L.13 Additional Configuration Needed for Economic Cost Web Services

Economic Cost Web Services make Java Native Interface call to invoke the calculation engine. So the expectation is that the calculation engine libraries to be available in the same box, where the web service is deployed. In your environment, if the webs server and FIC Server are on different boxes, follow these additional setups to use the Economic Cost Web Services:

  1. Copy the $FIC_DB_HOME /bin/ftp to a folder in Webserver. Update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to this folder.
  2. Update the user profile on the web server box with the following:
    • Update LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the Oracle client and Java installations.
    • Add the following in the NLSPATH=$FIC_DB_HOME/conf/en_US/ofsmsg.cat file.
export NLSPATH
INIPATH=$FIC_DB_HOME/conf
export INIPATH
export LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x40000000

Upgrade of Economic Cost web service from v8.0.6.x to v8.1

To upgrade of Economic cost web service from version 8.0.6 to 8.1 requires the deletion of few legacy jars from the deployment area. The script ofs_ftp_webservice_clean_up.sh deletes these legacy jars. Copy this script file on the OFSAA server and execute it. You must execute the script before the creation of the web service war file.