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  2. Creating Pricing Setup Components
  3. Configuring Policy Specifications

5 Configuring Policy Specifications

Learn how to configure policy specifications for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) in Pricing Design Center (PDC).

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About Configuring Policy Specifications

You configure policy specifications in PDC for policy-driven charging.

Note:

Policy specifications can be used only with Oracle Communications Elastic Charging Engine (ECE).

After you configure policy specifications, you can import the policy specifications and policy labels from the customized XML files into the PDC database by running the following command:

ImportExportPricing -import -config FileOrDirectoryName

where FileOrDirectoryName specifies either the full path and file name of the import XML file or the directory in which the import XML files reside.

The policy specification is imported into the PDC database and transformed to BRM and ECE.

Configuring Policy Specifications

To configure policy specifications:

  1. Make a copy of the PDC_home/apps/Samples/Examples/SamplePolicyLabel.xml file to customize.

  2. Open the file in a text editor or XML editor.

  3. Add or modify the elements as required.

  4. Save and close the file.

  5. Make a copy of the PDC_home/apps/Samples/Examples/SamplePolicySpecification.xml file to customize.

  6. Open the file in a text editor or XML editor.

  7. Add or modify the elements as required.

  8. Save and close the file.

  9. Go to the directory where you have saved the files.

  10. Import the policy specifications and policy labels from the customized XML files into the PDC database by running the following command:

    ImportExportPricing -import -config FileOrDirectoryName

The policy specifications and policy labels are imported into the PDC database and transformed to ECE.

After you configure policy specifications, you can export the policy specifications and policy labels in PDC to XML files by running the following command:

ImportExportPricing -export -config POLICY_SPECIFICATION
ImportExportPricing -export -config POLICY_LABEL

You can load the updated sample XML files into PDC by using the ImportExportPricing utility. See "ImportExportPricing" for the utility's syntax and parameter descriptions.