Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management

Release Notes

Release 2.0.1 Service Pack 2

E35349-04

March 2014

Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management Release Notes, Release 2.0.1 Service Pack 2 (2.0.1.2.0)

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Preface

These release notes provide an overview of the enhancements, known issues, and other changes in Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management 2.0.1 Service Pack 2.

Audience

This document is intended for anyone installing or using Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management 2.0.1 Service Pack 2.

Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle documents:

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Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management Quick Install Guide

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Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management Installation Guide

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Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management Configuration Guide

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Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management Database Administrator’s Guide

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Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management User’s Guide

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Release Notes

These release notes provide general information about the release including the new functionality being released, known issues and other important information.

Refer to the quick install guide and installation guide for information regarding supported platforms and installation steps.

Please visit My Oracle Support (http://support.oracle.com) for the most recent service packs and patches for this release to ensure you have the most current version of this product.

This guide includes the following:

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Product Overview

• Relationship Between 2.0.1 Service Pack 2 and Prior Versions

• Supported Platforms Notice

• Integration Information

• New Functionality

• Oracle Utilities Application Framework Enhancements

• Demo Data Information

Product Overview

Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management (ODM) provides functionality to handle large volumes of the Utilities industry devices and to manage the receipt, installation, maintenance, tracking and removal of those devices.

The application is comprised of two functional components which are built on top of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework:

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Oracle Utilities Asset Management BaseProvides the repository for asset information to be used by all current and future Oracle Utilities Asset Management applications.

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Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management

Relationship Between 2.0.1 Service Pack 2 and Prior Versions

This release supports the following update paths:

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First Install: If this is your first time installing Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management you must install versions in this order:

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Release 2.0.1.0.0

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Service Pack 1 (2.0.1.1.0)

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Install Service Pack 2 (2.0.1.2.0)

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Update : If you have already installed Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management v2.0.1.1.0:

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Install Service Pack 2 (2.0.1.2.0)

For the complete installation/upgrade procedure, refer to the Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management Installation Guide.

Update Notes

In order to provide better tracking of firmware versions, the Child Specification maintenance object including the Firmware Version business object implementation were introduced in version 2.0.1.1.0. Due to the nature of the database enhancements required to implement this functionality, firmware versions of existing Firmware Specifications from version 2.0.1.0.0 previously stored as static values in the BO data area column, need to be set up manually as Firmware Version business object instances.

In addition, the following scripts must be executed to update the specification class of existing firmware specifications to W1FW and the asset identifier of existing specification identifiers to W1AF.

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UPDATE w1_specification SET spec_class_flg = 'W1FW' WHERE spec_class_flg='W2FW'

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UPDATE w1_specification_identifier SET specification_id_type_flg = 'W1AF' WHERE specification_id_type_flg='W2AF'

Supported Platforms Notice

See the Supported Platforms section of the Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management Quick Install Guide included in this release for the complete list of supported platforms.

Integration Information

The following integrations are supported in this version of Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management:

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Oracle Utilities Analytics, 2.5.0

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Oracle Utilities Integration for Device Operations, Release 11.1 (integration with Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management)

Please refer to the integration documentation available on the Oracle Technology Network for more information.

New Functionality

This service pack is to provide bug fixes and update the Oracle Utilities Application Framework version.

Oracle Utilities Application Framework Enhancements

This release includes Oracle Utilities Application Framework version 4.2.0 Service Pack 2, which contains some enhancements. For information about these enhancements, refer to any of the following:

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The white paper titled "Service Pack 2 (V4.2.0.2.0) Release Notes Oracle Utilities Application Framework" This provides more information on specific product modifications. This is included with the documentation set that was delivered with this release.

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The Oracle Utilities Application Framework administration guide and business process guideThese are included with the documentation set that was delivered with this release.

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The white paper titled " What's New In Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4" This will be available on My Oracle Support at http://support.oracle.com (Article ID 1177265.1).

Demo Data Information

The application delivers a demo database based on the application versions provided with the release, including Oracle Utilities Application Framework. Demo data provides sample configuration and data for key application features.

Demo data is delivered as part of the base installation. Please refer to the Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management Database Administrator’s Guide for more information or contact Oracle Support.

Oracle recommends that you do not clone the demonstration environment as a basis for a new production environment. The demonstration environment typically includes transactional data that will be irrelevant to your production environment and can cause unexpected issues if it is not purged correctly. The recommended process is to start a new production environment from a new installation and migrate "clean" system data (such as business objects and algorithms) and administrative data (such as sample activity types or other administrative entities) from the demonstration and/or test or development environments as applicable.

Please refer to the configuration guide for more information or contact Oracle Support.