General Enhancements¶

The following general enhancements have also been made to the product:

Command Line Installation¶

The Installer can be operated from the command-line, whereby the user passes an XML settings file containing details of the installation that they wish to perform. This enables installations to be automated via scripted pipelines.

This is currently only available for standard (on premise) installations, and includes install, uninstall and export options.

For full details, including sample snippets, see the chapter in the Installation Guide.

RESTful Broadcast Type¶

A new broadcast type of REST is now supported, which allows broadcasts to request that data be sent to a RESTful endpoint. See the Scheduling Schema guide for details.

Web Interface Local Install¶

The web interface may be installed locally and used as a proxy to a PSO Azure system. This now uses the Scheduling RESTful Gateway for communication with the PSO system, instead of the WCF Scheduling Gateway. See the Installation Guide for details.

HTM Installations¶

Future releases of HTMs will now run out of the box on Linux/Unix systems without any requirement to manually convert line endings in the creation scripts.

Minor Enhancements¶

• Release Notes: The release notes have now been reordered so that the most recent notes appear at the top of the document.
• Azure Archive Database: The Archive database in Azure will now default to a separate database in the installation process.
• Managed Organisation Permissions: When managing a child organisation, the permissions screen now allows the user to explicitly set whether a permission is accessible to the child organisation.

Performance Comparison¶

The general scheduling performance of the 6.4 version has been measured and verified against the 6.3 version. Full benchmarking results are included in an appendix to the Architecture and Sizing Guide.