42 Business Operations Center Utilities

This chapter provides reference information for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) utilities for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Business Operations Center.

pin_generate_analytics

Use this utility to generate business metrics data for accounts by status, accounts by subscription, payments, billed revenue, and accounts receivable (A/R) and to load the metrics data into the BRM database. Business Operations Center displays graphs based on the business metrics data generated by this utility.

You can run pin_generate_analytics manually or configure a scheduler, such as cron, to run it at predefined intervals. For more information, see "Generating Business Metrics Data".

Note:

If you run this utility without parameters, data will be generated for all operations: accounts, subscription, payment, billed revenue, and A/R.

For each operation, run this utility only once per day. If you rerun the utility for an operation on the same day, the parameter is ignored and data will not be generated.

Location

BRM_home/apps/pin_generate_analytics

Syntax

pin_generate_analytics [-help] [-verbose] [-acc | -subs | -pymt | -billing | -acc_recv]

Parameters

-help

Displays the syntax and parameters for this utility.

-verbose

Displays information about successful or failed processing as the utility runs.

-acc

Generates business metrics data about the number of subscribers for each status at the time the utility is run.

-subs

Generates business metrics data about the number of subscriptions for each product based on the status of subscription at the time the utility is run.

-pymt

Generates business metrics data about payments collected based on the payment type.

When you run the utility for the first time with this parameter, business metrics data is generated for the previous day. For example, if you run the utility on January 2, business metrics data are generated for January 1.

For subsequent runs, the start date is set to the last run date and the end date is set to the current date.

-billing

Generates business metrics data about the amount billed and the number of bills generated.

When you run the utility for the first time with this parameter, business metrics data is generated for the previous day. For example, if you run the utility on January 2, business metrics data are generated for January 1.

For subsequent runs, the start date is set to the last run date and the end date is set to the current date.

-acc_recv

Generates business metrics data about A/R for the previous 12 months from the date the utility is run.

For example, if you run the utility on March 17, 2016, A/R business metrics data are generated for a period staring from March 17, 2015 until March 17, 2016.

Results

The progress of the program is displayed on the screen.

pin_job_executor

Business Operations Center uses this utility to run BRM applications such as pin_bill_accts, pin_collect, and pin_inv_accts.

Important:

The pin_job_executor utility is run internally by Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Business Operations Center. Do not run this utility from the command line.