1. Release Readiness Guide
  2. Feature Summary

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?

RIHA Alerting

TOOLS

Large

Y

Y

Customer actions:

After patching customer needs to enable and update the email address accordingly. Switch the Email Alerts tab in RIHA and configure the settings to enable email alerts for messages in RIB Error Hospital. Please refer to the Oracle® Retail Integration Cloud Service Hospital Administration Guide for more details.

RICS Monitoring is Enabled by default for Production Environments

RIB, TOOLS

Small

Y

N

DevOps Improvements

RICS Provisioning and Patching Improvements

RIB, BDI, USM, TOOLS, RFI

Small

Y

N

Password Rotation Improvements

RIB, BDI, USM, TOOLS, RFI

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 April 2024

RIB, BDI, USM, TOOLS, RFI

Large

Y

N

Documentation

GA Document Updates

RIB, BDI, USM, TOOLS, RFI

-

Y

N

Tools

RIHA Alerting

RIB Hospital Administration (RIHA) now features email alerting functionality for messages present in RIB Error Hospital. Parameters such as target emails and threshold of number of messages to send email alerts can be configured. Once the configured threshold is reached, an email is sent out to the recipients configured in the target emails. After patching, the customer needs to enable the feature only for the first time and update the email address accordingly.

RIB, TOOLS

RICS Monitoring is Enabled by default for Production Environments

RICS Monitoring is now enabled by default in production environments. Logging has been enhanced, and overall monitoring has been improved to reduce operational toil.

DevOps Improvements

RICS Provisioning and Patching Improvements

RICS Provisioning/Patching automation has been improved to include better environment validation. RICS patching is further optimized to reduce downtime. Post-upgrade validation has been enhanced to include the external URL status.

Password Rotation Improvements

RICS Password rotation tooling has been enhanced in alignment with the latest security compliance.

Infrastructure and Security Requirements

Oracle Software Security Assurance (OSSA) Compliance

Full OSSA cycle including third-party library updates, security bug fixes, scans and so on.

Critical Patch Updates

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

Documentation

GA Document Updates

GA documentation updates for major feature/functionality:

  • Retail Integration Cloud Service Hospital Administration Guide

  • Retail Integration Cloud Service RIB Implementation Guide–Concepts

  • Retail Integration Cloud Service Technical Implementation Instructions for SI/Customers

  • Oracle Retail Dynamic Data Service Guide