Chapter 53: Submitting Deferred SKU Offer Updates (MDSS)

Purpose: Use the Deferred SKU Offer Changes function to submit pending SKU offer updates which you have entered previously through the Working with Deferred SKU Offer Changes (WDSO) option or the Deferred SKU Offer Update (MDSU) option. The Deferred SKU Offer Changes function also enables you to advance to the Work with Deferred SKU Offer Changes Screen to create, change, display, or delete SKU Offer Change records.

Important: The deferred SKU Offer update process updates individual SKU Offers only, not updates to Item Offers. Although the system does not prevent you from creating SKU Offer Change records for a non-SKU’d item or the base of a SKU’d item, it does not actually process these update when you submit them, and does not automatically process updates against all SKU Offers for a specified Item and Offer.

Other ways to update item and SKU prices and offers: See Options for Updating Item or SKU Offer or Price for a listing.

Submit Deferred Changes Screen

How to display this screen: Enter MDSS in the Fast Path field at the top of any menu or select Submit Deferred SKU Offer Updates from a menu.

INR0005 ENTER Submit Deferred Changes 3/28/08 10:29:19 EZK Mail Order Type the Offer to have Deferred changes applied and press Enter to continue. Offer Generate Item Out Triggers Y (Y/N) F3=Exit F12=Cancel F14=Work with Deferred Changes F24=Select company

Field	Description
Offer	The offer for which you would like to process deferred item and SKU updates. Offers are defined in and validated against the Offer file; see Working with Offers (WOFR) for more information. Alphanumeric, 3 positions; required.
Generate item out triggers	Indicates whether to create an outbound interface transaction trigger for each item and SKU whose deferred offer information is updated when you complete this screen. The system creates a trigger with a file type of SKU, indicating to generate an outbound item XML message for the item. See Generic Item Download API for more information on the outbound XML message. Valid values are: Y = Create a trigger to create an outbound item XML message (CWItemOut) for each item and SKU whose deferred offer information is processed. N = Do not create the triggers for the outbound item XML message. This field defaults to the setting from the last time you used this menu option. If there is no stored setting, the default is Y. See Working with Default Options (WDFT) for information on how the system stores defaults. Note: This field is displayed only if the Create Generic Item Download Trigger Records (I15) system control value is set to Y. Alphanumeric, 1 position; required.

Submitting changes: To submit a group of deferred changes, enter the offer code that you want to update. The system submits the DFRCHG_UPD job, which processes all deferred changes that you have created for SKU’s in that offer through Working with Deferred SKU Offer Changes (WDSO).

Note: If you submit the job multiple times but change the setting of the Generate item out triggers flag before the previously submitted job is complete, the system displays an error message: Item out trigger gen opt set differently for submitted job - try again later. Once the submitted job has finished, you can resubmit it with the different item trigger setting.

Screen Option	Procedure
Work with deferred SKU offer changes	Press F14 to advance to the Work with Deferred SKU Offer Changes Screen.