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ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE
RELEASE CONTENT DOCUMENT
Applications Technology
Releases 12.1 and 12.2 (inclusive of 12.0.2 – 12.2.11)
Prepared by Oracle E-Business Suite Product Development
Last Updated: November 10, 2021
Copyright © 2011, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Table of Contents
1. Disclaimer 1
2. Introduction 2
2.1. Purpose of Document 2
3. Technology Stack 3
3.1. Release 12.2 Overview 3
3.2. Release 12.2 Technology Components 3
3.3. Technology Configuration 5
3.3.1. Overview 5
3.3.2. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 5
3.3.2.1. Technology Inventory Report 5
3.3.2.2. OC4J Load Balancing 5
3.3.3. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 6
3.3.3.1. AutoConfig Performance Enhancements 6
3.3.4. Release 12.1.1 6
3.3.4.1. AutoConfig Profiler 6
3.3.4.2. AutoConfig Parallelization across Nodes 6
3.3.4.3. AutoConfig Service Control Dependency Management 6
3.3.4.4. AutoConfig Check Config Utility 6
3.3.4.5. AutoConfig Support for Oracle Database 11g 6
3.3.4.6. Build Context XML Utility for Cross Platform Migration 7
3.3.4.7. AutoConfig Search Utility 7
3.3.4.8. Technology Stack Inventory Validation Report 7
3.3.4.9. Enhanced Support for Sharing Application Tier File System 7
3.3.4.10. Enhanced Support for Application Tier Load Balancing 7
3.3.4.11. Enhanced Support for DMZ Deployments 7
3.3.4.12. Network Traffic Encryption Capability 7
3.3.4.13. Advanced Configuration Wizards 8
3.3.4.14. Oracle Connection Manager Technology Integration 8
3.3.4.15. Support for Integrated SOA Gateway 8
3.3.5. Release 12.1.3 8
3.3.5.1. AutoConfig Performance Improvements 8
3.3.5.2. AutoConfig Support for the 11g Scan Listener Feature 8
3.3.5.3. Automated Deployment of Forms ear File 8
3.3.6. Release 12.1.3+ 8
3.3.6.1. Java Web Start 8
3.3.6.2. Java Web Start on macOS with Firefox 9
3.3.6.3. Multiple Forms Sessions with Java Web Start 9
3.3.7. Release 12.2 9
3.3.7.1. Installation 9
3.3.7.2. Online Patching 9
3.3.7.3. Cloning 9
3.3.7.4. Application Tier 9
3.3.7.5. External Integrations 10
3.3.7.6. Diagnostics for Secure Configuration 10
3.3.7.7. WLS Datasource Connection Pool 10
3.3.7.8. 64-bit Java Support 10
3.3.8. Release 12.2.3+ 10
3.3.9. Release 12.2.5 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
3.3.10.3. 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
3.4. 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
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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
4.1.8.3. Rich HGrid Interactions 30
4.1.8.4. Time Support in Date Picker 30
4.1.8.5. New Menu Component 30
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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
4.1.9.3. 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
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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
4.1.14. Release 12.2.11 41
4.1.14.1. Color Coding for Infotiles 41
4.1.14.2. Collapse and Expand Infotiles 41
4.1.14.3. Enhanced Export of Table Data to PDF and Excel 41
4.1.14.4. Enhanced Charts 41
4.1.14.5. Support for Enterprise Command Center Pop-up 42
4.1.14.6. Direct Display for Descriptive Flexfields in Simple Search Panel 42
4.1.14.7. Semicolon as Separator for Exported CSV File 42
4.1.14.8. New API for List Search 42
4.1.14.9. Saved Search Notifications in Classic Query Bean Views Panel 42
4.1.14.10. New Key Flexfield Web Bean Attribute 42
4.1.14.11. New Profile Option to Disable Diagnostic Console Button 42
4.1.14.12. Redwood Theme 42
4.2. Oracle Application Object Library 43
4.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 43
4.2.1.1. Custom Directory Information Tree (DIT) 43
4.2.2. Release 12.1.1 43
4.2.2.1. Data Type Support Enhancements in the Generic Data Loader (FNDLOAD) 43
4.2.2.2. Data Type Support Enhancements in the XML Definition File (XDF) 43
4.2.2.3. Integrated Business Events in Concurrent Processing 43
4.2.2.4. Manager and Request Instance Affinity in Concurrent Processing 43
4.2.2.5. Startup Threshold for Managers in Concurrent Processing 43
4.2.3. Release 12.1.2 44
4.2.3.1. Oracle Access Manager Integration 44
4.2.3.2. Oracle Application Object Library Java APIs 44
4.2.3.3. DataSource for Oracle E-Business Suite (AppsDataSource) 44
4.2.3.4. JAAS for Oracle E-Business Suite 44
4.2.3.5. Scheduling Charts User Interface Enhancements 45
4.2.4. Release 12.1.3 45
4.2.4.1. Key Flexfield Cross-Validation Rules Report Enhancements 45
4.2.4.2. Flexfield Segment Name Validation 45
4.2.4.3. Concurrent Processing Integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Delivery Manager45
4.2.4.4. Oracle E-Business Suite Support for 11g Case Sensitive Database Passwords 45
4.2.4.5. FNDMENU Diagnostics Menu Security Enhancement 46
4.2.4.6. Database Connection Tagging 46
4.2.5. Release 12.1.3+ 46
4.2.5.1. Recalculation of Dynamic Default Parameters in Standard Request Submission 46
4.2.5.2. Setting Environment Values and Parameters on a Per-Service Basis 46
4.2.5.3. Concurrent Processing Command-Line Utility 46
4.2.5.4. New Schemes for Storing Concurrent Processing Log and Output Files 46
4.2.5.5. Output File Naming Changes 47
4.2.5.6. Timed Shutdown for Concurrent Processing 47
4.2.5.7. Allowed Resources 47
4.2.5.8. Allowed Redirects 47
4.2.6. Release 12.2 47
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4.2.6.1. Native Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Caching for Profiles 47
4.2.6.2. Uptake of AUTO Sampling Statistics Gathering Feature in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 47
4.2.6.3. Support for Copying Attachments in the Oracle Application Framework UI 47
4.2.6.4. Flexfield Value Set Security 47
4.2.6.5. Browser Cookie Scope 48
4.2.6.6. Allowed JSP Lists 48
4.2.6.7. Oracle Application Object Library REST Services 48
4.2.7. Release 12.2.3 49
4.2.7.1. Advanced Password Hashing 49
4.2.8. Release 12.2.4 49
4.2.8.1. Recalculation of Dynamic Default Parameters in Standard Request Submission 49
4.2.8.2. Profile Option to Control Opening of Key Flexfield Window by Default 49
4.2.8.3. Setting Environment Values and Parameters on a Per-Service Basis 50
4.2.8.4. Allowed Redirects 50
4.2.9. Release 12.2.5 50
4.2.9.1. Login Page Enhancements 50
4.2.9.2. Null Values Allowed in Find Window Queries for Descriptive Flexfields 50
4.2.9.3. Flexfields Cross-Validation Rule Violation Report Enhancement 50
4.2.9.4. Flexfields Test Page 50
4.2.9.5. Concurrent Processing Command-Line Utility 51
4.2.9.6. JSP and Java API for File Streaming 51
4.2.10. Release 12.2.6 51
4.2.10.1. Setup Wizard for Flexfields Value Set Security 51
4.2.10.2. Flexfields Registration HTML UI 51
4.2.10.3. Oracle E-Business Suite Forms in Read-Only Mode on the Responsibility or User Level 51
4.2.10.4. New Schemes for Storing Concurrent Processing Log and Output Files 51
4.2.10.5. Audit Trail Search HTML UI 51
4.2.10.6. Allowed JSP List Enabled by Default 52
4.2.10.7. Allowed Redirects Enabled by Default 52
4.2.10.8. Secure Configuration Console 52
4.2.11. Release 12.2.6+ 52
4.2.11.1. Allowed Resources 52
4.2.12. Release 12.2.7 52
4.2.12.1. Allowed Resources Enhancements 52
4.2.12.2. Secure Configuration Console Enhancements 52
4.2.13. Release 12.2.9 52
4.2.13.1. Read-Only Flexfields Segments Capability 52
4.2.13.2. New Concurrent Processing Output File Naming Conventions 53
4.2.13.3. Concurrent Processing Timed Shutdown 53
4.2.13.4. Allowed Resources Enhancements 53
4.2.13.5. Secure Configuration Console Enhancements 53
4.2.14. Release 12.2.10 54
4.2.14.1. Restricting Visibility of Shared Attachments in the Document Catalog 54
4.2.14.2. Flexfields Forms Diagnostics Logging 54
4.2.14.3. Sign-on Auditing Enhancements 54
4.2.14.4. Allowed Resources User Interface Enhancements 54
4.2.14.5. Secure Configuration Console User Interface Enhancements 54
4.2.14.6. Password Hashing Default 55
4.2.15. Release 12.2.11 55
4.2.15.1. Default Retention Period for Inactive Sessions and Sign-On Audit Data Increased to 400 Days 55
4.2.15.2. Control Proxy User Selection by Organization for Internal and External Users 55
4.2.15.3. Secure Configuration Console Check for CPU Level 55
4.2.15.4. Secure Configuration Console Check for FND Global File Manager Authorization 55
4.2.15.5. Secure Configuration Console Check for Unused Resources 55
4.2.15.6. Increased Severity for Allowed Resources Configuration Check in Secure Configuration Console55
4.3. Oracle Applications Manager (OAM) 56
4.3.1. Release 12.1.3 56
4.3.1.1. Support for Timing Report per Application Module 56
4.3.2. Release 12.1.3+ 56
4.3.2.1. Export Function for Patch Impact File Details Page in Patch Impact Analysis 56
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4.3.3. Release 12.2 56
4.3.3.1. Integration of Oracle Applications Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Fusion Middleware Control
56
4.3.4. Release 12.2.2 56
4.3.4.1. View All Button on Patch Wizard Detail Pages 56
4.3.5. Release 12.2.4 56
4.3.5.1. Sync with Licensed Products Button on Codelevels Summary Page 56
4.3.6. Release 12.2.5 57
4.3.6.1. Streamlined Recommended Patches List in Patch Wizard 57
4.3.6.2. Export Function for Recommended Patches Page in Patch Wizard 57
4.3.7. Release 12.2.6 57
4.3.7.1. License Manager Language Mode Selection 57
4.3.7.2. Export Function for Patch Impact File Details Page in Patch Impact Analysis 57
4.4. Oracle Diagnostics Framework 57
4.4.1. Overview 57
4.4.2. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 58
4.4.2.1. Diagnostics Execution Engine and User Interface Enhancements 58
4.4.3. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4) 58
4.4.3.1. New and Revised Diagnostic Tests 58
4.4.4. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 59
4.4.4.1. Diagnostics Enhancements 59
4.4.5. Release 12.1.1 59
4.4.5.1. Performance Enhancements 60
4.4.5.2. Role Based Access Control Uptake 60
4.4.5.3. Test Level Sensitivity 60
4.4.5.4. Oracle XML Publisher Integration 60
4.4.5.5. UI Enhancements 60
4.4.5.6. Customization Support 61
4.4.5.7. Role Based Access Control and Valid Applications 61
4.4.5.8. Test Set Scheduling 61
4.4.5.9. Preference Profile Options 61
4.4.5.10. Performance Profile Options 61
4.4.6. Release 12.1.2 61
4.4.6.1. Recognition of XML file types 61
4.4.7. Release 12.1.3 62
4.4.7.1. In-Context Diagnostics 62
4.5. Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA 62
4.5.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2) 62
4.5.1.1. Change Base Language Script 62
4.5.2. Release 12.2 62
4.5.2.1. Online Patching 62
4.5.3. Release 12.2.4 62
4.5.3.1. Online Patching Log Analyzer 62
4.5.3.2. New Online Patching Cleanup Mode 62
4.5.4. Release 12.2.5 63
4.5.4.1. Patching Support for Single File System Development Environments 63
4.5.4.2. Integration of EBS Technology Codelevel Checker (ETCC) with adop 63
4.5.4.3. Enhanced adop Console Messages 63
4.5.4.4. New adop Monitoring Tool 63
4.5.4.5. Performance Enhancements in adop Operation 63
4.5.4.6. Improved Oracle WebLogic Server Error Reporting by Online Patching Log Analyzer Utility 63
4.5.4.7. Ability to De-register a Custom Application 63
4.5.5. Release 12.2.6 64
4.5.5.1. Log File Structure 64
4.5.5.2. Handling Seed Data Changes 64
4.5.5.3. Delta Synchronization Method 64
4.5.5.4. Warning for Missing Application Tier Patches 64
4.5.6. Release 12.2.7+ 64
4.5.6.1. Script to Terminate Sessions Connected to Old Editions 64
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4.5.7. Release 12.2.10 64
4.5.7.1. adop Enhancements with Oracle Database 19c 64
4.5.7.2. Performance Enhancement for Online Patching 65
4.5.7.3. File System Synchronization Enhancement 65
4.5.8. Release 12.2.11 65
4.5.8.1. Oracle E-Business Suite System Schema Migration 65
4.5.8.2. Certification with Oracle Database Unified Auditing 65
4.6. Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery 65
4.6.1. Overview 65
4.6.2. Support Update 66
4.6.3. Release 12.2 V7 66
4.6.3.1. Upgrade to Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.2 66
4.6.3.2. New Layout Template 66
4.6.3.3. Summarization Bar Metric Refinement 67
4.6.3.4. Enhanced Oracle E-Business Suite Results Grid Features 67
4.6.3.5. Expanded Language Support 67
4.6.3.6. Changes to the EndecaServer.properties File 67
4.6.3.7. Hostname Resolution Improvements 68
4.6.3.8. Profile File Created for New Data Domains 68
4.6.3.9. Automatic Log Cleanup by the Cluster Coordinator 68
4.6.3.10. Optimized Application Tier Deployments 69
4.6.3.11. Diagnostics Enhancement 69
4.6.3.12. Improved Handling of Invalid Records by the Bulk Load Interface 69
4.6.3.13. New EQL Function 69
4.6.3.14. Sorting Records Based on Geocode 69
4.6.3.15. Concurrent ETL Enhancement 70
4.7. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway 70
4.7.1. Business Case 70
4.7.2. Overview 70
4.7.3. Release 12.1.1 71
4.7.3.1. Integration Repository 71
4.7.3.2. SOA Provider 71
4.7.3.3. Service Invocation Framework 72
4.7.3.4. SOA Monitor 72
4.7.4. Release 12.1.2 72
4.7.4.1. Enhanced SOA Diagnostics 72
4.7.4.2. Introducing Java APIs for Forms as an integration interface type 72
4.7.4.3. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Customization (Integration Repository Parser)72
4.7.5. Release 12.1.3 73
4.7.5.1. Uniform / Static XSD Schema File Nomenclature and Schema Structures 73
4.7.5.2. Enhanced Logging / Auditing and Monitoring 73
4.7.5.3. SAML Token Support 73
4.7.6. Release 12.1.3+ 73
4.7.6.1. Support for REST Services 73
4.7.6.2. Security Services 74
4.7.6.3. Annotation for Java Bean Services 74
4.7.7. Release 12.2 74
4.7.7.1. Oracle WebLogic Server 11g with Oracle SOA Suite 11g Integration 74
4.7.7.2. Asynchronous Web Service Support 75
4.7.7.3. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Diagnostics and Designer Script 75
4.7.7.4. Error and Exception Handling 76
4.7.8. Release 12.2.3 76
4.7.8.1. Support for PL/SQL APIs as REST Services 76
4.7.8.2. Security Services 76
4.7.9. Release 12.2.4 77
4.7.9.1. Support for Java APIs as REST Services 77
4.7.9.2. Annotation for Java Bean Services 77
4.7.10. Release 12.2.5 77
4.7.10.1. Support for Application Module Services 77
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4.7.10.2. Enhanced Language Tag Support 77
4.7.11. Release 12.2.7 78
4.7.11.1. Support for Concurrent Programs as REST Services 78
4.7.12. Release 12.2.7+ 78
4.7.12.1. Support for Open Interface Tables and Open Interface Views as REST Services 78
4.7.13. Release 12.2.10 78
4.7.13.1. Support for Business Service Objects (BSOs) as REST Services 78
4.7.13.2. REST Service Monitoring, Logging, and Related UI Enhancements 79
4.7.14. Release 12.2.11 79
4.7.14.1. Support for REST Services in Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway 79
4.8. Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation 79
4.8.1. Overview 79
4.8.2. Mobile Release 1.0 79
4.8.2.1. Mobile App Services 79
4.8.2.2. Mobile Applications Manager User Interface 80
4.8.2.3. User Login and Configuration Flow 80
4.8.3.1. Improved Login Flow 80
4.8.3.2. Diagnostics Improvements 80
4.8.4.1. Improvements in Login and Configuration Flow 80
4.8.4.2. Ability to Change Server URL Without Reinstalling App 80
4.8.4.3. Diagnostics Improvements 80
4.8.4.4. Improvements in App Configuration and Management 81
4.8.5.1. Changes to Support Both iOS and Android with the Same Client Code 81
4.8.5.2. Ability to Update Server URL from Connection Details Page 81
4.8.5.3. Updates to Configuration UI 81
4.8.6.1. Support for Enterprise Distribution 81
4.8.6.2. Customization Support for Corporate Branding 82
4.8.6.3. Support for Web SSO Authentication 82
4.8.6.4. Enhanced Mobile App Setup Pages 82
4.8.7.1. Support for Custom App Development 82
4.8.8.1. User Installation and Usage Metrics for Administrators 82
4.8.8.2. Updated Look and Feel for Selected App Interactions 83
4.8.8.3. Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.2.2 83
4.8.8.4. Opening Links to External Websites Within an App 83
4.8.9.1. Opening Links to External Websites Within an App on Android Devices 83
4.8.9.2. Updated Look and Feel for Selected App Interactions 83
4.8.9.3. Clearing User Credential Fields 83
4.8.9.5. Separate Privileges for Developers and Administrators in UI 83
4.8.10.1. APIs for Custom App Development 83
4.8.11.1. Ability to Import Custom CA or Self-signed Server Certificates 84
4.8.11.2. Automatic Download of Mobile App Configuration 84
4.8.11.4. Support for Push Notifications in Selected Apps 84
4.8.11.5. Enhanced Mobile App Setup Pages 85
4.8.12.1. Additional Self-Service Human Resources APIs for Custom App Development 85
4.8.13.1. Ability for Administrators to Preconfigure EBS Server URL when Deploying through Enterprise Mobility
Management 85
4.8.13.2. Preventing Attachments from Being Shared 85
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4.9. Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search 86
4.9.1. Overview 86
4.9.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 87
4.9.2.1. Search Modeler 87
4.9.3. Release 12.1.1 87
4.9.3.1. Search Modeler 87
4.9.3.2. Out of Box Searchable Business Objects 87
4.9.4. Release 12.1.2 88
4.9.4.1. UI Improvements 88
4.9.4.2. Design Time Search Security Plug-ins 88
4.9.5. Release 12.1.3 88
4.9.5.1. Export Search Results to Excel 88
4.10. Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework 89
4.10.1. Overview 89
4.10.2. Release 12.2 V1 90
4.10.2.1. User Interface Components for Information Discovery 90
4.10.2.2. Security 90
4.10.2.3. Responsive Design 90
4.10.3. Release 12.2 V2 90
4.10.3.1. Advanced Search 90
4.10.3.2. New User Interface Components for Information Discovery 90
4.10.3.3. User Interface Enhancements 91
4.10.3.4. Multiple Language Support 91
4.10.4. Release 12.2 V3 91
4.10.4.1. Page Layout 91
4.10.4.2. Search Box Enhancements 92
4.10.4.3. ‘Like’ Search in Available Refinements 92
4.10.4.4. Tab Component Enhancements 92
4.10.4.5. Grid Enhancements 93
4.10.4.6. Compare Column Headers 93
4.10.4.7. Conditional Formatting in Summarization Bar 93
4.10.4.8. Relevance Ranking 93
4.10.4.9. Push Model 93
4.10.4.10. Upgrade 93
4.10.4.11. Cloning 93
4.10.5. Release 12.2 V4 94
4.10.5.1. Saved Search 94
4.10.5.2. Refinement Breadcrumbs 94
4.10.5.3. Multiple Data Set Support in Search 94
4.10.5.4. Multiple Data Set Support in Available Refinements 94
4.10.5.5. Chart Enhancements 94
4.10.5.6. Compare Enhancements 95
4.10.5.7. Record Details 95
4.10.5.8. Results Table Pagination Enhancement 95
4.10.5.9. Exporting Data from a Results Table or Grid 95
4.10.5.10. Exporting a Data Set 95
4.10.5.11. Importing Data into a Data Set 95
4.10.5.12. Available Refinements Scrolling 95
4.10.5.13. About ECC 95
4.10.5.14. Oracle E-Business Suite Postback 95
4.10.5.15. Oracle Application Framework Pop-ups 96
4.10.5.16. Online Data Load 96
4.10.5.17. Descriptive Flexfield Support 96
4.10.5.18. Upgrade 96
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4.10.6. Release 12.2 V5 96
4.10.6.1. Activity Audit 96
4.10.6.2. User Preferences 97
4.10.6.3. Cascading Breadcrumb 97
4.10.6.4. Chart Maximization 97
4.10.6.5. Chart Export 97
4.10.6.6. Export 97
4.10.6.7. Aggregate Table Pagination Enhancement 97
4.10.6.8. Number Abbreviation in Summarization Bar 97
4.10.6.9. Negative Refinements 97
4.10.6.10. Aggregate Grid 97
4.10.6.11. “Other” Group in Pie and Donut Charts 97
4.10.6.12. Top and Bottom N in Chart 98
4.10.6.13. Line Chart Enhancements 98
4.10.6.14. Sequential Full Load 98
4.10.6.15. About ECC - Monitoring 98
4.10.7. Release 12.2 V6 98
4.10.7.1. Diagrams 98
4.10.7.2. Descriptive Flexfield Value Set Description 99
4.10.7.3. Enterprise Command Center Pop-ups 99
4.10.7.4. Color Pinning in Charts 99
4.10.7.5. Time Stamp and Time Zone Support 99
4.10.7.6. Waterfall Charts 99
4.10.7.7. Multi-Data Set Support in Charts 99
4.10.7.8. Condition Enhancements 100
4.10.7.9. Value Defaulting 100
4.10.7.10. Improved Readability for Refinements 100
4.10.7.11. Search Suggestion Enhancement 100
4.10.8. Release 12.2 V7 100
4.10.8.1. Enhanced Network Diagrams 100
4.10.8.2. Enterprise Command Center Pop-up 101
4.10.8.3. Look-Ahead Visualizations for Chart Cascading 101
4.10.8.4. Dynamic Date Filter 101
4.10.8.5. Faster Discovery through Applied Filters 101
4.10.8.6. Export Dashboard to PDF 101
4.10.8.7. Default Saved Search 101
4.11. Oracle Functional Testing Suite Advanced Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite 101
4.11.1. Overview 101
4.11.2. V1.0 102
4.11.2.1. Oracle E-Business Suite Pre-built Test Content for Oracle Flow Builder 102
4.12. Oracle iSetup 102
4.12.2. Release 12.1.1 103
4.12.2.1. Oracle iSetup Migration Package Taxonomy 103
4.12.2.2. Registering Service Bean APIs with Oracle iSetup 103
4.12.2.3. Reporting Preferences 103
4.12.3. Release 12.1.3 103
4.12.3.1. Oracle iSetup MLS 103
4.12.4. Release 12.2.5 103
4.12.4.1. Oracle iSetup Internationalization Enhancements 103
4.12.5. Release 12.2.6 104
4.12.5.1. Streamlined Migration of Language Data 104
4.12.6. Product Coverage for Oracle iSetup 104
4.13. Oracle Report Manager 105
4.13.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6) 105
4.13.2.1. Multiple Worksheet Support 105
4.13.3. Release 12.1.1 105
4.13.3.1. Complex Content Set 106
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4.13.3.2. Multiple Worksheet Support 106
4.13.4. Release 12.1.2 106
4.13.4.1. Advanced Scheduling Options 106
4.13.5. Release 12.1.3 106
4.13.5.1. Repository Management Security 106
4.13.6. Release 12.2 107
4.13.6.1. Microsoft Office Certification 107
4.13.6.2. Report Manager Home Page 107
4.13.6.3. Submitting Report Sets 107
4.13.6.4. Report Delivery 107
4.13.6.5. Microsoft Excel Report Generation from Firefox 107
4.13.6.6. Digital Signature Support 107
4.13.6.7. Row and Column Headings in Microsoft Excel 108
4.13.7. Release 12.2.4 108
4.13.7.1. Oracle Menu Displayed as Ribbon in Microsoft Excel 108
4.13.8. Release 12.2.5 108
4.13.8.1. Office Open XML Support 108
4.13.8.2. Simplified Report Submission 108
4.13.8.3. Parallel Content Set Support 108
4.13.8.4. Simplified Report Manager Home and Menu 109
4.13.9. Release 12.2.7 109
4.13.9.1. Security Enhancements 109
4.13.10. Release 12.2.7+ 109
4.13.11. Release 12.2.9 109
4.13.11.1. Transferring Custom Financial Statement Generator Report Templates 109
4.13.11.2. Enhancements for Maintain Repository Program 109
4.13.12. Release 12.2.10 110
4.13.12.1. Custom Generic Templates 110
4.14. Oracle User Management (UMX) 110
4.14.1. Overview – SOX Compliance RBAC Reports 110
4.14.2. Release 12.1.1 110
4.14.2.1. Categorized Searching 110
4.14.2.2. 360 Degree View 110
4.14.2.3. Reports 110
4.14.2.4. Quick Find 111
4.14.2.5. Snapshot 111
4.14.2.6. Print Role Hierarchy 111
4.14.3. Release 12.2.4 111
4.14.3.1. Proxy User Access Control 111
4.14.4. Release 12.2.6 111
4.14.4.1. Proxy Auditing 111
4.14.4.2. User Registration HTML UI 112
4.14.4.3. Responsibility HTML UI 112
4.15. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator 112
4.15.2. Release 12.1.2 112
4.15.2.1. Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework 112
4.15.3. Release 12.1.3 113
4.15.3.1. Digital Signature Support 113
4.15.3.2. Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework Enhancements 113
4.15.4. Release 12.2 113
4.15.4.1. Microsoft Office Certifications 113
4.15.4.2. Usability Enhancements 113
4.15.4.3. Switch Responsibility Option 113
4.15.4.4. Commit Rows Parameter 114
4.15.4.5. Compressing Data for Upload 114
4.15.4.6. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator Diagnostics 114
4.15.5. Release 12.2.4 114
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4.15.5.1. Oracle Menu Displayed as Ribbon in Microsoft Excel 114
4.15.6. Release 12.2.5 114
4.15.6.1. Office Open XML Support 114
4.15.6.2. Flexfield Enhancements 114
4.15.6.3. Dependent List of Values for an Interface Attribute 115
4.15.7. Release 12.2.6 115
4.15.7.1. Simplified Create Document Page 115
4.15.7.2. Simplified Define Layout Page 115
4.15.7.3. Refreshing Interface Attributes 115
4.15.7.4. Exporting Oracle Application Framework Table Data with Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator 115
4.15.8. Release 12.2.7 115
4.15.8.1. Copying an Integrator Definition 116
4.15.8.2. Simplified Define Mapping Page 116
4.15.8.3. Security Enhancements 116
4.15.9. Release 12.2.7+ 116
4.15.10. Release 12.2.9 116
4.15.10.1. Sequence Source Type for Interface Attributes 116
4.15.11. Release 12.2.10 116
4.15.11.1. Enhancements for SQL Query Contents 116
4.16. Oracle Workflow 116
4.16.1. Release 12.1.1 117
4.16.1.1. Worklist - Bulk Notification Response and Bulk Notification Close 117
4.16.1.2. Hijrah/Thai Calendar Support 117
4.16.2. Release 12.1.3 117
4.16.2.1. Notification Mailer - SMTP Authentication 117
4.16.3. Release 12.2 117
4.16.3.1. E-mail Character Encoding Configuration 117
4.16.3.2. Deferring Worklist Response Processing 117
4.16.3.3. Oracle RAC Affinity for Workflows 118
4.16.3.4. Worklist Usability Enhancements 118
4.16.3.5. Bulk Reset for DISABLED Notification Preference 119
4.16.3.6. Enhancement for Reassigning Notifications 119
4.16.3.7. Enhancement for Service Component Processing by Correlation ID 119
4.16.4. Release 12.2.3 120
4.16.4.1. Worklist Header Icon 120
4.16.5. Release 12.2.4 120
4.16.5.1. Proxy User Access Control 120
4.16.6. Release 12.2.5 120
4.16.6.1. Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Attachments in E-mail Notifications 120
4.16.6.2. Support for Multiple E-mail Addresses for a User or Role 120
4.16.7. Release 12.2.6 120
4.16.7.1. External Links to Oracle E-Business Suite in E-mail Notifications 120
4.16.7.2. Ability to Specify Security Protocols for Mailer 121
4.16.8. Release 12.2.7 121
4.16.9. Release 12.2.7+ 121
4.16.9.1. Ability to Distinguish Approvals Sources 121
4.16.10. Release 12.2.9 121
4.16.10.2. Action History Enhancement 121
4.16.10.3. Configuring E-mail Eligibility for Item Types and Messages 121
4.16.10.4. Configuring Attachments in E-mail Notifications 121
4.16.10.5. Enhancement for Resending Failed Notifications 122
4.16.11. Release 12.2.10 122
4.16.11.1. Enhanced My Worklist Pop-Up 122
4.16.11.2. Action History for Standalone Notifications 122
4.16.11.3. “Auto-generated” Header for E-mail Notifications 122
4.16.12. Release 12.2.11 123
4.16.12.1. Respond with Yes/No or True/False in My Worklist Pop-Up 123
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4.16.12.2. Invoke REST Services from Event Subscriptions 123
4.17. Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite 123
4.17.2. Mobile Release 1.0 – Client Version 1.0.0 123
4.17.2.1. Approval Request Handling 123
4.17.3.1. Mobile Foundation Release 2.1 Updates 123
4.17.4.1. Android Support 124
4.17.5.1. New Approval Types 124
4.17.5.2. Enhanced Data Layout 124
4.17.5.3. Improved Approvals Filtering 124
4.17.5.4. Translation Support 124
4.17.6.1. New Approval Types 124
4.17.6.2. Attachments 125
4.17.6.3. Adding Custom Workflows 125
4.17.6.4. Enhanced Pending Approvals by Type Page 125
4.17.6.5. Enhanced Details Page 125
4.17.6.6. Enhanced Refresh Interaction 125
4.17.8.1. New Approvals 125
4.17.8.2. Ability to Customize Seeded Metadata 125
4.17.8.3. Enhancement for Quoting Approval to Support Customization 126
4.17.8.4. Technical Updates 126
4.17.9.1. Ability to Reassign an Approval Notification 126
4.17.9.2. Support for Push Notifications 126
4.17.10.1. Ability to Distinguish Approvals Submitted through Mobile Apps 126
4.17.11.1. New Approvals 127
4.18. Oracle XML Gateway 127
4.18.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3) 127
4.18.1.1. Improved Error Notification from Oracle XML Gateway 127
4.18.2. Release 12.2 128
4.18.2.1. Oracle XML Gateway Inbound Processing in Java 128
4.18.2.2. Enhanced Oracle XML Gateway Diagnostics 128
4.18.3. Release 12.2.6 128
4.18.3.1. API to Manage Trading Partners 128
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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
2.1. Purpose of Document

This Release Content Document (RCD) communicates information about new or
changed functionality introduced in Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2, and
in subsequent Release Update Packs (RUPs) and off-cycle patches. For your
convenience, it also includes new or changed functionality introduced in the RUPs for
Release 12, including 12.0.2 through 12.0.7.
The features and enhancements described in this document are grouped by product, and
then by the release in which they first became available, for example, “Release 12.1.1”.
Features released in an off-cycle patch have a special designation – for example, a
feature released after 12.1.1, but before 12.1.2, is designated as “Release 12.1.1+”.
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document Purpose of Document 2
3. Technology Stack
3.1. Release 12.2 Overview

The technology stack for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 takes advantage of
Oracle and third-party technologies for the database and application tiers and Java.
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 is certified with the Oracle Enterprise Edition 11g
Release 2 (11.2.0.4), Oracle Enterprise Edition 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2), and Oracle
Enterprise Edition 19c (19.0.0.0) database releases. On the application tier, Oracle E-
Business Suite Release 12.2 is certified with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1
(11.1.1.9), as well as Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 7.0.
On the client, Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 is compatible with Version 8.0 of
Java. Java on the client tier can be launched either using Java Web Start or Java Plug-in.
Java Web Start is strongly recommended. See FAQ: Essentials of Java Usage in Oracle
E-Business Suite, My Oracle Support Document 2510500.1.
Note: For developing Web-based Oracle Application Framework applications, Oracle E-
Business Suite Release 12.2 is certified with Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3, which is the
version required for the Oracle JDeveloper OA Extension. For more information about
the technology components used by Oracle JDeveloper OA Extension, see section
4.1.6.4.
3.2. Release 12.2 Technology Components

Oracle E-Business Suite uses the following major technology components in Release
12.2. Information for Release 12.1.x is also provided for comparison purposes.
Oracle Technology Most Recent Version Included in Most Recent

Certified Version for or Required by 12.2 Certified Version for
12.1.x (*) 12.2 (*)
Oracle Database 11g 11.2.0.4 11.2.0.3 11.2.0.4
Oracle Database 12c 12.1.0.2 N/A 12.1.0.2
Oracle Database 19c 19.0.0.0 N/A 19.0.0.0
XDK for the Database Tier Same as database Same as database Same as database
version version version
Oracle Application Server (for 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3

Application Tier Forms and Reports)
Oracle Application Server / Oracle 10.1.3.5 11.1.1.6 11.1.1.9

Fusion Middleware (for Application
Tier Java Code and Oracle Application
Framework)
Oracle Java Required Files (JRF) N/A 11.1.1.6 11.1.1.9
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XDK for the Application Tier 10.1.3.5 11.1.1.6 11.1.1.9
Oracle HTTP Server 10.1.3.5 11.1.1.6 11.1.1.9
Oracle WebLogic Server N/A Oracle WebLogic Oracle WebLogic

Server 10.3.6 in Server 10.3.6 in
Oracle Fusion Oracle Fusion
Middleware 11g Middleware 11g
Release 1 (11.1.1.6) Release 1 (11.1.1.9)
JSP Compiler OJSP 10.1.3.5 WebLogic JSP WebLogic JSP

Compiler 11.1.1.6 Compiler 11.1.1.9
(weblogic.appc) (weblogic.appc)
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)
Java Technology Most Recent Version Included in Most Recent

Certified Version for or Required by 12.2 Certified Version for
12.1.x (*) 12.2 (*)
Java SE Development Kit – JDK (for 7.0 6.0 7.0

Application Tier Java Code and Oracle
Application Framework)
Java SE Development Kit – JDK (for 7.0 6.0 7.0

Concurrent Processing Tier)
Java on Client Tier (for client-side code 8.0 6.0 8.0

running using Java Plug-in)
Note: Java Web Start is strongly
recommended in place of Java Plug-in.
See FAQ: Essentials of Java Usage in
Oracle E-Business Suite, My Oracle
Support Document 2510500.1.
Java on Client Tier (for client-side code 8.0 N/A 8.0

running using Java Web Start)
Technology Components Delivered Most Recent Version Included in Most Recent

in APPL_TOP Certified Version for or Required by 12.2 Certified Version for
12.1.x (*) 12.2 (*)
Oracle JDeveloper runtime libraries 10.1.3 10.1.3 10.1.3
Oracle BI Beans 3.1.1.16 3.1.1.11 3.1.1.16
Oracle Thin JDBC Drivers (for 11.2 11.2 11.2

Application Tier Java Code)
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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 (*)
Oracle Internet Directory 11.1.1.9, 12.2.1.3 N/A 11.1.1.9, 12.2.1.4
Oracle Unified Directory N/A N/A 11.1.2.3, 12.2.1.4
Oracle Access Manager 11.1.2.3, 12.2.1.3 N/A 11.1.2.3, 12.2.1.4
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise 12.2.1.4.0 N/A 12.2.1.4.0

Edition
Oracle Discoverer 11.1.1.7 N/A 11.1.1.7
Oracle WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.9, 12.2.1.3 N/A 11.1.1.9, 12.2.1.3
Oracle Portal 11.1.1.6 N/A 11.1.1.6
Oracle BPEL Process Manager 12.2.1 N/A 12.2.1.4.0
Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.3.0.0.0, 13.4.0.0.0 N/A 13.3.0.0.0, 13.4.0.0.0
* 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”.
3.3. Technology Configuration

3.3.1. Overview
This section lists new features in the tools provided to install and configure Oracle E-
Business Suite and its technology stack. Enhancements for patching and cloning are
described as well.
3.3.2. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)
3.3.2.1. Technology Inventory Report

This new Technology Inventory Report delivers standardized accurate version
information about the Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack. When an Oracle E-
Business Suite administrator wants to obtain the version of technology that is installed,
he will run this report as a command line utility. This is an administrative feature; there
is no impact to customer implementation, business process, or user experience.
3.3.2.2. OC4J Load Balancing

This new feature leverages the native ability of Oracle Application Server 10g to load
balance so that customers no longer need to purchase third-party hardware in order to
Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2 Release Content Document Technology Configuration 5
support multiple application tiers. Please see Using Load-Balancers with Oracle E-
Business Suite Release 12.0 and 12.1, 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)
3.3.3.1. AutoConfig Performance Enhancements

Several features introduced in Release 12.1.1 were made available on the Release 12.0
line in Release 12.0.6. AutoConfig, a utility that automatically configures the technology
components used in an Oracle E-Business Suite installation, has been enhanced to
improve its performance. Other enhancements include an option to run in a Profiler
mode, parallelization across different Oracle E-Business Suite nodes, database
configuration reporting for the Check Config utility, support for Oracle Database 11g,
and Access Control List support.
3.3.4. Release 12.1.1
This release provides several enhancements for AutoConfig, a utility that automatically
configures the technology components used in an Oracle E-Business Suite installation.
3.3.4.1. AutoConfig Profiler

Release 12.1.1 AutoConfig contains an option to run in a profile mode. Running
AutoConfig in this mode generates a performance report with timing details about each
script instantiated and run by AutoConfig.
3.3.4.2. AutoConfig Parallelization across Nodes

In Release 12.1.1, AutoConfig can be run in parallel on different nodes of an Oracle E-
Business Suite system. This reduces the overall time needed to run AutoConfig across
all nodes of an Oracle E-Business Suite instance, helping to shorten patching downtime.
3.3.4.3. AutoConfig Service Control Dependency Management

Technology Stack Service Control Infrastructure is used by scripts that start and stop
Oracle processes on the servers. Release 12.1.1 contains re-designed service and service
group definitions in the AutoConfig context file to enable the same service to be in
different service groups and ease the addition of new services. Additional support for
dependencies between service groups is also implemented in Release 12.1.1.
3.3.4.4. AutoConfig Check Config Utility

The Technology Stack Check Config Utility (adchkcfg) in Release 12.1.1 has been
enhanced to report on relevant file system and database changes prior to running
AutoConfig. Enhancements to the adchkcfg utility also include providing a Release 12
look and feel to the resulting report document, and improving the Applications database
profile differences report.
3.3.4.5. AutoConfig Support for Oracle Database 11g

In Release 12.1.1, AutoConfig has been enhanced to run on and configure an Oracle 11g
database. This will help both new and upgrade customers who wish to use Oracle
Database 11g with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1.
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.
3.3.4.7. AutoConfig Search Utility

The new AutoConfig Search Utility is run from the command line, and can be used to
obtain detailed information about context variables and the templates that use them. The
utility accepts all or part of a context variable name, and generates a report containing
detailed information about matched context variables.
3.3.4.8. Technology Stack Inventory Validation Report

Release 12.1.1 includes a technology stack inventory validation utility for use with
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 technology stack (similar to Oracle E-Business
Suite Release 11i technology stack validation utility). This report allows administrators
to review the versions of various installed technology components, patch sets and one-
off patches.
3.3.4.9. Enhanced Support for Sharing Application Tier File System

This feature enables the sharing of the application tier file system among two or more
Oracle E-Business Suite instances, for example PROD and PROD_BACKUP, or TEST
and DEV. This ensures that such instances will always be on the same patch level,
patching downtime will be reduced, and maintenance will be simplified. Only the
application tier file system can be shared, not the database tier file system. See Appendix
B of Sharing the Application Tier File System in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12,
My Oracle Support Document 384248.1.
3.3.4.10. Enhanced Support for Application Tier Load Balancing

This feature provides configuration support for major load balancing categories: DNS,
OC4J Native, HTTP layer (hardware/software). See Using Load-Balancers with Oracle
E-Business Suite Release 12.0 and 12.1, My Oracle Support Document 380489.1.
3.3.4.11. Enhanced Support for DMZ Deployments

Release 12.1.1 enhances support for use of Oracle E-Business Suite in DMZs (De-
Militarized Zones). See Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Configuration in a DMZ, My
Oracle Support Document 380490.1.
3.3.4.12. Network Traffic Encryption Capability

This feature provides AutoConfig support for securing the major communication routes
with SSL. These are: from desktop browser to web server (HTTPS); from web server to
JVM (AJPS); from JVM and other Oracle E-Business Suite/technology processes to
database (Advanced Security/encrypted SQL*Net). See Enabling TLS in Oracle E-
Business Suite Release 12.1, My Oracle Support Document 376700.1.
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.
3.3.4.14. Oracle Connection Manager Technology Integration

Release 12.1.1 includes AutoConfig support for Oracle Connection Manager with Oracle
E-Business Suite Release 12. Oracle Connection Manager is a lightweight, highly
scalable program that works as a proxy server, forwarding connection requests to
database servers or other proxy servers. See Configuring Oracle Connection Manager
with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, My Oracle Support Document 558959.1.
3.3.4.15. Support for Integrated SOA Gateway

Release 12.1.1 supports the Integrated SOA Gateway (ISG), a standardized and
interoperable Web service platform that is based on principles of service-oriented
architecture (SOA). See Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Release
Notes, Release 12.1.1, My Oracle Support Document 556540.1.
3.3.5. Release 12.1.3
3.3.5.1. AutoConfig Performance Improvements

AutoConfig performance has been improved significantly by implementing the
parallelization of jobs executed within a product top. Also the longest running scripts
have been modified to significantly increase their execution performance.
3.3.5.2. AutoConfig Support for the 11g Scan Listener Feature

This feature allows customers to take advantage of the Oracle Database 11g Release 2
scan listener feature without manual modifications to the tns/dbc file.
3.3.5.3. Automated Deployment of Forms ear File

Previously whenever the forms ear file was patched in the 10.1.2 Oracle Home,
customers had to redeploy it manually to the 10.1.3 Oracle Home. In Release 12.1.3, this
process has been automated assuring that customers will not experience Forms execution
problems due to an obsolete Forms executable.
3.3.6. Release 12.1.3+
3.3.6.1. Java Web Start

This feature was back-ported from Release 12.2.7. Refer to the full feature description
under the Release 12.2.7 section for this product.
3.3.6.2. Java Web Start on macOS with Firefox
3.3.6.3. Multiple Forms Sessions with Java Web Start

3.3.7. Release 12.2
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.
3.3.7.2. Online Patching

One of the key features of Release 12.2 is the switch to online patching. This uses the
Oracle Database 11g Release 11.2.0.2 feature of edition-based redefinition to reduce
significantly the downtime traditionally needed for patching and related maintenance
activities.
An edition is a private environment in which you can redefine database objects. With
online patching, patches are applied to a separate edition while users are working with
the original edition. Subsequently, the system is cut over to make the patch edition the
new production edition. After the upgrade to Release 12.2, all future patches and
maintenance packs will be applied online, requiring only a short cutover period to make
the new functionality active.
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.
3.3.7.4. Application Tier

A key change to the Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack is the adoption of the
Oracle WebLogic Server component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, in association with
the Oracle HTTP Server component. Corresponding changes have been made to the
various application tier services.
Additionally, Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 has a second file system for the
application tier. The second file system facilitates the online patching functionality for
Oracle E-Business Suite patches and follows the best practices recommendations of
Oracle technologies for minimal patching disruption.
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.
3.3.7.6. Diagnostics for Secure Configuration

Release 12.2 enhances the tests that are provided to help ensure an Oracle E-Business
Suite system is secured appropriately. Successful execution of these tests verifies that
various accounts, profiles, parameters and configuration settings are set up in accordance
with Oracle’s best practices recommendations for security.
3.3.7.7. WLS Datasource Connection Pool

The AOL/J connection pool implementation is replaced with an implementation of the
WLS Datasource Connection Pool.
3.3.7.8. 64-bit Java Support

Oracle E-Business Suite now supports 64-bit implementations of Java, which can handle
very large amounts of data better than 32-bit implementations.
3.3.8. Release 12.2.3+



3.3.9. Release 12.2.5
3.3.9.1. Simplified Configuration for Managed Server Information

The s_<servicetype>_nodes class of context variable, such as s_oacore_nodes, is no
longer employed in configuration management. These context variables formerly
contained the host and port values of all managed servers of a particular type across all
application tier nodes. The variables were used by the txkSetAppsConf.pl script to
update the Oracle HTTP Server configuration files mod_wl_ohs.conf and apps.conf with
the managed server information.
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.
3.3.9.2. EBS Installation Central Inventory

You can optionally use an instance-specific 'EBS Installation Central Inventory' for the
application tier of UNIX platforms. This central inventory is useful where there are
multiple Oracle E-Business Suite installations on the same host.
3.3.9.3. Simplified Mechanism for Changing Oracle WebLogic Server

Administration User Password
The procedure used to change the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration User
Password has been simplified and largely automated by the introduction of a new utility
that performs what were previously manual steps.
3.3.9.4. Middle Tier Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Codelevel Checker

A new middle tier Oracle E-Business Suite technology codelevel checker (MT-ETCC)
script complements the original ETCC script for the database tier (now called DB-
ETCC). The MT-ETCC and DB-ETCC scripts report, respectively, on any missing
middle tier and database tier bug fixes and patches that are required for Release 12.2.
3.3.9.5. External Integration with Oracle Unified Directory

Release 12.2 includes enhancements to support integration with Oracle Unified
Directory as an alternative to Oracle Internet Directory. Oracle Unified Directory is a
comprehensive, next generation directory service that is designed to address large
deployments, to provide high performance, to be highly extensive, and to be easy to
deploy, manage, and monitor. It includes an LDAP directory server used for storing
data, a proxy server where the server acts as an interface between the client and the
directory server that contains the data, and a replication gateway between Oracle Unified
Directory and Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.
3.3.10. Release 12.2.7
3.3.10.1. Job Role Separation

Rapid Install now supports using job role separation to manage operating system
permissions for Oracle Automatic Storage Management, Oracle Grid Infrastructure, and
Oracle software installations. Job role separation lets you enhance security by creating
separate operating system groups to provide authentication for each set of system
privileges.
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+.
3.3.10.3. Support for Logical Host Names

Native logical host name support removes the previous restriction that the logical host
name must be set to the same as the physical host name.
3.3.10.4. Support for Oracle Grid Listener

The Oracle Grid Infrastructure is required by Oracle Automatic Storage Management
(ASM), which can be used by Oracle Real Application Clusters. Full support for the
Oracle Grid listener used by ASM is introduced in AD-TXK Delta 9, and means that the
'ebs_patch' service name used to connect to the patch edition must now be prefixed with
the instance name, separated by an underscore.
3.3.10.5. Support for Oracle GoldenGate Replication

Oracle GoldenGate can be used to replicate data unidirectionally from an Oracle E-
Business Suite Release 12.2 source database to a non-editioned target database.
Operational requirements of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 Online Patching
architecture restrict replication using Oracle GoldenGate to a limited set of use cases.
3.3.11. Release 12.2.7+
3.3.11.1. s_srvctl_thread_count Context Variable

To provide the capability to set the thread count for the adstrtal and adstpall
application tier service control scripts, a new context variable called
s_srvctl_thread_count has been added to the application tier context file. The
setting for this variable should be based on the number of processors on the system.
3.3.12. Release 12.2.9

You can now use Java Web Start to launch Oracle E-Business Suite Java applets when
accessing Oracle E-Business Suite on the macOS platform using the Firefox browser.

A user can now run multiple Forms sessions of the same Oracle E-Business Suite
environment concurrently on the client using Java Web Start. This usage is supported
with all supported web browsers on Windows and with Firefox on macOS.
A new user preference on the General Preferences page lets you control whether all
Forms-based form functions will be launched in the same Forms session or whether each
Forms-based form function will be launched in a new Forms session.
3.4. Internationalization
3.4.1. Release 12.1.1
3.4.1.1. Hijrah and Thai Buddhist Calendar Support

This enhancement adds support for both Hijrah and Thai Buddhist calendars for all
Oracle Forms-based products. The support is added as an output (display) format only.
Internal date object representation will stay as for the Gregorian calendar. Users can
choose a preferred calendar by setting a profile option. Concurrent processing and
descriptive flexfields also support displaying dates in these calendars based on user
preferences.
3.4.1.2. Multilingual Support/National Language Support (MLS/NLS)

Enhancements in Concurrent Processing
The following enhancements are made in the areas of MLS/NLS:
• Enhance MLS functions to allow return of other NLS parameters (territory,
numeric character, and locale) besides language.
• Enhance NLS options to be specified when defining Request Sets.
• Allow NLS options (language, territory, numeric characters) to be specified in
the Oracle Application Framework UI.
3.4.2. Release 12.1.2
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.
3.4.2.1. Lithuanian, Indonesian, and Ukrainian language support

The Lithuanian, Indonesian, and Ukrainian languages are now supported across Oracle
E-Business Suite.
3.4.2.2. Space and single quote number group separator support

In addition to the decimal period (dot) and comma, Oracle E-Business Suite now
supports the space and single quote characters as number group separators. Users can
choose these new separators from the list of values in the Number Format field in the
Preferences page.
3.4.2.3. First day of the week support

Users in countries where Sunday is not the first day of the week can now choose their
preferred first day of the week. Date pickers will reflect this choice.
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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.
3.4.3.1. Oracle iSetup MLS

Starting from Release 12.1.3, Oracle iSetup MLS offers greater flexibility with the
ability to move data across systems with different sets of installed languages. Customers
can choose to move data of all configured languages from a source system to a target
system at once, or they can choose to move data of one installed language or a subset of
installed languages from the source to the target.
3.4.3.2. Lightweight MLS

The Lightweight MLS feature, new in Release 12.1.3, allows additional languages to be
enabled without the need to apply the corresponding NLS patches. In previous releases,
it was necessary to apply the relevant NLS patches before additional languages could be
used.
Lightweight MLS enables Oracle E-Business Suite to run multiple languages in the same
system, with the various languages being employed by different users as desired. Such a
system can simultaneously support a mixture of languages with full translation (NLS
patches applied) and languages without translation (Lightweight MLS, with no NLS
patches applied).
The Lightweight MLS feature provides the capability to enter and maintain language
data through an English user interface; for example, setup data or customer data such as
item or item description. In addition, users can set up custom reports or templates and
then generate language reports with the language data. You can also move to a full
translation at any time by applying the NLS patch for the relevant language.
3.4.3.3. Improved MLS Export Functionality in Oracle Application Framework

Continuing on the theme of improving multilingual support (MLS) in Oracle E-Business
Suite, Oracle Application Framework export functionality is improved to allow users to
choose between UnicodeLittle and UTF-8 encoding for their exported files. They can
also choose between a comma or tab as the delimiter value between the exported values.
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.
3.4.3.4. Oracle Application Framework Rich UI Bi-Directional Support

New rich UI components, released in 12.1.2, now support Bi-Directional languages such
as Arabic and Hebrew.
3.4.3.5. Serbian Language Support

The Serbian language is supported across Oracle E-Business Suite. This language is
made available for the Release 12.1 line on Release 12.1.3.
3.4.4. Release 12.2
3.4.4.1. Lightweight MLS Enhanced Support

The Lightweight MLS feature, introduced in Release 12.1.3, allows additional languages
to be enabled without the need to apply the corresponding NLS patches. In Release
12.2, support is added to move a language already enabled in full NLS mode to
lightweight mode.
3.4.4.2. Linguistic Sorting Support

Linguistic sorting, or the application of language-specific rules in sorting text strings, is
supported in addition to binary sorting for the online UI.
3.4.4.3. Character Date International Calendar Support Enhancements

International calendar support in dates of type character is improved in Release 12.2.
International calendar support in the character date routines FND_DATE and
APP_DATE packages is enabled.
3.4.4.4. Expanded Number Spelling Support

Oracle E-Business Suite extends its support of number spelling (transcription of
numbers into words) to all supported languages.
3.4.4.5. Support for All Territories in Oracle Database

With Release 12.2, Oracle E-Business Suite supports all territories supported in Oracle
Database.
3.4.4.6. Serbian Language Support

The Serbian language is supported across Oracle E-Business Suite in Release 12.2.
3.4.4.7. Forms UI Export Functionality Enhancements

The Oracle Forms UI Export feature is enhanced to include Comma-Separated-Value
(CSV) file format support and improved Unicode character set support capabilities.
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.
3.4.4.9. Oracle Diagnostics Internationalization Enhancements

The Oracle Diagnostics product has been improved in several areas affecting
internationalization capabilities, including string conversion to byte streams, end-user-
visible strings, and the parsing of date strings.
3.4.4.10. Oracle Diagnostics Internationalization Tests

New diagnostic tests are provided to gather internationalization configuration
information from an Oracle E-Business Suite instance to help troubleshoot issues.
3.4.4.11. Internationalization Library Version Display Support

This feature provides the ability to identify which version of internationalization library
is being used at a site. With this enhancement, it is no longer necessary to check the
version of each file individually. This feature is especially useful for Oracle Support.
3.4.5. Release 12.2.5
3.4.5.1. Lightweight-Only Language Support

This feature allows Oracle E-Business Suite to support additional languages without
providing translations or NLS patches. Lightweight-only language support for a
language allows users to enter data in the given language and generate reports in that
language using the English UI. Additional restrictions, such as Oracle Business
Intelligence Publisher language support limitations, may apply.
The following 13 languages are now supported in lightweight mode only:
• Amharic
• Armenian
• Azerbaijani
• British English
• Estonian
• Latin Bosnian
• Latin Uzbek
• Latvian
• Macedonian
• Malay
• Maltese
• 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.
3.4.5.2. Concurrent Programs Support for Linguistic Sorting

Linguistic sorting (the application of language-specific rules in sorting text strings) is
now available for concurrent programs in Standard Request Submission, in both Oracle
Forms and Oracle Application Framework.
3.4.5.3. Oracle iSetup Internationalization Enhancements

In this release, Oracle iSetup includes the following enhancements for Generic Loader
(FNDLOAD) and Oracle XML Publisher data:
• Generic Loader API - Oracle iSetup can now upload translation data in addition
to English data. Language data can be uploaded by automatic language detection
(implicitly) as well as by upload parameter input from the UI (explicitly).
• XML Publisher API - Oracle iSetup can now move MLS (Translatable) template
files as well as localized template files.
3.4.5.4. Oracle Report Manager Internationalization Enhancements

In this release, Oracle Report Manager includes the following enhancements for locale
handling for Financial Statement Generator (FSG) reports.
• In the Financial Report Template Editor, the Language list of values now
displays only the installed and base languages for your Oracle E-Business Suite
instance.
• If you select an installed language that is associated with more than one
territory, the Financial Report Template Editor now registers the template for the
additional language and territory combinations in addition to the combination of
that language with the default territory.
• When you submit a FSG report, the Template list of values displays the
templates registered for the combination of your session language and session
territory.
• If you attempt to create a template for a language using the same name as an
existing template for another language, the Financial Report Template Editor
displays an error message indicating that the same name cannot be reused for a
template associated with a different language.
• Oracle Report Manager can now display a FSG report even if the session
language of the user viewing the report is different than the session language
with which the report was submitted.
3.4.6. Release 12.2.6
3.4.6.1. Improved Language Determination

This feature provides greater flexibility for configuring the language rule in
determining what language to use in an Oracle E-Business Suite session. A new
language rule is introduced, which contains a comma-separated list of language sources
and establishes the order of precedence for determining which language should be used.
This option can be set using the FND_SESSION_MANAGEMENT APIs
setLanguageRule and sameLanguageRuleForAll. Possible language sources are:
• PROFILE: Use a value from the ICX_LANGUAGE profile option, either the
user level value, if found, or the server or site value.
• BASE: Explicitly force the BASE language.
• BROWSER: From the list of browser preferred languages, use the first
language installed in Oracle E-Business Suite.
• SESSION: Use the current session language for a USER or GUEST session.
• USER_SESSION: Use the current session language, except when the user is
GUEST.
• DISPLAY: Use the language displayed in the login page.
• LANG_PARAMETER: Use the value of the URL parameter langCode or
lang_code.
For example, the language rule could be set to 'SESSION, DISPLAY, PROFILE'. The
default language rule is
'DISPLAY,USER_SESSION,LANG_PARAMETER,BROWSER,PROFILE,SESSION
,BASE'.
3.4.6.2. Translation Synchronization Patches Manifest File for Full Mode

Languages Only
The Translation Synchronization patch (TSP) feature allows you to synchronize your
existing translations with the American English file versions or to install new languages
on your instance. In Release 12.2.6, when you generate the TSP manifest file (by
running adgennls.pl), only languages that have a translation mode of "Full" will be
included in the NLS patch request.
3.4.6.3. Oracle Applications Manager Licensing for Lightweight MLS

The License Manager feature in Oracle Applications Manager now allows an
administrator to license languages in lightweight mode or full mode (where both modes
are available). Languages that are supported as lightweight MLS only are indicated
with an asterisk, and their translation mode is grayed out to indicate that it cannot be
changed. In addition, a list of lightweight languages is added to the Languages Report
pages.
3.4.6.4. Oracle iSetup Streamlined Migration of Language Data

This enhancement streamlines the process of moving language setup data in the
Generic Loader LDT format and in the Workflow Definitions Loader WFT format
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.
3.4.6.5. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator Internationalization

Enhancements
In this release, Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator includes the following
enhancements:
• Support for non-ASCII filenames
• Support for translated sheet names and sheet names with non-ASCII characters
in OOXML spreadsheets
• Ability to access offline spreadsheets in the language used to create the
spreadsheets
3.4.7. Release 12.2.7
3.4.7.1. Calendar Configuration File Editor

Oracle E-Business Suite provides a user interface to edit and validate the calendar
configuration files, namely, lxecal.nlt and deviation.cfg, for the Hijrah
calendar. This tool provides an easier method to edit configuration files visually and
validate the contents for the Hijrah calendar.
3.4.7.2. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator Internationalization

Enhancements
In this release, Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator includes the following
enhancements:
• Support for Hijrah and Thai Buddhist calendars
• Support for date values that include a time
• Support for displaying date and time values in Oracle Web Applications
Desktop Integrator spreadsheets in the user’s preferred time zone
3.4.7.3. Oracle Workflow Internationalization Enhancements

Oracle Workflow e-mail notifications now display date and time values in the recipient’s
preferred time zone. The notifications can also indicate the time zone according to which
the times are being shown.
3.4.8. Release 12.2.9
3.4.8.1. Certification of Edge and Firefox Browsers for Bidirectional Languages

The Edge and Firefox browsers are now certified for use with bidirectional languages
(Arabic and Hebrew) in Oracle E-Business Suite.
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
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.
4.1. Oracle Application Framework

For information about related internationalization features, see section 3.4.
4.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
4.1.1.1. Expose HGrid's Record Set Size for Administrator Personalization

HGrids now expose Record Set Size property at each individual node for administrator
personalization. Administrators at the customer site can set different Record Set Size
values at different HGrid nodes to show different number of records/rows per node. This
ensures that even when Expand All option is used not all the rows are shown at the same
time, improving user response time.
4.1.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)
4.1.2.1. Record History

This feature, introduced in Release 12.1.1, was made available on the Release 12.0 line
in Release 12.0.6. Record history is now available for Oracle Application Framework
based pages. Record history allows a user to see data about a particular record, such as
who created the record and when, and who most recently updated the record and when.
4.1.2.2. Flexfield Reference Fields

in Release 12.0.6. 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.
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4.1.3. Release 12.1.1
4.1.3.1. Record History

Record History is now available for Oracle Application Framework based pages. Record
history allows a user to see data about a particular record, such as who created the record
and when, and who most recently updated the record and when.
4.1.3.2. Bulk Uploads for Attachments

There are numerous cases where customers want to load many thousands of documents
to the Oracle E-Business Suite database as attachments, all in one operation. Oracle
Application Framework now provides an API and Web service for the Attachments
feature to allow the bulk upload of files to create attachments to existing records.
4.1.3.3. Home Page Favorites Links Can Open in New Windows

End users can define “Favorites” on the Oracle E-Business Suite as links to websites
outside the Oracle E-Business Suite. Users can now set up such URL links and specify
that those links open in a new browser window, so that the original browser window
remains showing the Oracle E-Business Suite session.
4.1.3.4. Support for Java BigDecimal Data Type

Support for the Java BigDecimal data type allows the Oracle E-Business Suite to handle
very large and very small numbers. The Oracle Application Extension design time
interface allows new web beans to be associated with the BigDecimal data type. The
runtime Personalization UI allows customers to change items with the Number data type
to use the BigDecimal data type.
4.1.3.5. Enhanced Search Region Personalization

Search (Query) regions have been enhanced to allow additional upgrade safe
personalizations. Administrators can now personalize the Save Search button in search
regions. Search mappings can now be personalized to add more search criteria fields
that correspond with columns in search results tables. Further, personalization now
provides support for personalizing additional attributes: HGrid, Query, and Text Input.
4.1.3.6. Application Tier Data Sorting

Oracle Application Framework now supports sorting of table data in the application tier
instead of in the database in order to improve sort performance for certain cases. Oracle
Application Framework can now sort insertable and updateable tables, as well as tables
with transient data. Products can enable this feature at design time by setting a property
on the table. Customers can enable this feature at run time by setting a property using
personalization.
4.1.3.7. Virus Scan Support for Attachments

This feature provides out-of-the-box support for virus scanning of OA Framework
attachments. This feature addresses the document protection needs of customers.
Currently only Symantec anti-virus software is supported.
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.
4.1.3.9. Hijrah and Thai Buddhist Calendar Support

This enhancement adds support for both Hijrah and Thai Buddhist calendars for all
OAF-based products. The support is added as an output (display) format only. Internal
date object representation will stay as for the Gregorian calendar. Users can choose a
preferred calendar by setting a profile option.
4.1.4. Release 12.1.2
The key focus for Oracle Application Framework in Release 12.1.2 is to enhance
usability and enrich the overall user experience. Usability improvements in rich user
interactivity have been accomplished through enhancements to core Oracle Application
Framework components. The user experience is enriched through seamless integration
with applications such as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE),
which provides greater insight into analytical information in-context from Oracle
Application Framework-based applications. These enhancements are in large part
enabled through the Oracle Application Framework Personalization user interface.
4.1.4.1. User Interface Enhancements

The usability enhancements in Oracle Application Framework include a redesigned
home page, a new navigator and favorites pull-down menu in the global header area,
look-ahead capability in lists of values, the ability to add, view, edit, and delete
attachments inline, a new pop-up component and portlet generator.
The redesigned home page provides a new folder-like structure for the navigator and
better spacing for the worklist and moves the Favorites to a pull-down menu in the
global header area. The new home page is more compact and allows you to easily extend
and add custom content to the home page.
The navigator menu appears as a pull-down link in every Oracle Application Framework
page. This feature allows easy and rapid cross-application navigation. The Favorites
pull-down offers a new ability to mark the current page as a Favorite page.
The look-ahead capability in lists of values allows you to select the field value from an
inline window that appears after you enter a few characters (generally at least three). The
inline window shows all matching results for the characters entered. This capability
reduces the time needed to choose a value by reducing the need to open the list of values
window.
The inline attachments capability enhances user interaction with the icons and buttons
used to add or view attachments in Oracle Application Framework applications. A new
hover-over interaction has been introduced on these icons and buttons, allowing users to
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.
4.1.4.2. Oracle E-Business Suite Business Intelligence (OBIEE) Integration

Oracle Application Framework introduces a new component called the rich container,
which can hold embedded OBIEE content. Users can configure the component to hold a
particular OBIEE report that accepts specific parameters. The capability to add such
content to an existing Oracle Application Framework page is made available through
personalization.
4.1.4.3. Portlet Generator

Portlet Generator is a utility that statically converts a standalone Oracle Application
Framework region into a portlet. These portlets can be embedded in Oracle or third party
portal pages and Oracle WebCenter Portal pages. Portlet Generator complies with
WSRP 1.0 standards.
Portlet Generator offers a search UI that is part of the Functional Administrator
responsibility and lets you search for and register standalone regions as portlets.
Administrators can turn on a profile option that enables portletize links on standalone
regions embedded in pages. An administrator can browse through application pages and
use the portletize links to register the regions as portlets.
4.1.4.4. REST Interface

REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style for distributed
hypermedia systems. REST is similar to SOAP-based (Simple Object Access Protocol)
web services, but with much less payload per message. REST is architecturally tailored
for frequent and lightweight handshakes between the browser and the application tier
server.
The Oracle Application Framework RESTful service interface allows products to expose
Application Module functionality (model) as services. These model services can then be
consumed by any rich internet application. This capability allows you to build custom
user interfaces in a technology of choice but still reusing existing code in your Oracle
Application Framework application.
4.1.5. Release 12.1.3
4.1.5.1. User Interface Improvements

The user interface improvements add on to the capabilities that were first introduced in
Release 12.1.2.
The Navigator and Favorites pull-down menus in Oracle Application Framework pages
now provide icons to move to the first or last menu item. Further, they support mouse
scrolling. The Navigator and Favorites pull-down menus are also now accessible to
keyboard-only users by supporting easy scrolling using [Page Up] and [Page Down]
keys. Support for rendering in BiDi languages has also been added.
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.
4.1.5.2. Opening Portlet Links in a New Window

Links within an Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle Application Framework portlet can now
be opened in a new browser window. This feature allows the base portal or Oracle
WebCenter Portal page to be in context while drilldown links open content in a separate
window. All Oracle E-Business Suite content will launch into a single window.
4.1.5.3. ADF Integration

It is now possible to link to Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Release
11g applications deployed on an Oracle Fusion Middleware Release 11g container from
the Oracle E-Business Suite home page. Each ADF application will have an FND
Function of type ‘ADFX’ defined for it. If such a function is granted to a user, then
when the user logs in, the home page automatically builds a link to the external ADF
application. Note that ADF applications do not support some Oracle E-Business Suite
features such as flexfields.
For more information, see the FAQ for Integration of Oracle E-Business Suite and
Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Applications, My Oracle Support
Document 1296491.1.
4.1.6. Release 12.2
4.1.6.1. Usability Improvements

The following usability improvements add on to the capabilities introduced in Release
12.1.3:
• The Home page now includes a tip at the top of the page displaying the number
of open notifications for the user.
• The Navigator slide-out or pull-down menu that displays the responsibility list
now includes a search input field that enhances the user’s ability to locate a
function quickly. After entering a minimum number of characters (currently set
at 3), the list of functions that matches the input string displays in place of the
responsibility list.
• 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:
Type of Pop-up Base Interaction Type Indicator

Component
Information Pop-up Link, Text Mouse over Dotted underline

Information Pop-up Link, Text Click Normal link
Information Pop-up Button Mouse over Interaction type not recommended
Information Pop-up Button Click Not required
Information Pop-up Image Mouse over Visual indicator-based image
Information Pop-up Image Click Not required
Dialog with Link Mouse over Dotted underline
transaction Pop-up
Dialog with Link Click Normal link
transaction Pop-up
Dialog with Button Mouse over Interaction type not recommended
transaction Pop-up
Dialog with Button Click Not required
transaction Pop-up
Dialog with Image Mouse over Visual indicator-based image
transaction Pop-up
Dialog with Image Click Not required
transaction Pop-up
• Classic tables now support sorting on layout-based columns through the

exposure of the following properties on the supported layouts: Sort Allowed,
SortBy ViewAttr, and Initial Sort Sequence. The supported layouts for sorting
are message component layout, flow layout and hide/show.
• Expression Language (EL) support is enhanced to include more types and is
now supported on more properties. These enhancements allow developers to
perform more tasks declaratively without having to write additional code.
Customers can also use EL in Personalizations to accomplish tasks
declaratively.
4.1.6.2. AutoVue Integration

The OA Framework Attachments user interface now integrates with AutoVue Document
Print Services to allow printing of File type attachments. AutoVue Document Print
Services supports the printing of different file types used in an enterprise, from a single
server where the Auto Document Print Services is configured. This support eliminates
the overhead of having to install and configure additional software on various client and
server machines to view and print all the possible file types used in the enterprise.
4.1.6.3. Personalization Improvements

New improvements have been introduced into OA Personalization Framework:
• 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 feature 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.
4.1.6.4. Enhanced Oracle JDeveloper OA Extension

The Oracle JDeveloper OA Extension for Release 12.2 includes the following
technology components:
Technology Component Version Included in Release 12.2 IDE
Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3.5

Application server OC4J 10.1.3.5
UIX 12.2.2.0
MDS 9.0.6
Oracle BI Beans 3.1.1.11
Portal Oracle WebLogic Server WSRP 11g
JOC 10.1.3
XML Parser 11.1.0
JDBC 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3.0) drivers
JDK 1.6.0_23
BC4J 10.1.3.5
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.
4.1.6.5. iPad Certification

Oracle Application Framework applications are now certified to run on the iPad. Known
caveats are documented.
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.
4.1.6.7. Support for Copying Attachments

Attachments can now be copied from one business entity to another.
4.1.6.8. Support for File Upload Anti-Virus Scanning

The File Upload UI feature can now allow a virus scan to be performed before it uploads
a file. The virus scan can be enabled at design time or by setting a profile option.
4.1.6.9. Preferences Page Integration with Delivery Manager

The Preferences page includes a new region to specify Delivery Manager e-mail server
credentials. The Delivery Manager allows a user to burst concurrent processing reports
via e-mail. The e-mail server credentials specified allow the Delivery Manager to e-mail
these reports on behalf of the user.
4.1.6.10. Enhanced “About” Page

The Technology Component subtab of the "About" Page now includes the
Internationalization Library version information as well as the database Edition Name in
the current technology stack. The Patches subtab now lists details of only those patches
that have completed their cutover phase in online patching.
4.1.6.11. Improved External Applications Integration

A new JSP has been introduced to act as an entry point JSP page when drilling down
from a Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word document to an Oracle Application
Framework page.
4.1.6.12. Portlet Generator Changes

The Portlet Generator materialized view FWK_PORTLET_GEN_MV is now replaced
with the standard table FWK_PORTLET_GEN. Similarly the "Refresh Portlet Generator
Materialized Views" concurrent program (FWKPRTMV) is replaced with the "Refresh
Portlet Generator Table" concurrent program (FWKPRTTB).
4.1.6.13. Disable Access Keys

Users can now disable access keys in all accessibility modes by setting a profile option
or by updating the Preferences page.
4.1.6.14. New Rating Bar

Developers can now add a new rating bar item to any region on a page. The rating bar,
which allows users to rate a product, service or entity, can be defined as updatable or
read-only.
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.
4.1.6.16. Long Text Attachment

Users can now add Long Text-type attachments containing text longer than 4000 bytes.
4.1.6.17. Improved Record History

Record History now shows user names rather than user IDs for the ‘Last Updated By’
and ‘Created By’ fields.
4.1.6.18. Message Rich Text Editor AntiSamy Support

The Message Rich Text Editor now performs an AntiSamy check of any new HTML
content you create to help guard against the possibility of malicious code.
4.1.6.19. Improved Sorting Support for Composite Table Columns

Developers can now enable sorting of composite table columns whose leaf items are
grouped under classic table-supported region layout styles such as message component
layout, flow layout or hide/show.
4.1.6.20. Obsolescence of Validation Profiles

Oracle E-Business Suite has removed the ability to turn the following Validation profiles
off and always runs as if the three Validation profiles are set to ‘Error’.
• FND Validation Level (FND_VALIDATION_LEVEL)
• FND Function Validation Level (FND_FUNCTION_VALIDATION_LEVEL)
• Framework Validation Level (FRAMEWORK_VALIDATION_LEVEL)
4.1.6.21. Improved Classic and Advanced Table Accessibility Support

Developers can now specify a column in a classic or advanced table as a row header to
support Screen Reader accessibility.
4.1.7. Release 12.2.3
4.1.7.1. New Skyros Skin

The new Skyros skin incorporates current UI visual design trends, such as flat rather
than dimensional elements, reduced gradients, reduced borders, and white or light colors
with splashes of color, into the Look-and-Feel. In addition, the new Look-and-Feel
supports improved control bar icon support for classic and advanced tables.
4.1.7.2. Rich Table Interactions

Classic and advanced tables now also support rich interactions that allow an end user to
scroll through a table if its width exceeds the browser’s width, detach a table and work
with it as a separate component with a wider width, and resize and reorder table columns
that the end user can then save as a user personalization.
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.
4.1.8. Release 12.2.4
4.1.8.1. Dialog Pages as Modal Pop-Ups

By setting a profile option, you can now have dialog pages appear as modal pop-ups so
users can view messages without having to navigate to a separate page.

Classic and advanced tables now also support rich interactions that allow an end user to
Hide/Show columns that the user can then save as a user personalization. Users can also
delete all user personalizations made via these rich features and reset the table back to its
original definition.
4.1.8.3. Rich HGrid Interactions

HGrids now support rich interactions such as resizing, reordering and hiding/showing
columns and horizontally scrolling across an HGrid. Users can also delete all user
personalizations made via these rich features and reset the HGrid back to its original
definition.
4.1.8.4. Time Support in Date Picker

Developers can now implement a Date Picker that allows a user to also specify a time
when choosing a date.
4.1.8.5. New Menu Component

Developers can now add an intuitive and space-saving menu component to a link, image,
or button item on a page. The menu appears as a pop-up when the user selects the menu-
enabled item, providing a list of client-side actions that the user can perform on the item.
The menu can be set to operate in one of two modes – where only a single menu option
can be selected to fire a single action, or where multiple menu options can be selected to
fire a series of sequential actions. The menu can also be defined to allow the user to
reorder its menu options and have a specific action associated with the reordering.
4.1.8.6. New Spin Box Component

Developers can now add a spin box widget to a page, allowing a user to select a numeric
value from a predefined range of values using a predefined incremental step size.
4.1.8.7. Gesture Support for Mobile Devices

OA Framework now provides gesture support to enhance user experiences on iOS
devices running Mobile Safari and Android devices running Google Chrome. Supported
gestures that make the UI more touch-friendly include: single tap, double tap,
hold/press/press and hold, pan/drag, swipe/flick, spread, pinch, check mark/tick, and x-
mark/cross.
4.1.8.8. Universal Global Header

A uniform global header is now available across supported mobile, tablet, and desktop
devices. The new global header displays global links as icons and streamlines the
former two-row header into a single row to provide more screen space for content
display. As a result, this header encapsulates commonly used links and relevant menu
items such as Home, Navigator, Favorites and Preferences with product-specific menu
items.
4.1.8.9. Simplified Home Page

A new, simplified Home page is now available for use with Oracle E-Business Suite.
The simplified Home page has an Announcements section and a grid of Favorites icons
that end users can personalize to add and configure application quick launch icons.
Administrators can enable the new Home page for end users by setting the profile option
APPLICATIONS_HOME_PAGE to "Framework Simplified Home Page".
Administrators can also personalize the Announcements section by using the OA
Framework administrator personalization UI.
4.1.8.10. Chrome Browser Certification

OA Framework is now certified against the Chrome Browser for desktops and Android
tablets.
4.1.8.11. HTML5 Certification

You can now set a profile option to enable the uptake of the HTML5 standards doctype
into generated HTML source. If you uptake the HTML5 standard doctype, all OA
Framework-based pages can run in a browser’s preferred standards mode rather than in
quirks mode or compatibility mode.
4.1.8.12. Support for Hiding Columns in an Attachment Table

Developers can now programmatically hide the “Category”, “Last Updated By”, “Last
Updated”, “Usage”, “Update”, “Delete”, and “Print Attachment” columns in an
Attachment table.
4.1.8.13. New Advanced Search Criteria

In the Advanced Search panel, in addition to being able to declaratively specify “AND”
or “OR” searches and datatype-specific operators, such as “greater than”, “is”, “is not”
or “less than” on individual fields, users can now specify the “is not (include blanks)”
operator to also return null values from a search.
4.1.9. Release 12.2.5
4.1.9.1. Look-and-Feel Upgrade to Oracle Alta UI

The new Oracle Alta Look-and-Feel incorporates new colors, fonts, sizes and
component styles to optimize the display of the UI on desktops and tablets.
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.
4.1.9.3. Simplified Page UI

Oracle E-Business Suite applications now boast a simplified layout that includes a new
icon-based menu and new UI components. Developers can now add the following new
UI components to help simplify their page layout:
• Infotile – a component that contains a tile-based header and a detailed region for
content. The implementation of multiple infotile components appear as an
enumeration of tiles, where each tile provides a brief description of its detailed
region. When a user selects a given tile, the detailed content pertaining to that
tile displays in the infotile content region
• Vertical subtab layout – a vertical display of tabs for a subtab layout.
• Hide/Show subtab layout – a Hide/Show region that contains a subtab layout.
In the collapsed mode, only the tabs’ icons display. The content region slides
out and displays related content when a user selects a tab.
4.1.9.4. Descriptive Flexfield Support as a Pop-Up

This usability enhancement allows developers to define a descriptive flexfield that can
automatically render as a pop-up window.
4.1.9.5. Inline Attachment Enhancements

The inline attachment pop-up window is now enhanced to allow users to:
• Publish an attachment to the Document Catalog.
• Attach existing documents in the Document Catalog.
Along with these enhancements, the Attachments page is now deprecated and is no
longer accessible by default. As a result, users will only be able to use the inline
attachment window to work with attachments.
4.1.9.6. Pop-Up Enhancements

Pop-ups are enhanced to now:
• Allow users to move the pop-up by dragging the pop-up header area.
• Allow administrators to set a new property on the pop-up component so that
the pop-up resizes automatically to fit its contents, eliminating the need for
scroll bars.
• Allow developers to use the same AM between a base page and a
parameterized pop-up.
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.
4.1.9.8. ‘WHERE’ Clause Support for Key Flexfields

Developers can now set an additional ‘WHERE’ clause on a key flexfield web bean to
limit to a subset the displayed set of valid key flexfield combination values.
4.1.10. Release 12.2.6
4.1.10.1. Developer Controls on Types of Attachments

The Attachments feature now includes the following enhancements:
• Developers can set a default attachment type such as short text, long text, file or
URL for the inline attachments UI.
• Developers can enable or disable various attachment types (text, URL, and file)
for both the inline attachments UI and the Attachment page UI.
4.1.10.2. Attachments Integration with Oracle AutoVue Release 20.2.3

The Attachments integration with the AutoVue Document Print Service is now certified
with Oracle AutoVue Release 20.2.3.
4.1.10.3. Oracle AutoVue Library Update for New Print APIs

A new packetPrint service is now available with the integration and certification of
AutoVue Document Print Service with Oracle AutoVue Release 20.2.3.
4.1.10.4. Validation Support for URL Attachments

You can now set a new profile option that specifies whether URL-type attachments
should first be validated before redirection. Redirection to an external, potentially
malicious page may compromise the security of a user’s session, account, or system. If
you enable the profile option to validate all URL-type attachments, then if a URL
redirects to an external page, a warning dialog message will prompt the user to confirm
before redirecting to the external page.
4.1.10.5. Home Page and Global Header Improvements

The Home page is now enhanced to include:
• Pagination support for long lists of Favorite icons, so that vertical scrolling is
unnecessary
• Display of the site or instance name in the global header, as specified in the
FND_SHOW_INSTANCE_NAME profile option
• The ability to set the Home page type from the Preferences page
4.1.10.6. Search Region Usability Improvements

Search region improvements for developers now include:
• A new API that allows a developer to programmatically hide the All or Any
radio group in the Advanced Search region
• The ability to declaratively or programmatically specify more than four search
criteria in the Advanced Search panel
4.1.10.7. Flexfield Special Value Set

A descriptive flexfield can now be configured to use a special validation value set to
validate a segment. This new feature, when used within the context of concurrent
program pages, supports the configuration of a key flexfield within a descriptive
flexfield. Users will be able to enter an entire key flexfield combination within a single
segment of a descriptive flexfield in a concurrent request HTML page.
4.1.10.8. Splitter Component

The new panel splitter layout component allows developers to create a page that a user
can split into multiple resizable and collapsible regions.
4.1.10.9. Layered Layout

The new layered layout component allows developers to create a page containing
multiple layers rather than multiple subtabs. Each layer displays a title bar area that a
user can select to switch between layers. A user can select only one layer at a time, and
the content of a layer renders only when that layer is selected.
4.1.10.10. Table Integration with Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator

Classic and Advanced tables 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.
4.1.10.11. Record History Support of Non-EO-Based View Objects

Record history is now supported for non-entity object-based view objects, such as
PL/SQL-based updatable view objects.
4.1.10.12. Tri-State Checkbox Support for Multi-Select Tables

Tables and HGrids are now enhanced with a tri-state checkbox that replaces the Select
checkbox and Select All/Select None links that previously appeared for users in the
column header. The supported states of this checkbox are: Selected, Un-Selected, and
Partially-Selected.
4.1.10.13. Header Text Selection Support to Hide/Show Content in iOS

In iOS, users can now select the header text of a Hide/Show component to expand or
collapse its content.
4.1.10.14. Relocation of Date Field Tip Text

The tip text for a date field now appears within the date input field when viewed by a
user, rather than outside of the date field.
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.
4.1.11. Release 12.2.7
4.1.11.1. Personalization Workbench

The new Personalization Workbench provides an alternative WYSIWYG
personalization page that allows administrators to reorder components or change
prompts in-place. The Personalization Workbench includes three panels:
• 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.
4.1.11.2. Repositioning of Navigator Icon in Home Page and Global Header

The Navigator icon is now positioned before corporate branding.
4.1.11.3. Support for Adding Bookmarkable Pages to Favorites Using Icon

Bookmarkable pages can now be added to the Favorites list using the “Add to Favorites”
icon.
4.1.11.4. Simplified Attachment Pop-up Window

A simplified pop-up display for attachments provides an Action menu with options to
Update, Publish, Delete, Print, and Record History. Additionally, a badge on the
Attachments icon indicates the number of attachments for that record.
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.
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.
4.1.11.7. Column Freezing in HGrids

Users can now freeze a set of columns to remain in view while horizontally scrolling in
an HGrid.
4.1.11.8. Expression Language (EL) Support for Profiles and Messages

This enhancement provides the ability to derive profile option values and messages
through expression language.
4.1.12. Release 12.2.9
4.1.12.1. List Search

List Search enables users to quickly and easily retrieve the information they are looking
for. When List Search is enabled on a specific page or application, the Query Bean
panels (Simple, Advance, and Views) are merged into a two-panel layout, with the left
panel holding the search criteria and the right panel displaying the table with the
returned records.
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
iProcurement • iProcurement Catalog

Administration: Agreements
Lease and Finance Management • Contracts
• Funding Requests
• Manual Receipts
• Accounting Transactions
• Asset Return Requests
• Termination Quotes
• Manual Invoices
• Vendor Re-assignment
• Prefund Pool
• Investor Agreements
• Remarket Orders
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
4.1.12.2. Masonry Layout

The Masonry Layout component enhances usability and helps achieve responsive design
for Oracle Application Framework pages. Using a Masonry Layout aids in rendering
page content in a viewport-friendly manner across different devices, providing a better
user experience.
4.1.12.3. Accordion Component

The new Accordion component enhances the usability of Oracle Application Framework
regions by providing a header that lets you toggle the Accordion body contents between
being shown or hidden. Users can show or hide product page regions with a mouse click
on the Accordion header, providing a better user experience.
4.1.12.4. Query By Example

You can now use Query by Example (QBE) on Advanced and Classic tables. Developers
can enable this feature on a table through design-time customization.
4.1.12.5. Simplified Table Toolbar

The table toolbar has been reorganized and simplified to comply with the latest UI
design. Actions at both table level and row level have been reorganized.
4.1.12.6. Enhancements for Rich Table Interaction

This release extends support for Rich Table Interaction to tables with a descriptive
flexfield rendered as a pop-up, tables with a key flexfield displaying the combinations
list of values UI, and tables with record history enabled.
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.
4.1.12.8. Color Picker Enhancement

The color picker user interface now uses an enhanced color spectrum and color swatch.
4.1.12.9. Key Flexfield LOV Pop-up

The key flexfield combinations list of values window now appears as a pop-up by
default instead of in a browser window. You can still use the same key flexfield
diagnostic tools with the new pop-up.
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”.
4.1.12.10. Shorthand Alias Search in Key Flexfield Window

To provide parity with Forms functionality for flexfields, shorthand alias search is now
available in the key flexfield list of values pop-up if an alias is set up for a key flexfield
structure.
4.1.12.11. Look-ahead Support for Key Flexfield Search

Look-ahead search is now enabled for key flexfield combinations if the key flexfield list
of values window is configured to be displayed in a pop-up, that is, when the
FND_ENABLE_OPEN_LOV_IN_POPUP profile option is set to “True”.
4.1.12.12. Descriptive Flexfields Usability Improvements

Descriptive flexfield pop-up windows are now supported in HGrids as well as tables. In
addition, users can now perform searches using descriptive flexfield criteria in a Search
(Query) region, in both Classic and List Search mode, if the query bean includes a
descriptive flexfield item.
4.1.12.13. Home Page Enhancements

The layout of the simplified home page is now responsive, and will change according to
the available viewport on different devices, providing a better user experience. Also, the
icon style of the simplified home page can be configured to appear with circular or
square shapes. The UI of the simplified home page has been developed with the new
Masonry Layout component.
4.1.12.14. Default Favorites

Administrators can now set default favorites in an Oracle E-Business Suite instance, and
end users can access those default favorites as recommended favorites. A new pop-up UI
shows a list of recommended and popular favorites to users, so that they can optionally
select some of those to add to their own Favorites list and then access those functions
directly from the home page.
4.1.12.15. Global Header Enhancements

Usability and performance have been improved for Global Header functionalities such
as Navigator, Favorites, and Worklist. The underlying look and feel, including that of
the associated pop-ups, has been updated to give a more modern appearance. Users can
now search for responsibilities and functions in the Navigator pop-up. The Global
Header has also been enhanced to be responsive to the viewport, with the Global buttons
being replaced by a consolidated menu if the viewport is not big enough to display the
complete Global Header.
4.1.12.16. Date Picker Modal Window Enhancements

The date picker now uses a pop-up bean to provide a modal HTML window instead of
using a modal browser window. This enhancement facilitates better compliance to the
standard UI specifications, especially on mobile devices.
4.1.12.17. List of Values Modal Window Enhancements

The List of Values (LOV) window now uses a pop-up by default instead of a modal
browser window. This enhancement means that the window can be displayed in the
current page rather than in another browser window. You can optionally change back to
displaying the list of values in a modal browser window as in previous releases by
setting the FND_ENABLE_OPEN_LOV_IN_POPUP profile option to “False”.
4.1.12.18. Enhanced Graphs

Oracle Application Framework Graph components have been redesigned to render
graphs using a new technology by default instead of BI Beans. You can optionally
change back to BI Beans rendering as in previous releases by setting the FND: Enable
JET Graphs and Charts (FND_ENABLE_JET_GRAPH_CHART) profile option to
“None”.
4.1.12.19. Internet Explorer 11 Standard Document Mode

Oracle Application Framework now uses ‘Standard' Document mode in Internet
Explorer 11.
4.1.12.20. Personalization Workbench Enhancements

The Personalization Workbench now uses a masonry layout. It also uses an accordion
component for the property and component palettes. Support is also added for
personalization of Rich Table Interaction (hiding and reordering columns), page-level
buttons, and the "Return to" navigation link.
4.1.12.21. Advanced Sort Pop-up

The Advanced Sort pop-up enables sorting a table on multiple columns. This feature
extends the previous support for table sorting on a single column.
4.1.13. Release 12.2.10
4.1.13.1. Check Box Enhancement

On touch devices, check boxes outside tables can now be rendered as on/off toggle
switches or yes/no toggle buttons. When a toggle switch is displayed, sliding the switch
to the right is the equivalent of selecting the check box, while sliding the switch to the
left is the equivalent of deselecting the check box. When a toggle button is displayed,
tapping the button is equivalent to selecting or deselecting the check box.
4.1.13.2. List Search Enhancements

List Search has been enhanced to provide hide/show seeded views within infotiles,
support reordering of current views, and provide notifications on views.
Also, List Search is available for the following additional products in Release 12.2.10.
Products Pages
Installed Base • Transaction Interface Search

Inventory • Search Reservations
4.1.13.3. Saved Search Notifications

List Search now allows users to be notified about various aspects of saved searches, and
to receive customized reports of activities on saved search records according to a user-
defined schedule. The FND_ENABLE_SAVED_SEARCH_NOTIFICATIONS profile
option lets you enable this feature.
4.1.13.4. Enhanced My Worklist Pop-Up

For information about a related Oracle Workflow feature in this release, see section
4.16.11.1.
4.1.13.5. Enhanced Manage Saved Search Pop-up

This update streamlines the display and navigation of the Manage Saved Search UI in
List Search.
4.1.13.6. Exporting Tables to PDF

Users can now export Oracle Application Framework table data to a PDF file.
4.1.13.7. Sequence Numbers for Attachments

To provide parity with Forms functionality, sequence numbers for attachments are now
displayed in Oracle Application Framework pages and in inline attachments.
4.1.13.8. Searching with Key Flexfield Criteria in List Search

To provide parity with Forms functionality, the Filter panel in the List Search page now
supports including key flexfields among the search criteria fields.
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.
4.1.13.10. Query By Example for Tables

Query By Example enables filtering on individual table columns by providing an
editable text field in which users can enter filter criteria for searchable columns.
4.1.13.11. OA Image Bean Support for Database Storage of Images

As an alternative to the file system, developers can now easily store images in the
database and display them when required.
4.1.14. Release 12.2.11
4.1.14.1. Color Coding for Infotiles

You can now use color coding for infotiles, using predefined sets of complementary
colors to give clear contrast between individual tiles. Developers can use static or
dynamic color codes based on view name or count. System administrators can
customize some color coding conditions for their site. Users can statically color code
their own views for additional differentiation.
4.1.14.2. Collapse and Expand Infotiles

Users can now collapse and expand infotiles when viewing a page for which list search
has been implemented.
4.1.14.3. Enhanced Export of Table Data to PDF and Excel

Users can now export a wider range of table data to both PDF and Excel, including the
following:
• Transient columns
• Data based on an alternate view attribute other than the view attribute associated
with the column metadata
• The row header column defined through the “Row Header View Attribute” metadata
for Advanced or Classic tables
• The total number of rows exported
• A Total row displaying the sum total values for relevant columns
Users can also now export table data to PDF and Excel for Advanced and Classic tables
that appear in a pop-up. In addition, export performance has been significantly
improved.
4.1.14.4. Enhanced Charts

Oracle Application Framework Chart components have been redesigned to render charts
using a new technology by default instead of BI Beans. You can optionally change back
to BI Beans rendering as in previous releases by setting the FND: Enable JET Graphs
and Charts (FND_ENABLE_JET_GRAPH_CHART) profile option to “None” or "JET
Graph Only".
Charts rendered with the new technology include zoom and scroll features, which are
useful particularly for data spanning a larger timeline.
4.1.14.5. Support for Enterprise Command Center Pop-up

Oracle Application Framework now provides a pop-up for use by Enterprise Command
Centers (ECC), to promote greater integration of Enterprise Command Center
dashboards within Oracle E-Business Suite. For more information, see section 4.10.8.2.
4.1.14.6. Direct Display for Descriptive Flexfields in Simple Search Panel

Oracle Application Framework now supports displaying individual segments for a
descriptive flexfield directly in the simple search panel, instead of displaying the
flexfield in a pop-up. Users can control the display by personalizing the “Render as
Popup” property.
4.1.14.7. Semicolon as Separator for Exported CSV File

You can now choose to use a semicolon as the separator when exporting data to a CSV
file. This feature is intended for use in localities where the semicolon is used as the
standard separator. Use the new profile option FND: Export CSV Separator
(FND_EXPORT_CSV_SEPARATOR) to specify the separator.
4.1.14.8. New API for List Search

A new OAQueryUtils.clearInfotileRowCountCache API is available for
Oracle Application Framework developers. This API clears the row count cache so that
when the page is loaded again, a fresh request to get the row count is run.
4.1.14.9. Saved Search Notifications in Classic Query Bean Views Panel

The Saved Search Notifications feature that was introduced in Release 12.2.10 is now
extended to the classic query bean Views panel. Developers can use controls at each
query bean level to enable or disable this feature.
4.1.14.10. New Key Flexfield Web Bean Attribute

A new attribute named UPDATE_KFF_ON_LOV_REFRESH allows the values of key
flexfields in tables to be refreshed when a LOV is updated.
4.1.14.11. New Profile Option to Disable Diagnostic Console Button

The profile option FND: Disable Diagnostic Console
(FND_DISABLE_DIAGNOSTIC_CONSOLE) is added to let you disable the
Diagnostic Console button even if the diagnostic profile option is set to On.
4.1.14.12. Redwood Theme

A new Redwood theme meets the latest Oracle standards for application look and feel.
In addition, global header icons have been modernized.
4.2. Oracle Application Object Library
4.2.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
4.2.1.1. Custom Directory Information Tree (DIT)

Support Realm configuration in OID for createBase, searchBase, and
commonNameAttribute. CreateBase is where an OID user for EBIZ will be created.
SearchBase is which OID node to start search with. CommonNameAttribute is what
attribute to be used for 'cn'; for example, cn=xxxx or uix=xxxx.
4.2.2. Release 12.1.1
4.2.2.1. Data Type Support Enhancements in the Generic Data Loader

(FNDLOAD)
FNDLOAD is a generic seed data loader tool. Prior to Release 12.1.1, FNDLOAD
supported CLOB data but not BLOB data in its LDT files. With Release 12.1.1,
FNDLOAD supports BLOB data to better serve content-rich applications.
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.
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.
4.2.2.4. Manager and Request Instance Affinity in Concurrent Processing

Concurrent requests and managers can now be directed to a specific database instance or
node.
4.2.2.5. Startup Threshold for Managers in Concurrent Processing

Administrators can now set a threshold for the number of times the Internal Concurrent
Manager will attempt to restart a concurrent manager after it fails to start.
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4.2.3. Release 12.1.2
4.2.3.1. Oracle Access Manager Integration

Oracle E-Business Suite now supports integration with Oracle Access Manager (OAM)
using Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate. Integration of Oracle Access Manager with
Oracle E-Business Suite provides an identity management and access control system that
can be shared by all applications across the enterprise, including those that are not part
of Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle Access Manager is currently certified for use with
Oracle Fusion Middleware and some third-party products.
Oracle Access Manager may be used in place of Oracle Single Sign-On (OSSO) for
those products that support it, or it may be used with OSSO to provide centralized
authentication across all the products in the Oracle E-Business Suite technology
stack. Customers can choose when to migrate to the next generation of Oracle Security
products.
4.2.3.2. Oracle Application Object Library Java APIs

The Oracle Application Object Library Java APIs provide access to session
management, external logging, messages (Message Dictionary), profiles, and lookups
used by Oracle E-Business Suite from an external Java EE-based application, without
requiring a local installation of the entire suite. These AOL Java APIs are certified with
all releases of Oracle E-Business Suite, including Release 12.1.2.
4.2.3.3. DataSource for Oracle E-Business Suite (AppsDataSource)
AppsDataSource provides the ability to connect to an Oracle E-Business Suite database

and access Oracle E-Business Suite transactional data from an external Java EE
application, such as an Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) instance.
AppsDataSource supports X/Open XA, a standard for distributed transaction processing

from The Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org/). Supporting the XA standard
allows for using multiple resources, such as an Oracle database and Java Message
Service (JMS), in transactions, as opposed to using only local resources.
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).
Authentication (user login) is implemented using the AOL security system.

Authorization (access control for specific functionality) uses Oracle User Management
(UMX) roles to provide appropriate privileges.
4.2.3.5. Scheduling Charts User Interface Enhancements
Scheduling Charts are used to display various types of assignment data in a bar format
together with the corresponding resources. These charts support dragging and dropping
existing assignments from one resource to another and resizing the assignments time
frame.
Enhancements in Release 12.1.2 make it easy to drag a task number from a pane into the
Scheduling Chart to create a new Task for a resource as well as display a menu which
can create Tasks (Foreground Bars) and Shifts (Background Bar) on the fly. Users will
also be able to find a task bar based on a given search criteria. Simplifying the ability to
create, assign, search and display new task assignments in a single form saves time and
increases efficiency.
4.2.4. Release 12.1.3
4.2.4.1. Key Flexfield Cross-Validation Rules Report Enhancements

The Cross-Validation Rule Violation Report is enhanced to allow more flexible
checking of key flexfield cross-validation rules. Previously, the user would select a
given key flexfield structure, and the report checked for existing combinations that
violated any of the cross-validation rules set up for that structure, for all the rules at
once. Now users have the option to run this report for just one cross-validation rule at a
time to test if the specific rule is set up correctly, by seeing which existing combinations
violate the specific rule.
In addition, the Cross-Validation Rule Violation Report is enhanced to let users
optionally distinguish between currently active (valid) combinations and combinations
that have been end-dated and are therefore not active. Previously, the report already did
not display combinations that violate a rule but have been disabled. Now the user can
specify whether to include end-dated combinations in the report. (Note that ‘disabled’
and ‘end-dated’ are separate statuses.)
4.2.4.2. Flexfield Segment Name Validation

The flexfield segment setup forms for both key and descriptive flexfields are enhanced
to provide field-level validation of the segment name fields so that the user receives
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.
4.2.4.3. Concurrent Processing Integration with Oracle Business Intelligence

Publisher Delivery Manager
When submitting concurrent requests, users can now choose to have the request output
delivered using BI Publisher's Delivery Manager. The output can be automatically e-
mailed, faxed, sent to an IPP printer, or delivered using FTP or SFTP.
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.
4.2.4.5. FNDMENU Diagnostics Menu Security Enhancement

This enhancement removes the challenge for the APPS password when trying to access
submenus under the Diagnostics menu. Access to the Diagnostics submenus is
controlled by the ‘Utilities: Diagnostics’ profile option and standard E-Business Suite
function security. When the user selects a menu item, Oracle Application Object
Library checks whether the submenu items are granted to the current responsibility. If
the ‘Utilities: Diagnostics’ profile option is set to No and the end user has not been
granted the securing function for the menu item, an error message is displayed.
Additionally, this enhancement provides a read-only mode for the Examine menu, the
Item Properties window, and the Forms Personalization form.
4.2.4.6. Database Connection Tagging

This feature provides users with an ability to tag database connections with module and
context specific attributes. The feature offers several session attributes that allow
applications to record the current user, code module and business action that a
connection is being used for. Populating these attributes helps users track metrics
required for Audit control, resource allocation, and problem diagnosis.
4.2.5. Release 12.1.3+
4.2.5.1. Recalculation of Dynamic Default Parameters in Standard Request

Submission
4.2.5.2. Setting Environment Values and Parameters on a Per-Service Basis

4.2.5.3. Concurrent Processing Command-Line Utility

4.2.5.4. New Schemes for Storing Concurrent Processing Log and Output Files
4.2.5.5. Output File Naming Changes
The output file naming conventions are updated to include extensions for file types. For
example, the convention o<requestid>.extension can be used, as in
‘o12345.pdf’.
4.2.5.6. Timed Shutdown for Concurrent Processing

The timed shutdown feature allows you to submit a graceful shutdown and specify a
number of minutes after which an Abort command will be executed. In this way,
processes that can gracefully shut down will do so. If there are any problematic
processes, they will not keep concurrent processing from shutting down; that is, the
shutdown will occur in the specified interval.
4.2.5.7. Allowed Resources

This feature was back-ported from Release 12.2.9. This feature reduces the attack
surface of Oracle E-Business Suite by enabling the creation of an allowlist of resources -
JavaServer Pages (JSPs) and servlets - that are allowed access to your environment.
4.2.5.8. Allowed Redirects

This feature was back-ported from Release 12.2.9. This feature restricts redirects by
utilizing an allowlist mechanism, defining hosts with allowed access to a resource and
denying access to those that are not in the allowed listing.
4.2.6. Release 12.2
4.2.6.1. Native Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Caching for Profiles

Profile caching now uses the native Oracle Database 11g Release 2 PL/SQL Function
Result Cache feature for improved performance in fetching profile option values.
4.2.6.2. Uptake of AUTO Sampling Statistics Gathering Feature in Oracle

Database 11g Release 1
The Oracle E-Business Suite FND_STATS package that gathers statistics for query
optimization will by default use the improved DBMS_STATS.AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE
feature that was introduced in Oracle Database 11g Release 1. FND_STATS generates
faster and more accurate statistics with AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE.
4.2.6.3. Support for Copying Attachments in the Oracle Application Framework

UI
The data model for attachments is updated to enable the enhancement for copying
attachments in Oracle Application Framework (section 4.1.6.7).
4.2.6.4. Flexfield Value Set Security

Flexfield value set security enables role-based separation of duties for viewing, creating,
or updating values in value sets used for key flexfields, descriptive flexfields, and report
parameters. Value set security allows administrators to restrict users from viewing,
creating, or updating values for specific value sets in the Values form. For example, you
can set up value set security such that certain users can view or insert values for any
value set used by the Accounting Flexfield but no other value sets, while other users can
view and update values for value sets used for any flexfields in the Oracle Human
Capital Management applications. You can also segregate access by Operating Unit as
well as by role or responsibility.
4.2.6.5. Browser Cookie Scope

A browser session cookie contains sensitive data. For a more secure configuration, the
cookie should be restricted to being sent only to those hosts required to meet operational
and business needs. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 allows the system
administrator to control which hosts the cookie is sent to.
There are three possible settings. With the 'host' setting, the cookie is scoped to the
originating host (server). This offers the greatest level of security. The 'domain' setting is
the default, and only allows the cookie to be sent to machines within the same domain as
the Oracle E-Business Suite server. This offers a good level of security, without
hampering functionality. Finally, the 'custom' setting is configurable by the system
administrator, and allows the security level to be customized for specific site
requirements.
4.2.6.6. Allowed JSP Lists

This feature allows control over which JavaServer Pages (JSPs) are approved for access
to an Oracle E-Business Suite product or product family. That is, it offers the capability
to deny access to JSPs unless they have been explicitly added to a list of JSPs that are
allowed access. The JSPs that are allowed access can be customized to suit the needs of
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.
4.2.6.7. Oracle Application Object Library REST Services

Release 12.2 introduces REpresentational State Transfer (REST) security services as a
new integration option that provides more versatility than was previously possible. In
particular, REST services facilitate the development of customizable support for mobile
applications.
The REST security services are provided by Oracle Application Object Library, and
cater for login (authentication); session management; authorization; and logout. Their
usage starts with authentication, in which the username and password are validated,
encoded, and exchanged for an access token. This token is subsequently used to make
authenticated requests to Oracle E-Business Suite web services. The other REST
services are then invoked as applicable.
4.2.7. Release 12.2.3
4.2.7.1. Advanced Password Hashing

The Advanced Password Hashing feature expands the “-m” (migrate) option of the
AFPASSWD utility, adding new advanced hash mode options and a new argument. This
feature provides additional protections against brute forcing of hashes, in case the
password hashes in the database are compromised. It uses SHA2 algorithms (sha256,
sha384 and sha512) defined by NIST FIPS 180-4 along with the PBKDF2 derivation
function as defined by NIST 800-132 to make calculating the hashes computationally
more difficult.
• You can now specify any of the following additional advanced hash algorithms
as the hash mode: SHA256, SHA384, or SHA512.
• You can also now specify the type of advanced hash migration to perform.
o A full migration migrates all the records in the FND_USER table to
hash mode.
o A background migration migrates all the records in the FND_USER
table to the selected advanced hash mode in the background as a
concurrent program.
o A partial migration allows users with an earlier encryption mode to co-
exist with users creating new passwords with the selected advanced hash
mode. Users on the earlier encryption mode can still log in, but
subsequent password changes will switch these users to the selected
advanced hash mode.
Note: Partial migration is used to change between advanced hash modes
and should be done only after a full or background migration. If a partial
migration is performed first, then a full migration cannot be run in the
future.
4.2.8. Release 12.2.4
4.2.8.1. Recalculation of Dynamic Default Parameters in Standard Request

Submission
Parameters used in Standard Request Submission can have default values that are
generated dynamically, such as by SQL statements, from profile option values, or using
the current date or time. Prior to Release 12.2.4, in the case of resubmitting or copying a
request, the original parameter values are always re-used. In Release 12.2.4, a flag
“Recalculate Default Parameters” can be set to determine if the parameter values should
be recalculated upon resubmitting or copying a request.
This feature is back-ported to Release 12.1.3+.
4.2.8.2. Profile Option to Control Opening of Key Flexfield Window by Default

The profile option “Flexfields: Open Key Window On Default” controls whether a
flexfield window will open when a user presses Tab to leave a concatenated key
flexfield field. It will only open if at least one of the segments has a default value
defined. When the user tabs from the concatenated flexfield the code automatically
defaults defined values and opens the window to allow a user to make changes. If the
profile option is set to No, then the flexfield window will not open for modifications,
and assumes the user wants the defaulted values as part of the combination.
4.2.8.3. Setting Environment Values and Parameters on a Per-Service Basis

This feature provides a user interface to allow users to set values for any environment
variable for any defined concurrent manager, as well as to allow users to set JVM
parameters for any Java service. These values are read and used by the Service Manager
when starting each service.
4.2.8.4. Allowed Redirects

The Allowed Redirects feature (formerly also known as Approved Redirects) provides
support for an allowlist of trusted authorities, such as hosts and domains, to which
Oracle E-Business Suite is allowed to redirect web traffic. In addition, it prohibits
redirects from Oracle E-Business Suite to authorities that are not explicitly approved.
This configuration offers defense in depth against phishing attacks directed at Oracle E-
Business Suite users.
The Allowed Redirects is not enabled by default in Oracle E-Business Suite Release
12.2.4, but can be activated through a profile option.
4.2.9. Release 12.2.5
4.2.9.1. Login Page Enhancements

The login page has been enhanced for improved performance and security. It also has
the new Oracle Alta UI Look-and-Feel.
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.
4.2.9.3. Flexfields Cross-Validation Rule Violation Report Enhancement

This report provides a listing of all the previously created flexfield combinations that
violate your cross-validation rules for a given flexfield structure. With this
enhancement, you have the options to show non-summary accounts, show summary
accounts, and disable summary accounts.
4.2.9.4. Flexfields Test Page

The capability to test the implementation of flexfield definitions is now available in an
Oracle Application Framework page. This page is equivalent to the Flexfields Test
Form. The Flexfield Test Page and Form should only be used with the help of an Oracle
support representative, and are meant for diagnostic purposes only.
4.2.9.5. Concurrent Processing Command-Line Utility
This new command-line utility consolidates various existing utilities into a single menu-
based utility called “cpadmin”. This adadmin-style utility can be used to perform many
concurrent processing management tasks automatically.
4.2.9.6. JSP and Java API for File Streaming

A new JSP and Java API are provided for streaming files from the server to a user's
browser.
4.2.10. Release 12.2.6
4.2.10.1. Setup Wizard for Flexfields Value Set Security

This new wizard enables easy setup of the flexfield value set security feature.
Previously, flexfield value set security required ID numbers for the Grant parameters.
This wizard allows the user to enter more user-friendly data without involving ID
values in the initial implementation of flexfield value set security.
4.2.10.2. Flexfields Registration HTML UI

The capabilities to register key flexfields and descriptive flexfields and search for
registered flexfields are now available in Oracle Application Framework pages for use
by developers.
4.2.10.3. Oracle E-Business Suite Forms in Read-Only Mode on the Responsibility

or User Level
Oracle E-Business Suite Forms-based applications support running a form in read-only
mode if the underlying function used to launch the form has passed the parameter
query_only = ‘yes’. In Release 12.2.6, this functionality can be set at the responsibility
level, user level, or for an operating unit or a group of users. You can enable this using
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.
4.2.10.5. Audit Trail Search HTML UI

The Audit Trail Search pages are now available as Oracle Application Framework
pages. These pages allow you to query audit trail setup tables without launching Oracle
Forms.
4.2.10.6. Allowed JSP List Enabled by Default
The Allowed JSP (JavaServer Pages) list feature, introduced in Release 12.2.4, is now
enabled by default.
4.2.10.7. Allowed Redirects Enabled by Default

The Allowed Redirects feature introduced in Release 12.2.4 is now enabled by default.
4.2.10.8. Secure Configuration Console

The Secure Configuration Console provides a central UI to guide administrators
through configuration of security features in Oracle E-Business Suite.
4.2.11. Release 12.2.6+
4.2.11.1. Allowed Resources

The Allowed Resources feature reduces the attack surface of Oracle E-Business Suite
by enabling the creation of an allowlist of resources, including JavaServer Pages, or
JSPs, and servlets, that are allowed access to Oracle E-Business Suite.
The previous Allowed JSP list feature is now deprecated and has been replaced with the
functionality now available in the Allowed Resources feature.
4.2.12. Release 12.2.7
4.2.12.1. Allowed Resources Enhancements

Metadata for the Allowed Resources feature is now stored in the database rather than in
configuration files. With this change, allowed resources configuration is now preserved
during upgrades and patching.
A new user interface has also been introduced to configure allowed resources at the
product family, application, and resource level.
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.
4.2.12.2. Secure Configuration Console Enhancements

Additional security checks have been added to the Secure Configuration Console for
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.7.
4.2.13. Release 12.2.9
4.2.13.1. Read-Only Flexfields Segments Capability

Flexfield segments can now be defined to be read-only. Within the Flexfields Segments
form, an administrator can specify whether a segment’s value is insertable or updatable.
In addition, role-based separation of duties for viewing, creating, and updating segment
values is made possible with the Flexfield Segment Security Wizard.
Additionally, flexfield segments used as concurrent program parameters can now be
defined to be read-only. Within the Define Concurrent Program form, an administrator
can specify whether a parameter’s value can be updated or only viewed. In addition,
role-based separation of duties for viewing and updating the concurrent parameter value
is made possible with the Flexfield Segment Security Wizard.
4.2.13.2. New Concurrent Processing Output File Naming Conventions

The output file naming conventions for Concurrent Processing are changed. The
APPCPNAM variable, which lets you configure the output file name, can now have
these values:
• USER.REQID – Results in username.requestid
• REQID.OUT – Results in o<requestid>.out
Any other values, including leaving the variable unset, will result in the default file name
of o<requestid>.extension, where the extension is derived from the request
output type. The following output types are supported:
• Text - .txt
• PDF - .pdf
• HTML - .html
• XML - .xml
• Postscript - .ps
• PCL - .pcl
4.2.13.3. Concurrent Processing Timed Shutdown

The timed shutdown feature allows you to submit a normal, graceful shutdown and also
specify a number of minutes after which an Abort command will be executed. After this
number of minutes has passed, and if Concurrent Processing has not yet shut down, the
graceful shutdown will be converted to an Abort, and all remaining Concurrent
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.
4.2.13.4. Allowed Resources Enhancements

The Allowed Resources user interface (UI) has been enhanced. The updated UI
includes new pages to easily allow or deny resources and add or remove custom
resources. These pages also allow you to configure resources based on usage patterns
using predefined search criteria.
4.2.13.5. Secure Configuration Console Enhancements

In this release, the Secure Configuration Console is accessible through the OAM
Security Dashboard in the System Administrator responsibility, as well as through the
Functional Administrator responsibility. An additional security check has also been
added to the console for Release 12.2.9.
4.2.14. Release 12.2.10
4.2.14.1. Restricting Visibility of Shared Attachments in the Document Catalog

Documents should only be visible if explicitly published to the Document Catalog by
the user. Developers can now use an API to programmatically set the Published flag
value for an attachment to restricted so that the attachment will not be visible in the
Document Catalog or Document window.
When a user manually publishes any document, the document will remain visible in the
Document Catalog. The Restricted mode is not displayed to users as an option.
4.2.14.2. Flexfields Forms Diagnostics Logging

Before Release 12.2.10, while diagnosing flexfields issues in Forms-based applications,
a user could set the GLOBAL.FND_FLEX_FNDSQF_DEBUG variable to DEBUG.
This process displayed the user_exit calls along with their parameter values in a dialog
window, requiring additional user input. With this enhancement in Release 12.2.10, the
user can have the debug information logged in a file. Choosing the ‘SPOOL’ option
will log the information in a file in the database directory defined for PL/SQL file I/O.
(See My Oracle Support Document 2525754.1, Using UTL_FILE_DIR or Database
Directories for PL/SQL File I/O in Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and
12.2.) Choosing the ‘DEBUG_SPOOL’ option will log the information to a file and
also display the dialog window.
4.2.14.3. Sign-on Auditing Enhancements

Sign-on Auditing includes the following enhancements:
• IP addresses have been added to login auditing logs.
• Audit data for non-Forms activity can now be captured at the responsibility
level.
• The Last Active Time is now displayed in the Sign-on Audit UI and reports.
• A new session cleanup function lets you disable inactive sessions that have
exceeded a time limit.
• Session purging is enhanced.
4.2.14.4. Allowed Resources User Interface Enhancements

The Allowed Resources user interface (UI) has been enhanced. The updated UI
displays the owning product for resources in all tiles within the Management by
Resources tab.
4.2.14.5. Secure Configuration Console User Interface Enhancements

A new guideline has been added to the Secure Configuration Console to check if the
database network access control list (ACL) has been enabled and configured to restrict
outbound network access from the database.
4.2.14.6. Password Hashing Default
Hashed passwords are now enabled by default in partial migration mode. This means
that all user password changes will be stored as irreversible hashes. You are highly
encouraged to convert existing passwords as well.
4.2.15. Release 12.2.11
4.2.15.1. Default Retention Period for Inactive Sessions and Sign-On Audit Data
Increased to 400 Days
The default value for purging inactive sessions in the concurrent program Purge
Inactive Sessions (FNDDLTMP) has been changed to 400 days. Also, the concurrent
program Purge Sign-On Audit Data (FNDSCPRG) now uses a retention period (400
days by default) as a parameter instead of a date to determine which records to purge.
4.2.15.2. Control Proxy User Selection by Organization for Internal and External
Users
Oracle E-Business Suite allows users to grant delegates the ability to act on their behalf
(act as proxy users for them) when performing specific Oracle E-Business Suite
functions. In this release, internal users select their proxies from a list of internal users
by default. In addition, a new security policy can be used to limit the list of potential
proxies for a user to the user's organization. Likewise, a new policy for external users
can be used to limit these users to selecting a proxy from a list including only those users
in their own organization.
4.2.15.3. Secure Configuration Console Check for CPU Level

The Secure Configuration Console now checks for the CPU level of the Oracle E-
Business Suite instance. Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply the latest
CPU.
4.2.15.4. Secure Configuration Console Check for FND Global File Manager
Authorization
The Secure Configuration Console now checks whether the system is compliant with
the recommended configuration for FND Global File Manager (FNDGFM)
authorization.
4.2.15.5. Secure Configuration Console Check for Unused Resources

The Secure Configuration Console now reports any resources defined for the Allowed
Resources feature that have been unused for the last 400 days. After this time period
you should use the "Deny All" feature to deny access to resources which have never
been used.
4.2.15.6. Increased Severity for Allowed Resources Configuration Check in

Secure Configuration Console
In the Secure Configuration Console, the guideline "Allowed Resources Configuration"
now has a severity level of 1, to highlight the importance of this configuration.
4.3. Oracle Applications Manager (OAM)
4.3.1. Release 12.1.3
4.3.1.1. Support for Timing Report per Application Module

The existing OAM Timing Report page provides the total elapsed time for each phase.
This new enhancement provides the actual execution patching time taken for each
application module, accounting for parallel runs. It provides the aggregate timing
information for each phase within a product. As part of this enhancement users can
navigate to the product license status screen from the Timing Report –Product
Information page. This screen allows users to find out the aggregate time taken by
products that are Installed, Shared, or Not Installed. A similar change has been
implemented in AutoPatch code to provide timing report details for each product.
4.3.2. Release 12.1.3+
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.
4.3.3. Release 12.2
4.3.3.1. Integration of Oracle Applications Manager and Oracle Enterprise

Manager 11g Fusion Middleware Control
This enhancement extends the Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Fusion Middleware
Control console to discover Oracle E-Business Suite instances and to include a
navigation link to the Oracle Applications Manager. Oracle Applications Manager itself
is updated to work with Fusion Middleware Control.
4.3.4. Release 12.2.2
4.3.4.1. View All Button on Patch Wizard Detail Pages

A "View All" button has been added to the Applied Patches, File History, and
Recommended Patches detail pages, to avoid the need to page through large sets of
results.
4.3.5. Release 12.2.4
4.3.5.1. Sync with Licensed Products Button on Codelevels Summary Page

The Sync with Licensed Products button on the Codelevels Summary page will reset the
In Use flags of your products to match the products that are actually Installed or Shared.
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4.3.6. Release 12.2.5
4.3.6.1. Streamlined Recommended Patches List in Patch Wizard

The Recommended Patches Results page by default displays only the recommended
patches that are not included in other recommended patches. However, you can choose
to display the nested patches and also see the patches that include them.
4.3.6.2. Export Function for Recommended Patches Page in Patch Wizard

You can use the Export All button to export your Recommended Patches Results table.
This Export feature creates a comma separated file (.csv) containing all of the data in the
table(s) that can then be opened up in Microsoft Excel.
4.3.7. Release 12.2.6
4.3.7.1. License Manager Language Mode Selection

The License Manager feature in Oracle Applications Manager now allows an
administrator to license languages in lightweight mode or full mode (where both modes
are available). Languages that are supported as lightweight MLS only are indicated
with an asterisk, and their translation mode is grayed out to indicate that it cannot be
changed. In addition, a list of lightweight languages is added to the Languages Report
pages.
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+.
4.4. Oracle Diagnostics Framework

4.4.1. Overview
Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics comprises a Diagnostics Framework and a
repository of diagnostics tests. Oracle Diagnostics Framework provides the
infrastructure to execute diagnostic tests either for troubleshooting or simply for sanity
checking Oracle E-Business Suite. These diagnostic tests can be used for
troubleshooting setups and business transactions, validating product configuration, data
collection, periodic health checks, and other tasks.
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4.4.2. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
4.4.2.1. Diagnostics Execution Engine and User Interface Enhancements

Diagnostics execution engine will be enhanced to support long running tests as well as
tests that generate huge volume reports. The user interface will be enhanced to support
long running test execution and monitoring.
4.4.3. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)
4.4.3.1. New and Revised Diagnostic Tests

The products listed below have new and/or revised diagnostic tests delivered in this
release. A list of delivered product tests with links to test details can be found in the E-
Business Suite Diagnostics Test Catalog for 12.0.4 Release Update Pack (RUP4), My
Oracle Support Document 469721.1.
 Advanced Benefits (BEN)
 Advanced Product Catalog (EGO)
 Application Object Library (FND)
 Applications DBA (AD)
 Assets (FA)
 Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
 Bills of Material (BOM)
 Business Intelligence System (BIS)
 Cash Management (CE)
 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)
 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)
4.4.4.1. Diagnostics Enhancements

Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics has been enhanced to offer a new user interface for
managing and running your diagnostic tests. This new UI incorporates the User
Management security model based on RBAC. In addition, the reporting engine is now
integrated with Oracle XML Publisher.
4.4.5. Release 12.1.1
In Release 12.1.1, the Oracle Diagnostics Framework has been re-engineered to offer a
highly performing diagnostics engine, user-friendly access and reporting, and an
integrated application security model. To access the new Oracle Diagnostics Framework
one needs Application Diagnostics responsibility and a diagnostic role. To access Oracle
E-Business Suite diagnostic scripts use the new Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics
roles to execute and configure the diagnostic tests.
4.4.5.1. Performance Enhancements
The Oracle Diagnostics Framework engine now supports execution of long running tests
and large volume reports. Each request can be tracked through a unique request name.
4.4.5.2. Role Based Access Control Uptake

The Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics security model has been rewritten based on
Role Based Access Control (RBAC). Due to external regulatory and auditing
requirements some customers cannot assign both unrestricted execution and setup access
to the same resource or user. A distinction is needed between 'Unrestricted execution
access role' and 'Unrestricted setup access role'. With the use of RBAC, security can be
driven at a more granular level. This change will allow them the ability to declare to
which application ID and sensitivity level a user has access based on the user’s assigned
role.
By leveraging the RBAC model, roles can be granted to users through responsibilities.
Roles can now be defined to consolidate responsibilities and other roles through role
inheritance, as well as lower level permissions and data security policies. This is
accomplished through a one-time setup, where all the permissions are assigned to the
role.
Users can access Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics capability using the seeded
responsibility called “Application Diagnostics”. There are three seeded roles namely,
Diagnostics Super User, Application Super User and Application End User. The
assignment of these roles can be implemented through Oracle User Management
(UMX). System administrators can use RBAC to define more granular roles to help
restrict execution and setup access for their users. New roles will be administered using
Oracle User Management.
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.
4.4.5.4. Oracle XML Publisher Integration

The Oracle Diagnostics Framework reporting engine is rewritten to integrate with the
Oracle XML Publisher reporting engine. With this integration, users have the ability to
select from four reporting styles: PDF, RTF, HTML, or EXCEL. In addition to these
XML report formats, Users can write diagnostics tests that include tables and tree
structures in the standard XML reports. In addition, Oracle Diagnostics provides its own
built-in inline report format (default format). Note that only new tests written with the
new reporting library can take advantage of Oracle Publisher. All tests written prior to
the introduction of these formats are restricted to the HTML report format. Users will
still have the ability to save the report and/or upload reports to Oracle Support.
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.
4.4.5.6. Customization Support
Oracle Diagnostic Framework now makes it possible for users with custom
responsibilities to run diagnostic tests. Customers running applications that have been
cloned from a seeded Oracle application or customers running localizations can create a
custom role and grant that maps to an Oracle seeded application. Once this is done, the
system will recognize mapping between custom/ localized applications and seeded
applications. The responsibility LOV provided by the framework will start showing the
responsibilities of the user associated with custom applications.
4.4.5.7. Role Based Access Control and Valid Applications

An application Super User will be able to execute any high or medium sensitivity test, if
he or she has a valid responsibility either in the application under which the test is
registered or in any of the application, which is configured as valid for the test. An
application End User will be able to execute any medium sensitivity test, if he or she has
a valid responsibility either in the application under which the test is registered or in any
of the application, which is configured as valid for the test. Users with any diagnostic
role can access low sensitivity tests registered under any application.
4.4.5.8. Test Set Scheduling

Oracle Diagnostic Framework now makes it possible for users to schedule test sets.
Users can create test set using inputs values specific to them and schedule them. The
framework will use the test input values stored as part of the test set xml file when
executing the test. If there are no input values specified the framework would take the
pre-configured inputs stored in the database. If no input values are provided, the test will
be skipped during execution.
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.
4.4.5.10. Performance Profile Options

The Collection Threshold profile option allows system administrators to set the number
of reports nodes that must be kept in memory before being saved to the database. The
SQL Block Size profile option allows system administrators to set the number of records
that must be fetched from the database after a executing a query. This profile value is
used while displaying tabular data. Fetching all the data and keeping it in memory will
cause performance issues. The Worker Thread Count profile option allows system
administrators to increase the number of concurrent threads used by the executing engine
to execute a request.
4.4.6. Release 12.1.2
4.4.6.1. Recognition of XML file types

The Oracle Diagnostics Framework now supports XML file type diagnostics. XML file
type diagnostic tests can be registered, scheduled, and executed as single tests or in a test
set. Reports for these tests can then be created and downloaded. XML type diagnostics
eliminate the need for you to schedule patching downtime, since XML type diagnostics
patches can be applied in Hot Mode.
4.4.7. Release 12.1.3
4.4.7.1. In-Context Diagnostics

In-context Diagnostics uses the inline pop-up feature in Oracle Application Framework
to enable a user to enter input for a diagnostic test, execute it, and view the result or
report, all from the current product page, without navigating to the Diagnostics screens
to run the test.
4.5. Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA

4.5.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)
4.5.1.1. Change Base Language Script

Oracle E-Business Suite includes single-language tables that must be updated when
changing an existing Installed language to be the Base language of the application
system. The Change Base Language script, adchgbase.pl, is a new utility being
delivered in RUP2 that will update these tables and corresponding seed data to the new
base language. This utility is not required when installing a new language as the Base
language.
Use Oracle License Manager to change an existing Installed language to be the Base
language. Run the Perl script adchgbase.pl; this script will generate a patch driver,
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
4.5.2.1. Online Patching

One of the key features of Release 12.2 is the switch to online patching. For more
information, see section 3.3.6.2.
4.5.3. Release 12.2.4
4.5.3.1. Online Patching Log Analyzer

This new utility automatically analyzes adop log directories for errors and warnings, and
displays a report designed to help the user identify any problems in an Online Patching
cycle. The log analyzer can also be run manually.
4.5.3.2. New Online Patching Cleanup Mode

The adop patching utility supports a new value for the cleanup_mode parameter:
cleanup_mode=standard
This new mode is in addition to the existing cleanup modes:
cleanup_mode=quick
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cleanup_mode=full
The behavior in standard mode is the same as for quick mode, with the additional action
of dropping covered_objects. The purpose of standard mode, which is now the default, is
to prevent the SYSTEM tablespace growing too large.
4.5.4. Release 12.2.5
4.5.4.1. Patching Support for Single File System Development Environments

A normal Release 12.2 online patching environment requires two application tier file
systems, one for the run edition and another for the patch edition. This dual file system
architecture is fundamental to patching of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 and is
necessary for production environments and test environments that are meant to be
representative of production. This enhancement makes it possible to have a development
environment with a single file system, where custom code can be built and tested. A
limited set of adop phases and modes are available to support downtime patching of such
a development environment. Code should then be tested in standard dual file system test
environments before being applied to production.
4.5.4.2. Integration of EBS Technology Codelevel Checker (ETCC) with adop

The adop utility now displays a warning message if the Oracle E-Business Suite
database does not have the latest fixes applied.
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.
4.5.4.4. New adop Monitoring Tool

You can follow the progress of an online patching cycle by running the new Online
Patching Monitoring utility (adopmon). You can use this to follow the overall progress
of a patching cycle, as well as identifying the various individual adop actions being
taken.
4.5.4.5. Performance Enhancements in adop Operation

The online patching infrastructure now employs parallelization of apply and abort
actions to facilitate faster completion of those phases. In addition, more efficient use is
now made of database connections in the course of an online patching cycle.
4.5.4.6. Improved Oracle WebLogic Server Error Reporting by Online Patching

Log Analyzer Utility
The adopscanlog Online Patching Log Analyzer utility now detects and reports on any
Oracle WebLogic Server errors that may occur during an fs_clone operation.
4.5.4.7. Ability to De-register a Custom Application

You can now deregister a custom application. For example, deregistration might be
needed if the application is not in compliance with AD Splicer requirements, or is not
required for a patching cycle. Deregistration is performed by running the
$AD_TOP/bin/adDeregisterCustomProd.pl script.
4.5.5. Release 12.2.6
4.5.5.1. Log File Structure

The log directory structure is refined to facilitate finding and interpreting the relevant
log files, and avoid issues such as timestamp collisions (which can happen if two or
more remote executions are running in parallel).
4.5.5.2. Handling Seed Data Changes

Seed data tables contain seed data shipped by Oracle. During an online patching cycle, a
copy of the “run rowset” is maintained, so that patching data rows does not affect the
running application. Whenever an online patching cycle starts and seed data needs to be
patched, a new copy is generated from the run copy, and the old copy is deleted during
cleanup. The time taken for these operations is proportional to size of the seed data table,
and will be reduced by the new feature whereby every seed data table always maintains
two rowsets.
4.5.5.3. Delta Synchronization Method

You can now use the new delta synchronization method to synchronize the patch file
system application tier with the run file system application tier during the prepare phase
of the online patching cycle. Much faster than the other two methods, this delta
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.
4.5.5.4. Warning for Missing Application Tier Patches

The adop utility now displays a message when a required application tier patch has not
been applied.
4.5.6. Release 12.2.7+
4.5.6.1. Script to Terminate Sessions Connected to Old Editions

During a full cleanup operation, the adop utility can only drop old editions if those
editions are not in use. A new script, ADZDKILLOLDSESSIONS.sql, provides a
solution to let you terminate sessions that are connected to old editions. If you receive an
error notification indicating that an edition could not be dropped because it is in use, you
can now run this script to terminate any sessions using the edition. You can then proceed
with the cleanup operation.
4.5.7. Release 12.2.10
4.5.7.1. adop Enhancements with Oracle Database 19c

The adop utility has been significantly refined to enhance performance of the cleanup
phase in Oracle Database 19c.
4.5.7.2. Performance Enhancement for Online Patching
Internal synchronization within online patching has been tuned to handle extremely large
seed tables more effectively.
4.5.7.3. File System Synchronization Enhancement

File system synchronization in the prepare and fs_clone phases of online patching has
been made more flexible and customizable by the provision of a choice of file copy
utility.
4.5.8. Release 12.2.11
4.5.8.1. Oracle E-Business Suite System Schema Migration

In this release, Oracle E-Business Suite has implemented a set of structural changes that
modernize the Oracle E-Business Suite database architecture. These changes introduce a
new schema named EBS_SYSTEM, which is defined with a least privilege model that
leverages public database APIs. Connections from the application tier to the database are
also updated leveraging database service names.
A key benefit of introducing the EBS_SYSTEM schema is that it removes the
requirement for access to the database SYSTEM schema, thereby enabling enhanced
separation of duties between the core database administrator and the Oracle E-Business
Suite database administrator.
Migrating to the EBS_SYSTEM schema also lays the groundwork for faster certification
of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 with new database releases and new database
features going forward.
4.5.8.2. Certification with Oracle Database Unified Auditing

With this release, Oracle E-Business Suite is now certified with Oracle Database Unified
Auditing. Unified Auditing is the latest auditing feature for the Oracle Database that was
introduced with Oracle Database 12c. You can leverage Unified Auditing with Oracle E-
Business Suite Release 12.2.11 and Oracle Database 12c or 19c.
With this certification, Oracle E-Business Suite recommends enabling predefined
database Unified Auditing policies and a set of Oracle E-Business Suite specific Unified
Auditing policies. These recommendations are documented in My Oracle Support
Document 2777404.1, Enabling Unified Auditing in Oracle E-Business Suite Release
12.2 with Oracle Database Release 19c or 12c.
For more information about Oracle Database Unified Auditing, see:
• What is Unified Auditing?, Oracle Database 19c Security Guide
• Oracle Database Unified Audit: Best Practice Guidelines
4.6. Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery

4.6.1. Overview
Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery is delivered with pre-built content across
all of the shipped modules. This content provides new business insight, helps increase
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user productivity, and enables improved decision making. The new Oracle E-Business
Suite Information Discovery dashboards enable you to answer ad hoc questions and to
respond quickly to changing business conditions. These applications are designed to
drive your business forward by replacing multiple standards and shipped operational and
custom reports with enhanced functionality.
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.
4.6.3. Release 12.2 V7
4.6.3.1. Upgrade to Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.2

As part of the migration to Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (EID) 3.2, the
following component versions are updated:
• Oracle Endeca Server is upgraded from 7.6.x to 7.7.0.
• The CloverETL Server is upgraded to 4.1.
• This release adds support for the following:
o Java 7 and 8
o Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (12.1.3)
o Internet Explorer 11
4.6.3.2. New Layout Template

A new layout is introduced to enrich the user experience:
• 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.
• Screenshot functionality is added.
4.6.3.3. Summarization Bar Metric Refinement
A new feature enables users to directly refine the information discovery dashboards
with multiple conditions. Also, each metric allows optional navigation to a new
destination page.
4.6.3.4. Enhanced Oracle E-Business Suite Results Grid Features

In this release two new features are added:
• 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.
• Indicators Icons - Present quick business tags in the form of a distinct

thumbnailed icon for each Oracle E-Business Suite Results Grid Item. These
icons help information discovery users easily assess and compare items and
promptly take efficient business actions.
4.6.3.5. Expanded Language Support

Expanded language support in this release includes:
• Full UI support for 22 additional languages
• Studio translations for business users
• Enhanced support for RTL languages (Arabic and Hebrew)
4.6.3.6. Changes to the EndecaServer.properties File

In this release, the EndecaServer.properties file includes the following new Endeca
Server parameter:
Endeca Server Description Default

parameter
endeca-disable- (Optional). Specifies whether entity validation Y
entity-validation- is enabled in the Endeca Server. If not present
refresh in the EndecaServer.properties file,
validation is performed (this is the default).
Validation is skipped (disabled) only if you
include this flag and set it to true. To change
the value, edit the file and restart the Endeca
Server.
Note: You can use this flag for performance
improvement in cases when you are adding
large numbers of entities to the data domain,
during an update or a data loading phase. This
flag should not be used otherwise.
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
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.
4.6.3.7. Hostname Resolution Improvements

In Endeca Server 7.7, either a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or the first part
of an FQDN is required for hostname resolution. Use the first part of the FQDN if
Endeca Server and its clients are running on the same domain network; otherwise, use
the complete FQDN.
4.6.3.8. Profile File Created for New Data Domains

Starting with Endeca Server version 7.6.1.13, for each new data domain that you create,
Endeca Server automatically creates an internal .profile file that is stored as part of
the data domain's index. The .profile file stores the data domain profile information
for each newly created data domain.
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.
4.6.3.9. Automatic Log Cleanup by the Cluster Coordinator

In this release, the Cluster Coordinator has been updated to automatically clean up its
logs. The cleanup is enabled by default. For the log cleanup, Endeca Server uses two
new parameters in the EndecaServer.properties file to control how many snapshots of
logs ZooKeeper should keep in the data directory, and how often ZooKeeper should run
an automatic log cleanup:
• 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.
• The endeca-cluster-coordinator-auto-purge-interval sets
the logs cleaning task interval in hours, and is set to 1 by default. To disable the
automatic logs cleanup for ZooKeeper, set it to 0 (zero).
For more information, see section 4.6.2.5.
4.6.3.10. Optimized Application Tier Deployments

The following enhancements have been made to optimize the application tier
deployments:
• All Weblogic admin and managed servers run on Java8.
• 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.
• One JNDI definition is shared between Integrator and Endeca Studio.
• The installer size has been reduced due to consolidation and the removal of the
dependency on ADF runtime.
4.6.3.11. Diagnostics Enhancement

The get-logs command obtains WebLogic, Dgraph, and Cluster Coordinator
(ZooKeeper) log files and compresses them to a single zip file. A configuration file
specifies the settings needed by the command, such as the destination path for the zip
file and whether the installation is a single-node or clustered environment.
4.6.3.12. Improved Handling of Invalid Records by the Bulk Load Interface

Previously, if a batch of records sent for loading into the data domain contained a
record with invalid XML characters, the Bulk Load Interface rejected the entire batch
of records, including records with valid data. In this release, instead of rejecting the
entire records batch, the Dgraph only rejects the individual records with invalid data
and informs you why the record was rejected.
4.6.3.13. New EQL Function
A new EQL function, CountDistinctMembers, is added. The CountDistinctMembers

function applies only to multi-assign attributes (managed attributes with multi-assign
values). You can use this function instead of the Cardinality function. These two
functions are equivalent, but CountDistinctMembers is faster.
4.6.3.14. Sorting Records Based on Geocode
The Conversation Web Service enables sorting records that have geocode attribute
values by the distance from a specified reference point.
4.6.3.15. Concurrent ETL Enhancement
The concurrent ETL job now accurately reflects the status of the Integrator ETL job.
The concurrent job will block until the ETL job ends in a terminal state. It will capture
the run ID in the Oracle E-Business Suite schema as well.
The following validations and diagnostics have been added to provide users useful
messages to take corrective action:
• 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.
• Invalid Clover credentials passed - Request ends in error. User advised to

correct the Clover credentials.
• 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.
4.7. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway

4.7.1. Business Case
In an increasingly integrated, inter-dependent and heterogeneous applications world,
service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services offer a number of business
benefits. It offers consistent, robust, and maintainable points of integration that reduce
both cost and risk in business operations and IT. Specifically, by consolidating business
logic and consolidating points of integration, it lends itself favorably to comprehensive
reliability and flexibility. However for the SOA promise to be delivered, it is a must that
the underlying business services are well formed, consumed by applications in a
consistent manner, and are governed suitably. Additionally from an Oracle point of
view, there is a compelling need that the services delivered fit in with the Applications
Integration Architecture (AIA). In order to accomplish these goals, in Release 12.1.1
Oracle E-Business Suite has developed a comprehensive SOA-based integration
infrastructure in the form of a new product called Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated
SOA Gateway that helps organizations to provide, consume and monitor web services
for integrations in a heterogeneous ecosystem. Oracle E-Business Suite also delivers
several well-formed business services that cater to AIA and more generic business
needs.
4.7.2. Overview
The Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway is a new product in Release
12.1.1 with several new components and enhancements to existing components like
Integration Repository. Integrated SOA Gateway is a robust out-of-the-box service-
oriented architecture (SOA) based integration infrastructure to provide and consume
services.
• Integration Repository
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• SOA Provider
• Service Invocation Framework
• SOA Monitor
4.7.3. Release 12.1.1
4.7.3.1. Integration Repository

Integration Repository is the central UI component for the SOA enablement of Oracle E-
Business Suite in Release 12.1.1. Integration Repository is enhanced to provide the
following features.
• Service Enablement UI
Integration Repository provides the UI for administrator’s action to generate and
deploy a Web service for a particular integration interface.
• Business Events in Integration Repository
Integration Repository in Release 12.1.1 includes the Business Events as the
annotated and registered integration interfaces. Now the Business Events can be
browsed in the Integration Repository and they can also be enabled for subscription
for integration purposes from the Integration Repository UI itself.
• Composite Services
Integration Repository also supports Composite Services in Release 12.1.1. A
composite service, also called business service, is atomic in nature, but orchestrates
the invocation of Oracle E-Business Suite’s out-of-the-box Web services in a
discrete business process. Integration Developers may design composite services,
which can be implemented by suitably combining multiple Oracle E-Business Suite
out-of-the-box Web services.
• Business Service Objects
A business service object implements standard Service Interfaces that provides
methods for accessing and operating on the business service object. Service
Interfaces provide a set of standard guidelines and implementation instructions for
developing services. The classes that implement these interfaces can be deployed as
Web services in the Integration Repository.
4.7.3.2. SOA Provider

There are two primary activities that happen either at the design time or run-time that
enable the SOA enablement of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
• In the deployment time the Service Generator exposes the integration interface from
the Integration Repository as Web services while the Service Deployer deploys the
Web service.
• At the run-time, the SOA Provider intercepts the SOAP Requests to Oracle E-
Business Suite services while honoring the authentication and authorization security
model and sends back an appropriate SOAP Response or Error Message.
4.7.3.3. Service Invocation Framework
Oracle E-Business Suite now provides the Service Invocation Framework (SIF). SIF
from within Oracle E-Business Suite is enabled though Oracle Workflow Java Business
Event System and is based on the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) support
from Oracle Application Server. WSIF is a simple Java API for invoking Web services,
no matter how or where the services are provided.
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.
4.7.3.4. SOA Monitor

As the SOA Provider executes the incoming SOAP Requests for the Oracle E-Business
Suite services at the run-time, the SOA Monitor provides the capability to audit Web
service’s SOAP Request and the corresponding SOAP Response or Error Message. The
SOA Monitor provides the information about Web service requested for, the SOAP
Request and Response details, status of the Web service response, sender’s details etc.
4.7.4. Release 12.1.2
4.7.4.1. Enhanced SOA Diagnostics

SOA diagnostics include a range of diagnostic tests that let you check the health of
Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway.
This feature provides the diagnostic capability for administrators, developers and
business analysts to diagnose, isolate, and troubleshoot potential issues. The SOA
diagnostics cover installation, deployment readiness, and integration operations.
4.7.4.2. Introducing Java APIs for Forms as an integration interface type

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway introduces a new integration interface
type called ‘Java APIs for Forms’. The Java APIs for Forms interface exposes the
business logic contained within Oracle Forms without any amendments to the existing
code base.
Java APIs for Forms are XML document-based integration interfaces that are wrapped
in Java classes for executing business logic in Oracle Forms. This interface type is also
catalogued in the Oracle Integration Repository, so these interfaces are natively service-
enabled through Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway.
4.7.4.3. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Customization

(Integration Repository Parser)
Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway now supports custom integration
interfaces, for almost all existing interface types which in turn can be deployed as
custom Web services. This customization feature is enabled through the Integration
Repository Parser.
The Integration Repository Parser is a design-time tool that creates a loader file for the
Integration Repository, named with the file extension .ildt, by reading annotation
documentation and source code in a source file. You can upload the custom ildt file to
your Oracle E-Business Suite instance to view the complete set of both seeded and
custom integration endpoints for that instance in the Integration Repository.
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.
4.7.5.2. Enhanced Logging / Auditing and Monitoring

The logging mechanism in Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway is
enhanced to provide inside-out visibility to administrators, developers, and business
analysts about any runtime errors in integration flows and focus on targeted problem
identification and resolution. The log granularity is increased, and a permanent
monitoring feature is now available for better visibility into integration transactions at
any time. Additionally, the optional audit feature provides a greater level of information
about the integration transactions.
4.7.5.3. SAML Token Support

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway now supports SAML authentication.
SAML is one of the authentication mechanisms for SOAP- based Web services as
described in WS-Security.
4.7.6. Release 12.1.3+
4.7.6.1. Support for REST Services

• Support for PL/SQL APIs as REST Services
This feature was back-ported from 12.2.3. Refer to the full feature description
under the 12.2.3 section for this product.
• Support for Java APIs as REST Services
• Support for Application Module Services
• Support for Concurrent Programs as REST Services
Similarly to PL/SQL APIs, concurrent programs can be exposed as both SOAP
and REST services.
This feature is forward-ported to 12.2.7.
• 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
4.7.6.2. Security Services

This feature was back-ported from 12.2.3. Refer to the full feature description under the
12.2.3 section for this product.
4.7.6.3. Annotation for Java Bean Services

This feature was back-ported from 12.2.4. Refer to the full feature description under the
12.2.4 section for this product.
Additionally, as part of the support for Application Module Services, annotation is
enhanced to support these services as well. This feature was back-ported from 12.2.5.
Refer to the full feature description under the 12.2.5 section for this product.
4.7.7. Release 12.2
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:
 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.
4.7.7.2. Asynchronous Web Service Support

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway now supports asynchronous
request/response Web services. Unlike synchronous Web services, which return a
response from the Provider immediately, asynchronous Web services may require a
significant amount of time to process a request. However, the client that invoked the
Oracle E-Business Suite Web service can continue with other processing in the
meantime rather than wait for the response. Later, when the Web service request
processing completes, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway sends the
response back to the client that sent the request. The Service Provider in Oracle E-
Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway provides the infrastructure to support these
asynchronous Web service transactions.
Additionally, the Oracle Integration Repository user interface now lets you specify
interaction pattern options for a service before service generation. You can choose
synchronous, asynchronous, or both synchronous and asynchronous interaction patterns
from the Interaction Pattern table within the Web Service region.
4.7.7.3. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Diagnostics and

Designer Script
In this release, a new platform-independent script, isgDesigner.xml, is introduced to
perform the following tasks:
• Diagnose setup issues on both Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle SOA Suite
instances.
• Perform design-time operations such as Generate, Deploy, Undeploy, Activate,
Retire, and Reset activities.
• Upgrade Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway services from Oracle
E-Business Suite Release 12.1.X to Release 12.2.
• Perform post-clone steps, such as redeploying the services, on a Release 12.2
cloned environment.
4.7.7.4. Error and Exception Handling

This feature enhances error and exception handling for the services provided by Oracle
E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway. If errors occur during service design-time
activities or service runtime execution from the service provider, error and fault
messages will be thrown.
4.7.8. Release 12.2.3
4.7.8.1. Support for PL/SQL APIs as REST Services

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway now supports REST service
enablement through the Integration Repository for PL/SQL APIs.
A REST service has a simplified development life cycle - Deploy and Undeploy. The
administrator can deploy desired operations contained in the selected API with REST
service operations, and undeploy the service if needed. REST services are deployed to
an Oracle E-Business Suite managed server without any dependency on Oracle SOA
Suite and can be used for user-driven applications, such as for mobile, tablet, or
handheld devices.
In this release, REST services are supported with the synchronous interaction pattern
only.
4.7.8.2. Security Services

Security services are a subtype of Java interfaces that can now be displayed through the
Integration Repository. They are predefined, predeployed REST services from Oracle
Application Object Library. Unlike other interface types, security services are pregranted
to all users. There is no user action needed at design time.
At run time, security services help authenticate user credentials, initialize application
sessions with context information, and authorize access privileges for authenticated
users. They are mainly used for mobile applications.
4.7.9. Release 12.2.4
4.7.9.1. Support for Java APIs as REST Services

Java APIs whose methods use parameters of either simple data types, such as String, Int
and so on, or serializable Java Beans, are called Java Bean Services. Such Java APIs can
now be exposed as REST-based web services.
Similar to PL/SQL REST services, Java Bean Services have a simplified development
life cycle - Deploy and Undeploy - and are implemented with the same security
mechanism. Java Bean Services can be deployed as REST service operations with
POST and GET HTTP methods.
Integration Repository annotation is also enhanced to support Java APIs as serviceable
interfaces.
4.7.9.2. Annotation for Java Bean Services

To support generic Java APIs registered in the Integration Repository as REST services,
annotation guidelines for Java APIs are now enhanced to include:
• Class-level annotation to mark Java APIs as a subtype of Java APIs called Java
Bean Services
• Method-level annotation to explicitly identify suitable HTTP verbs (POST and
GET) for Java methods
• Parameter-level annotation to mark path variables
The Integration Repository Parser is also enhanced to capture and validate the syntax of
Java Bean Services annotation.
4.7.10. Release 12.2.5
4.7.10.1. Support for Application Module Services

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway now supports OA Framework
Application Modules as REST Services. The Application Module Implementation class
is a Java class that provides access to business logic governing the OA Framework-
based components and pages. Such Java classes can be categorized and displayed as a
subtype of Java interfaces in the Integration Repository.
Similar to Java Bean Services, Application Module Services can be deployed as REST
service operations with POST and GET HTTP methods. Integration Repository
annotation is also enhanced to support Application Modules as serviceable interfaces.
4.7.10.2. Enhanced Language Tag Support

To enhance the existing language support of using the <NLSLanguage> parameter to set
the language preferences, an ISO language parameter <Language> is introduced in this
release for REST services. This new parameter <Language> provides an alternative way
to send the language preferences in RFC 5646 format in the REST Header, in case web
service clients are unaware of the <NLSLanguage> parameter used in Oracle E-Business
Suite.
4.7.11. Release 12.2.7
4.7.11.1. Support for Concurrent Programs as REST Services

A concurrent program runs as a concurrent process that executes multiple programs
simultaneously running in the background. This type of interface has been exposed as
SOAP-based services in earlier releases and can now be deployed as both SOAP and
REST services through the Integration Repository.
POST is the only supported HTTP method for concurrent program REST services.

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.
4.7.13. Release 12.2.10
4.7.13.1. Support for Business Service Objects (BSOs) as REST Services

A business service object is a high-level service component that allows Oracle
Application Framework or BC4J (Business Components for Java) components to be
deployed as web services. It provides access to SOA services and facilitates integration
between Oracle E-Business Suite and third-party trading partners.
This type of interface has been exposed as SOAP-based services in earlier releases and
can now be deployed as both SOAP and REST services through the Integration
Repository.
The supported HTTP methods for BSO REST services are POST and GET.
4.7.13.2. REST Service Monitoring, Logging, and Related UI Enhancements
With these enhancements in the Service Monitor and logging configuration UI pages,
Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway now extends the existing SOAP
service monitoring and logging support to REST services. In addition to SOAP
messages, all inbound REST messages can be tracked and monitored in the Service
Monitor where you can view the status of each REST request, request and response
details, and log messages if captured. With the enhanced Log & Audit Setup Details
page, you can configure design-time and runtime logs for the interfaces that can be
exposed as REST services and enable REST service auditing at the interface level.
Additionally, you can purge monitored REST messages, logs, and audit records that
have been collected through the Service Monitor for a period of time.
4.7.14. Release 12.2.11
4.7.14.1. Support for REST Services in Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA
Gateway
Similar to the support provided for invoking SOAP services through the Service
Invocation Framework, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway now enhances
the framework to support REST service invocation from Oracle E-Business Suite.
The REST Service Invocation Framework leverages the Oracle Workflow Business
Event System. The framework lets you invoke REST services through the GET and
POST HTTP methods with XML or JSON payloads. It supports HTTP Basic
Authentication security, callback, error and exception handling, and test invocation
features. Furthermore, it provides an advanced configuration option allowing you to
extend the HTTP header request with Signature and Digest header options, in addition to
defining metadata for the REST service to be invoked.
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
4.8.2.1. Mobile App Services

In its initial release, Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation provides the following
services to support mobile apps:
• Security services
• Configuration service
• Attachment services
• Log upload service
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4.8.2.2. Mobile Applications Manager User Interface
The Mobile Applications Manager user interface pages let administrators enable the
mobile apps their enterprise will use and specify configuration parameters to determine
how the apps connect to the Oracle E-Business Suite server.
4.8.2.3. User Login and Configuration Flow

Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation provides standard features for user
configuration and login within the apps, including the following:
• Support for user login through the one-time configuration screen and standard
login screen
• Support for one-time initial entry of the Server URL in the following format:
http(s)://<hostname>:<port>/OA_HTML/config
4.8.3.1. Improved Login Flow

The login flow for users within the apps includes the following enhancements:
• Support for first time user login after initial configuration without reentering
user credentials
• Support for one-time initial entry of the Server URL in the following format:
http(s)://<hostname>:<port>
4.8.3.2. Diagnostics Improvements

Users can now upload log files directly to the Oracle E-Business Suite server from the
apps, instead of sending the log files through e-mail.
4.8.4.1. Improvements in Login and Configuration Flow

The login and configuration flow for users includes the following improvements:
 First time login no longer requires restart
 Support for mobile app access to Oracle E-Business Suite over the Internet through a
DMZ configuration, without requiring a VPN connection
4.8.4.2. Ability to Change Server URL Without Reinstalling App

If the server URL through which an app accesses Oracle E-Business Suite changes, users
can now enter the new server URL and initiate the reconfiguration process without
needing to reinstall the app.
4.8.4.3. Diagnostics Improvements

The diagnostics capabilities for mobile apps include the following improvements:
 Enhanced login error messages for easier diagnostics
 Display of server URL and server configuration, including service version to
identify the server patch level for the mobile app
 Ability to check for latest server-side configuration
 Ability to upload client log file with application bundle ID as the debug log module
name for easy search and retrieval from the Oracle E-Business Suite logs page
4.8.4.4. Improvements in App Configuration and Management

The following features provide improved app configuration and management for
administrators on the Oracle E-Business Suite server:
 Ability to enable and configure multiple apps using a script.
 Support for configuring a dedicated app server for a specific app by setting a
particular web entry point as the service endpoint for that app. The app then uses the
service endpoint to connect to Oracle E-Business Suite, in place of the common
server URL that the end user enters during initial configuration of the app on the
mobile device.
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.
4.8.5.2. Ability to Update Server URL from Connection Details Page

Users can now reconfigure an app to connect to a different Oracle E-Business Suite
server URL by choosing the Change URL button in the Connection Details page. The
app then displays the device’s Settings screen, where the user can update the server
URL.
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.
4.8.6.1. Support for Enterprise Distribution

You can now distribute Oracle E-Business Suite mobile apps to your users through your
enterprise’s own site rather than through a public app store. In this way, you can control
the app version available to your users. To enable enterprise distribution, Oracle delivers
mobile application archive (MAA) files for the Oracle E-Business Suite apps.
4.8.6.2. Customization Support for Corporate Branding
You can customize corporate branding in the apps, including changing logos to use your
company logos. To enable this customization, you must use enterprise distribution.
4.8.6.3. Support for Web SSO Authentication

You can use Web SSO authentication to delegate authentication to Oracle Access
Manager (OAM).
4.8.6.4. Enhanced Mobile App Setup Pages

• Ability to register apps for enterprise distribution
• Ability to configure an app for Web SSO authentication
4.8.7.1. Support for Custom App Development

With Release 4.1, you can build custom mobile apps to connect to Oracle E-Business
Suite. Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation provides the following features to
allow you to develop your custom apps:
• Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation REST framework – Oracle
E-Business Suite REST services provided through Oracle E-Business Suite
Integrated SOA Gateway are available for use in Oracle E-Business Suite
mobile apps.
• Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation client libraries – You can use the
common component security libraries for requirements such as login,
authorization, and authentication.
• 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.
4.8.8.1. User Installation and Usage Metrics for Administrators

Administrators can view installation and usage metrics for each mobile app in the
Mobile Applications Manager user interface pages on the Oracle E-Business Suite
server.
4.8.8.2. Updated Look and Feel for Selected App Interactions
Look and feel changes include the following:
• New action icon and action list view: Apps that use an action sheet have an
updated Actions icon in the upper right corner, as well as an action sheet layout
in a list view rather than a grid layout.
• Updated styles on Android for buttons and the page title display for the
Springboard icon and Back button
• Updated launch page that displays Oracle after the login page
4.8.8.3. Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.2.2

Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation Release 5.0 implements Oracle MAF 2.2.2.
Among other features, this MAF release supports a Pull to Refresh interaction as well as
providing performance improvements at the framework level.
4.8.8.4. Opening Links to External Websites Within an App

Users can now open links to external websites within an app on iOS devices.
4.8.9.1. Opening Links to External Websites Within an App on Android Devices

Users can now open links to external websites within an app on Android devices.
4.8.9.2. Updated Look and Feel for Selected App Interactions

Look and feel changes include uptake of the native look and feel for action sheets on
iOS devices.
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.

4.8.9.5. Separate Privileges for Developers and Administrators in UI

The Mobile Applications Manager UI pages provide separate privileges for developers
and administrators, allowing access only to the functions relevant to each role. For
example, administrators can configure mobile apps and view usage metrics, while
developers can register mobile app metadata and create mobile app access roles.
4.8.10.1. APIs for Custom App Development

With Release 6.1, Oracle E-Business Suite provides APIs corresponding to portions of
various mobile apps’ functionality for use in custom app development. These APIs are
published in the Oracle Integration Repository, a component in Oracle E-Business Suite
Integrated SOA Gateway, where you can deploy them as REST services. You can also
deploy custom REST APIs through the Oracle Integration Repository and REST
framework for use in a custom app.
4.8.11.1. Ability to Import Custom CA or Self-signed Server Certificates

You can now import custom CA or self-signed server certificates to standard Oracle E-
Business Suite apps for TLS connections to an Oracle E-Business Suite server. By
default, secured servers must be identified by certificates from trusted certificate
authorities (CAs) for Oracle E-Business Suite apps to connect to these servers using
TLS. In order to use custom CA or self-signed certificates instead, it was previously
necessary to create a custom version of an app with an updated certificate list and
distribute that app through enterprise distribution. With Release 7.0, you can
dynamically add custom CA or self-signed server certificates to the standard Oracle E-
Business Suite apps downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
4.8.11.2. Automatic Download of Mobile App Configuration

Oracle E-Business Suite apps can now download mobile app configuration updates from
the Oracle E-Business Suite server automatically. Users no longer need to initiate a
download manually from the Connection Details screen within an app. Instead, each app
periodically checks for updates and downloads them to synchronize with the
configuration details defined on the Oracle E-Business Suite server.

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.
4.8.11.5. Enhanced Mobile App Setup Pages

• New UI pages to set up global push configuration
• Ability to add "Push Notifications" as configuration category
4.8.12.1. Additional Self-Service Human Resources APIs for Custom App

Development
With Release 7.1, Oracle E-Business Suite is adding to the APIs available for use in
custom app development by providing APIs corresponding to portions of the Pay
Information, Pay Simulator, and Change Pay functionality in the Oracle Mobile Self-
Service Human Resources for Oracle E-Business Suite app. These APIs are published in
the Oracle Integration Repository, a component in Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated
SOA Gateway, where you can deploy them as REST services.
4.8.13.1. Ability for Administrators to Preconfigure EBS Server URL when

Deploying through Enterprise Mobility Management
With Release 8.0, administrators can now configure, deploy, and manage mobile apps
through an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) console, including preconfiguring
the EBS Server URL that the apps will use to connect to Oracle E-Business Suite.
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.
4.8.13.2. Preventing Attachments from Being Shared

In this release, Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Foundation includes an enhancement to
prevent attachments viewed within an app from being shared elsewhere on iOS devices.



4.9. Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search
Note: The Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search feature is not offered with
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.4 and later. Oracle's strategic direction is to use
Enterprise Command Centers to deliver search and information discovery capabilities
with Oracle E-Business Suite.
For more information, see Product Obsolescence Desupport Notice for Oracle E-
Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search, My Oracle Support Document 2723756.1.
4.9.1. Overview
With the proliferation of enterprise information and the focus on security and
governance, the enterprise search market has become a key area of focus for companies
like Oracle.
Surveys have shown notable increases in overall information-related task time for
workers in academic, corporate, government, and health-care enterprises. The overall
portion of task time spent on information gathering increased on average by almost 1
hour per week. Hence the need for a complete and pervasive fast and accurate search
experience across Oracle E-Business Suite is high. The key differentiators between
enterprise search and consumer search are twofold:
• Focus on security: Users should only see search results that they have access to
or in other words confidential information is restricted to those with
permissions. Appropriate governance and audit mechanisms need to be inbuilt.
• Focus on search across multiple application modules.
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.
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• 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)
4.9.2.1. Search Modeler

in Release 12.0.6. The Search Modeler is a lightweight browser-based design tool used
to create, modify and deploy searchable business objects without the need for extensive
programming skills or development tools. This tool is meant to help data modelers to
rapidly create searchable business objects within Oracle E-Business Suite and custom
modules.
4.9.3. Release 12.1.1
4.9.3.1. Search Modeler

The Search Modeler is a lightweight browser-based design tool used to create, modify
and deploy searchable business objects without the need for extensive programming
skills or development tools. This tool is meant to help data modelers to rapidly create
searchable business objects within Oracle E-Business Suite and custom modules.
Search Modeler uses the Oracle Application Object Library (AOL) metadata extensively
to reduce the time spent in designing searchable objects. It is capable of defaulting
relationships between entities, and provides validation through diagnostics. The tool
resides in a separate OC4J 10.1.3.3 home. It authenticates users against the connected
Oracle E-Business Suite instance.
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. Release 12.1.2
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.
4.9.4.2. Design Time Search Security Plug-ins

Oracle E-Business Suite has complex security needs in general, and several modules
within the suite have specific additional security requirements. In order to seamlessly
integrate Oracle Secure Enterprise Search with Oracle E-Business Suite, additional
security plug-ins are now available. These security plug-ins allow users to search and
navigate to transaction pages within Oracle Financials and Oracle Human Resources
applications. The following security plug-ins are included in Oracle E-Business Suite
Release 12.1.2:
• Organization based security for Oracle Financials modules
• Legal entity based security for specific modules such as Oracle General Ledger
• 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
4.9.5.1. Export Search Results to Excel

This functionality allows users to export search results to Microsoft Excel. The
functionality will help users in several business functions such as reconciliation of
accounts, invoices, and so on. Following are two potential usage examples:
• Invoice aging: Instead of generating aging reports to determine how long
customer invoices have been outstanding, users can save time and resources by
simply searching for invoices that belong to any customer or invoices within a
specified date range and age bracket. Users can then click a button to export the
search results to Microsoft Excel and use the resulting spreadsheet for offline
activities such as reconciliation or following up with the customers on the
invoices.
• Procurement Contracts: Buyers or the Procurement office staff can search all
the contracts for a particular customer or for an item. They can list the contracts
by status such as pending, fulfilled or partially filled and so on. Once they see
the search results, they can export the details to excel spreadsheet for further
processing.
• Inventory Items: Customers can search inventory items by part number,
specification, lot number, location and so on. They can also search based on
stock levels or any other indicator as needed. After they search the results, they
can export to excel and use the data for reconciliation with physical inventory.
Invoking Oracle Secure Enterprise Search User Interface from Oracle E-
Business Suite
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search provides advanced user interface functionality beyond
that which is available Oracle E-Business Suite within Oracle E-Business Suite. The
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search user interface offers greater flexibility for
customization and advanced features such as faceted search and clustering.
New functionality invokes the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search user interface from
within Oracle E-Business Suite and allows seamless integration between the Oracle
Secure Enterprise Search user interface and Oracle E-Business Suite.
4.10. Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework

4.10.1. Overview
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework provides information discovery,
visualization, and exploration capabilities embedded within the Oracle E-Business Suite
user interface. Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework enables the creation of
business dashboards in different functional areas such as Financials, Order Management,
Enterprise Asset Management, and Inventory. In an Enterprise Command Center (ECC),
Oracle E-Business Suite users navigate transactional information using interactive visual
components and guided discovery capabilities that allow exploratory data analysis. The
ability to drill down to detailed insight into the data enables the dashboards to be action-
driven.
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.
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4.10.2. Release 12.2 V1
4.10.2.1. User Interface Components for Information Discovery

Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework provides modern and interactive user
interface components for information discovery, visualization, and exploration. These
components can be used to build business dashboards in various functional areas.
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.
4.10.2.3. Responsive Design

Mobility and responsive design are built into Oracle Enterprise Command Center
Framework, so all dashboards will automatically adjust their layout to better fit a
desktop or mobile device form factor.
4.10.3. Release 12.2 V2
4.10.3.1. Advanced Search
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework provides the following advanced

search capabilities to assist with business user searching.
• 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.
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.
• Multi-metric Chart: Multi-metric charts show one or more metric values
aggregated across a series dimension. They are useful for precise comparisons of
one or more values.
• Reference Line in Chart: You can now display a reference line on a chart
based on a predefined metric.
• Aggregated Table: An aggregated table is an aggregated list of metric values

calculated from attribute values. The metric values are aggregated using
dimension values displayed at the left of the table. Each row contains the values
for a unique combination of dimension values.
4.10.3.3. User Interface Enhancements
The following features are added to enhance user experience:
• Attribute groups are now available to enhance data categorization and grouping
in the Available Refinements and Results Table.
• Deep links support navigation between different business areas.
4.10.3.4. Multiple Language Support

Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework supports the languages supported by
Oracle E-Business Suite, excluding lightweight-only languages.
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.
4.10.4. Release 12.2 V3
4.10.4.1. Page Layout

Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework provides the following page layouts:
• 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.
4.10.4.2. Search Box Enhancements
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework provides the following enhancements in
the search box to increase search usability:
• 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.
4.10.4.3. ‘Like’ Search in Available Refinements

The Available Refinements region now includes the option to perform a ‘Like’ search.
This type of search supports pattern matching when you enter a search string with
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.
4.10.4.4. Tab Component Enhancements

Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework now provides the following features in
the tab component for administrators:
• Delete a Tab: Administrators can delete a tab if the component contains more
than two tabs.
• Re-order Tabs: Administrators can re-order tabs at runtime.
• Drag and Drop Components: Administrators can drag and drop page
components inside or outside the tab.
4.10.4.5. Grid Enhancements
Grid enhancements include the following:
• 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.
4.10.4.6. Compare Column Headers

When you compare records in a results table or grid, the column headers in the compare
pop-up can now include tokens to display a dynamic title for each record based on an
attribute value.
4.10.4.7. Conditional Formatting in Summarization Bar

The summarization bar now supports conditional formatting. With conditional
formatting, a metric item can be displayed in a specific color based on a specific value or
range of values, so that the color changes depending on the value of the metric.
4.10.4.8. Relevance Ranking

For record search only, you can control the order of the search results based on the
record score in the data set. This ranking is supported only in results tables and grids.
Data is sorted by “Score” by default. You can override this default order or add more
sort options when you configure a dashboard.
4.10.4.9. Push Model

With the push model, the client can push data or metadata to Oracle Enterprise
Command Center Framework in a compact JSON format. Using this feature, the client
extracts the data from different sources and pushes it to Oracle Enterprise Command
Center Framework.
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.
4.10.5. Release 12.2 V4
4.10.5.1. Saved Search

This feature enables users to save the filters applied on a page and reapply those filters
later. For example, you can choose to save your frequently applied filters or preferred
filters. Saved searches appear in the list of search suggestions. There are three types of
saved searches:
• 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.
• Seeded Searches: Seeded searches are provided ready-to-use by Oracle as part

of a product dashboard.
4.10.5.2. Refinement Breadcrumbs

The breadcrumbs feature provides an optimized display of the selected refinements as a
flat list that is always displayed. The breadcrumbs list allows easier access to and
manipulation of the selected refinements.
4.10.5.3. Multiple Data Set Support in Search

This feature enables business users to select the data set they want to search within, and
then start searching. Users can change the data set from the search options menu.
4.10.5.4. Multiple Data Set Support in Available Refinements

This feature enables business users to select the data set they want to use in the
Available Refinements region and then start filtering the dashboard. Users can change
the data set from the search options menu.
4.10.5.5. Chart Enhancements

In this release, Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework provides the following
enhancements for charts:
• Line Charts:
o Ability to display another dimension of the data (group dimension) in

different lines. This type of chart is useful for displaying data over a time
period, such as showing the change in total sales per year for each region.
• Bar/Line Charts:
o Ability to add another dimension to the chart analysis (group dimension)
o Multi-metric charts
4.10.5.6. Compare Enhancements
Users can compare records in a results table or grid, with attributes organized into
attribute groups if configured. Additionally, in a grid, user can take direct action from
the Compare pop-up.
4.10.5.7. Record Details

This feature displays details for a selected record or cell within a results table or grid.
The attributes displayed in a record details pop-up can be organized into attribute
groups if configured.
4.10.5.8. Results Table Pagination Enhancement

A results table can now display 50 records per page when the user maximizes the
results table, instead of the previous maximum of 10 records per page.
4.10.5.9. Exporting Data from a Results Table or Grid

A results table or grid can now be defined to allow users to export data. The Actions
menu can include an option to export data from the component to a comma-separated
values (CSV) file.
4.10.5.10. Exporting a Data Set

Administrators can now export, or download, the data from a data set to a CSV file.
Note that this feature is available only applicable for users with administrator
privileges.
4.10.5.11. Importing Data into a Data Set

Administrators can now import, or ingest, data into an Oracle Enterprise Command
Center data set using either of the following options:
• File Upload: Import using a CSV file
• Query Upload: Import using a SQL query
4.10.5.12. Available Refinements Scrolling

Auto-scrolling in the Available Refinements region is enhanced to ensure it does not
exceed the dashboard height.
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.
4.10.5.14. Oracle E-Business Suite Postback

The postback feature lets users perform a bulk action on a set of records. The action is
applied to all records displayed in the results table.
4.10.5.15. Oracle Application Framework Pop-ups
An Oracle Enterprise Command Center dashboard can include an Oracle Application
Framework pop-up that allows users to perform all required actions from the pop-up
without needing navigate away from the dashboard.
4.10.5.16. Online Data Load

Online data load allows users to access the dashboard for a dataset using the current
data while a full load of updated data is running for that dataset. This feature reduces
dashboard downtime.
4.10.5.17. Descriptive Flexfield Support

Descriptive flexfield attributes are exposed in Oracle Enterprise Command Center
dashboards with the same name defined for the descriptive flexfield in Oracle E-
Business Suite. Dashboards can expose different permutations of attributes based on
context and display context-sensitive attributes according to the driving context.
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.
4.10.6. Release 12.2 V5
4.10.6.1. Activity Audit

A new dashboard in Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework gives full insight
into the use of the Enterprise Command Center dashboards. It allows business analysts
and administrators to know whether dashboards are being used or not, who uses them,
which dashboards are used most, and at what times. The new dashboard also helps
generate valuable new insights into user searches.
The value proposition for Activity Audit includes the following:
• Capitalize on Enterprise Command Center investment.
o Track dashboard usage.
o Capture an audit trail of user activities on dashboards.
o Tune deployment and ETL processes.
• Tune business operations.
o Monitor search activity.
o Identify and analyze user intents.
o Resolve issues as they arise.
4.10.6.2. User Preferences
User preferences improve business user usability as each user can change many run-time
options in the dashboard. These changes are also preserved for future access to the same
dashboard by that user.
4.10.6.3. Cascading Breadcrumb

The Cascading Breadcrumb feature displays the current cascaded level and associated
value in a chart or tag cloud. This feature automatically matches the navigation hierarchy
through the displayed data to give the user full context.
4.10.6.4. Chart Maximization

Chart maximization lets users control the chart height at runtime. This feature provides
better readability and supports visibility for more dimensions and scaled representation
of values.
4.10.6.5. Chart Export

Users can now export a chart as an image. Additionally, users can export a CSV file
capturing data represented in a chart in a tabular format.
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.
4.10.6.7. Aggregate Table Pagination Enhancement

An aggregate table can now display up to 50 records per page when a user maximizes
the results table, instead of the previous 10 records per page.
4.10.6.8. Number Abbreviation in Summarization Bar

Number abbreviation is introduced in metric summary items to improve readability and
reduce UI clutter with a better notation of numbers. The full number appears as a tooltip
when a user hovers over the metric.
4.10.6.9. Negative Refinements

Users can now apply negative refinement or exclude attribute values directly from the
available refinements components.
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.
4.10.6.11. “Other” Group in Pie and Donut Charts

Users can now highlight significant contributors and improve chart readability by
grouping smaller slices in pie and donut charts into the “Other” group. This grouping is
controlled by the threshold limit.
4.10.6.12. Top and Bottom N in Chart
This feature displays a sliding window of data, allowing users to focus on what's
important and reduce information overload.
4.10.6.13. Line Chart Enhancements

Line charts are enhanced to display the line data points for a clear indicator of the
location of values. Additionally, line smoothing provides better representation of
continuous data with limited changes.
4.10.6.14. Sequential Full Load

Sequential full load allows administrators to run multilanguage full load for one
language at a time rather than for all configured languages at once. This approach
provides better control on overhead on the database and can result in better overall
performance and optimal ETL queries.
4.10.6.15. About ECC - Monitoring

The About ECC feature includes a new tab for Oracle Enterprise Command Center
Framework monitoring. The monitoring tab lets administrators assess Enterprise
Command Center health, control the cache, and gain quick access to Enterprise
Command Center logs.
4.10.7. Release 12.2 V6
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.
Network diagrams in Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework provide business

users with a new capability to explore relationships between different business
transactions and related entities, shown visually as a connected business process flowing
from one transaction to the next.
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.
• Mark each process with its primary actors.
• Highlight the exploration starting point in a different color regardless of position
in the hierarchy, and allow retrieval of the starting point at different levels of the
diagram in one action.
• Provide an uncluttered view of portions of the diagram by exploring immediate

neighbors in full detail and limiting diagram exploration to one right and one left
level of the selected entity.
• 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.
4.10.7.2. Descriptive Flexfield Value Set Description

Previously, descriptive flexfield attributes were displayed in Enterprise Command
Center dashboards with the descriptive flexfield’s code. In Release 12.2 V6 release, the
value set description is displayed on dashboards instead of the code, improving
readability when business users explore and filter descriptive flexfield data.
4.10.7.3. Enterprise Command Center Pop-ups

An Enterprise Command Center dashboard can now include a pop-up that allows users
to perform all necessary actions from the pop-up without needing to navigate away from
the dashboard.
4.10.7.4. Color Pinning in Charts

Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework has improved chart readability by
letting designers define chart colors that remain constant whenever a user accesses the
dashboard. This color pinning helps in highlighting the story you want the data to tell
through the chart.
4.10.7.5. Time Stamp and Time Zone Support

Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework now displays time zone sensitive
information based on the user’s preferred time zone.
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.
4.10.7.7. Multi-Data Set Support in Charts

Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework charts can now display data series from
multiple data sets. This feature enables comparisons across metrics coming from
different sources or different views on the same source. It also reduces UI clutter by
combining previously separate charts into fewer numbers.
4.10.7.8. Condition Enhancements
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework now supports compound conditions
with several levels of nesting. You can specify your conditions with ease and clarity in a
redesigned configuration UI.
4.10.7.9. Value Defaulting

If a NULL value is to be shown to users in a dashboard, you can now specify a context-
sensitive default value such as “Unassigned” to serve as a user-friendly label to be
displayed in the UI. Users can use this label for refinements as well as visualizations.
4.10.7.10. Improved Readability for Refinements

When an applied metric refinement filter uses codes from Oracle E-Business Suite to
subset the data, Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework will display a UI hint in
hover text to show more easily readable descriptions corresponding to the codes.
4.10.7.11. Search Suggestion Enhancement

You can reduce clutter in search suggestions by removing unwanted or code-based
attributes from the list as functionally appropriate.
4.10.8. Release 12.2 V7
4.10.8.1. Enhanced Network Diagrams

Network diagrams were introduced in Release 12.2 V6 to let business users explore
relationships between different business transactions and related entities, shown visually
as a connected business process flowing from one transaction to the next.
In this release, network diagrams now provide the following key capabilities for users:
• Group different business transactions in one group.
• Select multiple entities and compare information between them.
• Find similar business entities.
• Explore multiple distinct business processes (diagrams) in one flow and choose
to paginate the information displayed by process, with a preview for each page.
• Maintain the history of previous filters and interaction with the network.
• Highlight a specific flow in the diagram.
• Expose user actions in the context menu.
• View visual indicators on a specific business entity to improve user actions.
4.10.8.2. Enterprise Command Center Pop-up
Enterprise Command Center dashboards can now include a pop-up that allows users to
perform all necessary actions from the pop-up without the need to navigate away from
the dashboard. For more information, see section 4.1.14.4.
4.10.8.3. Look-Ahead Visualizations for Chart Cascading

Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework has improved chart readability by
visualizing the chart cascading, which helps enhance the information discovery
experience through the chart.
4.10.8.4. Dynamic Date Filter

Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework has improved the date range by adding a
relative range filter which brings more flexibility in range filter behavior and makes it
more dynamic.
4.10.8.5. Faster Discovery through Applied Filters

Users can now change the applied filters on a dashboard with fewer clicks from the
selected refinements, with the same capabilities from available refinements.
4.10.8.6. Export Dashboard to PDF

Business users can now export the content of a dashboard to a PDF, which they can print
or share electronically for team collaboration.
4.10.8.7. Default Saved Search

The new default saved search feature provides a way for users to personalize their
experience while using Enterprise Command Center dashboards. With this feature, a
saved search can be automatically activated when a user navigates to a dashboard.
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
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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.
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.
4.12. Oracle iSetup

4.12.1. Overview
Oracle iSetup is a web-based tool that supports functional configuration data
management for applications by enabling migration and monitoring of data throughout
the application lifecycle.
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4.12.2. Release 12.1.1
4.12.2.1. Oracle iSetup Migration Package Taxonomy

This enhancement enables classification of Oracle iSetup data migration selection sets
based on criteria like implementation project or recommended foundation setups. The
Oracle iSetup Migration Package taxonomy helps load the sequence for selection sets for
an implementation project type.
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.
4.12.2.3. Reporting Preferences

Oracle iSetup generates reports on the functional configuration that might include
additional detail not significant to a customer for their analysis or comparison. In
Release 12.1.1, customer can define reporting preferences:
• To define additional criteria for comparison of Oracle iSetup reports. These
additions will be appended to the pre-seeded criteria.
• To limit the standard reports to relevant information.
These customer preferences for reporting or comparison can be preserved for later reuse.
The Oracle iSetup Reporter User Interface now allows user to change Report Layout
dynamically. Currently it supports Tabular & Hierarchical layouts.
The Oracle iSetup Downloadable Standard Reports feature now supports BR100 Styled
format.
The Oracle iSetup Loader auto generates deployment detail reports based on “Load
Preferences”. Deployment details capture record level details such as Inserted, Updated,
Error and Warning.
4.12.3. Release 12.1.3
4.12.3.1. Oracle iSetup MLS

Starting from Release 12.1.3, Oracle iSetup MLS offers greater flexibility with the
ability to move data across systems with different sets of installed languages. Customers
can choose to move data of all configured languages from a source system to a target
system at once, or they can choose to move data of one installed language or a subset of
installed languages from the source to the target.
4.12.4. Release 12.2.5
4.12.4.1. Oracle iSetup Internationalization Enhancements

In this release, Oracle iSetup includes the following enhancements for Generic Loader
(FNDLOAD) and Oracle XML Publisher data:
• Generic Loader API - Oracle iSetup can now upload translation data in addition
to English data. Language data can be uploaded by automatic language detection
(implicitly) as well as by upload parameter input from the UI (explicitly).
• XML Publisher API - Oracle iSetup can now move MLS (Translatable) template
files as well as localized template files.
4.12.5. Release 12.2.6
4.12.5.1. Streamlined Migration of Language Data

This enhancement streamlines the process of moving language setup data in the Generic
Loader LDT format and in the Workflow Definitions Loader WFT format 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.
4.12.6. Product Coverage for Oracle iSetup

• General Foundation (Oracle Application Object Library, or FND)
• HRMS
o Organization Structure
o Payroll Element
o Australian Leave Liability
o Employees
o Product Foundation
o Organization Structure
• Financials
o General Ledger
o Accounts Payable
o Accounts Receivable
o Fixed Assets
o Cash Management
o Credit Management
o Public Sector Financials
o Financials Setup
o Financials Operating Unit Level Setup
• Discrete Mfg. and Distribution
o Advanced Planning Systems
o Bill Of Material
o Costing
o Engineering
o Enterprise Asset Management
o Inventory
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
4.13. Oracle Report Manager

4.13.1. Overview
Oracle Report Manager enables e-reporting for all reporting requirements in Oracle E-
Business Suite. Oracle Report Manager provides a central secured report repository to
store reports and supports display of reports in various formats like Excel, HTML and
PDF.
4.13.2. Release 12.0.6 (RUP6)
4.13.2.1. Multiple Worksheet Support

in Release 12.0.6. You can use complex content sets with a combination of Page/Expand
and Page/Total display types to publish reports. When viewing these reports, you can
use the ALL option in the Expansion Value list in the Report Display page to view the
entire report data at once in HTML or PDF, or to publish the report to multiple
worksheets in a Microsoft Excel workbook, instead of having to view the reports for
each expanded value separately.
4.13.3. Release 12.1.1
In Release 12.1.1, Oracle Report Manager has been enhanced to support complex report
publishing formats and display types. These features reduce the time needed to publish
large reports with different expansion values.
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4.13.3.1. Complex Content Set
You can now use any display type in a content set, including Row/Total (RT),
Row/Expand (RE), Row/Both (RB), Column/Total (CT), and Page/Total (PT), as well as
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).
4.13.3.2. Multiple Worksheet Support

You can use complex content sets with a combination of Page/Expand and Page/Total
display types to publish reports. When viewing these reports, you can use the ALL
option in the Expansion Value list in the Report Display page to view the entire report
data at once in HTML or PDF, or to publish the report to multiple worksheets in a
Microsoft Excel workbook, instead of having to view the reports for each expanded
value separately.
This feature saves time for end users who are trying to view a consolidated report for all
the expanded segments.
4.13.4. Release 12.1.2
4.13.4.1. Advanced Scheduling Options

When submitting a report, you can now choose a simple schedule such as, as soon as
possible, a specific date and time, or recurring intervals; or you can choose a more
advanced schedule such as specific days of the week or specific dates in a month. You
can also choose a previously saved schedule.
4.13.5. Release 12.1.3
4.13.5.1. Repository Management Security

Additional security capabilities have been added to the Oracle Report Manager
Repository to restrict individual user actions on folders and documents. A new user
interface lets you define the users who have viewer and owner privileges for a folder or
document. Users must have either viewer or owner privilege to view a secured folder or
document. Only users with owner privileges can perform actions such as updating,
moving, archiving, deleting, or creating a menu item for a secured folder or document,
or publishing reports or adding subfolders within a secured folder.
You can use Repository security for reports that do not use the user to value, flexfield
segment, or custom security methods, as an alternative to creating menu items to control
access to those reports. The Repository security feature can help reduce maintenance
overhead when you need to secure large numbers of reports because you can publish
multiple reports to the same secured folder, instead of having to creating individual
menu items for each report.
4.13.6. Release 12.2
4.13.6.1. Microsoft Office Certification

Oracle Report Manager is now certified with the 32-bit and 64-bit releases of Microsoft
Office 2010.
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.
4.13.6.3. Submitting Report Sets

The Report Set Submission page in Oracle Report Manager lets you define publishing
options, submit the report set, and publish the completed requests. In this way you can
submit and publish a report set in a single flow within the Oracle Report Manager Web
pages, without having to go through the concurrent processing Web pages.
4.13.6.4. Report Delivery

In addition to storing your reports in the repository, you can now also deliver the reports
to report consumers outside Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle Report Manager supports
the following types of report delivery:
• Upload reports to an FTP server.
• Save reports to the local file system of the Oracle E-Business Suite application
tier.
• Send reports to Oracle E-Business Suite users through e-mail.
You can deliver reports as either HTML or PDF files.
4.13.6.5. Microsoft Excel Report Generation from Firefox

You can now generate Microsoft Excel report output while running Oracle Report
Manager in the Firefox browser, as well as from Microsoft Internet Explorer.
4.13.6.6. Digital Signature Support

Some security options within Microsoft Excel allow files containing macros to be
opened only if the files are digitally signed to identify them as coming from a trusted
source. Administrators can now configure Oracle Report Manager to affix a digital
signature to the Microsoft Excel report output that users create. Then, after a user
initially identifies the Oracle Report Manager 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.
4.13.6.7. Row and Column Headings in Microsoft Excel
A new profile option lets you choose to display row and column headings in the
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet when users output a report to Microsoft Excel. Row and
column headings let users easily select an entire row or column at once to perform
actions such as editing, formatting, or copying the row or column.
4.13.7. Release 12.2.4
4.13.7.1. Oracle Menu Displayed as Ribbon in Microsoft Excel

If you use Microsoft Excel 2007 or higher to design a template using the Financial
Report Template Editor, the Oracle menu is now displayed as a custom ribbon. You can
use the buttons on this ribbon to access the additional Oracle features that extend the
functionality of the spreadsheet.
4.13.8. Release 12.2.5
4.13.8.1. Office Open XML Support

Oracle Report Manager now supports generating report spreadsheets according to the
Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, in the .xlsx format. With this option, no macros
are used during document creation and limited macros are used during upload.
Consequently, the Trust access to the VBA project object model security option is not
required to work with OOXML documents. Additionally, because the processing is
performed on the server, the file generation uses minimal desktop resources.
In connection with this feature, the Financial Report Template Editor now lets you create
Financial Statement Generator (FSG) templates according to the OOXML standard as
well. If you have defined custom Oracle Report Manager templates in earlier releases,
then you can optionally migrate them to the new .xlsx format using a template migration
utility provided in this release.
4.13.8.2. Simplified Report Submission

The new Simplified FSG Submission page provides a shortened interface for submitting
FSG reports through a single page. After a user selects a report to publish, Oracle Report
Manager sets the financial and publishing options to default values based on the report
definition and the values the user selected the last time that he or she published the same
report. The user can optionally enter new values or simply accept the default values to
submit the report.
4.13.8.3. Parallel Content Set Support

You can now publish FSG reports with a content set of type Parallel. In this case, the
Financial Statement Generator runs parallel requests for all the expansion values in the
content set and combines their output to produce the complete report. Because the
requests run in parallel, using this type of content set can help generate a report more
quickly than using a sequential content set.
4.13.8.4. Simplified Report Manager Home and Menu
The Report Manager Home page has been streamlined through the use of Oracle
Application Framework simplified UI features introduced in this release, including tiles
to display the lists of requests in different statuses and a Hide/Show subtab layout for the
Report Submission and Administration links. Release 12.2.5 also introduces a new menu
hierarchy for Oracle Report Manager, with “Report Home” as the single top-level
function underneath which all other Oracle Report Manager pages are organized.
4.13.9. Release 12.2.7
4.13.9.1. Security Enhancements

Oracle Report Manager has enhanced the checks it performs to secure access to report
functionality.
4.13.10. Release 12.2.7+

Oracle Report Manager is now certified with the 32-bit and 64-bit releases of Microsoft
Office 2016 and Office 365 ProPlus 2016.
4.13.11. Release 12.2.9
4.13.11.1. Transferring Custom Financial Statement Generator Report Templates

You can now use a concurrent program named Report Manager - Transfer FSG Custom
Templates to transfer custom Financial Statement Generator (FSG) report templates
between Oracle E-Business Suite instances. For example, you can use this program to
transfer templates from a test instance to a production instance.
4.13.11.2. Enhancements for Maintain Repository Program

This release includes the following enhancements to improve the performance of the
Maintain Repository concurrent program:
• Reports submitted through Simplified FSG Submission are now marked to be
eligible for deletion one month after the submission date.
• The program searches for orphaned records in the repository tables that are no
longer accessible from the repository or the archive and deletes such records.
• To reduce rollback size and improve performance, the program groups report
records by the month in which the reports were created and commits data after
processing each group.
• The program can now purge documents that have more than one menu item
function associated with them.
Additionally, the Maintain Repository program now generates an output file, and the
request log file provides more detailed information about the status of the repository
tables before and after the processing performed by the request.
4.13.12. Release 12.2.10
4.13.12.1. Custom Generic Templates

You can now create custom versions of the generic templates that can be used to publish
any report. With this enhancement, it is no longer necessary to create a separate custom
template for each report.
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
4.14.2.1. Categorized Searching

Because multiple queries can be posted to the system, there is a need to simplify
querying. W3H will provide a simple user interface where the queries will be
categorized. Some possible categories are “User based queries” and “Role based
queries.” Frequently asked queries can be prominently displayed.
4.14.2.2. 360 Degree View

The “360 degree” view aims to provide information in terms of “Who, What, Why and
How” when a search is made. For example, if a user asks “WHAT role does a given
user have?” the system will also provide information about WHY that role was assigned
to that user and HOW the role was assigned to that user.
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.
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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.
4.14.2.4. Quick Find

Developers, and sometimes system administrators, can execute queries that might not
require extensive output. For example, “Does this user have access to the System
Administration role?” W3H will provide a quick find feature in each query output so
that the user can filter the output further. Please refer to the UI section for more
information.
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.
4.14.2.6. Print Role Hierarchy

In reports where the user queries for Roles, perusing a huge list of Roles can be a
daunting task for a first-time user of the system. In order to understand the output
properly, it might be useful to have a report which depicts the Roles and the inheritance
relationships in a tree-like structure.
This feature will be made available as an individual report, in which case a certain Role
R1 will be given, as input and the output will be a tree like structure for R1 and all its
children Roles. In this case the system will also prompt the user for certain parameters to
be used as filter conditions like “Application Name”, only those Sub-Roles will be
displayed which meet the filter condition.
This feature will also be available as an option in those queries where the output is
Roles. Hence the system will depict all roles to be shown as Tree like structures.
4.14.3. Release 12.2.4
4.14.3.1. Proxy User Access Control

This feature extends the traditional proxy user capabilities of Oracle E-Business Suite to
support a much finer level of granularity, enabling a greater degree of access control
over management of delegations and authority. For example, a sales manager can
delegate selected responsibilities to a sales representative.
All actions taken using this feature are subject to auditing, thereby providing a record of
activities by the user acting as a proxy.
4.14.4. Release 12.2.6
4.14.4.1. Proxy Auditing

The Proxy Auditing feature provides a consolidated report for auditors to evaluate the
transactions of proxy users or any other user on a specific data object. Administrators
and delegators can run this report to see the transactions that were executed by the proxy
user on their behalf.
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4.14.4.2. User Registration HTML UI
The new user registration process is now available in an Oracle Application Framework
page. This page is equivalent to the system administrator User Define form.
4.14.4.3. Responsibility HTML UI

The capability to create responsibilities is now available in an Oracle Application
Framework page. This page is equivalent to the Responsibility Define form.
4.15. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator

4.15.1. Overview
Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator is a framework that provides Oracle E-

Business Suite integration with desktop applications like Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
Word, and Microsoft Project. The metadata about the desktop integration is stored in the
form of integrators. There are over 300 seeded integrators for Oracle E-Business Suite
applications, covering Financials, Human Resources, Customer Relationship
Management, Supply Chain Management, and other applications.
4.15.2. Release 12.1.2
4.15.2.1. Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework

Release 12.1.2 introduces a new component called the Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop
Integration Framework. This framework consists of a design-time wizard-based user
interface used to create and manage desktop integrator solutions. The framework
addresses customer demand for a user-friendly approach to create custom integrators
that hides the complexity of the underlying Oracle E-Business Suite schema.
The Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework user interface lets you
perform the following tasks:
• Create, update, and delete integrators.
• Search for and view definitions of existing Oracle seeded and custom
integrators.
• Define function-based security rules to control runtime access to an integrator
definition.
• Users can define metadata about the data downloaded to desktop applications
and the interfaces to which the data will be uploaded within Oracle E-Business
Suite.
• Define and manage user interface components to be displayed as a list of values
at runtime in desktop applications.
• Search for and view details of Oracle seeded and custom component definitions.
Additionally, Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework uses the existing
Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator user interface to let you define the
parameter list and parameter metadata required for defining upload parameters,
importers, and other integrator and document parameters. The framework also uses the
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existing user interface to let you define layouts and mappings for integrators from the
Desktop Integration Manager.
4.15.3. Release 12.1.3
4.15.3.1. Digital Signature Support

Some security options within Microsoft Excel allow files containing macros to be
opened only if the files are digitally signed to identify them as coming from a trusted
source. Administrators can now configure Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator
to affix a digital signature to the spreadsheets that users create. Then, after a user
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.
4.15.3.2. Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework Enhancements

In Release 12.1.3, the Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework user
interface is enhanced to let you perform the following tasks:
• Define upload parameters to specify what rows are uploaded to interface tables,
how the rows are pre-validated, and whether to invoke an import process.
• Define importer rules to specify how to move data from the interface tables to
application base tables, including any validation rules to apply before importing
data into application base tables.
• Test an integrator definition by creating a test document.
• View an integrator definition in read-only mode.
• Define a content that uses a Java program to obtain the data that the integrator
downloads into the desktop document.
4.15.4. Release 12.2
4.15.4.1. Microsoft Office Certifications

Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator is now certified with the 32-bit and 64-bit
releases of Microsoft Office 2010.
4.15.4.2. Usability Enhancements

In Release 12.2, the Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator user interface is
enhanced to let you perform the following tasks:
• Display a corporate brand logo in a spreadsheet created using Oracle Web
Applications Desktop Integrator.
• Use expand and collapse buttons to show and hide the Context, Headers, and
Lines regions in a spreadsheet.
4.15.4.3. Switch Responsibility Option

To ensure that you perform an upload with the correct privileges for your Oracle E-
Business Suite application, you can optionally specify the responsibility to use for the
upload, using the Switch Responsibility option from the Oracle menu within a
spreadsheet. For instance, if you perform multiple uploads during the same Microsoft
Excel session, you can use this option to switch responsibilities as needed between
uploads.
4.15.4.4. Commit Rows Parameter

A new upload parameter named Commit Rows lets you specify how you want to
proceed if any invalid rows are encountered during the upload. You can configure an
upload to commit only if all rows are valid, or to commit each valid row even if other
rows are not valid.
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.
4.15.4.6. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator Diagnostics

You can run diagnostics tests to review the module versions and profile values currently
in use for Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator, and to review the metadata
defined for a particular integrator.
4.15.5. Release 12.2.4
4.15.5.1. Oracle Menu Displayed as Ribbon in Microsoft Excel

If you use Microsoft Excel 2007 or higher to view an Oracle Web Applications Desktop
Integrator spreadsheet, the Oracle menu is now displayed as a custom ribbon. You can
use the buttons on this ribbon to access the additional Oracle Web Applications Desktop
Integrator features that extend the functionality of the spreadsheet.
4.15.6. Release 12.2.5
4.15.6.1. Office Open XML Support

Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator now supports creating spreadsheets
according to the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, in the .xlsm format. With this
option, no macros are used during document creation and limited macros are used during
upload. Consequently, the Trust access to the VBA project object model security option
is not required to work with OOXML documents. Also, because the processing is
performed on the server, document creation and upload use minimal desktop resources.
4.15.6.2. Flexfield Enhancements

Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator is enhanced to support the following
flexfield features.
• When you define a flexfield component for a key flexfield, you can specify the
column in which the flexfield’s data set is stored so that the data set is
referenced dynamically during validation.
• Additionally, when you define a flexfield component for a key flexfield, you can
specify a WHERE clause to restrict the list of values for the flexfield.
4.15.6.3. Dependent List of Values for an Interface Attribute

You can now define an interface attribute for which the list of valid values depends on
the value of another interface attribute. The dependent attribute must use table
validation. You can include a token for the referenced attribute in the WHERE clause for
the dependent attribute to specify how to determine the dependent list of values.
4.15.7. Release 12.2.6

4.15.7.1. Simplified Create Document Page

The new simplified Create Document page provides a user interface for creating
documents with all parameters presented in a single Oracle Application Framework-
based page. You can use a profile option to specify whether you want to use the
simplified Create Document page or the previous interface, the Create Document page
flow, which guides users through multiple pages to enter the document parameters.
4.15.7.2. Simplified Define Layout Page

The new simplified Define Layout page provides a user interface for defining layouts
with the layout definition options consolidated into a single Oracle Application
Framework-based page after the user selects an integrator.
4.15.7.3. Refreshing Interface Attributes

A new Refresh option lets you automatically update the attributes for an interface with
certain types of changes in the definition of the underlying table or API. You no longer
need to delete and re-create the interface to bring the attributes up to date.
You can use the Refresh option for the following types of changes:
• New columns added at the end of the underlying table, or new input arguments added
at the end of the argument list for an API.
• Changes in the data type of a table column or API argument, the size of a table column,
or whether a table column can be null.
• A function now returns error information when it previously did not, or vice versa.
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
4.15.8.1. Copying an Integrator Definition
You can now copy the definition of an existing integrator and use the copy as the basis
for defining a new integrator. You can update the properties for the new integrator in the
integrator definition wizard as part of the duplication process flow. You can copy both
seeded and custom integrators.
4.15.8.2. Simplified Define Mapping Page

The new simplified Define Mapping page provides an Oracle Application Framework-
based user interface that lets you enter all the mapping properties in a single page after
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.
4.15.8.3. Security Enhancements

Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator has enhanced the checks it performs to
secure access to integrator functionality.
4.15.9. Release 12.2.7+

Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator is now certified with the 32-bit and 64-bit
releases of Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 365 ProPlus 2016.
4.15.10. Release 12.2.9
4.15.10.1. Sequence Source Type for Interface Attributes

When defining an integrator, you can now define interface attributes with a source type
of Sequence. When a user performs an upload, the upload process sets the interface
attribute value for each row that is uploaded to the next value generated by the specified
database sequence.
4.15.11. Release 12.2.10
4.15.11.1. Enhancements for SQL Query Contents

The following enhancements have been made for defining a SQL query content for an
integrator:
• The maximum length of the SQL query has been expanded to 4,000 characters.
• If the SQL query is not valid, Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration
Framework displays the Oracle syntax error that was found in order to help the
integrator developer correct the query.
4.16. Oracle Workflow

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4.16.1. Release 12.1.1
4.16.1.1. Worklist - Bulk Notification Response and Bulk Notification Close

The Bulk Notification Response and Bulk Notification Close feature enables mass
response to Oracle Workflow notifications. Oracle Workflow now lets users respond to
multiple notifications of the same type at once using a Respond button on the Worklist
and Notification Search pages. Oracle Workflow also lets users close multiple FYI
notifications at once using a Close button on the Worklist and Notification Search pages.
These features enhance user productivity by letting users handle similar notifications in
bulk, rather than having to navigate to the Notification Details page for each notification
individually.
4.16.1.2. Hijrah/Thai Calendar Support

Oracle Workflow now displays dates in notifications according to the Hijrah calendar or
Thai calendar, if users select one of those calendars in the NLS calendar preference.
4.16.2. Release 12.1.3
4.16.2.1. Notification Mailer - SMTP Authentication

The Oracle Workflow notification mailer now supports SMTP authentication, enabling
you to use the notification mailer with SMTP servers that are configured to require
SMTP authentication.
SMTP authentication requires the sender to authenticate by identifying itself to the mail
server. After successful authentication, the mail server grants transmission of the
sender’s e-mails. SMTP authentication can be used to allow legitimate users to relay
mail while denying relay service to unauthorized users, such as spammers. Oracle
Workflow currently supports the PLAIN, LOGIN, and DIGEST-MD5 authentication
mechanisms. Administrators can enter the user name and password that the notification
mailer should use for authentication in either the basic or advanced configuration pages
for the mailer.
4.16.3. Release 12.2
4.16.3.1. 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.
4.16.3.2. Deferring Worklist Response Processing

To increase performance, a workflow administrator can optionally configure Oracle
Workflow to defer the processing of notification responses submitted through the
worklist. In this case, control is returned to a user immediately after the user submits a
response, while the subsequent activities in the workflow are executed at a later time.
You can choose to defer notification response processing for all item types or only for
specified item types. Use the Administration tab in the Oracle Workflow administrator
Web pages to configure the item types for which you want to defer response processing.
4.16.3.3. Oracle RAC Affinity for Workflows

In an Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) environment, you can optionally
use workflow RAC affinity to increase scalability and performance for some high
volume workflows. As part of the RAC configuration, you partition the workflow
runtime tables by RAC instance ID, and create a Virtual Private Database (VPD) policy
for those tables that allows access only to the records marked with the RAC instance ID
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.
4.16.3.4. Worklist Usability Enhancements

In Release 12.2, the Notification System and the Worklist UI pages include the
following enhancements:
• In the Worklist region of the Oracle E-Business Suite home page, the Full List
button displays in parentheses the number of open notifications in your worklist.
If you switch to view another user's worklist, the Full List button shows the
number of open notifications to which you have access in that user's worklist.
• Additionally, administrators can use the Sign-On: Notification profile option to
display a tip message in the Oracle E-Business Suite home page that informs the
user how many open notifications are in his or her worklist. This tip message
always displays the number of open notifications in the user's own worklist,
even if the user has switched to view another user's worklist.
• You can use the Workflow Status Monitor Diagram Size option in the Workflow
Configuration page to select the display size for the status monitor diagram
within the Administrator Monitor and the Self-Service Monitor. The sizes you
can select are Small, Medium, or Large.
• You can now use the special message attribute #RELATED_HISTORY to
include the action history of another notification within response-required
notifications as well as within FYI notifications. Additionally, you can now
include the action history of a related notification in a different work item.
• A user who receives a request for more information can now transfer that
request to another user and include a comment to that user. Additionally, a
workflow administrator managing notifications through the Notifications
administrator page can now transfer a request for more information from the
user who received the request to another user, or answer the request on behalf of
the user who received the request.
• If a notification is reassigned, the sent date displayed in the notification for the
new recipient now shows the date of the reassignment – that is, the date when
this recipient first received the notification – rather than the date the notification
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.
4.16.3.5. Bulk Reset for DISABLED Notification Preference

A new concurrent program lets you reset the original notification preference value for
users whose notification preference has been set to DISABLED because their e-mail
notifications could not be delivered. With this program, you can easily reset the
notification preference for multiple users at once.
4.16.3.6. Enhancement for Reassigning Notifications

Oracle Workflow now automatically prevents users from reassigning a notification to
the process owner who initiated the workflow process, or to the role specified as the
from role for the notification. This restriction applies for reassignment through the
Worklist UI pages as well as through vacation rules.
4.16.3.7. Enhancement for Service Component Processing by Correlation ID

You can define dedicated service components, including notification mailers and
PL/SQL and Java agent listeners, that process only messages matching a particular
correlation ID. In previous releases, a message that matched the correlation ID of a
dedicated mailer or dedicated listener could still be processed by a general mailer or
listener if the general mailer or listener was the first to access the message. In Release
12.2, the service component processing is enhanced to ensure that general mailers do not
process messages that are being handled by a dedicated mailer. Instead, only the
appropriate dedicated mailer will process these messages, as long as the dedicated mailer
has a status of Running, Stopped With Error, or System Deactivated. Similarly, general
listeners for the WF_DEFERRED and WF_JAVA_DEFERRED agents also do not
process messages that are being handled by a dedicated listener, but leave these
messages to be processed by the dedicated listener.
Note: For all agents other than WF_DEFERRED and WF_JAVA_DEFERRED, a
general agent listener or Java agent listener can process all messages on
the agent. For these agents there is no change from previous releases.
4.16.4. Release 12.2.3
4.16.4.1. Worklist Header Icon

A worklist header icon is now displayed by default in all Oracle Application
Framework-based pages. You can control the display of this icon through a profile
option. The worklist header icon serves as an alternative to including a worklist region in
the Oracle E-Business Suite home page. The icon displays a count of the open
notifications in the user's worklist. Users can select the icon to view a summary list of
their most recent notifications. From the summary list, users can select a notification
subject to view the notification details and respond, or navigate to the full worklist.
4.16.5. Release 12.2.4
4.16.5.1. Proxy User Access Control

The ability to grant Oracle Workflow worklist access to another user is now part of the
overall proxy user access control feature for Oracle E-Business Suite that is provided
through Oracle User Management. Use Oracle User Management to set up proxy user
access, including worklist access. For more information, see section 4.12.3.1.
4.16.6. Release 12.2.5
4.16.6.1. Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Attachments in E-mail Notifications

If an Oracle Application Framework-based region embedded in a workflow notification
includes Oracle E-Business Suite attachments, those attachments can now be included
when the notification is sent by e-mail. Users who receive e-mail notifications no longer
need to log in to Oracle E-Business Suite to access these attachments. Define the special
message attribute with the internal name #ATTACHMENTS to include such Oracle E-
Business Suite attachments when the notification is sent by e-mail.
4.16.6.2. Support for Multiple E-mail Addresses for a User or Role

Oracle Workflow notification mailers now support defining multiple e-mail addresses
for a single user or role. When that user receives a notification, a copy of the notification
is sent to each e-mail address stored for the user.
4.16.7. Release 12.2.6
4.16.7.1. External Links to Oracle E-Business Suite in E-mail Notifications

If your Oracle E-Business Suite instance is set up in a DMZ configuration, you can now
specify that links for the Notification Detail Link attachment in e-mail notifications
should be generated using the external web entry point for users whom you designate as
external users. In this way external users without access to your intranet, such as
suppliers, can access links to this Oracle E-Business Suite content from workflow
notifications. You use a new profile option named
FND_FRAMEWORK_EXTERNAL_AGENT to specify the external web entry point
that the workflow mailer should use to generate the links. You can designate users as
external users by assigning them the new role WF_EXTERNAL_ROLE.
4.16.7.2. Ability to Specify Security Protocols for Mailer
You can now specify the security protocols that a notification mailer should use for
connections to the SMTP server and to the IMAP server. Use the new inbound and
outbound Connection Security parameters in the notification mailer configuration wizard
to specify the security protocols. You can choose SSL/TLS to use TLS or SSL directly,
STARTTLS to upgrade to an encrypted TLS or SSL connection using STARTTLS, or
None if you do not want to use a security protocol.
4.16.8. Release 12.2.7

For information about a related internationalization feature in this release, see section
3.4.7.3.
4.16.9. Release 12.2.7+
4.16.9.1. Ability to Distinguish Approvals Sources

For information about this feature provided with Mobile Release 8.0 – Oracle Mobile
Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite Client Version 1.7.0, see section 4.17.10.1.
4.16.10. Release 12.2.9

For information about a related internationalization feature in this release, see section
3.4.8.2.
4.16.10.2. Action History Enhancement

You can now include the action history table in a notification for which you have
selected the Expand Roles option.
4.16.10.3. Configuring E-mail Eligibility for Item Types and Messages

If you want to allow some notifications to be sent in e-mail but not others, you can now
manually configure the item types and messages for which you want Oracle Workflow
to send e-mails. You can choose to enable e-mails for all item types and messages,
enable e-mails for all item types and messages except those you specify, or disable e-
mails for all item types and messages except those you specify. Use the new Email
Notification Preference field in the Workflow Configuration page to configure the
messages that are eligible to be sent in e-mail.
4.16.10.4. Configuring Attachments in E-mail Notifications

New enhancements let you configure whether various types of attachments should be
included in e-mail notifications.
• The behavior of the MAILTEXT, MAILATTH, MAILHTM2, and MAILHTML
notification preferences is changed to provide a choice between preferences that
include attachments and preferences that do not include any attachments. Now,
only the MAILATTH and MAILHTML preferences support attachments. The
MAILTEXT and MAILHTM2 preferences no longer support any attachments,
including the Notification Detail Link attachment, workflow attachments
defined as 'Content-Attached' message attributes, and Oracle E-Business Suite
attachments specified in the #ATTACHMENTS attribute. This change lets users
choose whether to receive the attachments in e-mail for easy access, or to save
space in their e-mail accounts by excluding the attachments from e-mail
notifications and accessing the attachment content only by logging in to Oracle
E-Business Suite.
• 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.
4.16.10.5. Enhancement for Resending Failed Notifications

If the notification mailer cannot deliver an e-mail notification to one or more of the users
in the recipient role and the Expand Roles option is not selected for that notification,
then the notification mailer now stores a record in the Oracle Workflow entity
preferences table for each user with an invalid e-mail address, indicating that sending
this notification ID failed for that user. If you later retry the notification, the notification
is sent only to those users for whom it previously failed, avoiding duplicate messages for
users who already received the e-mail. The record of a failed delivery attempt is retained
in the table until e-mail delivery of that notification succeeds for that user.
4.16.11. Release 12.2.10
4.16.11.1. Enhanced My Worklist Pop-Up

The My Worklist pop-up available from the global Worklist button now lets you take
common actions on a notification directly from the pop-up, without needing to navigate
to the full Worklist page. For example, you can choose Approve or Reject for
notifications that support those responses, or you can choose OK to acknowledge and
dismiss FYI notifications that do not require a response.
4.16.11.2. Action History for Standalone Notifications

Oracle Workflow now includes action history for standalone notifications that are sent
by calling the WF_NOTIFICATION.Send() API directly outside of a workflow process.
4.16.11.3. “Auto-generated” Header for E-mail Notifications

A new internal mailer parameter named SET_WFNTF_AUTO_GEN_HEADER lets you
specify that the notification mailer should include a header in the e-mails it sends
indicating that they are auto-generated. The header appears as follows:
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
Including this header can help enable message filtering and avoid automatic responses
being returned to the notification mailer.
4.16.12. Release 12.2.11
4.16.12.1. Respond with Yes/No or True/False in My Worklist Pop-Up

The My Worklist pop-up available from the global Worklist button supports additional
actions on a notification directly from the pop-up. You can now use quick action buttons
to respond to notifications that require a Yes or No response and notifications that
require a True or False response.
4.16.12.2. Invoke REST Services from Event Subscriptions

A new action type for Business Event System subscriptions lets you invoke a REST
service through Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway when a triggering
event occurs. For more information, see section 4.7.14.1.
4.17. Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite

4.17.1. Overview
Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite lets you respond on-the-go to your
pending approval requests. From your phone, anywhere and anytime, take quick action
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.
4.17.2. Mobile Release 1.0 – Client Version 1.0.0
4.17.2.1. Approval Request Handling

In its initial release, Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite lets you take
action on approval requests including expenses, requisitions, purchase orders, and
recruitment vacancies and offers.
4.17.3.1. Mobile Foundation Release 2.1 Updates

• Improvements to login and configuration flow
• Ability to change server URL without reinstalling the app
• Diagnostics improvements
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4.17.4.1. Android Support

In previous versions, Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite was
available only for iOS devices. Starting with version 1.2.0, the app is now available for
Android devices as well.

• Changes to support both iOS and Android with the same client code
• Ability to update server URL from Connection Details page
4.17.5.1. New Approval Types

These new approval request types are supported: Timecards, Item Changes, and Supplier
Invoices.
4.17.5.2. Enhanced Data Layout

The layout of the subject, header, and line records in the approvals pages has been
enhanced.
4.17.5.3. Improved Approvals Filtering

The ability to filter pending approvals by approval type now appears under the 'Pending
Approvals by Type' springboard entry, instead of as a dynamic list of approval types in
the springboard. Users have the choice to set the 'Pending Approvals by Type' page or
the 'Pending Approvals' list page as their default first page in the app.
4.17.5.4. Translation Support

This app is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French,
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Simplified
Chinese, and Spanish.

• Support for enterprise distribution
• Customization support for corporate branding
• Support for Web SSO authentication to delegate authentication to Oracle Access
Manager (OAM)
4.17.6.1. New Approval Types

New approval types are supported for these functional areas: Channel Revenue
Management (claims, budgets, and offers), Human Resources (absences and learning
including class enrollments and certification subscriptions), Inventory (move orders),
Maintenance (work orders, work requests, and work permits), Order Management
(RMAs, sales agreements, and quotes), and Quoting (quotes).
4.17.6.2. Attachments
You can view attachments for approval requests.
4.17.6.3. Adding Custom Workflows

You can now add custom workflows as approval types.
4.17.6.4. Enhanced Pending Approvals by Type Page

The Pending Approvals by Type page includes the following enhancements:
• Improved approval type icons (achromatic icons)
• Real-time pending approvals count
• Dynamic display showing only those approval types with pending approvals
4.17.6.5. Enhanced Details Page

The Details page includes an improved subject card view.
4.17.6.6. Enhanced Refresh Interaction

The refresh interaction is enhanced to use a Pull to Refresh gesture in place of the Sync
icon.

• User installation and usage metrics for administrators
• Updated look and feel for selected app interactions
• Uptake of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.2.2

• Ability to open links to external websites within the app on iOS devices
4.17.8.1. New Approvals

New approvals are supported for these functional areas: Human Resources (person status
change), Projects (project, budget), and Service Contracts.
4.17.8.2. Ability to Customize Seeded Metadata

The Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite development infrastructure
now allows developers to configure seeded approval metadata to support customization.
4.17.8.3. Enhancement for Quoting Approval to Support Customization
The seeded approval for Quoting is enhanced to support customization.
4.17.8.4. Technical Updates

Technical updates include the following:
• The display of line details is limited to the first 50 records to enhance
performance. Users can view the full line details in the Oracle Workflow
Worklist web pages.
• Developers can configure multiple parameters for Level 2 to Level 3 drilldown
when defining approval metadata.

• Ability to open links to external websites within the app on Android devices
• Updated look and feel, including native look and feel for action sheets on iOS
devices
• 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
4.17.9.1. Ability to Reassign an Approval Notification

You can now reassign an approval notification to another user within the app.
4.17.9.2. Support for Push Notifications

If you use Oracle Mobile Cloud Service and you use enterprise distribution to provide
the Approvals app to your users, you can configure push notifications for the app. For
more information, see section 4.8.11.4.

• Ability to import custom CA or self-signed server certificates to standard apps
for TLS connections to Oracle E-Business Suite
• Ability to download the mobile app configuration automatically from the server
2.4.0
4.17.10.1. Ability to Distinguish Approvals Submitted through Mobile Apps

Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite now provides the ability to
distinguish approvals submitted through mobile apps from those submitted through other
sources, such as the Worklist pages or e-mail. Administrators can query the approval
data in Oracle Workflow tables to identify the approvals that were submitted through
mobile apps.

• For apps installed through an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)
solution's app catalog, support for having the EBS Server URL preconfigured by
an administrator rather than requiring users to enter it after launching the app
• Enhancement to prevent attachments viewed within the app from being shared
elsewhere on iOS devices
2.5.0
4.17.11.1. New Approvals

New approvals are supported for Inventory Management (cycle count) and Lease and
Finance Management (contract booking, funding, and termination quotes).

2.6.2

2.6.3
4.18. Oracle XML Gateway

4.18.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
4.18.1.1. Improved Error Notification from Oracle XML Gateway

Notify System Administrator and/or Transaction Administrator
For each transaction, users can configure a transaction administrator who will receive
error notifications for the transaction (in addition to the system administrator). If
required, a transaction administrator can act (reprocess/abort) on the error notification.
Auto re-process errored notification after notification time-out
If the system administrator has not taken explicit action on a notification (that is, abort or
reprocess) after the notification timeout period, the Oracle XML Gateway engine will
automatically re-process the corresponding errored transactions until it reaches the
'maximum retries' limit. The ‘maximum retries’ limit is a profile option that governs the
number of times the engine will automatically re-process after the notification timeout
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period. Once the 'maximum retries' limit is exceeded, the errored transactions will not be
re-processed until the system administrator and/or transaction administrator explicitly
opts for re-processing.
If an error occurs while re-processing, a notification will be sent to the system
administrator and/or transaction administrator.
4.18.2. Release 12.2
4.18.2.1. Oracle XML Gateway Inbound Processing in Java

Oracle XML Gateway has enhanced its inbound processing by allowing the Oracle XML
Gateway execution engine to process inbound messages either in Java or in PL/SQL,
based on the value specified in the ECX_IN_JAVA_PROCESSING profile option.
Previously, all inbound messages were processed in PL/SQL only.
4.18.2.2. Enhanced Oracle XML Gateway Diagnostics

To provide more diagnostic capability and troubleshoot potential issues, Oracle XML
Gateway diagnostics are enhanced to include the ‘XML Gateway Health Check’, which
lets you check and validate the health of Oracle XML Gateway, and ‘Get Document
Details’, which lets you display document details and perform root cause analysis on
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
4.18.3.1. API to Manage Trading Partners

In addition to using the Forms-based Define Trading Partner UI page in Oracle XML
Gateway, you can now manage trading partners through the use of an API or web
service. This feature provides another option to create, update, delete, and retrieve
trading partner information from Oracle XML Gateway.
The Trading Partner Setup API (ECX_TP_SETUP_API) is published in Oracle
Integration Repository where you can deploy it as a web service through the Integrated
SOA Gateway responsibility.
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RELEASE CONTENT DOCUMENT

Prepared by Oracle E-Business Suite Product Development

Last Updated: November 10, 2021

Copyright © 2011, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates.

2.1. Purpose of Document

3.1. Release 12.2 Overview

3.2. Release 12.2 Technology Components

Oracle Technology Most Recent Version Included in Most Recent

Oracle Database 11g 11.2.0.4 11.2.0.3 11.2.0.4

Oracle Database 12c 12.1.0.2 N/A 12.1.0.2

Oracle Database 19c 19.0.0.0 N/A 19.0.0.0

Oracle Application Server (for 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3

Oracle Application Server / Oracle 10.1.3.5 11.1.1.6 11.1.1.9

Oracle Java Required Files (JRF) N/A 11.1.1.6 11.1.1.9

Oracle HTTP Server 10.1.3.5 11.1.1.6 11.1.1.9

Oracle WebLogic Server N/A Oracle WebLogic Oracle WebLogic

JSP Compiler OJSP 10.1.3.5 WebLogic JSP WebLogic JSP

Java Technology Most Recent Version Included in Most Recent

Java SE Development Kit – JDK (for 7.0 6.0 7.0

Java SE Development Kit – JDK (for 7.0 6.0 7.0

Java on Client Tier (for client-side code 8.0 6.0 8.0

Java on Client Tier (for client-side code 8.0 N/A 8.0

Technology Components Delivered Most Recent Version Included in Most Recent

Oracle JDeveloper runtime libraries 10.1.3 10.1.3 10.1.3

Oracle BI Beans 3.1.1.16 3.1.1.11 3.1.1.16

Oracle Thin JDBC Drivers (for 11.2 11.2 11.2

Oracle Internet Directory 11.1.1.9, 12.2.1.3 N/A 11.1.1.9, 12.2.1.4

Oracle Unified Directory N/A N/A 11.1.2.3, 12.2.1.4

Oracle Access Manager 11.1.2.3, 12.2.1.3 N/A 11.1.2.3, 12.2.1.4

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise 12.2.1.4.0 N/A 12.2.1.4.0

Oracle Discoverer 11.1.1.7 N/A 11.1.1.7

Oracle WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.9, 12.2.1.3 N/A 11.1.1.9, 12.2.1.3

Oracle Portal 11.1.1.6 N/A 11.1.1.6

Oracle BPEL Process Manager 12.2.1 N/A 12.2.1.4.0

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.3.0.0.0, 13.4.0.0.0 N/A 13.3.0.0.0, 13.4.0.0.0

3.3. Technology Configuration

3.3.2.1. Technology Inventory Report

3.3.2.2. OC4J Load Balancing

3.3.3.1. AutoConfig Performance Enhancements

3.3.4.1. AutoConfig Profiler

3.3.4.2. AutoConfig Parallelization across Nodes

3.3.4.3. AutoConfig Service Control Dependency Management

3.3.4.4. AutoConfig Check Config Utility

3.3.4.5. AutoConfig Support for Oracle Database 11g

3.3.4.7. AutoConfig Search Utility

3.3.4.8. Technology Stack Inventory Validation Report

3.3.4.9. Enhanced Support for Sharing Application Tier File System

3.3.4.10. Enhanced Support for Application Tier Load Balancing

3.3.4.11. Enhanced Support for DMZ Deployments

3.3.4.12. Network Traffic Encryption Capability

3.3.4.14. Oracle Connection Manager Technology Integration

3.3.4.15. Support for Integrated SOA Gateway

3.3.5. Release 12.1.3

3.3.5.1. AutoConfig Performance Improvements

3.3.5.2. AutoConfig Support for the 11g Scan Listener Feature

3.3.5.3. Automated Deployment of Forms ear File

3.3.6.1. Java Web Start

3.3.6.3. Multiple Forms Sessions with Java Web Start

3.3.7. Release 12.2

3.3.7.2. Online Patching

3.3.7.4. Application Tier

3.3.7.6. Diagnostics for Secure Configuration