USES CDC as part of the mechanism under the covers. but what data fabric does is it publishes the changes automatically to the designated queue. You basically select the table and fields, and then any changes auto publish the change through Data Fabric, and then the other end does any work necessary with it.
So… in essence, Data Fabric pubslishes to a queue, and then other things can subscribe and process.