Preface

This document provides information about rating roaming usage using Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) TAP Roaming Manager.

Audience

This document is intended for systems integrators, system administrators, database administrators, and other individuals who are responsible for maintaining BRM from release to release.

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Document Revision History

The following table lists the revision history for this book.

Version	Date	Description
E16717-01	November 2011	Initial release.
E16717-02	May 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 1. Minor formatting and text changes.
E16717-03	August 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 2. Minor formatting and text changes. Added the following sections: About Generating Stop Return RAP Files Configuring the Stop RAP Generator Pipeline Updated the following sections: About Roaming About Roaming Incollect Processing Understanding Roaming Incollect Architecture and Process Flow Error Correction for TAP Files with Fatal Errors Error Correction for TAP Files with Severe Errors Configuring Validation Pipeline Function Modules Configuring the RAP Processing Pipeline Function Modules
E16717-04	December 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 3. Minor formatting and text changes. Added the following section: Setting Up TAP Roaming Manager to Support TAP 3.11 Updated the following sections: About Processing Home Subscribers' Roaming Usage Setting Up Pipeline Manager for Roaming Incollect Processing About Processing Visiting Subscribers' Roaming Usage Setting Up Pipeline Manager for Roaming Outcollect Processing RAP to EDR Field Mappings TAP and EDR Field Mappings Detecting Roaming Fraud Using NRTRDE
E16717-05	March 2013	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 4. Minor formatting and text changes.
E16717-06	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.
E16717-07	February 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 7. Minor formatting and text changes.
E16717-08	May 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 8. Minor formatting and text changes.
E16717-09	December 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 14. Moved field mappings from TAP and EDR Input and Output Field Pairs into "TAP and EDR Field Mappings" and removed TAP and EDR Input and Output Field Pairs.