Moving from EPS to DTS

In 2025, Datamine assumed development responsibilities for the Enhanced Production Scheduler (EPS) application, previously used to provide Gantt-type and other operational scheduling functionality for Studio mine planning products.

As part of this, the EPS application was renamed Datamine Task Scheduler (DTS), including associated functions, user interface elements and filenames.

Product Compatibility

The EPS application was retired at this point, and Studio OP and UG applications were updated to work solely with the new DTS program. This change affects the following Studio application versions and later:

Studio OP 4.0 (released Q2 2025)
Studio UG 4.0 (released Q2 2025)

These and later versions of Studio products cannot connect to the legacy EPS application.

Licensing

Studio DTS has a dedicated license, available from your local Datamine office. The legacy EPS license cannot be used to launch the DTS product. The same is true for bundled arrangements, for example, Studio UG 4.0 and later can only be used to activate an installed DTS instance, not EPS.

Note: If these licensing changes are a cause for concern, talk to your local Datamine representative as they can guide you through the relicensing process.

Converting EPS Projects

You can open legacy EPS projects in DTS.

You don't want to have to open each legacy EPS schedule in DTS just to convert it to the new format. This can also be achieved using a handy utility that lets you perform this conversion on either a single or multiple EPS projects.

There are two ways to do this:

Command Line
1. Start eps with the argument: /convertfolder:@yourFolderFilePath
2. Replace @yourFolderFilePath with the folder that contains the EPS files. This will also then create another folder named converted within @yourFolderFilePath containing newly generated DTS files.
Macro
- Run the macro 'ConvertToDts', this will bring up a folder dialog requesting the folder which contains the EPS schedules that need to be converted to DTS.