Preface

This guide describes how to collect and manage payments data in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM).

Audience

This guide is intended for developers and system administrators.

Accessing Oracle Communications Documentation

BRM documentation and additional Oracle documentation; such as Oracle Database documentation, is available from Oracle Help Center:

http://docs.oracle.com

Additional Oracle Communications documentation is available from the Oracle software delivery Web site:

https://edelivery.oracle.com

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Document Revision History

The following table lists the revision history for this book.

Version	Date	Description
E16712-01	November 2011	Initial release.
E16712-02	May 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 1. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16712-03	August 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 2. Added an example in "Specifying the Batch Mode Encryption Key".
E16712-04	December 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 3. Updated "Reserving Resources for Concurrent Network Sessions" for policy-driven charging. Added the section "Improved Performance of Searches for Payment Events in Payment Center".
E16712-05	March 2013	Replaced multidatabase information with multischema information.
E16712-06	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.
E16712-07	February 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 7. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16712-08	May 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 8. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16712-09	August 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 9. Made minor formatting and text changes. Added information about SEPA payment processing in the section "BRM-Initiated Payment Processing". Added information about SEPA Direct Debit reversal in the section "How BRM Reverses Payments". Added the new chapter "About SEPA Payment Processing". Added the new payment utility "pin_sepa". Added SEPA payment type to pin_collect utility.
E16712-10	October 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 10. Updated the following sections: About Payment Incentive Processing Running Payment Tool on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Added the following sections: About Credit Card Tokenization About Replacing Credit Card Numbers with Tokens About Migrating Credit Card Information from Legacy Databases Enabling Credit Card Tokenization pin_cc_migrate
E16712-11	June 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 12. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16712-12	December 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 14. Updated the following section: BRM-Initiated Payment Processing Creating a Payment Suspense Account Adding a Cash Reversal Batch About Searching for Payments Adding Direct Debit Details to the Customer Center Payments Tab Customizing Payment Suspense Validation Working with Multiple Currency Types in the Payment Tool Added information about suspense account in "About Searching for Suspense Accounts".
E16712-13	August 2016	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 16. Added the following section: Resolving Payments for Custom Pay Types
E16712-14	December 2016	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 17. Added the following sections: Improving Payment Allocation Performance Enabling Overallocation to an Item