5 Utility Changes from BRM 7.5 to BRM 12.0

Learn about the utility changes that affect your upgrade from Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) 7.5 to BRM 12.0.

Topics in this document:

For information about planning your upgrade implementation, such as setting up your development and test environments, see "About Upgrading BRM Releases".

Note:

To increase security, the permissions for all utility log files has been changed to 0640.

  • BRM 7.5 utility log file permissions: 0664

  • BRM 12.0 utility log file permissions: 0640

New Utilities

Table 5-1 lists the utilities that were added in BRM 12.0.

Table 5-1 New Utilities in BRM 12.0

New Utility Description

pin_create_server_cert

Generates Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates for the BRM server processes.

pin_config_editor

Sets and gets configuration entries for JAVA PCM client applications from the client wallet.

Changed Utilities

Table 5-2 contains a list of the utilities that were changed in BRM 12.0.

Table 5-2 Changed Utilities

Changed Utility Description

pin_crypt_app

Modified to support only Oracle ZT PKI encryption algorithm for encryption and to store or retrieve configuration entries in the Oracle wallet.