Oracle® Retail Integration Bus

Release Notes

Release 14.1.1

E63046-01

May 2015

Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) Release 14.1.1 is a patch release for RIB 14.1. RIB 14.1.1 includes selected defect fixes and enhancements for RIB 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 Functional Enhancements

n Technical Enhancements

n Defect Fixes and Documentation

n Related Documentation

n Documentation Accessibility

Overview

The Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) is a fully distributed integration infrastructure that uses Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) to integrate applications. RIB enables various Oracle Retail applications to integrate in asynchronous and near real time fashion. RIB provides additional value added business and infrastructure services to the Oracle Retail applications in addition to providing integration connectivity.

About Patch Releases

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

n New defect fixes

n Product enhancements

n Technology upgrades

n Performance fixes

Documentation for patch releases includes new and updated guides (for example, Operations Guides, User Guides, and so on) that apply to the patch release level. These documents include applicable updates made since the last patch release. Documents revised for this patch release supersede and replace all previous document versions. See "Related Documentation" for a list of the documents published for RIB Release 14.1.1.

Note

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

Hardware and Software Requirements

See the Oracle Retail Integration Bus Installation Guide for information about the following:

n Hardware and software requirements

n Oracle Retail application software compatibility

Applying the Patch Release

RIB releases are full releases of the application code. Follow the instructions in the Oracle Retail Integration Bus Installation Guide to install the full product, including all defect fixes to date.

Functional Enhancements

This section addresses the functional enhancements included in Oracle Retail Integration Bus Release 14.1.1:

Defect Number	Summary	Requesting Application/Product	Objects changed
20640187	There are no placeholders to enter ADJUSTMENT_TYPE and ADJUSTMENT _VALUE while creating an IC Transfer and the Transfer_Price field is being populated as NULL in the tsfdetail table.	RMS	XTsf
20601626	To support the NF Request process for 14.1.1 Oracle Retail Fiscal Management (ORFM), a new function is provided to consume ShipInfo message. The syntax is described below: PACKAGE: FM_SHIPINFO_SQL FUNCTION: CONSUME PARAMETERS:O_status_code IN OUT VARCHAR2, O_error_message IN OUT RTK_ERRORS.RTK_TEXT%TYPE, I_message_type IN VARCHAR2, I_message IN RIB_OBJECT	ORFM	NA
20446047	Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System (RWMS) 14.0 and greater only supports Inbound Pending Return messages received via the Web Service Interface. There can be no alternative methods for RWMS to receive Inbound Pending Return messages from Order Management System (OMS) or any other external system. RIB should not support external integrations that use the RIB topic (etpendreturn) for Inbound Return messages. Based on this assumption, the RDMSUB_PENDRETURN package, which was getting called from etpendreturn, is removed from the RWMS.	RWMS	NA
20656334	Two new fields have been included in the ShipInfoDesc payload to enter the FromLocationType and ToLocationType values.	RMS/RWMS/SIM	ShipInfoDesc ADD -> <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="to_loc_type" type="varchar25"> <xs:element name="from_loc_type" type="varchar25">
20068721	Modify the RIB object RIB_BrFulfilOrdCustDesc_REC to support ORFM Customer Information modification requirement.	ORFM	NA
20305658	Allocation context type and value discarded in stock order messages.	Allocation	NA
20197684	Modify a set of RIB objects to support RMS/ORFM.	RMS/ORFM	NA
20068711	Create a new RIB object RIB_BrFulfilOrdCustPmt_REC to support the ORFM Customer Information Fulfilorder modification requirement.	ORFM	NA
20754744	The IE_EXEMPT column is missing in the STG_SUPS_L10N_EXT_BR_T table.	NA	BrSupAttr: ADD -> <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="ie_exempt" type="varchar21"> <retailDoc:annotation> <retailDoc:documentation> State Inscription exempt. </retailDoc:documentation> </retailDoc:annotation> </xs:element>
20694645	Modify the RIB_AllocDesc_REC payload to include the Allocation Status field.	Allocation	Alloc_status VARCHAR2(1) Not NULL Description - This field describes the current status of the Allocation being published.

Technical Enhancements

This section addresses the technical enhancements included in Oracle Retail Integration Bus Release 14.1.1.

Note

The list below announces the addition of Oracle Retail support for the technology described. See the Installation Guide requirements section for critical information, such as whether the enhancement below replaces previous versions or is supported in addition to already existing versions.

Database Server Support

Oracle Retail Integration Bus Release 14.1.1 is supported for use with the following database server:

n Oracle Database 12.1.0.2

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).

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.

Related Documentation

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Retail Integration Bus, Release 14.1.1 documentation set:

n Oracle Retail Integration Bus Installation Guide

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Oracle® Retail Integration Bus Release Notes, Release 14.1.1

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Value-Added Reseller (VAR) Language

Oracle Retail VAR Applications

The following restrictions and provisions only apply to the programs referred to in this section and licensed to you. You acknowledge that the programs may contain third party software (VAR applications) licensed to Oracle. Depending upon your product and its version number, the VAR applications may include:

(i) the MicroStrategy Components developed and licensed by MicroStrategy Services Corporation (MicroStrategy) of McLean, Virginia to Oracle and imbedded in the MicroStrategy for Oracle Retail Data Warehouse and MicroStrategy for Oracle Retail Planning & Optimization applications.

(ii) the Wavelink component developed and licensed by Wavelink Corporation (Wavelink) of Kirkland, Washington, to Oracle and imbedded in Oracle Retail Mobile Store Inventory Management.

(iii) the software component known as Access Via™ licensed by Access Via of Seattle, Washington, and imbedded in Oracle Retail Signs and Oracle Retail Labels and Tags.

(iv) the software component known as Adobe Flex™ licensed by Adobe Systems Incorporated of San Jose, California, and imbedded in Oracle Retail Promotion Planning & Optimization application.

You acknowledge and confirm that Oracle grants you use of only the object code of the VAR Applications. Oracle will not deliver source code to the VAR Applications to you. Notwithstanding any other term or condition of the agreement and this ordering document, you shall not cause or permit alteration of any VAR Applications. For purposes of this section, "alteration" refers to all alterations, translations, upgrades, enhancements, customizations or modifications of all or any portion of the VAR Applications including all reconfigurations, reassembly or reverse assembly, re-engineering or reverse engineering and recompilations or reverse compilations of the VAR Applications or any derivatives of the VAR Applications. You acknowledge that it shall be a breach of the agreement to utilize the relationship, and/or confidential information of the VAR Applications for purposes of competitive discovery.

The VAR Applications contain trade secrets of Oracle and Oracle's licensors and Customer shall not attempt, cause, or permit the alteration, decompilation, reverse engineering, disassembly or other reduction of the VAR Applications to a human perceivable form. Oracle reserves the right to replace, with functional equivalent software, any of the VAR Applications in future releases of the applicable program.