2 Feature Summary
This chapter describes the feature enhancements in this release.
Noteworthy Enhancements
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in the Oracle Retail Data Store update and describes any tasks you might need to perform for the update. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.
Column Definitions
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Feature: Provides a description of the feature being delivered.
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Module Impacted: Identifies the module impacted associated with the feature, if any.
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Scale: Identifies the size of the feature. Options are:
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Small: These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of minor field, validation, or program changes. Therefore, the potential impact to users is minimal.
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Large: These UI or process-based features have more complex designs. Therefore, the potential impact to users is higher.
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Delivered: Is the new feature available for use immediately after upgrade or must the feature be enabled or configured? If no, the feature is non-disruptive to end users and action is required (detailed steps below) to make the feature ready to use.
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Customer Action Required: You must take action before these features can be used. These features are delivered disabled and you choose if and when to enable them.
Noteworthy Enhancements
| Feature | Automatically Available | End User Action | Customer IT Action | Oracle Service Request |
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| Support for Providing Synonyms only for Views in the RDS Custom Schema |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Support for Providing Synonyms only for Views in the RDS Custom Schema
When data is replicated to RDS, synonyms are created in the RDS custom schema so the user has read-only access to the tables and views that are replicated. These synonyms will now only be created for the views that are replicated. The views provide a more stable set of objects to build custom extensions upon, and were intended to be the only objects exposed via synonyms. Existing synonyms directly to the tables behind the views will be removed. Any custom extensions that make use of those synonyms to tables will need to be modified to use the synonyms to the views on those tables instead. Consult the documentation for each source application to see which views they will expose in RDS.