This section includes information about new features introduced for supporting new product introduction.

• Manage Product Specifications

• Configure Product Specifications to CFS Relationships

• Mapping Product Parameters with CFS Parameters

Solution Designer introduces the REST API to support TMF 620 Product Catalog Management Open API. See REST API for Service Catalog and Design for more information on REST APIs.

See "Managing Infrastructure Specifications" in Solution Designer User's Guide for detailed information on managing the specifications.

You can now relate a specification to another specification or change relationship properties by using Related Specifications tab. The Related Specifications tab is divided into subtabs where you can define relationships to different entity types. Only the entity types listed in the subtab have meaningful relationships by default in UIM. The Others subtab enables you to relate other specifications, but these relationships require rulesets to trigger behaviors and actions in UIM.

See "Relating Specifications" in Solution Designer User's Guide for detailed information on relating specifications.

In this release, the Data Elements application is renamed to the Administration application. In the Administration application, you can manage data elements and converters. See "Managing Data Elements and Converters" in Solution Designer User's Guide for detailed information on the Administration application.

The Design Studio component of Service Catalog and Design is upgraded from Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12.2.1.9 to Eclipse 2024-09. See Design Studio Installation Guide for detailed information on installing Eclipse 2024-09. Also see Compatibility Matrix for information on supported software for Design Studio.

Problem: The four data elements Subject ID, Customer ID, Commercial ID, and Service Address are not generated in the cartridge generated by the DevOps engine. When you do not have these data elements as design parameters, these are not added in the service action parameters to the cartridge by default.

Solution: Four data elements Subject ID, Customer ID, Commercial ID, and Service Address are preloaded in the Administration application in Solution Designer. You must configure these four data elements as design parameters in those specifications for which you want to generate service action parameters by the DevOps engine. When you publish the initiative that contains these specifications, the DevOps engine adds the service action parameters in the cartridges.

Problem: When you define a standard policy for creating a resource, Solution Designer creates the resource automatically only for Logical Device specification and Logical Device Account specification. Solution Designer does not create the resource automatically for all the other specifications.

Solution: For all the other specifications, you can define an advanced policy for creating a resource and write the implementation code in the extended designer class for creating a resource.

Limitation: In Solution Designer, domain names must have more than one character and cannot have a single character.

Problem: In the Data Elements page, when you use Text Field as Control Type for Time, and Date and Time data types, UIM run-time user interface displays those fields as plain text fields and does not provide the calendar icon and format.

Workaround: In the Data Elements page, select Calendar as the Control Type for Time, and Date and Time data types.

Problem: In Data Elements with Dropdown as Control Type, Query based as Data values, when the SQL or JPQL query that you write returns a numeric value, UIM run-time user interface displays Invalid Query error message.

Workaround: When you write the SQL or the JPQL query for query based drop-down data elements, ensure that it returns only a string value.

Problem: When you import Design Studio workspace into Design Studio and have multiplicity configured for nested Feature Group data elements in that workspace, you may receive Maximum multiplicity conflict error in Design Studio.

Solution: You may need to close the Design Studio environment and reopen it.

Problem: In Design Studio for Network Integrity, when importing Network Integrity projects into a Design Studio workspace by specifying the root folder, the actions and processors are not visible in the Studio Projects view. However, it is visible in the Package Explorer view in the model folder of the project.

Workaround: You may need to close the projects in Design Studio and reopen them.

Limitation: When you create a design policy for a resource specification of type as Standard policy, Standard policy type as Resource selection, with a condition having a numeric characteristics and operator other than Is equal to, the appropriate resource specification may not be associated in UIM especially with operations such as Is more than or Is less than.

UIM stores all the characteristics as Text so the numeric characteristics are converted to Text. When the condition is run for the resource selection policy, the condition is not satisfied due to the comparison of text values as the condition query constructed is also text based instead of numeric values. For example, the numeric comparison of 10 Is more than 5 is true whereas the string comparison of 10 Is more than 5 is false. Therefore, when a service order is requested, the expected resource specification may not be associated based on the resource selection policy.