24.1 What's New In This Release?

Oracle Reports 12c Release (12.2.1.1) provides improved diagnosability through proactive alerts and notifications, and logging and tracing enhancements, as outlined in Table 24-1 (a subset of Table 1-1, "12 c Functionality vs. 10g Functionality"):

Table 24-1 12c Diagnosability Features vs. 10g Functionality

12c New Features	Equivalent 10g Functionality
Log files in ODL format. All Oracle Reports log files follow Oracle Diagnostic Logging (ODL) format, the standard across Oracle Fusion Middleware, for log format, message types, and log management directives. The log file entries are in Text format (default) or XML format. Searching of log files from Oracle Enterprise Manager is easy and effective.	Not Applicable (N/A)
More comprehensive choices for tracing: Multiple tracing levels for fine-grained control. New tracing options: NOTIFICATION, WARNING, ERROR (standardized across Oracle Fusion Middleware components). Better naming convention, mechanism to control file size.	N/A
Extensive diagnostic enhancements. Improved actionable errors with cause and action, job search using ECID, critical errors logged even when tracing is off, better health check mechanisms, and hyperlinks to contextual help and error message registry.	N/A

12c New Features

Equivalent 10g Functionality

Log files in ODL format. All Oracle Reports log files follow Oracle Diagnostic Logging (ODL) format, the standard across Oracle Fusion Middleware, for log format, message types, and log management directives. The log file entries are in Text format (default) or XML format. Searching of log files from Oracle Enterprise Manager is easy and effective.

Not Applicable (N/A)

More comprehensive choices for tracing:

Multiple tracing levels for fine-grained control.
New tracing options: NOTIFICATION, WARNING, ERROR (standardized across Oracle Fusion Middleware components).
Better naming convention, mechanism to control file size.

N/A

Extensive diagnostic enhancements. Improved actionable errors with cause and action, job search using ECID, critical errors logged even when tracing is off, better health check mechanisms, and hyperlinks to contextual help and error message registry.

N/A