Table of Contents
- Title and Copyright Information
- Preface
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1
Summary of Customer-Reported
Fixes
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Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM
- Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 8
- Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 7
- Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 6
- Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 5
- Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 4
- Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 3
- Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 2
- Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 1
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Customer-Reported Fixes in
ECE
- Customer-Reported Fixes in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 8
- Customer-Reported Fixes in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 7
- Customer-Reported Fixes in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 6
- Customer-Reported Fixes in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 5
- Customer-Reported Fixes in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 4
- Customer-Reported Fixes in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 3
- Customer-Reported Fixes in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 2
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Customer-Reported Fixes in PDC
- Customer-Reported Fixes in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 8
- Customer-Reported Fixes in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 7
- Customer-Reported Fixes in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 6
- Customer-Reported Fixes in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 5
- Customer-Reported Fixes in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 4
- Customer-Reported Fixes in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 3
- Customer-Reported Fixes in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 2
- Customer-Reported Fixes in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 1
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Customer-Reported Fixes in Billing
Care
- Customer-Reported Fixes in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 8
- Customer-Reported Fixes in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 7
- Customer-Reported Fixes in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 6
- Customer-Reported Fixes in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 5
- Customer-Reported Fixes in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 4
- Customer-Reported Fixes in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 3
- Customer-Reported Fixes in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 2
- Customer-Reported Fixes in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 1
- Customer-Reported Fixes in Business Operations Center
- Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM Thick Clients
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Customer-Reported Fixes in BRM
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2
New Features in BRM
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New Features in BRM 12.0 Patch Set
8
- BRM Supports Flexible Proration Options
- Support for Conversion to Wholesale Hierarchy
- Sharing Groups Now Support Multiple Schemas
- Discount Offer Stacking Support
- Pre-Expiry/Post-Expiry Notification Support
- Kafka DM Enhancements
- Real-time Balances from ECE Available As a SOAP Web Service
- Price-tag-based Price Override Support in REST Services Manager
- Two-phase Billing Support in REST Services Manager
- BRM Supports Two-Way SSL Authentication
- Rated Event Manager Support for CDR Streaming
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New Features in BRM 12.0 Patch Set
7
- Promise-to-Pay Enhancements
- Balance Impact Stores Current Balance of Resources
- Support for Setting Credit Floor Dynamically
- First Usage Activation Enhancements in BRM
- Balance Monitoring Enhancements
- Support for Add-On Products in Deals
- Sharing Group Improvements
- Notifications Can Be Triggered After Event Occurrence
- Proration Can Be Configured at the Product Level
- Improvements to Tax Handling for Bill Disputes
- Secure Communication to the BRM Database
- Running Stored Procedures in BRM
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New Features in BRM 12.0 Patch Set
6
- Support for PINless Debit Payment Processing
- Kafka DM Enhancements
- BRM Notification Enhancements
- BRM Supports Temporary Credit Limits
- Customer Deposits
- Loan Management Enhancements
- BRM Can Now Track Failed Operations
- Cloud Native Support for SSO
- Exposing Charge and Tax Details for Payments and Adjustments
- Support for More Granular Tax Code Application
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New Features in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 5
- Top-Up Enhancements
- Loan Management
- New Bill States
- Sample Prepaid Service Life Cycle
- XML Price List Enhancements for BRM
- Rerating Noncurrency Resources When Products are Canceled
- Options for Exceeding Credit Limits
- New Residency Type to Support Distinct Searches
- Customizing V$SESSION Table Details for dm_oracle and dm_ifw_sync
- BRM Now Supports Dynamic Charging
- BRM Now Supports Dynamic Taxation
- BRM Now Supports Promotions Based on Special Dates, Events, and Actions
- Sending Messages to Customers through External Notification Applications
- pin_inv_doc_gen Now Uses JDBC
- BRM Cloud Native Enhancements in Patch Set 5
- New Features Supported by BRM REST Services Manager
- New Method for Loading Rated Events from ECE into BRM
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New Features in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 4
- BRM Cloud Native Enhancements in Patch Set 4
- Monitoring BRM Components
- BRM Now Supports ASC 606/IFRS 15 Revenue Recognition
- Deferring Corrective Bills and Invoices
- BRM Supports Integration with Apache Kafka Servers
- Integrating BRM with External Care Applications
- Running Business Operations and BRM Applications from Custom Clients
- Using Paymentech Card Type Indicator
- XML Product Offering Enhancements
- BRM Supports Additional Cipher Suites
- Web Services Manager Now Supports Oracle Access Manager 12.2.1.3.0
- Support for TM Forum REST APIs
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New Features in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 3
- BRM Cloud Native Deployment Enhancements
- BRM Server, Thick Clients, and PCC Now Localized
- Revenue Assurance Supports Custom Applications
- Pipeline Manager Can Now Support 28-Digit Decimal
- New Timeout Parameter for Account Synchronization DM
- Support Added for AES Encryption
- Enable SSL/TLS between Client and the CM Only
- Adjusting Taxes by a Specified Amount
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New Features in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 2
- Deploying BRM Services on a Cloud Native Environment
- Wholesale Billing Enhancements
- Additional Card Security Presence Values Supported for Card Validation or Authorization
- Card Security Code Is Now Masked in Logs
- Display Bills Generated Before Moving the Account to a Hierarchy
- Managing Discount Validity Starting or Ending in Future Cycles
- Wildcard in Item Type Selectors
- BRM Supports POID Generation in ECE
- Support for Stored-Credential Transactions for Payments
- Support for Migration of Legacy Data into BRM and ECE in Real Time
- Support for Migrating Hierarchical Accounts Using Same Input File
- Event Rounding Rules Can Be Used for Adjustments
- New Staging Directory for Exported G/L reports
- BRM Client Applications Supported from 12.0 Patch Set 2
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New Features in BRM 12.0 Patch Set 1
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Improved Performance for Large Accounts
- Enabling Wholesale Billing
- Creating Wholesale Accounts and Bill Unit Hierarchies
- Configuring Wholesale Business Profile
- Setting Up a Wholesale Parent
- Rolling Charges Up to the Wholesale Parent
- Rolling A/R Actions Up to the Wholesale Parent
- Rolling Journals Up to the Wholesale Parent
- Running Wholesale Billing
- Configuring Billing Delay for Wholesale Hierarchies
- Setting Up Billing-Time Discounts for Wholesale Hierarchies
- Suppressing Bills for Wholesale Hierarchies
- Trial Billing for Wholesale Hierarchies
- Support for A/R Activities
- Specifying Search Criteria for Retrieving Items, Events, and Bills
- Moving Bill Units into or out of Wholesale Hierarchies
- Configuration Changes
- Opcode Changes
- Schema Changes
- Storable Class Changes
- Utility Changes
- pin_update_journals
- pin_roll_up_ar_items
- Delay Interval Can be Configured for Resolving Failed Payments
- Enhanced Data Protection
- Enhanced Security for Root Wallet
- Support for Rolling Back the BRM Patch Set
- BRM 12.0 Is Now Certified with Mozilla Firefox 58.0
- BRM 12.0 Is Now Certified with Perl 5.28.0
- BRM 12.0 Is Now Certified with Paymentech 120 Byte Batch Version 3.0.0 R 12.4 and Online Authorization Version 7.4 R12.4
- BRM 12.0 Is Now Certified with Tomcat 8.5.32
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Improved Performance for Large Accounts
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New Features in BRM 12.0 Patch Set
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New Features in ECE
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New Features in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 8
- Extensions for Midsession-Rated Events
- Reasons Now Included for Midsession-Rated Events
- Midsession-Rated Events Created When USU Block Missing
- Extensions for Sy Request-Response Flow
- Active-Active Mode Can Now Process Requests in Local Sites
- ECE Enhancements for Processing Free Allowances
- Support for Tax Selectors and Tax Exemption Selectors
- ECE Supports Flexible Proration Settings
- ECE Cloud Native Contains New ConfigLoader Pod
- Support for Prepaid Usage Overage
- Rated Event Publisher Support for CDR Streaming
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New Features in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 7
- Time-Based Price Overrides and Dynamic Usage Rating
- Bundle Renewal Triggered from ECE
- Non-Linear Rating Configurable by Event Type
- Balance Query Returns Lifecycle Information
- Current Balance Now Returned with Balance Impact
- First Usage Activation Enhancements
- Network Signaling Optimization
- Balance Monitoring and Group Credit Limits
- Product Sharing
- Logging of Usage Rating Failures
- Robust Handling of Configuration Data
- Quorum Policy Handling in ECE
- Rolling Upgrade Enhancements
- Access to Bundle Information in ECE
- Ability to Call a BRM Opcode from ECE
- CDR Generator Enhancements
- Policy-Based Charging Notification Enhancements
- Usage Consumption Management Report Certification
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New Features in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 6
- ECE SDK Includes New Rated Events Custom Plugin
- ECE Now Supports Temporary Credit Limits
- ECE Now Supports Loan Management
- ECE Can Now Record Failed Usage Requests
- HTTP Gateway Supports Charging Type-Based Configuration for CDR Generation
- ECE Supports 5G SA Nchf_OfflineOnlyCharging Service
- Enhancements for HTTP Gateway Registration with an NRF
- ECE REST API Supports New CHF Operation Types
- HTTP Gateway Now Determines Charging Type
- New Features in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 5
- New Features in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 4
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New Features in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 3
- Apache Kafka Now Supported for Notification Handling
- Support for Configuring Diameter Gateway to Bypass Rating During ECE Downtime
- Diameter Gateway Now Supports the 5G Non-Standalone Architecture
- ECE Now Supports 5G CHF Protocol
- New HTTP Gateway for 5G Networks
- Active-Hot Standby and Segmented Active-Active DR Support Persistence-Enabled Deployments
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New Features in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 2
- New Tools to Monitor ECE
- Duplicate Check Enhancement in ECE
- Charging Operation Type Can be Configured for Expired Active Session Cleanup
- ECE Now Generates POID for Events
- New Tool for Querying ECE Cache Data
- ECE Now Supports Wildcard in Item Type Selectors
- Support for Persisting BRS Configuration Data
- Rated Event Partition in the ECE Persistent Database
- New Features in ECE 12.0/12.0 Patch Set 1
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New Features in ECE 12.0 Patch Set 8
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New Features in PDC
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New Features in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 8
- PDC Supports Flexible Proration Options
- PDC Enhancement to Consume Allowances before Charging
- PDC UI Support for Tax Selectors and Tax Exemption Selectors
- PDC UI Support for Automated Product and Discount Sharing Groups
- PDC UI Support for 30-Day Proration
- PDC UI Support for Add-On Charge Offers in Bundles
- PDC Cloud Native Support for SSO
- Support for ProductOffering and ProductOfferingPrice GET APIs
- PDC Support for Discount Offer Stacking
- New Features in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 7
- New Features in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 6
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New Features in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 5
- PDC Supports Event Notifications
- Charges in PDC Support Dynamic Taxation
- Moving Tax Codes to PDC
- Distributing Noncurrency Balances in Incremental Buckets
- Now Specify Whether to Continue Charging for SuspendedActive Accounts
- Support for Purchasing the Same Offer Multiple Times
- Prorating Billing DOM Changes, Package Transitions, and Bundle Transitions
- Setting Charge Offer Cycle Alignment for Reactivated Bundles
- PDC UI Supports Recurring Charges on Specific DOM
- PDC UI Supports Versioning with Date Ranges
- PDC UI Supports Options for Exceeding Credit Limits
- PDC UI Supports Product Specification Attributes
- PDC REST Services Manager Supports OAuth with Oracle Access Management
- PDC REST Services Manager Supports Synchronizing New Elements
- New Features in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 4
- New Features in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 3
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New Features in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 2
- Support for Configuring Item Type Selectors in the PDC User Interface
- PDC Web Services for Creating and Exporting Components
- PDC Synchronizes Event Data Using Event Types
- PDC Now Supports Wildcard in Item Type Selectors
- Support for Enabling SSO Using SAML
- New Features in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 1
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New Features in PDC 12.0 Patch Set 8
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New Features in Billing Care
- New Features in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 8
- New Features in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 7
- New Features in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 6
- New Features in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 5
- New Features in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 4
- New Features in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 3
- New Features in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 2
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New Features in Billing Care 12.0 Patch Set 1
- Additional Options for Searching Bills
- Billing Care Is Now Certified with Mozilla Firefox 58.0
- Billing Care is Now Certified with Oracle Identity and Access Management 12c Release 2
- SDK for Customizing the Purchase Flow and Assets Display
- Support for Backdated Account Creation and Product Purchase
- Support for Creating Wholesale Accounts and Billing Hierarchies
- Support for Customizing Product Information Post Account Creation
- Support for Deferred Actions
- Support for Multischema
- Support for Undefined Payment Method
- Support for Enabling SSO using SAML
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New Features in Business Operations Center
- New Features in Business Operations Center 12.0 Patch Set 8
- New Features in Business Operations Center 12.0 Patch Set 4
- New Features in Business Operations Center 12.0 Patch Set 3
- New Features in Business Operations Center 12.0 Patch Set 2
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New Features in Business Operations Center 12.0 Patch Set 1
- Business Operations Center is Now Certified with Jersey Bundle 2.27 (Patch Set 1)
- Business Operations Center is Now Certified with Jackson 2.9.6 (Patch Set 1)
- Business Operations Center is Now Certified with Log4j2 2.11.1 (Patch Set 1)
- Business Operations Center Is Now Certified with Mozilla Firefox 58.0 (Patch Set 1)
- Business Operations Center is Now Certified with Oracle Identity and Access Management 12c Release 2 (Patch Set 1)
- Business Operations Center is Now Certified with Quartz Scheduler 2.3.0 (Patch Set 1)
- 7 Opcode Changes
- 8 Storable Class Changes
- 9 Event Notification Changes
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Business Parameter Changes
- New Accounts Receivable Business Parameter Entries
- New Billing Business Parameter Entries
- New Customer Business Parameter Entries
- New Invoicing Business Parameter Entries
- New Multibalance Business Parameter Entries
- New Notification Business Parameter Entries
- New Rating Business Parameter Entries
- New Subscription Business Parameter Entries
- New System Business Parameter Entries
- 11 Schema and Index Changes
- 12 Utility Changes
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13
Known Problems
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Known Problems in BRM
- A/R Actions between Billing and Invoicing Not Captured in Invoice
- Bill Now Generates Two Audit Objects for Nonpaying Child Items
- Cannot Install BRM Reports and BRM Invoices in the Same Home Directory as Oracle Analytics Server
- BRM Server and Client OUI Installers Not Localized in Russian
- Default Invoices Do Not Display Custom Events and Items
- Error When Configuring or Modifying Security Policies for Web Services Manager for JAX-WS
- Event Browser Displays Data Internal to BRM in the Event Description
- Invoices Do Not Display Charge Sharing Details Separately
- Invoices Might Display Wrong Discount Amount
- pin_inv_accts Fails for Migrated Accounts if Business Intelligence Publisher Invoicing Integration Is Enabled
- Refund Is Incorrectly Calculated When Remaining Charge Discount Canceled
- RE Loader Daemon Fails to Process Files Under Load
- Sample Prepaid Service Life Cycle Does Not Support Provisioning of Telco Services
- The SLM Feature Does Not Support Account Billing Relationships
- Settlement Taxes Might Be Incorrectly Calculated
- stop_eai_js Does Not Work
- Summary Invoices Do Not Show Real-Time Discount and Tax Details for Items
- Tax Not Recalculated after Rerating
- Error When Creating a New Data Sequence for BRM
- Error in Multischema System
- Known Problems in Business Operations Center
- Known Problems in Billing Care
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Known Problems in PDC
- PDC Search Functionality Not Working As Expected
- Migrating Pricing Data Fails in a PDC System with BRE and RRE
- Adding Balance Groups and Setting Credit Limits in a Package Displays Exceptions
- Migration Fails Even When the Migration Process is Enabled to Skip Errors
- You Are Not Warned to Save Your Changes
- Known Problems in PCC
- Known Problems in BRM Cloud Native Deployment
- Known Problems in BRM REST Services Manager
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Known Problems in BRM