Optimizing Distribution Automation in Unicad Environments

Abstract

Distribution Management System is designed for the purpose of providing deliverables to its customers securely. These deliverables are called IPs of the organization. Archi- tecture of the system is planned to make products available to its customers and deliver through various infrastructures as per the customer's interests or requirements. On daily basis hundreds of delivery requests are processed through this system in a secured man- ner. Distribution system has three main features namely DRT, Approval System, UolBE. To make delivery system more stable, various optimizations were proposed and planned. This thesis covers optimizations achieved in Approval System and UolBE. Distribution Dashboard, a subsystem of Approval System was enhanced which consists of resolving few of bugs and new features like creating Ant script to automatically create project war for deployment, session management, make application IE11 compatible, introducing sin- gle sign-on and removal of application login. Later on few of the customer feedback were covered in subsequent product release. In continuation, a new module Reporting feature was also developed for analysis purpose of requests processed in certain time interval and based upon various search parameters. This module also provides facility to export result of query in CSV format using content disposition method. Next optimizations were achieved by enhancing delivery mail templates using HTML, CSS and process them and development of a Java mail API. Main features were multiple attachments, mail contents reading as string and reading from a le. Final work of this project includes incorporating UptPlus size API for incremental SFT delivery. Although distribution team has achieved a signi cant level of automation still due to policy or infrastructure changes there is need to focus on system stabilization for which some proactive actions are being taken. Scope of this thesis is to focus upon enhancement of Approval System and UolBE components of Distribution System.