1 Feature Summary

This chapter describes the feature enhancements in this release.

Noteworthy Enhancements

This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in the Oracle Retail Process Orchestration and Monitoring Cloud Service update and describes any tasks you might need to perform for the update. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

Column Definitions

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

  • Module Impacted: Identifies the module 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 Features
    Change to Job Parameters Override

    Job Execution

    Small

    Yes

    No
    Add Job Description to Exported Spreadsheet

    Export Configuration

    Small

    Yes

    No
    Restartable Error Messages for Custom Job Types

    Restartable Error Message

    Small

    Yes

    No

Change to Job Parameters Override

Job Parameters are set by Oracle application teams on the Batch Schedule Spreadsheet. These parameters can be overridden by the retailer on the Batch Administration screen. In previous versions of POM, Oracle application teams were able to change those parameters as long as the retailer has not overridden them. However, once overridden by the retailer, development teams could no longer modify them.

In version 26.1.201.0, Oracle application teams can now change these parameters even when they are overridden by the retailer. They can accomplish this by changing the job parameters on the Batch Schedule Spreadsheet. Additionally, they set a newly introduced directive on the spreadsheet Jobs tab called overrideParameterOnUpgrade to the POM version for which the change is to be effective, for example, overrideParameterOnUpgrade=v:26.1.201.2.

Add Job Description to Exported Spreadsheet

In version 26.1.201.0, POM added the job description to the following tabs of the exported spreadsheet done on the Batch Administration screen:

  • Nightly Jobs Configuration tab
  • Recurring Jobs Configuration tab
  • Adhoc Jobs Configuration tab

Restartable Error Messages for Custom Job Types

A retailer has the ability to define Custom Job Types in POM and introduce custom jobs associated with those Custom Job Types.

POM also allows for the definition of Restartable Error Messages (as a system option) which when encountered by a job, will cause the automatic retry of the job for up to four times.

In previous versions of POM, the Restartable Error Messages only worked for base (non-custom) job types. In version 26.1.201.0, this feature has been extended to custom jobs associated with Custom Job Types.