We are on Baan IV c3 and have implemented several External EDI messages in multi-file mode.

We now intend to bring in EDI orders from several sources at the same time. By several sources I mean -
1. Orders from translator that are passed on to Baan periodically during the day.
2. Some of our customers send us orders directly, outside of translator and they too need to get loaded into Baan asap.
3. Certain credits ( Return & Collect orders) our service reps issue which we convert to flat files and bring them into Baan thru EDI.
4. Also, orders from field via PDA are written to a flat file to be loaded the EDI way...

We use Direct Network Communication (DNC) session to bring them all in. My understanding is that we cannot have more than one instance of DNC session runnning at any time ( even with different networks), forcing us to set up sequential batch jobs for all these activities.

Is my understanding wrong? If so, how can we multi-thread DNC w/o affecting performance too badly ( I am at 1 line/sec right now). I was hoping EDI Interchange controller will be the answer but that sounds like a solution more to do with frequency rather than multiplicty.

I tried multiple networks/ messages ( like 850, 850PDA, 850CRD etc all for 850 and with the same library) but with limited success..

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.