1 Feature Summary

Oracle Retail Integration Cloud Services 23.1.401.0 is a Critical Update

This section describes the feature enhancements in this release.

Supported Retail Integration Products

The Oracle Retail Integration Cloud Service (RICS) is composed of the Oracle Retail Integration Suite of products that are cloud deployable for a customer's integration to Oracle Retail applications and the customer's on-premises or hybrid configurations of third-party applications.

The integration products supported and mentioned in this document are the same as the generally available on-premises versions of the following applications:

  • Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB)

  • Oracle Retail Bulk Data Integration (BDI)

  • Retail Financial Integration (RFI)

  • Universal service Mapper (USM).

Column Definitions

  • Feature: Provides a description of the feature being delivered.

  • Module Impacted: Identifies the module impacted associated with the feature, if any.

  • Scale: Identifies the size of the feature. Options are:

    • 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.

    • Medium: These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of field, validation, or program changes. Therefore, the potential impact to users is moderate.

    • Large: These UI or process-based features have more complex designs. Therefore, the potential impact to users is higher.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Feature Module Impacted Scale Delivered Customer Action Required?
Added Functionality for RIB-EXT to Configure Ping Service URL

RIB

Small

Enabled

Yes

RIB Admin GUI–Cosmetic Fixes on Injector Service

RIB

Small

Enabled

No

RICS-SIOCS Seamless Integration

RIB

Large

Enabled

No

Removed Unused BDI System Options

BDI

Small

Enabled

No

BDI Logs Screen is only Rendering Logs from Server 1 and Not Others

BDI

Small

Enabled

No

Improved Auto Purge in BDI Job Admin and Process flow

BDI

Large

Enabled

No

Introduced a New Dropdown to make USM Log Level Configurable from UI

USM

Small

Enabled

No

Oracle Software Security Assurance (OSSA) Compliance

Infrastructure and Security

Small

Enabled

No

Critical Patch Updates

Infrastructure and Security

Small

Enabled

No

Document Updates

Documentation

Small

Enabled

No

Retail Integration Bus (RIB)

Added Functionality for RIB-EXT to Configure Ping Service URL

System option in rib-ext-admin-gui webapp has one new option (injector.service.endpoint.ping.url). This is used to configure the ping service URL, a service hosted at the customer end. The ping test for injector service (hosted at the customer end) fails after an upgrade if the ping service URL is not updated. This is a one-time update by the customer to permanently store that URL. This URL change only impacts the ping test functionality for validations; it does not affect the integration setup.

RIB Admin GUI–Cosmetic Fixes on Injector Service

Cosmetic fixes to Manage Service, Injector Service tab to clearly differentiate configurations that are applicable to soap-app versus rest-app.

RICS-SIOCS Seamless Integration

Integration via RIB is enabled only when SIOCS is provisioned. RIB-SIM provisioning is automated based on SIOCS availability.

Bulk Data Integration (BDI)

Removed Unused BDI System Options

BDI System options previously used for OCDS and SIM have been removed as they are no longer relevant in the Next Gen SaaS.

BDI Logs Screen is only Rendering Logs from Server 1 and Not Others

Logs are now being displayed from multiple server replicas on one UI screen.

Improved Auto Purge in BDI Job Admin and Process flow

BDI Process flow and BDI Job Admin auto-purge functionality that periodically purges the execution data to optimize the UI performance has been optimized and improved.

Universal Service Mapper (USM)

Introduced a New Dropdown to make USM Log Level Configurable from UI

Introduced a new dropdown in the System Logs tab in USM to make the log level configurable from the UI. USM UI now has the ability to control and update logging to different levels (INFO, WARN, ERROR, DEBUG).

Infrastructure and Security Requirements

Oracle Software Security Assurance (OSSA) Compliance

The release underwent a full OSSA cycle addressing security.

Critical Patch Updates

Oracle releases Critical Patch Updates on a quarterly cadence. This release includes October 2023 CPU patch.

Documentation

Document Updates

Documentation updates for major features and functionality were added in this release. See the Retail Integration Cloud Service Implementation Guide–Concepts, the Retail Bulk Data Integration Cloud Service Implementation Guide, and the Retail Integration Cloud Service Universal Service Mapper User Guide.