Release Notes
12c (12.2.1)
E56641-01
October 2015
This document contains the release information for Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) 12c (12.2.1) and includes the following:
Oracle recommends you review its contents before installing or working with the product.
The following sections describe the new features introduced in this release as well as improvements.
This release now offers full support for WebLogic clustering, and improved support for Oracle RAC, including the ability for all servers in a cluster to share the same configuration and results schemas in a database, added tolerance for RAC node and DB failures, and automatic job control and load balancing.
Java Script is supported in 12.2.2 by use of the Nashorn engine integrated with Java 8. Scripts written in JavaScript which do not use E4X will not need to be changed (The most common use case for E4X is in custom scripts decoding and creating XML in JMS 'bucket' files.).
The following notes apply to Customer Data Services.
In this release, Key Generation and Matching services are considerably richer than in previous versions. Because of these enhancements, performance may be somewhat slower (higher average response time and lower throughput) than in the previous release.
You can mitigate this by using the new Key Analysis feature which selects the optimum key generation profile for your data to ensure matching is run efficiently.
The installation of Oracle Enterprise Data Quality now also includes the installation of CDS widgets, gadgets, and reference data in the landing area. This ensures that an installation of EDQ can access CDS functionality.
This feature allows you to create key profiles which specify the enablement of key methods, and allows the extension of EDQ-CDS to offer a wider menu of key method algorithms. You can assign priority ordering to key methods for efficient candidate selection.
The existing cluster level is deprecated and replaced with a new key profile setting.
The key analysis feature allows you to analyze the keys generated for the customer data to determine the optimum key profile, and provide a report of analysis results. The feature profiles key values for all key methods, for the full customer data, and scores key methods based on their characteristics, including high frequency key values, and the distribution/diversity of key values. The output of Key Analysis is a recommended Key Profile that can be used to tune the matching performance and efficacy of the CDS matching services.
This feature provides more granular details about why two records matched, and which logical match identifiers contributed to a match. The feature outputs new EDQ match metadata for each logical match identifier.
This features improves how you configure matching by allowing you to use up to six custom string and up to three custom date attributes in match, to use any custom attributes in keying, and to adjust the attribute contribution to match scoring. The input interfaces are extended to include new attributes for data and corresponding configuration parameters.
The custom attributes are standardized for keying and matching.
The key method used for each custom attribute is dependent on key profile. The method is fixed for manual profiles. The best option is determined during key analysis for automatic profiles.
Inverted Elimination IDs support cross-segment only matching. These IDs have similar functionality to Elimination Ids (EIDs) but produces a 'No match' result when the identifier values are the same.
This feature allows you to eliminate matches where records share a common value. For example, find duplicate contacts across accounts but NOT [that is, eliminate] matches within account hierarchies
This feature externalizes match weightings in EDQ to allow external configuration of the weightings. Configuration information is passed on a per-message basis. Weightings are assigned to logical match identifiers, and contribution values are used in a weighted scoring algorithm.
This feature allows matching to be configured in a more efficient and flexible way. You can set up compound comparisons with all match rules on a given logical identifier, with custom scoring on each rule, and optionally configure scoring across logical identifiers. Match rules are more flexible to allow comparison, compound comparison, and scoring results to be used as criteria.
The benefits of this feature include
Ease of setting up match configuration: many less rules will have to be specified explicitly, therefore meaning much less configuration time required to set up
Flexibility: rules will be able to take into account the matching or non-matching of all groups within the rule, meaning more accurate information will be able to be returned on a match
Externalization: allowing weightings across the new groups and allowing these to be externalized will help external configuration of match. For example, giving a higher weighting to a logical group can be used increase the contribution that this group's score can make towards an overall score. It will also be possible to turn off a logical group completely.
The Address Verification processor has been improved to add support for certified outputs (CASS, SERP and AMAS) and to support Traditional Chinese as a specific output script option.
This feature broadens the connectivity support in EDQ by implementing the DataDirect Hadoop driver. This allows you to connect to a HIVE data store. For more information, see https://www.progress.com/data-sources/apache-hive-drivers-for-odbc-and-jdbc.
A Web services interface allows the display of EDQ jobs in Oracle Enterprise Manager. For example, http://server:port/edq/config/projects returns a list of projects (name/id) in JSON format. Adding an: Accept: text/xml header to the request returns the results in XML format.
Rhino (the JavaScript Engine) is deprecated in this release, and will be removed in the next major release of Enterprise Data Quality. Custom scripts that use the E4X functionality of Rhino, which is often used to construct XML, for example to call an external web service, should if possible be rewritten after upgrade to EDQ 12.2.1.
The following sections describe the bugs resolved in this release.
The convert number to date processor has a milliseconds from base date option that was not working correctly. A fix is included in this release, and the feature is working.
A problem was reported in Release 11g in which a nodata result was given for an attribute result that had data. The problem has been corrected in 12c.
A problem was reported in which a user could not set priorities in the workflow when using non-English locales. That issue has been resolved in this release.
This release includes a fix for a problem in which users were not offered the opportunity to password protect their JDNI data stores. Now Username and Password protection is offered.
Purge rules have been extended to cover a situation in which event data was using large amounts of tablespace.
This functionality can be activated by adding an xml file to the housekeeping folder of the config with the following details. The parameter is the time, in days, that the event log entry must be older than to be deleted.
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<housekeeping>
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<task name="eventpurger">
<start>02:00:00</start>
<interval units="hours">24</interval>
<parameter>10</parameter>
</task>
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The following sections describe known issues and any workarounds that exist in the 12c (12.2.1).
The Address Cleaning service has been changed so that it will always use the country code you provide rather than the default country code in the Run Profile. If you do not provide a country code or it cannot be mapped to the standard country codes in EDQ-CDS, then EDQ-CDS attempts to derive country from the address data provided. When this is not possible, the default country code in the Run Profile is used.
The following are some of the major considerations for upgrading to 12c (12.2.1).
Read Planning an Upgrade of Oracle Fusion Middleware for guidelines for preparing to upgrade to Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1). This documentation also includes descriptions of terminology changes that you must understand to move forward to a 12c environment.
If your current EDQ version is 11.1.1.7 or later and was installed with Oracle Universal Installer (OUI), you can use the Upgrade Assistant to upgrade your installation directly to 12c (12.2.1).
All EDQ components must be shut down and remain stopped until you are prompted to start them at the end of these upgrade instructions. The WebLogic Server console must remain running until you are prompted to shut it down during the upgrade procedure.
For all upgrade scenarios, see ”Upgrading EDQ On WebLogic Servers” in Oracle Fusion Middleware Installing and Configuring Enterprise Data Quality.
You can perform a direct upgrade to version 12c of EDQ only from Tomcat version 8. If you are running Tomcat 6, you must upgrade Tomcat to version 7 before proceeding with the EDQ upgrade. See the Apache Tomcat documentation at
To upgrade to 12c (12.2.1), see ”Upgrading EDQ On Tomcat Servers” in Oracle Fusion Middleware Installing and Configuring Enterprise Data Quality.
For more information about EDQ, see the following documents in the Oracle Enterprise Data Quality documentation set.
The following publications are provided to help you install and use EDQ:
Oracle Fusion Middleware Installing and Configuring Enterprise Data Quality
Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering Enterprise Data Quality
Oracle Fusion Middleware Understanding Enterprise Data Quality
Oracle Fusion Middleware Integrating Enterprise Data Quality With External Systems
Oracle Fusion Middleware Securing Oracle Enterprise Data Quality
Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Address Verification Server Installation and Upgrade Guide
Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Address Verification Server Release Notes
Find the latest version of these guides and all of the Oracle product documentation at
Online help is provided for all Oracle Enterprise Data Quality user applications. It is accessed in each application by pressing the F1 key or by clicking the Help icons. The main nodes in the Director project browser have integrated links to help pages. To access them, either select a node and then press F1, or right-click on an object in the Project Browser and then select Help. The EDQ processors in the Director Tool Palette have integrated help topics, as well. To access them, right-click on a processor on the canvas and then select Processor Help, or left-click on a processor on the canvas or tool palette and then press F1.
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Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Release Notes, 12c (12.2.1)
E56641-01
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