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Releases 12.1 and 12.2 (inclusive of 12.0.2 – 12.2.10)
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document ii
3.3.9.1. Simplified Configuration for Managed Server Information 10
3.3.9.2. EBS Installation Central Inventory 11
3.3.9.3. Simplified Mechanism for Changing Oracle WebLogic Server Administration User Password 11
3.3.9.4. Middle Tier Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Codelevel Checker 11
3.3.9.5. External Integration with Oracle Unified Directory 11
3.3.10. Release 12.2.7 11
3.3.10.1. Job Role Separation 11
3.3.10.2. Java Web Start 12
3.3.10.3. Support for Logical Host Names 12
3.3.10.4. Support for Oracle Grid Listener 12
3.3.10.5. Support for Oracle GoldenGate Replication 12
3.3.11. Release 12.2.7+ 12
3.3.11.1. s_srvctl_thread_count Context Variable 12
3.3.12. Release 12.2.9 12
3.3.12.1. Java Web Start on macOS with Firefox 12
3.3.12.2. Multiple Forms Sessions with Java Web Start 12
3.4. Internationalization 13
3.4.1. Release 12.1.1 13
3.4.1.1. Hijrah and Thai Buddhist Calendar Support 13
3.4.1.2. Multilingual Support/National Language Support (MLS/NLS) Enhancements in Concurrent Processing 13
3.4.2. Release 12.1.2 13
3.4.2.1. Lithuanian, Indonesian, and Ukrainian language support 13
3.4.2.2. Space and single quote number group separator support 13
3.4.2.3. First day of the week support 13
3.4.2.4. Gantt chart and inline (embedded) date pickers support Thai and Hijrah calendars 14
3.4.3. Release 12.1.3 14
3.4.3.1. Oracle iSetup MLS 14
3.4.3.2. Lightweight MLS 14
3.4.3.3. Improved MLS Export Functionality in Oracle Application Framework 14
3.4.3.4. Oracle Application Framework Rich UI Bi-Directional Support 15
3.4.3.5. Serbian Language Support 15
3.4.4. Release 12.2 15
3.4.4.1. Lightweight MLS Enhanced Support 15
3.4.4.2. Linguistic Sorting Support 15
3.4.4.3. Character Date International Calendar Support Enhancements 15
3.4.4.4. Expanded Number Spelling Support 15
3.4.4.5. Support for All Territories in Oracle Database 15
3.4.4.6. Serbian Language Support 15
3.4.4.7. Forms UI Export Functionality Enhancements 15
3.4.4.8. Oracle Workflow E-mail Character Encoding Configuration 16
3.4.4.9. Oracle Diagnostics Internationalization Enhancements 16
3.4.4.10. Oracle Diagnostics Internationalization Tests 16
3.4.4.11. Internationalization Library Version Display Support 16
3.4.5. Release 12.2.5 16
3.4.5.1. Lightweight-Only Language Support 16
3.4.5.2. Concurrent Programs Support for Linguistic Sorting 17
3.4.5.3. Oracle iSetup Internationalization Enhancements 17
3.4.5.4. Oracle Report Manager Internationalization Enhancements 17
3.4.6. Release 12.2.6 18
3.4.6.1. Improved Language Determination 18
3.4.6.2. Translation Synchronization Patches Manifest File for Full Mode Languages Only 18
3.4.6.3. Oracle Applications Manager Licensing for Lightweight MLS 18
3.4.6.4. Oracle iSetup Streamlined Migration of Language Data 18
3.4.6.5. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator Internationalization Enhancements 19
3.4.7. Release 12.2.7 19
3.4.7.1. Calendar Configuration File Editor 19
3.4.7.2. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator Internationalization Enhancements 19
3.4.7.3. Oracle Workflow Internationalization Enhancements 19
3.4.8. Release 12.2.9 19
3.4.8.1. Certification of Edge and Firefox Browsers for Bidirectional Languages 19
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document iii
3.4.8.2. Oracle Workflow Internationalization Enhancements 20
4. Applications Technology 21
4.1. Oracle Application Framework 21
4.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 21
4.1.1.1. Expose HGrid's Record Set Size for Administrator Personalization 21
4.1.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 21
4.1.2.1. Record History 21
4.1.2.2. Flexfield Reference Fields 21
4.1.3. Release 12.1.1 22
4.1.3.1. Record History 22
4.1.3.2. Bulk Uploads for Attachments 22
4.1.3.3. Home Page Favorites Links Can Open in New Windows 22
4.1.3.4. Support for Java BigDecimal Data Type 22
4.1.3.5. Enhanced Search Region Personalization 22
4.1.3.6. Application Tier Data Sorting 22
4.1.3.7. Virus Scan Support for Attachments 22
4.1.3.8. Flexfield Reference Fields 23
4.1.3.9. Hijrah and Thai Buddhist Calendar Support 23
4.1.4. Release 12.1.2 23
4.1.4.1. User Interface Enhancements 23
4.1.4.2. Oracle E-Business Suite Business Intelligence (OBIEE) Integration 24
4.1.4.3. Portlet Generator 24
4.1.4.4. REST Interface 24
4.1.5. Release 12.1.3 24
4.1.5.1. User Interface Improvements 24
4.1.5.2. Opening Portlet Links in a New Window 25
4.1.5.3. ADF Integration 25
4.1.6. Release 12.2 25
4.1.6.1. Usability Improvements 25
4.1.6.2. AutoVue Integration 26
4.1.6.3. Personalization Improvements 26
4.1.6.4. Enhanced Oracle JDeveloper OA Extension 27
4.1.6.5. iPad Certification 27
4.1.6.6. Enhanced Key Flexfield End Date Validation 28
4.1.6.7. Support for Copying Attachments 28
4.1.6.8. Support for File Upload Anti-Virus Scanning 28
4.1.6.9. Preferences Page Integration with Delivery Manager 28
4.1.6.10. Enhanced “About” Page 28
4.1.6.11. Improved External Applications Integration 28
4.1.6.12. Portlet Generator Changes 28
4.1.6.13. Disable Access Keys 28
4.1.6.14. New Rating Bar 28
4.1.6.15. Modal Pop-Up 29
4.1.6.16. Long Text Attachment 29
4.1.6.17. Improved Record History 29
4.1.6.18. Message Rich Text Editor AntiSamy Support 29
4.1.6.19. Improved Sorting Support for Composite Table Columns 29
4.1.6.20. Obsolescence of Validation Profiles 29
4.1.6.21. Improved Classic and Advanced Table Accessibility Support 29
4.1.7. Release 12.2.3 29
4.1.7.1. New Skyros Skin 29
4.1.7.2. Rich Table Interactions 29
4.1.7.3. Dynamic Views 30
4.1.8. Release 12.2.4 30
4.1.8.1. Dialog Pages as Modal Pop-Ups 30
4.1.8.2. Rich Table Interactions 30
4.1.8.3. Rich HGrid Interactions 30
4.1.8.4. Time Support in Date Picker 30
4.1.8.5. New Menu Component 30
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document iv
4.1.8.6. New Spin Box Component 30
4.1.8.7. Gesture Support for Mobile Devices 30
4.1.8.8. Universal Global Header 31
4.1.8.9. Simplified Home Page 31
4.1.8.10. Chrome Browser Certification 31
4.1.8.11. HTML5 Certification 31
4.1.8.12. Support for Hiding Columns in an Attachment Table 31
4.1.8.13. New Advanced Search Criteria 31
4.1.9. Release 12.2.5 31
4.1.9.1. Look-and-Feel Upgrade to Oracle Alta UI 31
4.1.9.2. Rich Table Interactions 32
4.1.9.3. Simplified Page UI 32
4.1.9.4. Descriptive Flexfield Support as a Pop-Up 32
4.1.9.5. Inline Attachment Enhancements 32
4.1.9.6. Pop-Up Enhancements 32
4.1.9.7. Icon Support for Buttons 33
4.1.9.8. ‘WHERE’ Clause Support for Key Flexfields 33
4.1.10. Release 12.2.6 33
4.1.10.1. Developer Controls on Types of Attachments 33
4.1.10.2. Attachments Integration with Oracle AutoVue Release 20.2.3 33
4.1.10.3. Oracle AutoVue Library Update for New Print APIs 33
4.1.10.4. Validation Support for URL Attachments 33
4.1.10.5. Home Page and Global Header Improvements 33
4.1.10.6. Search Region Usability Improvements 33
4.1.10.7. Flexfield Special Value Set 34
4.1.10.8. Splitter Component 34
4.1.10.9. Layered Layout 34
4.1.10.10. Table Integration with Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator 34
4.1.10.11. Record History Support of Non-EO-Based View Objects 34
4.1.10.12. Tri-State Checkbox Support for Multi-Select Tables 34
4.1.10.13. Header Text Selection Support to Hide/Show Content in iOS 34
4.1.10.14. Relocation of Date Field Tip Text 34
4.1.10.15. Support for Hint in Text Field, LOV Input Field, and Spin Box 35
4.1.11. Release 12.2.7 35
4.1.11.1. Personalization Workbench 35
4.1.11.2. Repositioning of Navigator Icon in Home Page and Global Header 35
4.1.11.3. Support for Adding Bookmarkable Pages to Favorites Using Icon 35
4.1.11.4. Simplified Attachment Pop-up Window 35
4.1.11.5. Themes 35
4.1.11.6. Multi-Column Search in Look-Ahead List of Values 36
4.1.11.7. Column Freezing in HGrids 36
4.1.11.8. Expression Language (EL) Support for Profiles and Messages 36
4.1.12. Release 12.2.9 36
4.1.12.1. List Search 36
4.1.12.2. Masonry Layout 37
4.1.12.3. Accordion Component 37
4.1.12.4. Query By Example 37
4.1.12.5. Simplified Table Toolbar 37
4.1.12.6. Enhancements for Rich Table Interaction 37
4.1.12.7. Tip Bean Enhancements 38
4.1.12.8. Color Picker Enhancement 38
4.1.12.9. Key Flexfield LOV Pop-up 38
4.1.12.10. Shorthand Alias Search in Key Flexfield Window 38
4.1.12.11. Look-ahead Support for Key Flexfield Search 38
4.1.12.12. Descriptive Flexfields Usability Improvements 38
4.1.12.13. Home Page Enhancements 38
4.1.12.14. Default Favorites 38
4.1.12.15. Global Header Enhancements 39
4.1.12.16. Date Picker Modal Window Enhancements 39
4.1.12.17. List of Values Modal Window Enhancements 39
4.1.12.18. Enhanced Graphs 39
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document v
4.1.12.19. Internet Explorer 11 Standard Document Mode 39
4.1.12.20. Personalization Workbench Enhancements 39
4.1.12.21. Advanced Sort Pop-up 39
4.1.13. Release 12.2.10 40
4.1.13.1. Check Box Enhancement 40
4.1.13.2. List Search Enhancements 40
4.1.13.3. Saved Search Notifications 40
4.1.13.4. Enhanced My Worklist Pop-Up 40
4.1.13.5. Enhanced Manage Saved Search Pop-up 40
4.1.13.6. Exporting Tables to PDF 40
4.1.13.7. Sequence Numbers for Attachments 40
4.1.13.8. Searching with Key Flexfield Criteria in List Search 40
4.1.13.9. Enhanced Advanced Sort Pop-up 41
4.1.13.10. Query By Example for Tables 41
4.1.13.11. OA Image Bean Support for Database Storage of Images 41
4.2. Oracle Application Object Library 41
4.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 41
4.2.1.1. Custom Directory Information Tree (DIT) 41
4.2.2. Release 12.1.1 41
4.2.2.1. Data Type Support Enhancements in the Generic Data Loader (FNDLOAD) 41
4.2.2.2. Data Type Support Enhancements in the XML Definition File (XDF) 41
4.2.2.3. Integrated Business Events in Concurrent Processing 42
4.2.2.4. Manager and Request Instance Affinity in Concurrent Processing 42
4.2.2.5. Startup Threshold for Managers in Concurrent Processing 42
4.2.3. Release 12.1.2 42
4.2.3.1. Oracle Access Manager Integration 42
4.2.3.2. Oracle Application Object Library Java APIs 42
4.2.3.3. DataSource for Oracle E-Business Suite (AppsDataSource) 42
4.2.3.4. JAAS for Oracle E-Business Suite 43
4.2.3.5. Scheduling Charts User Interface Enhancements 43
4.2.4. Release 12.1.3 43
4.2.4.1. Key Flexfield Cross-Validation Rules Report Enhancements 43
4.2.4.2. Flexfield Segment Name Validation 43
4.2.4.3. Concurrent Processing Integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Delivery Manager44
4.2.4.4. Oracle E-Business Suite Support for 11g Case Sensitive Database Passwords 44
4.2.4.5. FNDMENU Diagnostics Menu Security Enhancement 44
4.2.4.6. Database Connection Tagging 44
4.2.5. Release 12.1.3+ 45
4.2.5.1. Recalculation of Dynamic Default Parameters in Standard Request Submission 45
4.2.5.2. Setting Environment Values and Parameters on a Per-Service Basis 45
4.2.5.3. Concurrent Processing Command-Line Utility 45
4.2.5.4. New Schemes for Storing Concurrent Processing Log and Output Files 45
4.2.5.5. Output File Naming Changes 45
4.2.5.6. Timed Shutdown for Concurrent Processing 45
4.2.5.7. Allowed Resources 45
4.2.5.8. Allowed Redirects 45
4.2.6. Release 12.2 46
4.2.6.1. Native Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Caching for Profiles 46
4.2.6.2. Uptake of AUTO Sampling Statistics Gathering Feature in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 46
4.2.6.3. Support for Copying Attachments in the Oracle Application Framework UI 46
4.2.6.4. Flexfield Value Set Security 46
4.2.6.5. Browser Cookie Scope 46
4.2.6.6. Allowed JSP Lists 46
4.2.6.7. Oracle Application Object Library REST Services 47
4.2.7. Release 12.2.3 47
4.2.7.1. Advanced Password Hashing 47
4.2.8. Release 12.2.4 48
4.2.8.1. Recalculation of Dynamic Default Parameters in Standard Request Submission 48
4.2.8.2. Profile Option to Control Opening of Key Flexfield Window by Default 48
4.2.8.3. Setting Environment Values and Parameters on a Per-Service Basis 48
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document vi
4.2.8.4. Allowed Redirects 48
4.2.9. Release 12.2.5 48
4.2.9.1. Login Page Enhancements 48
4.2.9.2. Null Values Allowed in Find Window Queries for Descriptive Flexfields 49
4.2.9.3. Flexfields Cross-Validation Rule Violation Report Enhancement 49
4.2.9.4. Flexfields Test Page 49
4.2.9.5. Concurrent Processing Command-Line Utility 49
4.2.9.6. JSP and Java API for File Streaming 49
4.2.10. Release 12.2.6 49
4.2.10.1. Setup Wizard for Flexfields Value Set Security 49
4.2.10.2. Flexfields Registration HTML UI 49
4.2.10.3. Oracle E-Business Suite Forms in Read-Only Mode on the Responsibility or User Level 49
4.2.10.4. New Schemes for Storing Concurrent Processing Log and Output Files 50
4.2.10.5. Audit Trail Search HTML UI 50
4.2.10.6. Allowed JSP List Enabled by Default 50
4.2.10.7. Allowed Redirects Enabled by Default 50
4.2.10.8. Secure Configuration Console 50
4.2.11. Release 12.2.6+ 50
4.2.11.1. Allowed Resources 50
4.2.12. Release 12.2.7 50
4.2.12.1. Allowed Resources Enhancements 50
4.2.12.2. Secure Configuration Console Enhancements 51
4.2.13. Release 12.2.9 51
4.2.13.1. Read-Only Flexfields Segments Capability 51
4.2.13.2. New Concurrent Processing Output File Naming Conventions 51
4.2.13.3. Concurrent Processing Timed Shutdown 51
4.2.13.4. Allowed Resources Enhancements 52
4.2.13.5. Secure Configuration Console Enhancements 52
4.2.14. Release 12.2.10 52
4.2.14.1. Restricting Visibility of Shared Attachments in the Document Catalog 52
4.2.14.2. Flexfields Forms Diagnostics Logging 52
4.2.14.3. Sign-on Auditing Enhancements 52
4.2.14.4. Allowed Resources User Interface Enhancements 53
4.2.14.5. Secure Configuration Console User Interface Enhancements 53
4.2.14.6. Password Hashing Default 53
4.3. Oracle Applications Manager (OAM) 53
4.3.1. Release 12.1.3 53
4.3.1.1. Support for Timing Report per Application Module 53
4.3.2. Release 12.1.3+ 53
4.3.2.1. Export Function for Patch Impact File Details Page in Patch Impact Analysis 53
4.3.3. Release 12.2 54
4.3.3.1. Integration of Oracle Applications Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Fusion Middleware Control
54
4.3.4. Release 12.2.2 54
4.3.4.1. View All Button on Patch Wizard Detail Pages 54
4.3.5. Release 12.2.4 54
4.3.5.1. Sync with Licensed Products Button on Codelevels Summary Page 54
4.3.6. Release 12.2.5 54
4.3.6.1. Streamlined Recommended Patches List in Patch Wizard 54
4.3.6.2. Export Function for Recommended Patches Page in Patch Wizard 54
4.3.7. Release 12.2.6 54
4.3.7.1. License Manager Language Mode Selection 54
4.3.7.2. Export Function for Patch Impact File Details Page in Patch Impact Analysis 55
4.4. Oracle Diagnostics Framework 55
4.4.1. Overview 55
4.4.2. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 55
4.4.2.1. Diagnostics Execution Engine and User Interface Enhancements 55
4.4.3. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 55
4.4.3.1. New and Revised Diagnostic Tests 55
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document vii
4.4.4. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 57
4.4.4.1. Diagnostics Enhancements 57
4.4.5. Release 12.1.1 57
4.4.5.1. Performance Enhancements 57
4.4.5.2. Role Based Access Control Uptake 57
4.4.5.3. Test Level Sensitivity 58
4.4.5.4. Oracle XML Publisher Integration 58
4.4.5.5. UI Enhancements 58
4.4.5.6. Customization Support 58
4.4.5.7. Role Based Access Control and Valid Applications 58
4.4.5.8. Test Set Scheduling 58
4.4.5.9. Preference Profile Options 59
4.4.5.10. Performance Profile Options 59
4.4.6. Release 12.1.2 59
4.4.6.1. Recognition of XML file types 59
4.4.7. Release 12.1.3 59
4.4.7.1. In-Context Diagnostics 59
4.5. Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA 59
4.5.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 59
4.5.1.1. Change Base Language Script 59
4.5.2. Release 12.2 60
4.5.2.1. Online Patching 60
4.5.3. Release 12.2.4 60
4.5.3.1. Online Patching Log Analyzer 60
4.5.3.2. New Online Patching Cleanup Mode 60
4.5.4. Release 12.2.5 60
4.5.4.1. Patching Support for Single File System Development Environments 60
4.5.4.2. Integration of EBS Technology Codelevel Checker (ETCC) with adop 60
4.5.4.3. Enhanced adop Console Messages 61
4.5.4.4. New adop Monitoring Tool 61
4.5.4.5. Performance Enhancements in adop Operation 61
4.5.4.6. Improved Oracle WebLogic Server Error Reporting by Online Patching Log Analyzer Utility 61
4.5.4.7. Ability to De-register a Custom Application 61
4.5.5. Release 12.2.6 61
4.5.5.1. Log File Structure 61
4.5.5.2. Handling Seed Data Changes 61
4.5.5.3. Delta Synchronization Method 61
4.5.5.4. Warning for Missing Application Tier Patches 62
4.5.6. Release 12.2.7+ 62
4.5.6.1. Script to Terminate Sessions Connected to Old Editions 62
4.5.7. Release 12.2.10 62
4.5.7.1. adop Enhancements with Oracle Database 19c 62
4.5.7.2. Performance Enhancement for Online Patching 62
4.5.7.3. File System Synchronization Enhancement 62
4.6. Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery 62
4.6.1. Overview 62
4.6.2. Support Update 63
4.6.3. Release 12.2 V7 63
4.6.3.1. Upgrade to Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.2 63
4.6.3.2. New Layout Template 63
4.6.3.3. Summarization Bar Metric Refinement 63
4.6.3.4. Enhanced Oracle E-Business Suite Results Grid Features 63
4.6.3.5. Expanded Language Support 64
4.6.3.6. Changes to the EndecaServer.properties File 64
4.6.3.7. Hostname Resolution Improvements 65
4.6.3.8. Profile File Created for New Data Domains 65
4.6.3.9. Automatic Log Cleanup by the Cluster Coordinator 65
4.6.3.10. Optimized Application Tier Deployments 66
4.6.3.11. Diagnostics Enhancement 66
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document viii
4.6.3.12. Improved Handling of Invalid Records by the Bulk Load Interface 66
4.6.3.13. New EQL Function 66
4.6.3.14. Sorting Records Based on Geocode 66
4.6.3.15. Concurrent ETL Enhancement 66
4.7. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway 67
4.7.1. Business Case 67
4.7.2. Overview 67
4.7.3. Release 12.1.1 68
4.7.3.1. Integration Repository 68
4.7.3.2. SOA Provider 68
4.7.3.3. Service Invocation Framework 68
4.7.3.4. SOA Monitor 69
4.7.4. Release 12.1.2 69
4.7.4.1. Enhanced SOA Diagnostics 69
4.7.4.2. Introducing Java APIs for Forms as an integration interface type 69
4.7.4.3. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Customization (Integration Repository Parser)69
4.7.5. Release 12.1.3 70
4.7.5.1. Uniform / Static XSD Schema File Nomenclature and Schema Structures 70
4.7.5.2. Enhanced Logging / Auditing and Monitoring 70
4.7.5.3. SAML Token Support 70
4.7.6. Release 12.1.3+ 70
4.7.6.1. Support for REST Services 70
4.7.6.2. Security Services 71
4.7.6.3. Annotation for Java Bean Services 71
4.7.7. Release 12.2 71
4.7.7.1. Oracle WebLogic Server 11g with Oracle SOA Suite 11g Integration 71
4.7.7.2. Asynchronous Web Service Support 72
4.7.7.3. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Diagnostics and Designer Script 72
4.7.7.4. Error and Exception Handling 73
4.7.8. Release 12.2.3 73
4.7.8.1. Support for PL/SQL APIs as REST Services 73
4.7.8.2. Security Services 73
4.7.9. Release 12.2.4 73
4.7.9.1. Support for Java APIs as REST Services 73
4.7.9.2. Annotation for Java Bean Services 74
4.7.10. Release 12.2.5 74
4.7.10.1. Support for Application Module Services 74
4.7.10.2. Enhanced Language Tag Support 74
4.7.11. Release 12.2.7 74
4.7.11.1. Support for Concurrent Programs as REST Services 74
4.7.12. Release 12.2.7+ 75
4.7.12.1. Support for Open Interface Tables and Open Interface Views as REST Services 75
4.7.13. Release 12.2.10 75
4.7.13.1. Support for Business Service Objects (BSOs) as REST Services 75
4.7.13.2. REST Service Monitoring, Logging, and Related UI Enhancements 75
4.8. Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation 76
4.8.1. Overview 76
4.8.2. Mobile Release 1.0 76
4.8.2.1. Mobile App Services 76
4.8.2.2. Mobile Applications Manager User Interface 76
4.8.2.3. User Login and Configuration Flow 76
4.8.3. Mobile Release 2.0 76
4.8.3.1. Improved Login Flow 76
4.8.3.2. Diagnostics Improvements 76
4.8.4. Mobile Release 2.1 77
4.8.4.1. Improvements in Login and Configuration Flow 77
4.8.4.2. Ability to Change Server URL Without Reinstalling App 77
4.8.4.3. Diagnostics Improvements 77
4.8.4.4. Improvements in App Configuration and Management 77
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document ix
4.8.5. Mobile Release 3.0 77
4.8.5.1. Changes to Support Both iOS and Android with the Same Client Code 77
4.8.5.2. Ability to Update Server URL from Connection Details Page 77
4.8.5.3. Updates to Configuration UI 78
4.8.6. Mobile Release 4.0 78
4.8.6.1. Support for Enterprise Distribution 78
4.8.6.2. Customization Support for Corporate Branding 78
4.8.6.3. Support for Web SSO Authentication 78
4.8.6.4. Enhanced Mobile App Setup Pages 78
4.8.7. Mobile Release 4.1 78
4.8.7.1. Support for Custom App Development 78
4.8.8. Mobile Release 5.0 79
4.8.8.1. User Installation and Usage Metrics for Administrators 79
4.8.8.2. Updated Look and Feel for Selected App Interactions 79
4.8.8.3. Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.2.2 79
4.8.8.4. Opening Links to External Websites Within an App 79
4.8.9. Mobile Release 6.0 79
4.8.9.1. Opening Links to External Websites Within an App on Android Devices 79
4.8.9.2. Updated Look and Feel for Selected App Interactions 79
4.8.9.3. Clearing User Credential Fields 80
4.8.9.4. Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.3.1 80
4.8.9.5. Separate Privileges for Developers and Administrators in UI 80
4.8.10. Mobile Release 6.1 80
4.8.10.1. APIs for Custom App Development 80
4.8.11. Mobile Release 7.0 80
4.8.11.1. Ability to Import Custom CA or Self-signed Server Certificates 80
4.8.11.2. Automatic Download of Mobile App Configuration 80
4.8.11.3. Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.4.0 80
4.8.11.4. Support for Push Notifications in Selected Apps 81
4.8.11.5. Enhanced Mobile App Setup Pages 81
4.8.12. Mobile Release 7.1 81
4.8.12.1. Additional Self-Service Human Resources APIs for Custom App Development 81
4.8.13. Mobile Release 8.0 81
4.8.13.1. Ability for Administrators to Preconfigure EBS Server URL when Deploying through Enterprise Mobility
Management 81
4.8.13.2. Preventing Attachments from Being Shared 82
4.8.13.3. Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.5.0 82
4.8.14. Mobile Release 9.0 82
4.8.14.1. Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.6.2 82
4.8.15. Mobile Release 9.1 82
4.8.15.1. Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.6.3 82
4.9. Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search 82
4.9.1. Overview 82
4.9.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 83
4.9.2.1. Search Modeler 83
4.9.3. Release 12.1.1 83
4.9.3.1. Search Modeler 83
4.9.3.2. Out of Box Searchable Business Objects 84
4.9.4. Release 12.1.2 84
4.9.4.1. UI Improvements 84
4.9.4.2. Design Time Search Security Plug-ins 84
4.9.5. Release 12.1.3 85
4.9.5.1. Export Search Results to Excel 85
4.10. Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework 85
4.10.1. Overview 85
4.10.2. Release 12.2 V1 86
4.10.2.1. User Interface Components for Information Discovery 86
4.10.2.2. Security 86
4.10.2.3. Responsive Design 86
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4.10.3. Release 12.2 V2 86
4.10.3.1. Advanced Search 86
4.10.3.2. New User Interface Components for Information Discovery 87
4.10.3.3. User Interface Enhancements 87
4.10.3.4. Multiple Language Support 87
4.10.4. Release 12.2 V3 87
4.10.4.1. Page Layout 87
4.10.4.2. Search Box Enhancements 88
4.10.4.3. ‘Like’ Search in Available Refinements 88
4.10.4.4. Tab Component Enhancements 89
4.10.4.5. Grid Enhancements 89
4.10.4.6. Compare Column Headers 89
4.10.4.7. Conditional Formatting in Summarization Bar 89
4.10.4.8. Relevance Ranking 89
4.10.4.9. Push Model 89
4.10.4.10. Upgrade 90
4.10.4.11. Cloning 90
4.10.5. Release 12.2 V4 90
4.10.5.1. Saved Search 90
4.10.5.2. Refinement Breadcrumbs 90
4.10.5.3. Multiple Data Set Support in Search 90
4.10.5.4. Multiple Data Set Support in Available Refinements 90
4.10.5.5. Chart Enhancements 90
4.10.5.6. Compare Enhancements 91
4.10.5.7. Record Details 91
4.10.5.8. Results Table Pagination Enhancement 91
4.10.5.9. Exporting Data from a Results Table or Grid 91
4.10.5.10. Exporting a Data Set 91
4.10.5.11. Importing Data into a Data Set 91
4.10.5.12. Available Refinements Scrolling 91
4.10.5.13. About ECC 92
4.10.5.14. Oracle E-Business Suite Postback 92
4.10.5.15. Oracle Application Framework Pop-ups 92
4.10.5.16. Online Data Load 92
4.10.5.17. Descriptive Flexfield Support 92
4.10.5.18. Upgrade 92
4.10.6. Release 12.2 V5 92
4.10.6.1. Activity Audit 92
4.10.6.2. User Preferences 93
4.10.6.3. Cascading Breadcrumb 93
4.10.6.4. Chart Maximization 93
4.10.6.5. Chart Export 93
4.10.6.6. Export 93
4.10.6.7. Aggregate Table Pagination Enhancement 93
4.10.6.8. Number Abbreviation in Summarization Bar 93
4.10.6.9. Negative Refinements 93
4.10.6.10. Aggregate Grid 94
4.10.6.11. “Other” Group in Pie and Donut Charts 94
4.10.6.12. Top and Bottom N in Chart 94
4.10.6.13. Line Chart Enhancements 94
4.10.6.14. Sequential Full Load 94
4.10.6.15. About ECC - Monitoring 94
4.10.7. Release 12.2. V6 94
4.10.7.1. Diagrams 94
4.10.7.2. Descriptive Flexfield Value Set Description 95
4.10.7.3. Enterprise Command Center Pop-ups 95
4.10.7.4. Color Pinning in Charts 95
4.10.7.5. Time Stamp and Time Zone Support 95
4.10.7.6. Waterfall Charts 96
4.10.7.7. Multi-Data Set Support in Charts 96
4.10.7.8. Condition Enhancements 96
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4.10.7.9. Value Defaulting 96
4.10.7.10. Improved Readability for Refinements 96
4.10.7.11. Search Suggestion Enhancement 96
4.11. Oracle Functional Testing Suite Advanced Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite 96
4.11.1. Overview 96
4.11.2. V1.0 97
4.11.2.1. Oracle E-Business Suite Pre-built Test Content for Oracle Flow Builder 97
4.12. Oracle iSetup 97
4.12.1. Overview 97
4.12.2. Release 12.1.1 97
4.12.2.1. Oracle iSetup Migration Package Taxonomy 97
4.12.2.2. Registering Service Bean APIs with Oracle iSetup 98
4.12.2.3. Reporting Preferences 98
4.12.3. Release 12.1.3 98
4.12.3.1. Oracle iSetup MLS 98
4.12.4. Release 12.2.5 98
4.12.4.1. Oracle iSetup Internationalization Enhancements 98
4.12.5. Release 12.2.6 99
4.12.5.1. Streamlined Migration of Language Data 99
4.12.6. Product Coverage for Oracle iSetup 99
4.13. Oracle Report Manager 100
4.13.1. Overview 100
4.13.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 100
4.13.2.1. Multiple Worksheet Support 100
4.13.3. Release 12.1.1 100
4.13.3.1. Complex Content Set 100
4.13.3.2. Multiple Worksheet Support 101
4.13.4. Release 12.1.2 101
4.13.4.1. Advanced Scheduling Options 101
4.13.5. Release 12.1.3 101
4.13.5.1. Repository Management Security 101
4.13.6. Release 12.2 101
4.13.6.1. Microsoft Office Certification 101
4.13.6.2. Report Manager Home Page 102
4.13.6.3. Submitting Report Sets 102
4.13.6.4. Report Delivery 102
4.13.6.5. Microsoft Excel Report Generation from Firefox 102
4.13.6.6. Digital Signature Support 102
4.13.6.7. Row and Column Headings in Microsoft Excel 102
4.13.7. Release 12.2.4 103
4.13.7.1. Oracle Menu Displayed as Ribbon in Microsoft Excel 103
4.13.8. Release 12.2.5 103
4.13.8.1. Office Open XML Support 103
4.13.8.2. Simplified Report Submission 103
4.13.8.3. Parallel Content Set Support 103
4.13.8.4. Simplified Report Manager Home and Menu 103
4.13.9. Release 12.2.7 104
4.13.9.1. Security Enhancements 104
4.13.10. Release 12.2.7+ 104
4.13.10.1. Microsoft Office Certification 104
4.13.11. Release 12.2.9 104
4.13.11.1. Transferring Custom Financial Statement Generator Report Templates 104
4.13.11.2. Enhancements for Maintain Repository Program 104
4.13.12. Release 12.2.10 104
4.13.12.1. Custom Generic Templates 104
4.14. Oracle User Management (UMX) 105
4.14.1. Overview – SOX Compliance RBAC Reports 105
4.14.2. Release 12.1.1 105
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4.14.2.1. Categorized Searching 105
4.14.2.2. 360 Degree View 105
4.14.2.3. Reports 105
4.14.2.4. Quick Find 105
4.14.2.5. Snapshot 106
4.14.2.6. Print Role Hierarchy 106
4.14.3. Release 12.2.4 106
4.14.3.1. Proxy User Access Control 106
4.14.4. Release 12.2.6 106
4.14.4.1. Proxy Auditing 106
4.14.4.2. User Registration HTML UI 106
4.14.4.3. Responsibility HTML UI 106
4.15. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator 107
4.15.1. Overview 107
4.15.2. Release 12.1.2 107
4.15.2.1. Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework 107
4.15.3. Release 12.1.3 107
4.15.3.1. Digital Signature Support 107
4.15.3.2. Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework Enhancements 108
4.15.4. Release 12.2 108
4.15.4.1. Microsoft Office Certifications 108
4.15.4.2. Usability Enhancements 108
4.15.4.3. Switch Responsibility Option 108
4.15.4.4. Commit Rows Parameter 108
4.15.4.5. Compressing Data for Upload 109
4.15.4.6. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator Diagnostics 109
4.15.5. Release 12.2.4 109
4.15.5.1. Oracle Menu Displayed as Ribbon in Microsoft Excel 109
4.15.6. Release 12.2.5 109
4.15.6.1. Office Open XML Support 109
4.15.6.2. Flexfield Enhancements 109
4.15.6.3. Dependent List of Values for an Interface Attribute 109
4.15.7. Release 12.2.6 110
4.15.7.1. Simplified Create Document Page 110
4.15.7.2. Simplified Define Layout Page 110
4.15.7.3. Refreshing Interface Attributes 110
4.15.7.4. Exporting Oracle Application Framework Table Data with Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator 110
4.15.8. Release 12.2.7 110
4.15.8.1. Copying an Integrator Definition 110
4.15.8.2. Simplified Define Mapping Page 110
4.15.8.3. Security Enhancements 111
4.15.9. Release 12.2.7+ 111
4.15.9.1. Microsoft Office Certification 111
4.15.10. Release 12.2.9 111
4.15.10.1. Sequence Source Type for Interface Attributes 111
4.15.11. Release 12.2.10 111
4.15.11.1. Enhancements for SQL Query Contents 111
4.16. Oracle Workflow 111
4.16.1. Release 12.1.1 111
4.16.1.1. Worklist - Bulk Notification Response and Bulk Notification Close 111
4.16.1.2. Hijrah/Thai Calendar Support 112
4.16.2. Release 12.1.3 112
4.16.2.1. Notification Mailer - SMTP Authentication 112
4.16.3. Release 12.2 112
4.16.3.1. E-mail Character Encoding Configuration 112
4.16.3.2. Deferring Worklist Response Processing 112
4.16.3.3. Oracle RAC Affinity for Workflows 112
4.16.3.4. Worklist Usability Enhancements 113
4.16.3.5. Bulk Reset for DISABLED Notification Preference 114
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4.16.3.6. Enhancement for Reassigning Notifications 114
4.16.3.7. Enhancement for Service Component Processing by Correlation ID 114
4.16.4. Release 12.2.3 114
4.16.4.1. Worklist Header Icon 114
4.16.5. Release 12.2.4 115
4.16.5.1. Proxy User Access Control 115
4.16.6. Release 12.2.5 115
4.16.6.1. Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Attachments in E-mail Notifications 115
4.16.6.2. Support for Multiple E-mail Addresses for a User or Role 115
4.16.7. Release 12.2.6 115
4.16.7.1. External Links to Oracle E-Business Suite in E-mail Notifications 115
4.16.7.2. Ability to Specify Security Protocols for Mailer 115
4.16.8. Release 12.2.7 116
4.16.8.1. Oracle Workflow Internationalization Enhancements 116
4.16.9. Release 12.2.7+ 116
4.16.9.1. Ability to Distinguish Approvals Sources 116
4.16.10. Release 12.2.9 116
4.16.10.1. Oracle Workflow Internationalization Enhancements 116
4.16.10.2. Action History Enhancement 116
4.16.10.3. Configuring E-mail Eligibility for Item Types and Messages 116
4.16.10.4. Configuring Attachments in E-mail Notifications 116
4.16.10.5. Enhancement for Resending Failed Notifications 117
4.16.11. Release 12.2.10 117
4.16.11.1. Enhanced My Worklist Pop-Up 117
4.16.11.2. Action History for Standalone Notifications 117
4.16.11.3. “Auto-generated” Header for E-mail Notifications 117
4.17. Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite 117
4.17.1. Overview 117
4.17.2. Mobile Release 1.0 – Client Version 1.0.0 118
4.17.2.1. Approval Request Handling 118
4.17.3. Mobile Release 2.1 – Client Version 1.1.0 118
4.17.3.1. Mobile Foundation Release 2.1 Updates 118
4.17.4. Mobile Release 3.0 – Client Version 1.2.0 118
4.17.4.1. Android Support 118
4.17.4.2. Mobile Foundation Release 3.0 Updates 118
4.17.5. Mobile Release 4.0 – Client Version 1.3.0 118
4.17.5.1. New Approval Types 118
4.17.5.2. Enhanced Data Layout 119
4.17.5.3. Improved Approvals Filtering 119
4.17.5.4. Translation Support 119
4.17.5.5. Mobile Foundation Release 4.0 Updates 119
4.17.6. Mobile Release 5.0 – Client Version 1.4.0 119
4.17.6.1. New Approval Types 119
4.17.6.2. Attachments 119
4.17.6.3. Adding Custom Workflows 119
4.17.6.4. Enhanced Pending Approvals by Type Page 119
4.17.6.5. Enhanced Details Page 120
4.17.6.6. Enhanced Refresh Interaction 120
4.17.6.7. Mobile Foundation Release 5.0 Updates 120
4.17.7. Mobile Release 5.0 – Client Version 1.4.2 120
4.17.7.1. Mobile Foundation Release 5.0 Updates 120
4.17.8. Mobile Release 6.0 – Client Version 1.5.0 120
4.17.8.1. New Approvals 120
4.17.8.2. Ability to Customize Seeded Metadata 120
4.17.8.3. Enhancement for Quoting Approval to Support Customization 120
4.17.8.4. Technical Updates 120
4.17.8.5. Mobile Foundation Release 6.0 Updates 120
4.17.9. Mobile Release 7.0 – Client Version 1.6.0 121
4.17.9.1. Ability to Reassign an Approval Notification 121
4.17.9.2. Support for Push Notifications 121
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4.17.9.3. Mobile Foundation Release 7.0 Updates 121
4.17.10. Mobile Release 8.0 – Client Version 1.7.0 121
4.17.10.1. Ability to Distinguish Approvals Submitted through Mobile Apps 121
4.17.10.2. Mobile Foundation Release 8.0 Updates 121
4.17.11. Mobile Release 9.0 – Client Version 1.8.0 121
4.17.11.1. New Approvals 121
4.17.11.2. Mobile Foundation Release 9.0 Updates 122
4.17.12. Mobile Release 9.1 – Client Version 1.8.1 122
4.17.12.1. Mobile Foundation Release 9.1 Updates 122
4.18. Oracle XML Gateway 122
4.18.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 122
4.18.1.1. Improved Error Notification from Oracle XML Gateway 122
4.18.2. Release 12.2 122
4.18.2.1. Oracle XML Gateway Inbound Processing in Java 122
4.18.2.2. Enhanced Oracle XML Gateway Diagnostics 122
4.18.3. Release 12.2.6 123
4.18.3.1. API to Manage Trading Partners 123
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1. Disclaimer
This Release Content Document (RCD) describes product features that are proposed for
the specified releases of the Oracle E-Business Suite. This document describes new or
changed functionality only. Existing functionality from prior releases is not described. It
is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to the specified
release of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
This document in any form, software or printed matter, contains proprietary information
that is the exclusive property of Oracle. Your access to and use of this confidential
material is subject to the terms and conditions of your Oracle Software License and
Service Agreement, which has been executed and with which you agree to comply. This
document and information contained herein may not be disclosed, copied, reproduced or
distributed to anyone outside Oracle without prior written consent of Oracle. This
document is not part of your license agreement nor can it be incorporated into any
contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates.
This document is for informational purposes only and is intended solely to assist you in
planning for the implementation and upgrade of the product features described. It is not
a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied
upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any
features or functionality described in this document remains at the sole discretion of
Oracle.
Due to the nature of the product architecture, it may not be possible to safely include all
features described in this document without risking significant destabilization of the
code.
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document Purpose of Document 1
2. Introduction
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document Purpose of Document 2
3. Technology Stack
XDK for the Database Tier Same as database Same as database Same as database
version version version
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XDK for the Application Tier 10.1.3.5 11.1.1.6 11.1.1.9
JSP Engine OJSP 10.1.3.5 (based WebLogic JSP Engine WebLogic JSP Engine
on JSP 2.0 11.1.1.6 11.1.1.9
specification) (weblogic.appc) (weblogic.appc)
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Externally Installed Oracle Most Recent Minimum Version Most Recent
Technology Certified Version for Used by 12.2 Certified Version for
12.1.x (*) 12.2 (*)
* The actual certification date for some of these technologies may not coincide
completely with the release of Oracle E-Business Suite, especially on certain platforms.
Before planning to upgrade your Oracle E-Business Suite instance to a new version of
such technologies, please ensure that the technology is certified and available for your
platform by reviewing the information available in the “Certify” system on “My Oracle
Support”.
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support multiple application tiers. Please see My Oracle Support Document 380489.1 for
more details. This is an administrative/technical configuration feature; there is no direct
impact to customer implementation, business process, or user experience.
3.3.3. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)
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3.3.4.6. Build Context XML Utility for Cross Platform Migration
In Release 12.1.1, the new adblxml AutoConfig utility can be used to create a new
context file on the database tier. This utility facilitates and simplifies database upgrades
and cross-platform migration.
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3.3.4.13. Advanced Configuration Wizards
These wizards comprise a series of command line utilities and Oracle Application
Manager (OAM) pages that are designed to allow administrators to perform advanced
configuration changes consistently and easily.
Examples of such advanced configurations include DNS load balancing, OC4J load
balancing, HTTP load balancing, SSL setup on web server, SSL Accelerator setup, and
enabling or disabling Forms Socket Mode. More details are published on My Oracle
Support.
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3.3.6.2. Java Web Start on macOS with Firefox
This feature was back-ported from Release 12.2.9. Refer to the full feature description
under the Release 12.2.9 section for this product.
3.3.7.1. Installation
The Release 12.2 installation process has been significantly enhanced compared to prior
releases. These enhancements include the provision of application tier node services, the
use of native Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware installation tools to install
and configure these technology stack components, and support for integrating Oracle E-
Business Suite with existing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Fusion
Middleware 11g Release 1 homes. Additionally, Rapid Install now supports installing
Oracle E-Business Suite into a Grid Infrastructure (Oracle RAC/ASM) environment.
3.3.7.3. Cloning
Release 12.2 simplifies and enhances the cloning process, for example when scaling
systems up by increasing the number of nodes. Also, support is now provided for
cloning the Fusion Middleware components of Oracle E-Business Suite.
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3.3.7.5. External Integrations
Release 12.2 includes enhancements to support integration with Oracle WebCenter
Portal and Oracle BPEL Process Manager using the new technology stack components
in the application tier.
Additionally, Oracle Application Framework now integrates with AutoVue Document
Print Services. For more information, see section 4.1.6.2.
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Instead of using these context variables, when a new managed server or node is added or
deleted, you now pass the list of managed server host and port values to the
txkSetAppsConf.pl script explicitly with the 'addMS' or 'removeMS' option,
respectively. With this enhancement, you no longer need to run AutoConfig to
synchronize the variable values on each application tier after adding or deleting a
managed server or node. Additionally, you no longer need to edit the mod_wl_ohs.conf
and apps.conf files manually to group the nodes or managed servers for more complex
scenarios such as DMZ.
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3.3.10.2. Java Web Start
Oracle E-Business Suite functions relying on Java applets can now be launched as Java
Web Start (JWS) applications instead. JWS applications are launched from browsers
using the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP).
This feature is back-ported to Release 12.2.3+ as well as to Release 12.1.3+.
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3.4. Internationalization
3.4.1. Release 12.1.1
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.2 adds Lithuanian, Indonesian, and Ukrainian to
the list of supported languages. Space and single quote number group separators are
also supported in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.2. Users can also select their
start day of the week through a profile option. The Gantt chart and inline date picker
features support Thai and Hijrah calendars in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.2.
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3.4.2.4. Gantt chart and inline (embedded) date pickers support Thai and Hijrah
calendars
Thai and Hijrah calendar support has been enhanced. All known Thai and Hijrah
calendar issues in Oracle Workflow notifications have been addressed, and Gantt charts
in the user interface and in Oracle XML Publisher reports now support Hijrah and Thai
calendars. In addition, inline (embedded) date pickers in the user interface now support
Hijrah and Thai calendars.
3.4.3. Release 12.1.3
This release improves Oracle E-Business Suite Multi-Lingual Support (MLS). With the
new Lightweight MLS feature, global customers can now enable new languages without
applying the corresponding NLS patches. Oracle iSetup MLS is improved to allow
moving language data across source and target systems with different installed sets of
languages. Oracle Application Framework export functionality has better Unicode
support. Also, the new rich UI capabilities in Oracle Application Framework have Bi-
Directional language (Arabic and Hebrew) support.
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This flexibility allows users to address limitation in older releases of Microsoft Excel
with regard to lack of UTF-8 support or the mishandling of files containing comma-
separated values in Unicode.
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3.4.4.8. Oracle Workflow E-mail Character Encoding Configuration
A workflow administrator can now optionally specify the character encoding to use for
each language in workflow notifications. This feature lets you override both the
character encoding specified by the notification recipient’s NLS preferences and the
database character encoding, if another character encoding is required to display the
notification content correctly. Use the Administration tab in the Oracle Workflow
administrator Web pages to configure your character encoding specifications.
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• Mexican Spanish
• Swahili
Note that no translations will be provided for these 13 languages, so moving to full
translation mode is not supported for these languages.
With these additions, Oracle E-Business Suite now supports a total of 55 languages.
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3.4.6. Release 12.2.6
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between two systems. Previously, with a multilingual Oracle E-Business Suite instance
where multiple languages are installed, in order to move language setup data to another
system in LDT or WFT format, it was necessary to extract and load one language at a
time. In Release 12.2.6, you can extract and load multiple languages at once, as well as
report on multiple languages at once.
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3.4.8.2. Oracle Workflow Internationalization Enhancements
Oracle Workflow user interface pages now display date and time values in the user’s
preferred time zone, including the following pages:
• Component Details page and Event History page for service components
• Schedule Events page and Review page in the notification mailer configuration
wizard
• Run Workflow page in the Developer Studio
• Workflow Details page and Update Workflow Attributes page in the
Administrator Monitor
• Notification Details page and Respond to Notifications as Group page in the
Worklist pages
• Vacation Rule: Response page
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4. Applications Technology
The key focus areas for Applications Technology in Release 12.2 of the Oracle E-
Business Suite are:
• Greater Business Insight: Focus on end user productivity improvements and
business insight.
• Adaptive Business Processes: A complete set of Web services housed in the
Integration repository and out-of-the-box embedding of the relevant Fusion
Middleware SOA components with the Oracle E-Business Suite will make
Release 12.2 truly an agile application business platform and enable Application
Integration Architecture (AIA).
• Superior Ownership Experience: Several major enhancements contribute to
enhancing the ownership experience for the Oracle E-Business Suite customers.
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4.1.3. Release 12.1.1
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4.1.3.8. Flexfield Reference Fields
Reference fields are now available for Oracle Application Framework based
applications. Reference fields are fields whose value is used to derive properties of
segments in a flexfield. A reference field in an Oracle Application Framework page is a
web bean which is used for evaluating one or more properties of a flexfield, such as
default segment value, value set, and context reference field for descriptive flexfields.
Whenever the value in the reference web bean changes, the page is refreshed with
changes to the corresponding flexfield properties.
This feature can be enabled at the customer site using Admin Personalization on existing
flexfields.
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add, edit, delete, and view attachments to a business entity on the same page as the base
entity. This capability eliminates the need to navigate to the Add and View attachments
pages.
The pop-up component in Oracle Application Framework allows applications to display
content as a pop-up window on top of an Oracle Application Framework page. Detail
drilldown interactions can be minimized by using this pop-up capability.
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The look-ahead LOV has been enhanced to show a UI indicator if look-ahead search has
been enabled on that particular field. The indicator takes the form of an angular
downward-facing arrow at the end of the LOV input field. Support for standard
accessibility mode and rendering in BiDi languages has also been added.
The Inline Attachment capability has now been extended to also support viewing,
updating, and deleting attachments inline within the Attachment Table item and adding
attachments inline within the Message Inline Attachment item. Support for rendering in
BiDi languages has also been added.
The pop-up component now allows form submits done on the pop-up component to
refresh the base page as well. With this capability, you can now build pop-ups that
modify data on the base page. Flexfields can now be rendered within a pop-up. Support
for standard and screen reader accessibility has also been added.
The Rich Content Container component has been enhanced to allow context-dependent,
runtime parameters to be passed to the rich component. Support for embedding external
URLs by specifying the content type as "Others" has also been added.
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• A new processing indicator informs the user of ongoing processing for rich user
interactions. The indicator appears when you hover over inline attachment
Add/View and while pop-up content is being loaded. The indicator disappears
once the content is fully loaded.
• Pop-up enabled items are now enhanced to display a more distinctive pop-up
indicator as described in the table below:
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• An administrator can create a SQL-based read only view object through
Personalizations and bind it to new items on a page. This feature lets
administrators declaratively add new content from Oracle E-Business Suite
tables to an existing page.
• More item types and layout region types are available to be created and added to
a page through Personalizations. Additional layout types supported in this
release include header, classic tables, advanced tables, and message component
layout. Additional item types supported include submit button, reset button, and
rich text editor. These additions give administrators greater control over laying
out content.
• You can undo personalizations. The undo features allows administrators to
revert the personalizations done in the current browser session if errors are
encountered while personalizing the page.
• You can copy a personalization. This capability allows administrators to rapidly
copy a personalization done at a specific level value, such as a responsibility,
function, or organization, to other levels such as different responsibilities or
different functions.
Note: While the application server for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 has been
upgraded to Oracle WebLogic Server in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, the Oracle
JDeveloper OA Extension continues to leverage an embedded Oracle Containers for
J2EE (OC4J) 10.1.3.5 server. Consequently, during development of customizations or
extensions, developers will run pages on the OC4J server. However, the deployed pages
will run on Oracle WebLogic Server.
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4.1.6.6. Enhanced Key Flexfield End Date Validation
The end date validation for a key flexfield segment value or code combination now
supports a custom end date defined on the flexfield, as well as with a system date.
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4.1.6.15. Modal Pop-Up
Developers can now define a pop-up component as a modal pop-up. When a modal pop-
up renders, a user cannot interact with the base page until he or she closes the pop-up.
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4.1.7.3. Dynamic Views
Previously OA Framework supported views only for tables under query regions. Now
rich table interactions such as column resizing and reordering persist across sessions by
means of user-level views that OA Framework supports for both classic and advanced
tables in all pages.
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hold/press/press and hold, pan/drag, swipe/flick, spread, pinch, check mark/tick, and x-
mark/cross.
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4.1.9.2. Rich Table Interactions
Classic and advanced tables now support rich interactions that allow an end user to:
• Vertically scroll a table.
• Freeze a set of columns to remain in view while horizontally scrolling a table.
Classic and advanced tables now also provide touch support for row selection and
actions.
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4.1.9.7. Icon Support for Buttons
Developers can now add an icon to a button along with a prompt and specify the
position of the icon, such as left, right, top, or bottom.
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• The ability to declaratively or programmatically specify more than four search
criteria in the Advanced Search panel
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4.1.10.15. Support for Hint in Text Field, LOV Input Field, and Spin Box
You can now specify short hint text to appear in a text input field, a LOV input field, or
a spin box by declaratively setting the Placeholder Text property of the
messageTextInput, messageLovInput or messageSpinBox items.
• The Component palette allows you to declaratively add a new item or region to
an existing region of the page.
• The Personalize/Preview area displays the page in layers, where each layer
either represents the personalizations or provides a preview of the
personalizations made to the page at a specific personalization level.
• The Property palette displays and allows you to edit the admin-personalizable
properties of the component selected in the Personalize area.
You can drag and drop components from the Component palette to the Personalize area
to create components on the page. You can also drag and drop existing components to
reorder them on the page.
4.1.11.5. Themes
A theme determines the appearance of Oracle Application Framework pages, including
the background color, border color, and prompt properties. Administrators can create
themes using the Theme Editor, a lightweight UI-driven tool that enables easy
customization of the look and feel. In addition, Oracle E-Business Suite ships with
ready-to-use themes, similar to those provided by Oracle Cloud Applications.
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4.1.11.6. Multi-Column Search in Look-Ahead List of Values
This enhancement allows developers to enable searching on all search-allowed columns
for the look-ahead LOV instead of just the first column. To enable this feature, a
developer sets the property "Look Ahead Multi Column Search Enabled" to True.
To implement list search on a page, a developer must turn on the property 'Enable List
Search' for a specific query bean. Administrators can enable list search for the pages
where it has been implemented by setting the FND_ENABLE_LIST_SEARCH profile
option to 'True'.
List Search has been selectively implemented across Oracle E-Business Suite products
and product families, with an emphasis to improve user productivity on pages with high
user interaction on key business transactions. List Search is available for the following
products.
Products Pages
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Products Pages
• Invoices
Manufacturing Execution System for • MES Supervisor: Work Orders and
Discrete Manufacturing Exceptions
Order Management • Orders
Project Costing • Expenditure Inquiry
Project Foundation • Project List
• Add Projects
• Project Requests
Project Management • Change Orders
• Change Requests
• Project Issues
• Deliverables
• Tasks
• Financial Tasks
Purchasing • Buyer Work Center
Shipping Execution • Shipping Operations
Sourcing • Demand Workbench
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4.1.12.7. Tip Bean Enhancements
Enhancements to the Tip webBean include using a pop-up bean instead of a browser
window so that tips now show in pop-ups instead of a second browser window; support
for multiple messages; and the ability to control the Tip webBean position in List
Search.
You can optionally change back to displaying the key flexfield list of values in a modal
browser window as in previous releases by setting the
FND_ENABLE_OPEN_LOV_IN_POPUP profile to “False”.
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select some of those to add to their own Favorites list and then access those functions
directly from the home page.
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4.1.13. Release 12.2.10
Products Pages
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4.1.13.9. Enhanced Advanced Sort Pop-up
The Advanced Sort pop-up is enhanced to allow saving an initial sort to a user-saved
search, when the table is under a List Search region.
4.2.2.2. Data Type Support Enhancements in the XML Definition File (XDF)
The XDF (XML Definition File) is the next generation version of the current ODF
(Object Definition File) utility, which development teams use to propagate object
definitions to customer sites.
XDF currently does not support alters for nested tables; only create scenarios for nested
tables are supported. In Release 12.1.1, XDF can capture the nested table information in
the XDF file, read this information while propagating the table object, and alter the base
table to include this nested table column.
In addition, the handling of two primary keys on a table has been changed. Per Oracle
E-Business Suite standard, there cannot be two primary keys on a table both with the
primary key type as ‘D’. In prior releases, Oracle XDF would error out when applied on
a table with two such primary keys. With Release 12.1.1, the Oracle XDF application
will, depending on a specified parameter value, overwrite the old primary key and create
a new one in the XDF file.
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4.2.2.3. Integrated Business Events in Concurrent Processing
Concurrent Processing now allows for registration of business events to be fired at
various stages of a request lifecycle. Concurrent Processing provides hooks to call other
routines at various stages of a concurrent request’s lifecycle.
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4.2.3.4. JAAS for Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle E-Business Suite now provides support for Java Authentication and
Authorization Service (JAAS). This feature provides security compliance with JAAS
standard specifications.
JAAS for Oracle E-Business Suite is a lightweight login module that is designed to
deploy and run in any Java EE-compliant container. The login module is intended to be
either a starting point for customization, or an integration point, used to connect the
Oracle E-Business Suite with an external authentication service (for example, an
enterprise Single Sign-on system).
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immediate feedback on invalid segment names. While the various restrictions for
segment names (such as no special characters, starting with a letter or number, and so
on) have not changed, this enhancement makes it easier to set up flexfield segments
correctly, particularly in installations that use a non-Western character set where it is
easy to enter invalid characters as segment names.
4.2.4.4. Oracle E-Business Suite Support for 11g Case Sensitive Database
Passwords
With this release, the Oracle Application Object Library (AOL) is enhanced to support
the Oracle Database 11g case-sensitive database passwords feature for database user
authentication. In previous releases, Oracle E-Business Suite database passwords were
not case-sensitive. Support for case-sensitive database passwords provides for more
secure Oracle E-Business Suite schema passwords.
This feature is not enabled by default and its use is optional. To enable case-sensitive
database passwords, the database administrator (DBA) must perform the appropriate
setup steps.
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4.2.5. Release 12.1.3+
4.2.5.4. New Schemes for Storing Concurrent Processing Log and Output Files
This feature was back-ported from Release 12.2.6. Refer to the full feature description
under the Release 12.2.6 section for this product.
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4.2.6. Release 12.2
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a particular site and product mix. If you are not using a particular product or product
family, you can edit the relevant .conf file to deny access.
A new profile option, 'Allow Unrestricted JSP Access'
(FND_SEC_ALLOW_JSP_UNRESTRICTED_ACCESS), has been introduced to
support this feature. The profile option can be set at Site or Server level to enable or
disable JSP filtering.
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4.2.8. Release 12.2.4
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4.2.9.2. Null Values Allowed in Find Window Queries for Descriptive Flexfields
You no longer need to enter values in fields for required segments of a descriptive
flexfield in Find Windows when you query for records.
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the “EBS Read Only” permission set in Role-Based Access Control. This feature is
available only for Forms-based applications.
4.2.10.4. New Schemes for Storing Concurrent Processing Log and Output Files
This enhancement introduces additional choices of storage schemes for management of
large numbers of concurrent processing log and output files. For example, these files
can be organized by user name or by date. Customers can specify the scheme that best
suits their particular needs.
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Allowlist configuration recommendations are provided based upon products used and
underlying resource usage.
Additionally, new utilities are available to identify custom resources and populate usage
data.
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Processing processes will be aborted. In this way you can have all processes that can
gracefully shut down do so, but if there is a problematic process, it will not keep
Concurrent Processing from shutting down; that is, the shutdown will be guaranteed to
take no longer than the specified number of minutes.
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• A new session cleanup function lets you disable inactive sessions that have
exceeded a time limit.
• Session purging is enhanced.
4.3.2.1. Export Function for Patch Impact File Details Page in Patch Impact
Analysis
You can use the Export All button to export the table of files identified by running Patch
Impact Analysis for a given patch. This Export feature creates a comma separated file
(.csv) containing all of the data in the table that can then be opened up in Microsoft
Excel. Within Excel you can filter by impact type (new or changed) or other criteria.
This feature is forward-ported to 12.2.6.
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4.3.3. Release 12.2
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4.3.7.2. Export Function for Patch Impact File Details Page in Patch Impact
Analysis
You can use the Export All button to export the table of files identified by running Patch
Impact Analysis for a given patch. This Export feature creates a comma separated file
(.csv) containing all of the data in the table that can then be opened up in Microsoft
Excel. Within Excel you can filter by impact type (new or changed) or other criteria.
This feature is forward-ported from 12.1.3+.
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Collections (IEX)
CRM Technical Foundation (JTT)
Customer Care (CSC)
Document Management and Collaboration (DOM)
E-Business Tax (ZX)
Engineering (ENG)
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
Field Service (CSF)
Financials Common Module (FUN)
General Ledger (GL)
Grants Accounting (GMS)
Human Resources (PER)
Install Base (CSI)
Inventory Management (INV)
iProcurement (ICX)
Item Master (ITM)
Marketing (AMS)
Order Management (ONT)
Partner Management (PV)
Payables (AP)
Payroll (PAY)
Projects (PA)
Public Sector Financials International (IGI)
Purchasing (PO)
Quoting (QOT)
Receivables (AR)
Release Management (RLM)
Sales (ASN)
Service (CS)
Shipping (WSH)
Spares Management (CSP)
TeleSales (AST)
Time and Labor (HXT)
Trade Management (OZ)
Trading Community Architecture (HZ)
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Work in Process (WIP)
For a complete list of diagnostic tests available for Oracle E-Business Suite R12, please
refer to the E-Business Suite Diagnostics Test Catalog for R12 (My Oracle Support
Document 421245.1).
4.4.4. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)
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4.4.5.3. Test Level Sensitivity
The Oracle Diagnostics Framework now has the ability to set sensitivity levels at a test
level instead of group level. Groups are used to categorize tests based on some common
functionality. Each group can now have tests with different sensitivity levels.
4.4.5.5. UI Enhancements
The user interface is enhanced to support Oracle XML Publisher integration, browser
look-and-feel compliance, RBAC uptake, and tracking of long running tests and large
volume reports.
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4.4.5.9. Preference Profile Options
The Favorite Application profile option allows users to set a default application; once set
the default application will show on the Diagnostics Test page. The Default Reporting
Format profile option feature allows users to set a default report format; expected values
are html, pdf, excel and rtf.
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u_ChangeBase.drv, based on seed data in your environment. Apply the driver to your
application system using Autopatch. Review log files for any issues.
4.5.2. Release 12.2
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4.5.4.3. Enhanced adop Console Messages
The adop utility has been enhanced to display more selective information on the console.
Messages, prompts and other UI elements have also been extensively refined to increase
ease of use of patching commands.
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synchronization method uses your choice of third-party utility to synchronize the file
systems by copying files as applicable from the source directory to the destination
directory, optionally ignoring any files and directories you may decide to specify in an
exclusion file. Specify the parameter sync_mode=delta to use this synchronization
method.
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4.6.2. Support Update
• Oracle Premier Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery Plus
products will end on December 31, 2021.
• Effective January 1, 2022, both 12.1 and 12.2 versions of the Oracle E-Business
Suite Information Discovery Plus products will move into Sustaining Support.
• Similar capabilities are available at no additional cost in Oracle Enterprise
Command Centers and other standard Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2
functionality.
• For more information, see the Oracle Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle
Applications.
o Java 7 and 8
o Internet Explorer 11
• The search box has been repositioned to the top right of the Oracle E-Business
Suite Information Discovery dashboard.
• A left side bar is introduced on separate Available Refinements filters and the
Bookmarks component.
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• Star Rating - Provides a quick, well-known UI review for Oracle E-Business
Suite Results Grid items. This rating helps information discovery users evaluate
business operations and take prompt actions accordingly.
The properties file also includes two new Cluster Coordinator parameters. Endeca
Server uses these parameters to control how many snapshots of logs ZooKeeper should
keep in the data directory, and how often ZooKeeper should run an automatic log
cleanup:
Description Default
Cluster Coordinator
parameter
endeca-cluster- Specifies the number of log snapshots to retain Y
coordinator-auto- in the Cluster Coordinator data directory. This
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Description Default
Cluster Coordinator
parameter
purge-snap-retain- parameter is set to 3 by default.
count
endeca-cluster- Specifies the interval for automatic deletion of Y
coordinator-auto- log snapshots. This parameter is set to 1 hour
purge-interval by default. To disable the automatic deletion
of ZooKeeper's log snapshots, set the task
interval to 0 (zero) hours.
The automatic creation of this file simplifies the maintenance of data domains during
their backup and restoration (exporting and importing). You can make use of this
feature when importing a previously exported data domain because you no longer need
to keep track of a custom data domain profile.
• The endeca-cluster-coordinator-auto-purge-snap-retain-
count sets the number of snapshot logs to retain in the ZooKeeper data
directory, and is set to 3 by default.
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4.6.3.10. Optimized Application Tier Deployments
The following enhancements have been made to optimize the application tier
deployments:
• The Endeca Server and Integrator Server are consolidated into one domain.
• This release uses one admin server with three managed servers for Endeca
Server, Studio, and Integrator.
• The installer size has been reduced due to consolidation and the removal of the
dependency on ADF runtime.
The Conversation Web Service enables sorting records that have geocode attribute
values by the distance from a specified reference point.
The following validations and diagnostics have been added to provide users useful
messages to take corrective action:
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• FND_EID_INTEGRATOR_URL profile is not set - Request ends in error.
User advised to set the profile and run the request again.
• Clover credentials are not stored in EBS FND_VAULT - Request ends in error.
User advised to run post-setup step 3.
• Clover URL is not up - Request ends in error. User advised to verify if the
Clover URL mentioned in the profile is correct and to check if Clover is up.
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4.7.3. Release 12.1.1
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With Oracle E-Business Suite SIF integration developers will be able to interact with
abstract representations of Web services through their WSDL descriptions instead of
working directly with the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) APIs, which is the
usual programming model regardless of how the Web service is implemented and
accessed.
Oracle E-Business Suite SIF implements WSIF standards to allow stub-less or
completely dynamic invocation of a Web service, based upon examination of the meta-
data about the Web service at runtime.
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The service enablement for the custom integration interfaces would be handled similar to
how Oracle seeded integration interfaces is supported.
4.7.5. Release 12.1.3
4.7.5.1. Uniform / Static XSD Schema File Nomenclature and Schema Structures
Previously, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway created the XSD schema
file nomenclature and the schema structures differently when regenerating Web services
on the same server than when generating the Web services on another server. Now, the
product is enhanced to create a uniform, static XSD schema file nomenclature and
schema structures so that they remain consistent across regeneration of services on the
same server or generation of the services on another server. This feature helps ensure
that the Web service clients, once created for the Web service, will not cause failures in
executing the integration transaction.
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• Support for Open Interface Tables and Open Interface Views as REST Services
This feature was back-ported from 12.2.7+. Refer to the full feature description
under the 12.2.7+ section for this product.
• Support for Business Service Objects (BSOs) as REST Services
This feature was back-ported from 12.2.10. Refer to the full feature description
under the 12.2.10 section for this product.
4.7.7.1. Oracle WebLogic Server 11g with Oracle SOA Suite 11g Integration
Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway now uses Oracle SOA Suite 11g
running on Oracle WebLogic Server 11g to provide greater capabilities and best-in-class
SOA infrastructure for Oracle E-Business Suite. In this integration, Oracle SOA Suite
provides the most current SOA technology such as Web services standards support,
protocols, and binding, while Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway
provides the integration content, such as the integration interfaces, security model, and
guidelines for best practices.
• Service Provider - In this release, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA
Gateway continues to generate and deploy Oracle E-Business Suite Web
services into Oracle SOA Suite. However, at run time the SOAP requests and
responses from Web service clients and consumers will be executed by Oracle
SOA Suite.
• Service Invocation Framework - Previously, the Service Invocation
Framework (SIF) was based on the Web Services Invocation Framework
(WSIF) provided in Oracle Application Server 10g. In Release 12.2, SIF
leverages the JAX-WS (Java API for XML-based Web Services) Dispatch from
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g.
• Service Administration
o Service Lifecycle Management - In this release, integration repository
administrators can perform the following additional service lifecycle
tasks in the interface details page of the Oracle Integration Repository:
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Retire an active deployed service to ensure that current running
requests are completed while the service no longer accepts new
requests.
Activate a retired service.
Reset a service by clearing up the associated service artifact and
resetting the Web service status to its initial value (‘Not
Generated’).
o Service Monitor - The component known as SOA Monitor in earlier
releases is now called the Service Monitor. The Service Monitor fetches
data and statistics for each instance of a Web service request and
response from the underlying Oracle SOA Suite infrastructure to let you
monitor Oracle E-Business Suite Web services. You can use the Service
Monitor user interface in Oracle E-Business Suite to view the runtime
SOAP request and response data received and sent from Oracle SOA
Suite.
o Log Configuration - The Log Configuration user interface is simplified
to configure design-time and run-time logs and service auditing at
interface level.
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• Perform post-clone steps, such as redeploying the services, on a Release 12.2
cloned environment.
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This feature is back-ported to Release 12.1.3+.
POST is the only supported HTTP method for concurrent program REST services.
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4.7.12. Release 12.2.7+
4.7.12.1. Support for Open Interface Tables and Open Interface Views as REST
Services
Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway now supports open interface tables
and open interface views as REST Services through the Integration Repository. This
feature lets you directly interact with data stored in the open interface tables or open
Interface views through the associated REST services.
The supported HTTP methods are determined by the direction of the selected interface.
For open interface tables with the Inbound direction, all four HTTP methods (GET,
POST, PUT, and DELETE) are supported. This means that you can read, insert, update,
and delete data contained in the selected open interface table. For open interface tables
with the Outbound direction and for open interface views, you can read or select records
from the selected interface through the GET method only.
Note that an open interface is a combination of a concurrent program and associated
open interface tables. The corresponding concurrent program can be deployed as a
REST service operation with the POST method only.
This feature is back-ported to Release 12.1.3+.
4.7.13. Release 12.2.10
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4.8. Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation
4.8.1. Overview
Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation provides components specific to Oracle
E-Business Suite for use by mobile apps. Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation
leverages and extends Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) technology.
4.8.2. Mobile Release 1.0
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4.8.4. Mobile Release 2.1
4.8.5.1. Changes to Support Both iOS and Android with the Same Client Code
Oracle E-Business Suite apps are now available for Android devices as well as iOS
devices. Enhancements in Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation allow the same
client-side code to be used to make the apps available on either operating system.
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4.8.5.3. Updates to Configuration UI
The following features provide enhanced app configuration for administrators on the
Oracle E-Business Suite server:
Ability to test configuration file from application search results page
Configuration parameters are grouped as Connection Settings
Additionally, references to the connections.xml configuration file that was formerly used
in earlier releases have been removed from the user interface.
4.8.6. Mobile Release 4.0
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• Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation application template – The
MAF-based template facilitates building custom mobile apps for Oracle
E-Business Suite using the Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation.
• Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation sample app – The MAF-based
sample app version 1.0.0 showcases the features included in the Oracle
E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation libraries. The sample app contains key
features such as a springboard, simple search, a barcode scanner, a list of values
(LOV), a Settings screen, integration with essential common components, and a
pagination sample. The sample app provides real app flows using Oracle
E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway REST services.
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4.8.9.3. Clearing User Credential Fields
A new icon in the Sign In page lets users quickly clear any values from the user name
and password fields, making it easier to enter updated credentials or allow a different
user to sign in.
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4.8.11.4. Support for Push Notifications in Selected Apps
Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation provides underlying support to let you
enable push notifications with Oracle Mobile Cloud Service in the following apps:
• Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite, when provided to users
through enterprise distribution
• Custom apps developed using Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation
Administrators can use the mobile app setup pages on the Oracle E-Business Suite
server to configure push notifications for these apps.
Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation leverages Oracle Mobile Cloud Service
(MCS) to deliver push notifications. MCS handles platform-specific delivery of push
notifications and provides monitoring and error handling capabilities for administrators.
If you have already subscribed to MCS for your enterprise mobile app requirements, you
can use the same subscription to enable push notifications for Oracle E-Business Suite.
Otherwise, you must obtain a new MCS subscription to use push notifications.
Push notifications require enterprise distribution due to iOS requirements. The
provisioning profile used to build the iOS app and the certificate and private key
presented by the Oracle E-Business Suite server to send the push notifications are
specific to the iOS app to be used in your organization, so you must obtain your own
profile and certificate from the Apple Developer Program. You can then use these to
build and deploy the iOS app through enterprise distribution.
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Users can install the mobile apps from an EMM solution's app catalog. If an
administrator has preconfigured the EBS Server URL, then users no longer need to enter
this URL manually after launching an app.
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Oracle E-Business Suite provides a seamless integration between Oracle E-Business
Suite data and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) engine so that users can search
across multiple Oracle E-Business Suite modules seamlessly and in a secured fashion.
A Web-based tool, Search Modeler is provided to customers as an easy-to-use
framework for application developers and enterprise data modelers to define searchable
objects and to provide full text search capability to the application users.
Key capabilities:
• Full-text search capability on Oracle E-Business Suite data to search structured
and unstructured data. Attachments are examples of unstructured data.
• Common infrastructure for Oracle E-Business Suite to crawl and index data into
the Oracle SES database.
• Search Modeler – a Web-based tool to create, modify and deploy searchable
business objects including Oracle E-Business Suite and custom applications.
• Security – object level access and data level access control
• Search refinement – refine the search criteria through narrow or expand options
and filtering options.
• Saved Search – Users can book mark and save the search for easy access and to
eliminate any navigation.
4.9.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)
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4.9.3.2. Out of Box Searchable Business Objects
Oracle delivers a limited number of searchable business objects along with the Oracle E-
Business Suite applications. Customers are encouraged to use Search Modeler to create
their own search solutions with the help of in-house application experts or partners.
The following objects are search-enabled by Oracle E-Business Suite for Release 12.1.1:
• Items
• Assets
• Service Requests, Case Management
• Integration Repository Classes and Objects
• Workflow Notifications
• Courses (Oracle Learning Management)
• Job Vacancies – Internal & External
• Candidates
• Procurement Contracts
4.9.4.1. UI Improvements
Information workers need to access relevant information quickly in order to make
decisions or complete transactions. Search results now include a relevance ranking to
inform users how relevant the search result is to their search criteria. This feature lets
users quickly access the most relevant information or transaction.
Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search allows users to display search results
in two different styles for enhanced readability, instead of the previous concatenated
display. The Classical style renders the search results in an Internet-style display. The
Tabular style renders the search results in a table or spreadsheet-like format.
Additionally, search results are now displayed with appropriate user-friendly captions to
enhance the user experience.
Users also now have the capability to sort the search results displayed in the current page
according to their needs.
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• Business group based security for Oracle Human Resources modules
• Employee hierarchy based security for Oracle Human Resources modules
4.9.5. Release 12.1.3
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Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework is built on a scalable architecture that
comprises three main layers:
• ECC User Interface and UI Designer: Modern and interactive UI components
with a browser-based designer that allows content creation in dashboards
through drag and drop and fully declarative controls.
• ECC Service Interface: REST APIs that control the creation and retrieval of data
and metadata. These APIs provide advanced capabilities for data retrieval and
analysis, such as aggregations, associations, and rollups.
• ECC Core: A storage and query engine that allows the definition of data sets
along with customized behaviors, relationships, and calculations.
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework can be applied to Release 12.2.4 and
above.
4.10.2. Release 12.2 V1
4.10.2.2. Security
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework enforces Oracle E-Business Suite
security for function and data access, thus providing the same support for segregation of
duties and data access controls as in other Oracle E-Business Suite components.
• Wildcard Search: You can use the search operators (*) or (%) to perform a
wildcard search, in which the search results matches any text that contains the
characters between the search operators. You can also use the question mark (?)
as a wildcard to perform a single (one and only one) character search.
• Phrase Search: You can search for an exact sequence of terms by enclosing
your search terms in quotation marks (“ ”).
• Boolean and Expression Search: You can use various operators such as
AND, NOT, and OR to build complex expressions to narrow the search results.
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4.10.3.2. New User Interface Components for Information Discovery
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework provides the following new user
interface visualization components:
• Bubble/Scatter Chart: Scatter charts display data points, with each point
representing a dimension value. Points can also be aggregated into bins in a
binned scatterplot, or measured against a third metric and displayed as scaled
bubbles in a bubble chart. These charts are useful for showing correlations
between metrics.
• Line Chart: Line charts show one or more metric values aggregated across a
series dimension. They are useful for showing changes or trends.
• Reference Line in Chart: You can now display a reference line on a chart
based on a predefined metric.
• Attribute groups are now available to enhance data categorization and grouping
in the Available Refinements and Results Table.
Note that in this release, Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework does not use
the Oracle E-Business Suite number format and currency format to format numbers and
currency amounts. Instead, it displays numbers and currency amounts unformatted.
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• Side Navigation (default): In this default page layout, the side navigation panel
that contains the search, selected refinement, and available refinements
components is always displayed on the page.
• Collapsed Side Navigation: In this page layout, the side navigation panel is
collapsed by default and can be expanded by clicking the “Toggle Navigation
Panel” icon. When the side navigation panel is collapsed, the Selected
Refinements component is displayed as a floating icon on the page. When the
side navigation panel is expanded, this icon no longer appears.
• No Side Navigation: This page layout lets you display a page without the side
navigation panel. This layout is best suited for a landing page or home page that
will not have any navigation components. However, the Selected Refinements
component is displayed as a floating icon after any filter is applied.
• Look and Feel: The search box can now appear at the page level instead of in
the side navigation panel. A new look and feel gives users a better interface with
easy-to-read search term highlighting and keyboard navigation for the auto-
suggestion list.
• Search Attribute: Business users can select a context under which they want to
perform their search. The context can be configured to refer to any attribute in
the system. Inline search within the context attribute is also supported.
For example, if a user is using Oracle iProcurement and would like to shop for a
laptop, the user can select the Computer category in the Search drop-down
menu. After the user enters a search for a laptop, a specific list appears that
applies to the selected category.
• Search Behavior: If a user selects a search attribute, additional controls let the
user choose how to display the remaining values of context attributes based on
the current filter state on the page.
Users can also remove applied filters from the search box by changing their
selection from the attribute list.
• Hyperlink: A user can now search and navigate to another page and apply the
search term as a filter on the destination page.
• Condition: The search box supports applying a data set condition on the
suggestion list results.
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wildcards or a Boolean expression. Click the magnifying glass icon displayed next to the
attribute for the search to take effect on all page components.
• Delete a Tab: Administrators can delete a tab if the component contains more
than two tabs.
• Drag and Drop Components: Administrators can drag and drop page
components inside or outside the tab.
• Runtime Sorting: Business users can sort by any attribute displayed at runtime.
• Pagination Control and Selection: Pagination control and record selection can
be removed from a grid to support additional business use cases for the grid.
• Text Formatting: You can change the text style, alignment, size, and color.
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4.10.4.10. Upgrade
You can upgrade from Release 12.2 V2 to Release 12.2 V3 without needing to reinstall
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework through the quick install package. The
upgrade will preserve configurations and data sets already created as well as any page
and metadata extensions you have implemented.
4.10.4.11. Cloning
You can now use cloning to back up and restore a snapshot of a working Oracle
Enterprise Command Center Framework instance. Cloning can be used to save backups,
as part of an upgrade procedure, or to add new nodes to increase high availability.
• Public Saved Searches: Administrators can create public saved searches, which
can be accessed by all users.
• Private Saved Searches: Both administrators and business users can create
private saved searches, which can be accessed only by the user who created
them.
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• Line Charts:
• Bar/Line Charts:
o Multi-metric charts
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4.10.5.13. About ECC
The About feature provides administrators information about the current Oracle
Enterprise Command Center version, JET version, Solr version, application versions,
configuration properties, and documentation and training links.
4.10.5.18. Upgrade
You can upgrade from Release 12.2 V2 and Release 12.2 V3 to Release 12.2 V4 without
needing to reinstall Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework through the quick
install package. The upgrade will preserve configurations and data sets already created
as well as any page and metadata extensions you have implemented.
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o Tune deployment and ETL processes.
4.10.6.6. Export
Export is now available from charts, tag clouds, and aggregate tables, in addition to the
previously introduced export capabilities in results tables and grids.
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4.10.6.10. Aggregate Grid
An aggregate grid displays aggregated values in a flexible layout template. Aggregate
grids allow grouping data based on different attributes to provide more accurate views of
the data, thus acting as a one-stop shop for deriving deep insights from your data.
4.10.7.1. Diagrams
Business users need to trace activities in the enterprise pertaining to any business
transaction, partner, or entity. Often, in a complex operating environment, multiple
actors are involved in the business outcome. Someone reacting to a product recall,
customer complaint, missing payment, quality issues, or similar issues may need to find
the root cause of a problem that started in an upstream process far removed from where
the problem was reported. Network diagrams in Oracle Enterprise Command Center
Framework are an innovative solution for this challenging problem.
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Network diagrams provide the following key features:
• Allow exploration of a business process from any stage of the relationship, with
the ability to explore from the beginning, end, or any other level in between.
• Let users explore multiple distinct business processes (diagrams) at once, with
the option to paginate the display per process.
• Allow change of focus dynamically from the starting business entity to any other
entity displayed in the diagram by making that entity the starting point of a new
diagram.
• Drill back from any node into related business transactions in the ERP and CRM
applications and take immediate action.
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4.10.7.6. Waterfall Charts
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework has introduced a new chart type that
visualizes the cumulative effect of sequential or categorical positive and negative values
applied to the starting value.
4.11. Oracle Functional Testing Suite Advanced Pack for Oracle E-Business
Suite
4.11.1. Overview
Oracle Functional Testing Suite Advanced Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite takes
advantage of the Oracle Flow Builder module of the Oracle Functional Testing Suite for
Oracle Applications that can help customers reduce the time and expertise needed to
create and maintain automated test scripts for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.
Using Oracle Flow Builder, even non-technical testers can create working test scripts
using pre-built components. Each component represents an atomic test operation such as
“create an invoice batch” or “apply an invoice hold.” Testers can assemble pre-built
components into test flows, and combine test flows with spreadsheet data to drive the
testing of multiple data conditions without a need for recording scripts.
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Oracle Flow Builder includes over 3,600 pre-built components and 230 pre-built flows
designed by the Oracle E-Business Suite Quality Assurance team for their Oracle E-
Business Suite testing across all product families. Customers can leverage the pre-built
components and flows to jump-start their own test automation. The Oracle Flow Builder
framework allows customers to add, modify and extend the pre-built components to
address new functionality and customizations to Oracle E-Business Suite.
4.11.2. V1.0
4.11.2.1. Oracle E-Business Suite Pre-built Test Content for Oracle Flow Builder
Oracle Functional Testing Suite Advanced Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite provides
the components (based on the user interface) for testing features of different products
delivered as part of Oracle E-Business Suite to be used with Oracle Flow Builder. The
components delivered in the Advanced Pack cover in-depth functionality of the products
and flows, depicting end-to-end business processes. The following products are covered
in Oracle Functional Testing Suite Advanced Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite:
• Oracle Asset Lifecycle Management
• Oracle Channel Revenue Management
• Oracle Discrete Manufacturing
• Oracle Lease and Finance Management
• Oracle Incentive Compensation
• Oracle Process Manufacturing
• Oracle Procurement
• Oracle Project Management
• Oracle Property Manager
• Oracle Service
Oracle Functional Testing Suite Advanced Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite also
provides components for PL/SQL APIs, open interfaces and web services.
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4.12.2.2. Registering Service Bean APIs with Oracle iSetup
This enhancement allows registering of service bean APIs with Oracle iSetup through
the iSetup Interface Repository screen. These registered service bean APIs can be used
to create custom selection sets.
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4.12.5. Release 12.2.6
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o Order Management
o Purchase Orders
o Quality
o Pricing
o Shipping
o Work in Progress
o Warehouse Management
• Projects Setup
• OA Personalizations
• XML Publisher
• Workflow Business Event System Objects
• Workflow Definitions
• Oracle Lease Management
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Page/Expand (PE). Oracle Report Manager now supports complex combinations of these
display types for an account assignment in a content set definition.
With this feature, Oracle Report Manager now matches the support for publishing
reports based on all display types formerly provided in the client version of Oracle
Application Desktop Integrator (ADI).
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4.13.6.2. Report Manager Home Page
The new Report Manager Home page provides a single central location from which you
can view your Oracle Report Manager concurrent requests, submit reports, and access
Oracle Report Manager administration features. You can use this page to monitor your
pending and completed Oracle Report Manager requests without having to search for
these requests in the standard concurrent processing pages. You can also mark
completed requests as favorites for quick access later.
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4.13.7. Release 12.2.4
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4.13.9. Release 12.2.7
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4.14. Oracle User Management (UMX)
4.14.1. Overview – SOX Compliance RBAC Reports
Oracle E-Business Suite products use ATG security infrastructure, including function
and data security, for their security needs. The security model is a very complex model
comprising users, roles, grants, objects and instance sets.
“Who, What, Why, How” (W3H) system serves as an auditing and querying tool
providing a 360-degree view of the Security system.
W3H system is broadly aimed at:
• Auditors of Oracle E-Business Suite.
• Oracle Support, who can use this tool for diagnosis
• System Administrators of Oracle E-Business Suite Installation
• Developers of the Oracle E-Business suite products who would like to query the
Security system.
4.14.2. Release 12.1.1
4.14.2.3. Reports
W3H will allow information to be saved in various formats. The supported formats will
be Microsoft Word document (DOC) and Adobe Acrobat PDF. Reports will be
generated using XML Publisher.
Since the information required can be huge, running the query and preparing the report
can take time and cause browser timeout. Therefore, W3H reports will be generated
using Concurrent Programs.
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4.14.2.5. Snapshot
Auditors would like to know what happened in a specified period. For example, “Did
this user have access to the SALARY object during appraisal time?” The system will
allow the user to enter the date range for each type of query.
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4.15. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator
4.15.1. Overview
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initially identifies the Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator macros as coming
from a trusted source, Microsoft Excel automatically allows the macros to run, even
when the user has selected a high macro security level in Microsoft Excel.
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4.15.4.5. Compressing Data for Upload
The size of the data that you can upload from a spreadsheet is determined by the
available memory (RAM) on your PC. If you need to upload a large amount of data, you
can now compress the data before the upload, using WinZip or 7Zip. Compression
increases the number of records that you can upload at once.
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4.15.7. Release 12.2.6
For information about related internationalization features, see section 3.4.
4.15.7.4. Exporting Oracle Application Framework Table Data with Oracle Web
Applications Desktop Integrator
Classic and Advanced tables in Oracle Application Framework pages now support
integration with Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator, allowing table data to be
downloaded as an Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator spreadsheet. Use the
FND: Enable BNE Table Integration profile option to enable this feature.
4.15.8. Release 12.2.7
For information about related internationalization features, see section 3.4.
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you have selected the integrator to which the mapping applies. This page makes it easier
to map large numbers of columns and to change how many columns are included in the
mapping.
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bulk, rather than having to navigate to the Notification Details page for each notification
individually.
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that is specified in the current session context. When you complete the partitioning,
Oracle Workflow enables a special type of background engine, called the Workflow
Background Process for RAC, that you can use to process RAC-enabled workflows. The
background engines that you run using the Workflow Background Process for RAC
concurrent program each access only one partition, corresponding to one RAC instance
ID, within the workflow tables. Consequently other background engines run using this
program can access other partitions at the same time. In this way, workflow RAC
affinity helps avoid contention on the workflow tables, provides faster access to
workflow runtime data, and increases throughput for the RAC-enabled workflow
processes.
High volume batch processing workflows are usually good candidates to consider for
RAC affinity, because they can often gain a significant performance increase by using
this feature. To be eligible for RAC affinity, a workflow must either be launched and
completed in the same session, or the workflow must be completed using only a
background engine, without requiring any other intervention such as notifications
requiring a response, a block activity resumed by a program, and so on.
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was sent to the original recipient. Similarly, the sent date displayed in a request
for more information now shows the date when the request was made, rather
than the sent date of the original notification.
• The Notification Details page now displays a brief status at the top of the page
indicating if another user has delegated or transferred the notification to the
current recipient, if another user has requested or provided more information, or
if another user transferred a request for more information to the current
recipient. Any comment provided by the other user is displayed as well.
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4.16.5. Release 12.2.4
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4.16.8. Release 12.2.7
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• A new role named WF_EXTERNAL_ROLE_NOEBS_ACCESS lets you
identify external users who do not have access to your Oracle E-Business Suite
instance and should not receive the link to the notification in the Notification
Details page as an attachment. If you assign this role to a user, the Notification
Details link is not attached to e-mail notifications, even if the user selects a
notification preference that includes attachments. For example, if you send e-
mail notifications to suppliers or customers outside your own enterprise, you can
assign them the WF_EXTERNAL_ROLE_NOEBS_ACCESS role so that they
do not receive the Notification Details link.
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on approval requests for expenses, requisitions, purchase orders, recruitment vacancies
and offers, and more.
• Quickly filter approval requests by sender or subject
• Review at a glance header and line item details, action history, and comments
• Approve or reject with or without comments, or request more information
Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite is compatible with Oracle E-
Business Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 and above. To use this app, you must be a licensed user
of any Oracle E-Business Suite product that uses workflow approvals, with mobile
services configured on the server side by your administrator.
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4.17.5.2. Enhanced Data Layout
The layout of the subject, header, and line records in the approvals pages has been
enhanced.
4.17.6.2. Attachments
You can view attachments for approval requests.
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4.17.6.5. Enhanced Details Page
The Details page includes an improved subject card view.
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• Ability to easily clear user credential fields in the Sign In page
• Technical updates with uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF)
2.3.1
4.17.9. Mobile Release 7.0 – Client Version 1.6.0
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4.17.11.2. Mobile Foundation Release 9.0 Updates
• Technical updates with uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF)
2.6.2
4.17.12. Mobile Release 9.1 – Client Version 1.8.1
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potential issues. This enhancement also includes modified parameters for existing
diagnostics, including ‘Basic OTA Diagnostic Test’, ‘Ping Destination Server’, and
‘Message Monitor’.
4.18.3. Release 12.2.6
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