Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Accessing Oracle Communications Documentation
• Documentation Accessibility
• Document Revision History

1 Summary of Customer-Reported Fixes

• Customer-Reported Fixes
• Fixed Known Problems

2 New Features

• New Features in BRM 7.5 Patch Set 23
• Accounts Receivable Enhancements
  • Wildcard in Item Type Selectors (Patch Set 22)
  • Bill-Level Adjustments Improved for Fully or Partially Paid Bills (Patch Set 18)
• Billing Enhancements
  • View Bills Generated Before Moving the Account to a Hierarchy (Patch Set 23)
  • General Ledger Data Can Now Be Collected for Trial Billing (Patch Set 18)
  • Skip the Previous Total Unpaid Bill for Open Item Accounting Type When Calculating the Current Bill (Patch Set 14)
• Business Operations Center Enhancements
  • Resolving Failed Payments (Patch Set 17)
  • Synchronizing Product Catalogs (Patch Set 17)
  • Refunding Payments (Patch Set 17)
  • Configuring and Scheduling Jobs (Patch Set 17)
  • Filtering Jobs (Patch Set 17)
  • Settling Preauthorized Credit Card Transactions (Patch Set 17)
• Customer Management Enhancements
  • Managing Discount Validity Starting or Ending in Future Cycles (Patch Set 23)
  • Support for Incremental Migration of Legacy Service and Balance Data into BRM and ECE (Patch Set 22)
  • BRM Now Applies Proration Rules to All Product Purchases or Cancellations (Patch Set 19)
  • Retrieval of Product Details Improved for Product Purchase (Patch Set 18)
  • Logging External User Information in Error Logs (Patch Set 14)
• Event Notification Enhancements
  • Regular Expressions Now Supported in the Event Notification List (Patch Set 16)
• LDAP Manager Enhancements
  • Secure Communication between LDAP Data Manager and Connection Manager (Patch Set 22)
  • Secure Communication between LDAP Manager and LDAP Directory Severs (Patch Set 17)
• Payments Enhancements
  • Support for Stored-Credential Transactions for Payments (Patch Set 23)
  • Additional Card Security Presence Values Supported for Card Validation or Authorization (Patch Set 23)
  • Card Security Code Is Now Masked in Logs (Patch Set 23)
  • Delay Interval Can be Configured for Resolving Failed Payments (Patch Set 21)
    • Configuring Delay Interval for Resolving Failed Payments
  • Improved Payment Allocation Performance (Patch Set 17)
  • Improving Suspended Payment Handling by Using Multiple Payment Suspense Accounts (Patch Set 14)
  • Payment Tool Now Supports Making Payments in Any Currency (Patch Set 14)
• Pipeline Manager Enhancements
  • Pipeline Manager Can Now Support 28-Digit Decimal (Patch Set 23)
• Rating Enhancements
  • BRM Supports POID Generation in ECE (Patch Set 22)
  • Improved BRM-to-ECE Data Synchronization (Patch Set 22)
  • BRM-to-ECE Data Updates Are Now Synchronized in Real Time (Patch Set 15)
  • BRM Now Sends Account-Level Details to ECE During Rerating (Patch Set 15)
• Support and Certification Enhancements
  • BRM 7.5 Now Supports Oracle Database 18c R1 and Oracle Real Application Clusters 18c R1 (Patch Set 23)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Perl 5.28.1 (Patch Set 23)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Java JRE 1.8.0_201 (Patch Set 23)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Business Intelligence Publisher 12c (Patch Set 23)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Apache Xerces-C++ 3.2.2 and HttpComponents HttpClient 4.5.8 (Patch Set 23)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Perl 5.28.0 (Patch Set 22)
  • BRM Client Applications and PCC are Now Certified on Windows 10 (Patch Set 22)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Apache Xerces-C++ 3.2.1 and Xerces-J (Java) 2.12.0 (Patch Set 22)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Vertex Communications Tax Q Series 3.00.02 (Patch Set 22)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Vertex Sales Tax Q Series 5.0 (Patch Set 22)
  • BRM 7.5 Now Supports Oracle Database 12c R2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters 12c R2 (Patch Set 22)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Perl 5.26.1 (Patch Set 21)
  • Web Services Manager Is Now Certified on Apache Tomcat 8.5.16 (Patch Set 21)
  • Xalan-Java and Xalan-C++ are Replaced With Oracle XDK (Patch Set 21)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Vertex Communications Tax Q Series 3.0 (Patch Set 20)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Perl 5.24.0 (Patch Set 18)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Xalan-Java 2.7.2 (Patch Set 16)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Apache Xerces-C++ 3.1.4 (Patch Set 16)
  • Web Services Manager Is Now Certified on Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Enterprise Edition 12.2.1 (Patch Set 16)
  • BRM 7.5 Now Supports Solaris 11.x (Patch Set 15)
  • BRM 7.5 Now Includes Business Operations Center (Patch Set 15)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Business Intelligence Publisher 11.1.1.9 (Patch Set 15)
  • BRM 7.5 Is Now Certified with Apache Xerces-C++ 3.1.3 (Patch Set 15)
  • BRM 7.5 Supports Oracle Linux 7.x and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x (Patch Set 15)
  • BRM 7.5 No Longer Supports Oracle Linux 4.x and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x (Patch Set 15)
  • Web Services Manager Is Now Certified on Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (Patch Set 14)
• System Administration Enhancements
  • Enhanced Data Protection (Patch Set 22)
  • Enhanced Security for Root Wallet (Patch Set 20)
  • BRM Now Supports Modifying the Root Encryption Key (Patch Set 14)
• Web Services Manager Enhancements
  • Web Services Manager Now Supports SOAP 1.2 (Patch Set 17)
  • Web Services Manager now Supports OAuth 2.0 for Authentication and Authorization (Patch Set 16)
  • Web Services Manager Now Uses WebLogic Server Security Policy to Authorize and Authenticate BRM Web Services (Patch Set 14)
  • Web Services Manager Now Uses the JAX-WS Framework to Support SOAP Web Services as an XML Element Payload (Patch Set 14)

3 Opcode Changes

• New Opcodes
  • New Standard Opcodes
    • Balance FM Standard Opcodes
    • Job FM Standard Opcodes
• Changed Opcodes
  • Changed Policy Opcodes
  • Changed Standard Opcodes

4 Storable Class Changes

• New Storable Classes
• Changed Storable Classes

5 Schema and Index Changes

• Schema and Index Changes (Patch Set 23)
• Schema and Index Changes (Patch Set 22)
• Schema and Index Changes (Patch Set 21)
• Schema and Index Changes (Patch Set 20)
• Schema and Index Changes (Patch Set 18)
• Schema and Index Changes (Patch Set 17)
• Schema and Index Changes (Patch Set 16)
• Schema and Index Changes (Patch Set 15)
• Schema and Index Changes (Patch Set 14)

6 Utility Changes

• New Utilities
• Changed Utilities

7 Documentation Updates

• Documentation Updates in Patch Set 16
  • Renamed Business Operations Center to Revenue Assurance Center
• Documentation Updates in Patch Set 15
  • Oracle Application Server Information Removed
• Documentation Updates in Patch Set 14
  • Updates to BRM 7.5 TAP and EDR Field Mappings

8 Known Problems

• Billing
  • Allocation of a Bill-Level Adjustment with Tax to an Item Does Not Work
• BRM API
  • Cannot Use the Customized Policy Opcodes
  • PCM_OP_CUST_SET_PAYINFO Sets the Wrong Invoice Type
• BRM Client Applications
  • BRM Client Applications Using the Java PCM API Cannot Connect to a BRM Server Listening on a Specific IPv6 Address
  • BRM 7.5 Patch Set 7 Client Applications Cannot be Uninstalled on Windows XP
• BRM Database
  • The pin_virtual_gen Utility Fails in an AIX Environment
  • Error When Running BRM 7.5 Patch Set Database Upgrade Scripts from an Oracle Database 12c Client Connected to an Oracle Database 12c Server
  • Error When Running pin_rel with BRM Running on Oracle Database 10g
  • Error When Running pin_setup with BRM Running on Oracle Database 12c
• BRM Multischema Systems
  • - dm primary_schema Does Not Work
• BRM Software Packages
  • Java 1.8 Must Be Uninstalled Before Installing BRM Software Packages That Use the ISMP Installation Method
• Collections Manager
  • Collections Action Dependencies May Reschedule Actions Incorrectly
• Developer Utilities
  • The pin_bus_params Utility Displays Warning messages
• EAI Manager
  • stop_eai_js Does Not Work
• Event Browser
  • Event Browser Displays Data Internal to BRM in the Event Description
• Invoicing
  • Cannot Generate Invoices When Running the pin_inv_doc_gen Utility in an AIX Environment
  • pin_inv_accts Fails for Migrated Accounts if Business Intelligence Publisher Invoicing Integration Is Enabled
  • pin_inv_doc_gen Fails with JDK 1.7.0_171 or Later
• Payment Tool
  • Payment Tool Does Not Work on Windows XP
• Revenue Assurance Center
  • Revenue Assurance Center Cannot be Uninstalled on Windows
• Service Lifecycle Management
  • Sample Prepaid Service Life Cycle Does Not Support Provisioning of Telco Services
  • The SLM Feature Does Not Support Account Billing Relationships
• Web Services Manager
  • Error When Configuring or Modifying Security Policies for Web Services Manager for JAX-WS