Oracle® Retail Merchandising System

Release Notes

Release 14.1.3

 

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February 2017

Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) Release 14.1.3 is a patch release for RMS 14.1. RMS 14.1.3 includes selected defect fixes and enhancements for RMS 14.1 code.

Oracle Customer Support investigates submitted issues assuming that all released updates have been applied. It is the customer's decision when to apply a new release; however, delays in applying updates can complicate the support process.

This document contains the following topics:

n        Overview

n        About Patch Releases

n        Hardware and Software Requirements

n        Applying the Patch Release

n        Running Scripts

n        Defect Fixes and Documentation

n        RMS Noteworthy Defect Fixes

n        RMS Related Documentation

n        Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA)

n        Documentation Accessibility

Overview

Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) is used to execute core merchandising activities, including merchandise management, inventory replenishment, purchasing, vendor management, and financial tracking.

Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA) provides the tools to evaluate point-of-sale data to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information exported to downstream systems used in optimization processes, financial reporting, and analysis.

About Patch Releases

Oracle Retail patch releases are periodic releases that can include the following:

n        New defect fixes

n        Product enhancements

n        Technical upgrades

Documentation for patch releases includes the following:

n         New and updated guides (for example, operations and user guides) that apply to the patch release level. See RMS Related Documentation for a list of the documents published for RMS 14.1.3.

n        Defect reports for new fixes and enhancements for the patch release.

Note

Customers must apply the entire patch release to update their installation to the currently supported level.

 

See the Oracle Retail Merchandising System Installation Guide and Oracle Retail Sales Audit Installation Guide for Release 14.1.3 for instructions about how to apply the defect fixes and enhancements that you have not already applied.

Hardware and Software Requirements

See the Oracle Retail Merchandising Installation Guide and Oracle Retail Sales Audit Installation Guide for additional information about the following:

n        Hardware and software requirements

n        Oracle Retail application software compatibility

Applying the Patch Release

Before applying the RMS 14.1.3 patch release, be sure that:

n        RMS 14.1.2 has been installed.

n        ReSA 14.1.2 has been installed.

Before applying the new files over your code:

n        Note whether any modules have been customized. If so, the customizations must be reapplied to the new version of the module, or the fix may need to be applied to the custom version of the code.

n        Copy the original files to a different directory before you copy over them, in case you need to refer to them at a later date.

Running Scripts

Back up data before running any script, because the scripts provided do not preserve data. See defect reports for details.

Check with your database administrator to determine whether your database should be analyzed after a script is run. In many cases, an analysis of the database is necessary to take advantage of new or modified indexes intended to improve performance of the application.

Defect Fixes and Documentation

A defect fix is a modification to the base Oracle Retail code (for example, a bug fix, a performance enhancement, or a functional enhancement). Each defect fix that is included in this patch has a corresponding defect report titled <defect-number>.PDF (for example, 1234567.PDF) that is posted to My Oracle Support at the following location: Oracle Retail Defect Document Listings (MOS ID:2021275.1).

In the same folder, the file named DEFECT MODULE XREF RMS 14.1.3.XLS lists every defect number and the modules and scripts that are included in the patch. Review each defect report carefully before implementing the defect fixes. Note that scripts do not preserve data. Make sure that all data is backed up before you run any script.

RMS Noteworthy Defect Fixes

The following RMS noteworthy defects are fixed in this release:

Defect

Description

24010782               

Replenishment does not consider allocation made from WH stock or from transfers.

24355521               

Item induction - process_cascade_vi fails.

23506100

Store add async process with like store fails when new store ID exists in addr.

25223771               

Dealfct does not update forecast ind to 'a' in the deal_actuals_forecast.

25221831

Inv adj for a simple pack when store/wh is not ranged to pack and comp items.

25133771               

Source WH for virtual warehouse is not copied for pack item.

25116174

PO item pack component showing wrong received quantity.

22698372

Bulk processing of xorder messages is failing with the error ora-14450.

22140817               

fifgldn1 does not retrieve the correct GL mapping for a tran code with two GL.

22120024               

Xcostchg throws ora-14450 - attempt to access a transactional temp table.

25243692

Item induction - able to delete the primary location on ISCL.

25112404               

Xitem modification requires a short description.

24737173

Aq messages are not processing.

22698372

Bulk processing of xorder messages is failing with the error ora-14450

 

RMS Related Documentation

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Retail Merchandising System release 14.1.3 documentation set:

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising System Installation Guide

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising System Operations Guide

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising System Data Model

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising System Data Access Schema Data Model

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising System Batch Schedule

Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA)

Oracle Retail Sales Audit (ReSA) Release 14.1.3 is a patch release for ReSA 14.1 and includes selected defect fixes and enhancements for ReSA 14.1 code.

ReSA Noteworthy Defect Fixes

The following ReSA noteworthy defects are fixed in this release:

Defect

Description

24502966

The SIMT file does not accommodate the register ID.

25207833

ReSA store day does not close due to the mismatch of RTlog count with ORPOS.

24805068

ReSA transaction maintenance window throws an adf_faces-60096 error.

24450129

ReSA AM pool tuning 14.1.X environment.

23557629

Platform 3.0.5.4 uptake for ReSA Release 14.1.2.

24849867

Upgrade from FMW 11.1.1.7 to 11.1.1.9 for ReSA.

 

ReSA Related Documentation

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Retail Sales Audit release 14.1.3 documentation set:

n        Oracle Retail Sales Audit Installation Guide

n        Oracle Retail Merchandising Batch Schedule

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

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