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?
    New and Updated Options

    Major Tech-stack Update – FMW 14.1.2 and Java 21

    RIB

    Large

    Y

    Y

    Major Tech-stack Update - FMW 14.1.2 and Java 21

    BDI, RFI, USM and Tools

    Large

    Y

    N

    Infrastructure and Security Compliance

    Oracle Software Security Assurance (OSSA) Compliance.

    RIB, BDI, USM, TOOLS, RFI

    Large

    Y

    N

    Documentation

    GA Document Updates

    RIB, BDI, USM,Tools,RFI

    -

    Y

    N

RICS Major Tech Stack Update FMW 14.1.2 and Java 21

The Oracle Retail Integration Cloud Service (RICS) is now certified with FMW 14.1.2 and Java 21, a major tech-stack enhancement. Oracle Retail recommends any client-side components be compiled with Java 21 for compatibility reasons and easier integration. Customers are highly encouraged to test the external integration with their systems to ensure compatibility.

  1. Customers using RIB-EXT to send/receive messages are advised to recompile the injector implementation with JDK21, and download and use the latest supporting injector libraries from CLOUD CLIENT CONNECTOR PACK FOR ORACLE RETAIL INTEGRATION CLOUD SERVICE 25.1.301.0.

  2. Customers using RIB-RWMS primary-secondary topology are advised to download RibKernel25.1.301ForRwmsSecondary25.x.xApps.jar from CLOUD CLIENT CONNECTOR PACK FOR ORACLE RETAIL INTEGRATION CLOUD SERVICE 25.1.301.0 and re-install the secondary RWMS on-prem/PaaS. See the "Configuring RIB-RWMS for Hybrid Cloud Deployment Topology" section of the Retail Integration Cloud Service RIB Implementation Guide–Concepts guide.

Major Tech-stack Update FMW 14.12 and Java 21

Oracle Retail Bulk Data Integration (BDI)

BDI is now certified with FMW 14.1.2 and Java 21. Oracle Retail recommends any client-side components used to integrate with BDI-EXT (SaaS) ReST API be compiled with Java 21 for the compatibility reasons and easier integration. Customers are highly encouraged test the BDI-EXT integration with their systems to ensure compatibility.

Universal Service Mapper (USM)

USM is now certified with FMW 14.1.2 and Java 21.

Retail Financial Integration (RFI)

RFI is now certified with FMW 14.1.2 and Java 21. 

Infrastructure and Security Compliance

Oracle Software Security Assurance (OSSA) Compliance

This update includes a full OSSA cycle including third-party library updates, security bug fixes, scans and so on.

Documentation

GA Document Updates

This update includes GA documentation updates for major feature/functionality changes.