1 Feature Summary

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?
Improved Repave Alerts in All Components	RIB, BDI, USM, TOOLS, RFI	Small	Y	N
Improved Logging Support for RICS HA Mode	RIB	Small	Y	N
Improved RIB-EXT Subscribers Backend Registration Process	RIB	Small	Y	N
BDI Performance Enhancement	BDI	Small	N	N
Cleanup of Redundant BDI Artifact	BDI	Small	Y	N
Infrastructure and Security Compliance
Oracle Software Security Assurance (OSSA) Compliance.	RIB, BDI, USM, TOOLS, RFI	Large	Y	N
Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2024	RIB, BDI, USM, TOOLS, RFI	Large	Y	N
Documentation
GA Document Updates	RIB, BDI, USM, TOOLS, RFI	-	Y	N

Improved Repave Alerts in All Components

Improved repave alerts so that they will be more descriptive.

Retail Integration Bus (RIB)

Improved Logging Support for RICS Hospital Administration Mode

Issues with RICS Hospital Administration logging have been fixed.

Improved RIB-EXT Subscribers Backend Registration Process

Only the in-scope subscribers will be registered on topic and will be listening on topic. Susbcribers that are not in scope for RIB-EXT will not be registered and will not be listening on topic.

Bulk Data Integration (BDI)

BDI Performance Enhancement

Fine-tuned the BDI application to improve its performance. The user interface will load and run faster. The application will be optimized to ensure that it runs smoothly and efficiently, providing a seamless user experience.

Cleanup of Redundant BDI Artifact

To improve BDI’s performance, all unused flows (and associated sub-flows) have been removed. This makes BDI lighter and removes redundant families. BDI now only contains flows that it uses, thus saving resources.

Infrastructure and Security Requirements

Oracle Software Security Assurance (OSSA) Compliance

A full OSSA cycle has been performed, including third-party library updates, security bug fixes, scans, and so on.

Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2024

Oracle releases Critical Patch Updates on a quarterly schedule. This release includes the January 2024 CPU patch.

Documentation

GA Document Updates

GA documentation updates for major feature/functionality will be made to the RICS Implementation Guide and Retail Data Store documentation.