Oracle® Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising

Release Notes

Release 16.0.2

 

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This document highlights the major changes for 16.0.2 of Data Extractor for Merchandising.

Overview

Data Extractor for Merchandising (ORDE) is packaged within the Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) product suite. It provides packaged data extraction capabilities for sourcing data from the Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) into a flat file format that facilitates loading into the Oracle Retail Merchandising Insights Cloud Service application or the Oracle Retail Merchandising Insights on-premise analytic application.

The Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising provides the functionality to integrate with RMS and extract data in ORDE staging tables and then unload the data into the respective flat files for Oracle Retail Insights consumption.

The primary characteristics of the Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising are:

n    Source Integration Solution: The Retail Data Extractor provides data integration with source applications such as RMS and Retail Price Management (RPM).

n    Performant ETL Code: The Retail Data Extractor data processing tool, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), offers high performance for the database batch processes on an Oracle database.

n    Extensibility: The Retail Data Extractor ETL code can be customized and extended for client-specific needs.

Hardware and Software Requirements

See the Oracle Retail Data Extractor for Merchandising Installation Guide, Release 16.0.2 for information about the following:

n    Hardware and software requirements

n    Oracle Retail application software compatibility

Applying the Patch Release

Before applying the ORDE 16.0.2 patch release, be sure that:

n    ORDE 16.0.1 has been installed

Before applying the patch release over your files:

n    Note whether any modules have been customized. If so, the customizations must be reapplied to the new version of the module, or the fix may need to be applied to the custom version of the code.

n    Copy the original files to a different directory before you copy over them, in case you need to refer to them at a later date.

Running Scripts

Back up data before running any script, because the scripts provided do not preserve data. See defect reports for details.

Check with your database administrator to determine whether your database should be analyzed after a script is run. In many cases, analysis of the database is necessary to take advantage of new or modified indexes intended to improve performance of the application.

Defect Fixes and Documentation

Note The user interface (UI) of this application was developed using the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF). Because the resulting code is closed to modification, defect documents are not being provided for this line of code. For additional information, contact Customer Support.

 

Noteworthy Defect Fixes

The following defect fixes and enhancements are included in ORDE 16.0.2. This is not a complete list; see the cross-reference spreadsheet and defect reports for a complete list and full details.

Table 1  Noteworthy Defect Fixes
Defect Number	Summary
26078815	SDERETAILITEMIMAGEDIMENTIONLOAD fails due to limit in target table column size
26797722	RTV information is not captured for the transaction done from physical warehouse
26976462	Transformable items are not available in Retail Insights
27547855	Supplier invoice fact is having duplicate records
28185414	Misleading transfer in/out information for location

 

Supplemental Training

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Transfer of Information (TOI) Material (ID 732026.1)

For applicable products, online training is available to Oracle supported customers. These online courses provide release-specific product knowledge that enables your functional and technical teams to plan, implement and/or upgrade and support Oracle Retail applications effectively and efficiently.

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