Preface

The book describes Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management pipeline rating.

Audience

This book is intended for system administrators and developers.

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Document Revision History

The following table lists the revision history for this book.

Version	Date	Description
E16710-01	November 2011	Initial release.
E16710-02	May 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 1. Made minor formatting and text changes. Added documentation for the Rated Event Loader daemon: About Running the RE Loader Daemon Configuring the RE Loader Infranet.properties File Configuring the start_rel_daemon Script for an Oracle IMDB Cache System Running the RE Loader Daemon
E16710-03	August 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 2. Added documentation about the ReloadCreditThresholdParam semaphore entry for the following pipeline modules: DAT_BalanceBatch FCT_ApplyBalance Added documentation about the Oracle 11gR2 installation requirement to the "Configuring Oracle Libraries for RE Loader" section. Added documentation for the following iScripts: ISC_RAP_0105_InMap UpdateTapInfo_StopRapout UpdateTapInfo_Tapin Added documentation for the "StopRapGen" utility. Updated documentation for "Output Controller".
E16710-04	December 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 3. Made minor formatting and text changes. Updated and renamed the following sections: ISC_TAP_0312_Include ISC_TAP_0312_InMap ISC_TAP_0312_Validations ISC_TapDetailValidation_v3_12 ISC_TapHeaderTrailerValidation_v3_12 Added the "Installing RE Loader on Non-IMDB Cache Enabled Systems" topic. Added documentation for policy-driven charging to the following sections: About Discounting Additional Discount Configuration
E16710-05	March 2013	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 4. Made minor formatting and text changes. Added new balance impact EDR fields in Table 36-23. Added documentation for the "RoamingConfigGen64" utility. Added documentation for the "Instances" module. Replaced multidatabase information with multischema information.
E16710-06	July 2013	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 5. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16710-07	August 2013	On HP-UX IA64, BRM 7.5 is certified as of BRM 7.5 Patch Set 5. Documentation added for HP-UX IA64.
E16710-08	February 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 7. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16710-09	May 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 8. Added documentation for the "load_edr_field_mapping" utility.
E16710-10	October 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 10. Updated the documentation about "DAT_PriceModel" and "DAT_Rateplan". Updated the "Starting and Using Suspense Management Center" section.
E16710-11	January 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 11. Updated Table 37-3, "DAT_BalanceBatch Registry Entries".
E16710-12	June 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 12. Made minor formatting and text changes. Added new entries in Table 32-3 and Table 32-5. Added the "Setting Up RE Loader to Load Preprocessed Rated Events from ECE into BRM" topic.
E16710-13	August 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Maintenance Patch Set 1. Replaced the phrase "BRM CDR format" with the phrase "Oracle CDR format". Updated the following sections: Adding Custom Fields to Suspense Management Center Setting Up Logging of Debugging Information
E16710-14	December 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 14. Updated the following rows in Table 1-1, "Functional Modules and Processing Dependencies": FCT_Discount and FCT_ApplyBalance. Updated "FCT_ApplyBalance" dependencies. Updated "FCT_Discount" dependencies. Updated the list of suspense reason codes (see "Suspense Reasons"). In Table 34-6, "Basic Detail Record Fields", changed the maximum value of NUMBER_OF_UNITS. Updated the "FCT_Timer" section.
E16710-15	August 2016	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 16. Updated "ISC_ProfileLabel" dependencies. Updated "pin_discount_cleanup" section.
E16710-16	December 2016	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 17. Updated "DAT_ItemAssign" section.