Contents

Release Notes

- Data Conversions

- Software Support

- Product Enhancements

- New Sections

- Clarification/Notification Request (C/NR) Form

- Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC) Form

- New Fields

- Transport Form

- Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC) Form

- Confirmation Notice (CN) Form

- ASR CORBA APIs Deprecated

- ASOG Issues Implemented

- Documentation Accessibility

Oracle® Communications MetaSolv Solution ASR

Release Notes

Release 58.0

F12850-01

January 2019

This document describes the enhancements that are introduced and the Access Service Ordering Guidelines (ASOG) issues that have been implemented in Oracle Communications MetaSolv Solution Access Service Request (ASR) 58.

This document consists of the following sections:

- Data Conversions

- Software Support

- Product Enhancements

- ASR CORBA APIs Deprecated

- ASOG Issues Implemented

See ASR Installation Guide for instructions about installing ASR 58.

Data Conversions

The ASR58BD.sql file is included in this release. The installer provides all upgrades to MetaSolv Solution executable files and stored procedure files (Procs directory).

Software Support

MetaSolv Solution 6.3.0 supports ASR 58 on the following software versions:

- Oracle Enterprise Linux Server 6.6 (or later) and 7.1 (or later)

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.6 (or later) and 7.1 (or later)

- Oracle Solaris 11.2 or later

- IBM AIX 7.1 Update 1

- HP-UX Itanium 11.31 Update 7

- Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016

- Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (12.2.1.3)

- Oracle Database 12cR2 (12.2.0.1)

- JacORB 3.8

Product Enhancements

The following sections provide information about the new enhancements in ASR 58:

- New Sections

- New Fields

New Sections

This section provides information about the new sections that have been added in the forms.

Clarification/Notification Request (C/NR) Form

The C/NR form now includes the following new section:

Address Modification Section

This section contains the following fields:

- Address Number (SANO)

- Address Number Prefix (SAPR)

- Address Number Suffix (SASF)

- City (CITY)

- Country

- Location Designator #1 (LD1)

- Location Designator #2 (LD2)

- Location Designator #3 (LD3)

- Location Value #1 (LV1)

- Location Value #2 (LV2)

- Location Value #3 (LV3)

- Primary Location Indicator (PI)

- Reference Number (REF NUM)

- State

- Street Directional Prefix (SASD)

- Street Directional Suffix (SASS)

- Street Name (SASN)

- Street Type (SATH)

- SUP Indicator (SUPI)

- ZIP/Postal Code (ZIP)

Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC) Form

The EVC form now includes the following new section:

Operations Administrative and Maintenance Detail Section

This section contains the following fields:

- Maintenance Entity Group Level (MEG-L)

- Maintenance End Point Identifier (MEP ID)

- Operations Administrative & Maintenance Activity (OAM ACT)

- Peer MEP ID Activity Indicator (P-ACT)

- Peer MEP ID (P-MID)

- Short Maintenance Association Name (SMAN)

- Short Maintenance Association Name Format (SMANF)

- Subscriber MEG MIP (SMM)

New Fields

This section provides information about the new fields that have been added in the forms.

Transport Form

The following new field has been added in the Transport form:

- Latency (LATENCY)

Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC) Form

The following new field has been added in the EVC form:

- Operations Administrative & Maintenance Indicator (OAM-IND)

Confirmation Notice (CN) Form

The following new fields have been added in the CN form:

- Maintenance End Point Identifier (MEP ID)

- Peer MEP ID (P-MID)

- Short Maintenance Association Name (SMAN)

ASR CORBA APIs Deprecated

With this release, Oracle deprecates support for the CORBA APIs and will remove support for those APIs and render them obsolete in ASR 59. Oracle recommends that you use ASR Web Services to integrate ASR with other Oracle products or with external applications. See ASR Web Services Developer's Guide for more information about the ASR Web Services.

ASOG Issues Implemented

Table 1 describes the Access Service Ordering Guidelines (ASOG) issues that have been implemented in this release.

Table 1 ASOG Issues

Issue Number

Description

3607

A new Address Modification Section has been added in the C/NR form. See "Address Modification Section" for the list of fields in this section.

The valid entry changes and valid entry notes changes for the Clarification/Notification Type (CNT) field have been implemented in the Clarification/Notification Request (C/NR) form.

The UI and API usage validation changes and definition changes have been implemented for the SUP Indicator (SUPI) field in the Clarification/Notification Request (C/NR) form.

3611

The UI and API usage validation changes and definition changes have been implemented for the Customer Signaling Point Code (CSPC) field in the Trunking form.

3613

The valid entry changes have been implemented for the Response Type Requested (RTR) field in the Administrative section of the Access Service Request (ASR) form.

3615

A new Operations Administrative and Maintenance Detail Section has been added in the Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC) form. See "Operations Administrative and Maintenance Detail Section" for the list of fields in this section.

A new Operations Administrative & Maintenance Indicator (OAM-IND) field has been added in the EVC form.

The following new fields have been added in the Confirmation Notice (CN) form:

- Maintenance End Point Identifier (MEP ID)

- Peer MEP ID (P-MID)

- Short Maintenance Association Name (SMAN)

The valid entry notes changes have been implemented for the following fields in the EVC form:

- CE-VLAN Identification Preservation (CEV-P)

- CE-VLAN Class of Service Preservation (CEV-CP)

- Level of Service Activity Indicator (LOSACT)

- Color Mode Identifier (Ingress) (CMI-I)

- Bandwidth Coupling Flag (Ingress) (BCF-I)

The UI and API usage validation changes and definition changes have been implemented for the following fields in the EVC form:

- Number of UNI/ENNI Terminations (NUT)

- Excess Information Rate (Ingress) (EIR-I)

- Excess Burst Size (Ingress) (EBS-I)

3616

The valid entry changes and valid entry notes changes have been implemented for the General Exchange Tariff Options Code (GETO) field in the following forms:

- Dedicated Internet Service (DIS)

- Multipoint Service Legs (MSL)

- Private Internet Protocol (PIP)

- Switched Ethernet Services (SES)

- Transport

- WATS Access Line (WAL)

The valid entry changes and valid entry notes changes have been implemented for the following fields in the End User Special Access (EUSA) form:

- GETO (PRILOC)

- GETO (SECLOC)

The UI and API usage validation changes and definition changes have been implemented for the General Exchange Tariff Options Billing Telephone Number (GBTN) field in the following forms:

- Multipoint Service Legs (MSL)

- Switched Ethernet Services (SES)

- Transport

The UI and API usage validation changes and definition changes have been implemented for the following fields in the End User Special Access (EUSA) form:

- GBTN (PRILOC)

- GBTN (SECLOC)

The UI and API usage validation changes and definition changes have been implemented for the General Exchange Tariff Options Billing Telephone Number (GBTN) field in the following forms:

- Private Internet Protocol (PIP)

- Dedicated Internet Service (DIS)

The UI and API usage validation changes and definition changes have been implemented for the Inside Wire Billing Account Number (IWBAN) field in the Administrative section of the Access Service Request (ASR) form.

3617

A new latency (Latency) field has been added in the Transport form.

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