5 Deprecated Features

As part of the continuous delivery model for cloud services, features and technical components of a solution may be removed or replaced to enhance the security, performance, and overall quality of the cloud service. When this occurs, the deprecation of a feature or component will be announced in advance, allowing Customers sufficient time to anticipate the change and transition to any enhanced replacement feature/component. After the deprecation is announced, the deprecated feature or component will remain in the solution until the planned removal date and will not be enhanced or made compatible with other new features.

Affected Component	Summary
History Loads	The use of DAT files for historical data loads into RI is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. The CSV file format should be used going forward (unless no such CSV file exists). When new jobs and processes in POM are added, they will only be using the CSV form of the history files.
ReSA Integration	The integration of Employee records from Sales Audit is deprecated. The RDE POM job responsible for the integration will not be available in the next-generation architecture. Employee data should be loaded directly to RI, or the seeding option should be enabled to create employee records from sales transactions.
OBIEE Classic Reports	All of the classic OBIEE reports packaged with RI (report objects in the catalog outside of the Custom, Retail Home, and Error Admin folders) are being deprecated as they were built on old versions of the product and do not leverage the latest Data Visualization (DV) toolset. If any of those objects are still desired, they can be obtained via service request.