File Exchange through Oracle Cloud Storage

Oracle Utilities Cloud Services can exchange files bidirectionally with Opower Cloud Services and Energy and Water Cloud Services through an Oracle Utilities Cloud Service-managed Object Storage bucket. Specific base product integrations may be configured to write files to a cloud service managed bucket or to read information from a file found in a cloud service managed bucket. (Integrations that support these use cases document the capability directly in the description of the batch control delivered for each use case.)

Note:

This option is only available in a cloud installation.

Sharing Customer Exported Data

Some data export related batch processes support an option that streamlines the process by which customer extracted data may be routed to and shared with Oracle so it can be uploaded to Oracle's data lake for analytic purposes.

Implementations may choose to share data with Oracle in addition to exporting data for their own purposes. For this use case, you could configure the batch control parameters as follows:

• Define the file path / file location parameter with the appropriate configuration for extracting the data to your location. Refer to Indicating a File Path or File Name for more information.
• The batch controls that support this include the Copy to Oracle batch parameter. Use this parameter to indicate that you want to also share the data with Oracle.

You may have a use case where you only want to extract the data to Oracle and you do not need to write this data to any extract location for your own use. For this use case, configure the batch control parameter for file path / file location with the mnemonic %ORACLE%. This mnemonic signals to the program to extract the data to the configured Oracle location only. There is no need to populate anything in the Copy to Oracle parameter.