Major Oracle R12 1.3 Features

8/20/2019 Major Oracle R12 1.3 Features

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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y

NCOAUG 2011 Winter

by Ravi Sagaram,PMP, Motorola Solutions Inc.


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Motorola Internal Use Only

I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Agenda

Summary on R12.1.2 including 12.1.1

Summary on R12.1.3

New Features in R12.1.2 including R12.1.1

New Features in R12.1.3

Questions and Answers


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Summary on R12.1.2 (Including R12.1.1)

Module Key Enhancements

OM, Shipping and

Pricing

• Copy Function enhancements in Sales Order

• Copy Functionality across OUs• Creating Multiple copies of an order

• Copying shipsets and fulfillment sets

• Navigation to the new order after copy

• Population of current order number in the „Get Header level info from‟ on copy

• Enhancement to Hold Sources in OM

• Progress Work flow for OM headers and lines after release of hold

• Mass Change function in quick sales order form

• Enhancement to Mass Changes on Order entry form

• Enhancements to High Volume Order Import• Two new Seeded RMA workflows

• Credit Overshipped quantities for RMA

• Shipping tolerances

• Pricing Performance

Purchasing • Coordination between IR and ISO on changes

• Mass Change Functionality of buyer on PO, PO Requisition and IR

• Mass Closing of PO

SLA • Program to initialize historic transactions for proper reconciliation in newly created sub ledgers

Financials • GL enhancements – Enhancement to FSG

• AP enhancements -- Changing the supplier bank account on unpaid invoices

• AR enhancements -- Defaulting customer bank AC on inidentified receipts

Inventory • New Material Status for Onhand quantities

Fusion Configurator

engine

• New Configurator engine provides better numerical handling, defaulting and auto config

completion features. The engine is based on new Java technology


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Summary on R12.1.3

Module Enhancements

General • Changes to Look and feel• Search Feature

• Navigator in Self Service Page

New Features in Quoting • Enhancements to Copy Functionality in Quoting

• Changing customer on an existing quote

• Creation of a new template from an existing quote

• Other Quoting features

New Features in Financials • Some new features were introduced in Collections, Credit Management, SLA andLegal Entity configurator

Application Technology • Flex Field Validation

• Delivery Options feature in concurrent programs

• enhancements to Key Flexfield Cross-Validatio Rules Report enhancements

• Support the oracle 11g case sensitive passwords

• Performance improvement of AutoConfig

• Autoconfig support for the 11g Scan Listener feature

• Automated deployment of forms ear fileInternationalization • Enabling of new languages/Additional languages without applying NLS Patches.


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1, R12.1.2 OM Copy Features

You can copy orders across OUs when

you turn on Multi Org Access Control

Display new order after copy as default

You can create multiple copies of sales

order in single copy function


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1, R12.1.2 OM Copy Features (contd..)

While copying lines on to a new

sales order, the order number is

defaulted from the source order

into the field „Get Header Level info

From‟



I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1, R12.1.2 OM Copy Features (contd..)

Fulfillment Sets and Ship/Arrival

Sets can be copied on the lines

from the source line

Copy Complete Configuration can

be automatically checked while

copying the sales order by setting

the OM System Parameter „Default

value for Action - Copy Complete

Configuration‟ to Yes



I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1, R12.1.2 OM Hold Sources

Additional Attributes are available

for Hold Criteria while creating Hold

Source

The additional attributes are

Order Type

Line Type

Price List

Creation Date

Sales Channel Code

Deliver to Site

Payment Type

Shipping Method code

Top Model

Project Number

Transaction Currency

Code

Hold Sources can be applied

across OUs



I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Progress WF after hold release

Order and line Work flow can be

progressed automatically after

releasing the hold



I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Enhancements to Quick Sales order form

Enhancements are made to the

quick sales order form.

Mass Change functionality isadded.



I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Enhancements to Mass Change in SO

Cascading of order header

attributes from headers to lines

functionality is extended to mass

change of order headers



I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Enhancements to High Volume Order Import

High Volume Order Import is

enhanced with additional

parameters to process tax and

configurations

A public API has been provided

for repricing the order


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y New Workflows for RMA

Two New line level workflows are

provided for RMA

Return with receipt and ApprovalReturn with Receipt

There is no invoicing in both these

line types


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y New Features for RMA

RMA creation has been enhanced

to enter shipped quantity on the

sales order instead of booked

quantity. This is useful where

overshipment is done on the sales

order. This can be done by

selecting system parameter

„Overshipment Invoice Basis‟ to

„Invoice Shipped Quantity‟

If you select „Invoice Ordered

Quantity‟ then RMA can be enteredfor booked quantity only as in

R12.0.6


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R12.1.1 Coordination of Changes between IR and ISO

Changes to IR will be syncronized to ISO

after ISO is created. Changes like Request

date, quantity or cancelling IR or line after

approval of IR can be synchronized to ISO.

Similarly Quantity, Schedule ship date,

arrival date or cancelling ISO is

synchronized to IR

Schedule Ship Date on ISO and Arrival

date on IR can be sysnchronized by setting

the profile „POR: Sync up Need by date on

IR with OM‟

If a line on ISO is partially shipped,

leaving the balance quantity back ordered,

then the line on IR will be split accordingly.

Synchronization of a line cancellation on IR with ISO


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R12.1.1 Coordination to Changes in IR and ISO

If the quantity on the IR is changed, then

the line on ISO will go on „Internal

Requisition Approval‟ hold till the changes

to IR are approved using WF.

Synchronization of change in QTY on IR with ISO

Original Qty on IR was 10. Out of that Qty 1 was shipped on ISO

Now Modify the QTY to 8 on IR

The Order Line went on „Internal Requisition‟ hold till the IR was

approved by WF Background Process


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R12.1.1 Coordination to Changes in IR and ISO

Once the IR is approved, then the hold on

the ISO line is released and the quantity on

ISO is sysnchronized accordingly .

However, adding new lines to IR cannot

be synchronized to ISO

IC invoices can be viewed from order

organizer

ISOs can be created with different Order

Types

Synchronization of change in QTY on IR with ISO

QTY on the ISO was automaticallysynchronized


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1 Enhancements to Shipping

Shipping tolerances can be specified for sales order lines to control the minimum and maximum acceptable quantities. These

can be controlled using profile options OM: Under Shipment Tolerance and OM: Over Shipment Tolerance. These can be

setup at the item level, customer, shipping tolerances form and in the sales order form

When the overshipment and undershipment tolerances are set, then the sales order line can be shipped incrementally

multiple times until the maximum shipment quantity is reached. In prior release, the remainder unpicked quantity is

cancelled when the tolerances are met.

Incremental Shipping for overshipment and under

shipment tolerances


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.2 Enhancements to Pricing

Performance of pricing engine is

improved by a pattern based

search feature. The feature can be

turned on using a profile „QP:

Pattern Search‟. You can do this for

Modifiers or price lists or both.

After the profile is set, Run a one

time concurrent Program „QP:

Pattern Upgrade‟ from Oracle

Pricing Manager to upgrade all the

existing setups to the new format

This should enhance the

performance of the pricing engine.


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 SLA enhancements

When you create new sub ledgers for reporting currencies, a new concurrent program „SLA Secondary/ALC Ledger Historic

Upgrade‟ is provided to initialise the historical transactions for proper reconciliation. This program retroactively posts historical

accounting data from primarly ledgers to the newly created secondary or reporting currency ledgers.

A new report „Subledger Accounting Rules Detail

Listing Report‟ is provided to list the information

about accounting rules defined for a SLA. You can

review the setup details for a given application for

the following

Jourmal Line Definition

Journal Line Type

Account Derivation Rule

Journal Header Description

Journal Line Description


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 GL enhancements

FSG has been enhanced with a content set. When the page expand option is selected, then each value in the content set

can be seen in a separate tab in excel workbook. Content sets are like row sets and they replace the definition of row set

dynamically and generate 100s of similar reports in a single run.

FSG reports can be published in Excel


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 AP enhancements

When the suppliers bank account is changed, then AP will automatically update remit to bank account on unpaid and partially

paid invoices without manual update to each invoice.


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 AR enhancements

Defaulting customer bank account info on unidentified receipts is provided. The MICR that comes in the lockbox file is used

to derive the customer account and is defaulted on unidentified receipts.


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 PO enhancements

A Concurrent Program „Mass Update of

Purchasing Documents‟ is provided to mass

update Buyer, Approver, and deliver to person on

all on Purchase Order or Blanket Purchase

Agreement or Contract Purchase Agreement or

Planned PO

A Similar concurrent Program ‟Mass Update of

Requisitions‟ is provided for updating PO

requisitions and Internal Rerquisitions too.

A new concurrent Program „Mass Close of

Purchasing Documents‟ is provided for mass

closing Purchase documents that have been fully

processed but are not closed. This can be used

for standard Purchase Order or Blanket Purchase

Agreement or Contract Purchase Agreement or

Planned PO

MASS CHANGE FUNCTIONALITY


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 PO enhancements

Users can view the modifier information for a PO

Manually enter a modifier, change the modifier

rate and recalculate the price.

Enhancents to Advanced Pricing in PO for increased

flexibility to buyer to view and apply pricing

Users can view the pre calculated pricing

adjustments applied by pricing engine on a PO


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1 Inventory enhancements

A new status called „Material Status‟ for onhand balance is introduced. This is like Item status control for items.

With this feature, you can tag the onhand quantities to different material status like good, broken, Expired, Inspected etc.

and control the material movement and transactions like reservable, transactable. This avoids setting up sub inventories for

different status of onhand quantities

The feature can be enabled on org parameters form for the existing inventory orgs using the concurrent program „Activate

On Hand level Material Status Tracking‟ and then by specifying the inventory Orgs and default on hand status.

For new inventory Orgs, this can be set up at the setup of inventory orgs. The status of the onhand is the cumulative

status of lot, sub inventory and serial control

On hand Material Status


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1 New Fusion Engine for configurator

A new fusion configurator engine was introduced in R12.1.1

It is based on constraint based technology. It is written in Java Language

Existing models may be converted to use new engine

Profile CZ: Enable Configurator Engine indicates which engine to be used

The Profile value Original Indicates that the existing engine will be used for the existing configurations. When the profile

is set to Fusion, then the new fusion engine will be used for the configurations. When the profile is set to Both, then user

will get an option to use which configuration to be used for new models based on the configuration preferences.

Use the model configuration utility concurrent program to convert the existing models.

Fusion Configurator Engine features

It provided improved numerical functionality. You can define equations using relational operators. You can specify the

minimum and maximum numerical ranges (ex hard disk range, memory range or number of hard drives etc. )

The end user will have the new feature to Auto Complete the configuration just by selecting the config features they want

and then by hitting the finish button leaving the remaining work to the configurator engine to decide on the remaining

options required for the valid configuration.


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Oracle Release 12.1.3 Home Page Look

Home Page Look is changed. You see this page after you log into the applications. The responsibilities, main menus and

sub menus are shown as expandable list in the left side pane and the work list is show in a bigger right side pane.

12.1.3


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Oracle Release 12.1.3 Search Feature

Intellisense Searching was introduced in the application. This is enabled in the HTML pages where magnify glass is

shown. This is like the suggested list that pops up when you are typing a search word in Google


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.3 – Navigator in Self Service page

You can now navigate to other responsibilities from the self service pages using Navigator

Drop down Lists on the self service pages have been marked with a down arrow next to the List


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R 12.1.3 Flex Field Segment Validation

The flexfield segment setup forms for both key and descriptive flexfields are enhanced to provide field-level validation of

the segment name fields so that the user receives immediate feedback on invalid segment names.

12.1.3 12.1.2


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Delivery Options for Conc Requests

When submitting concurrent requests, users can now choose to have the request output delivered using BI Publisher's

Delivery Manager. The output can be automatically emailed, faxed, sent to an IPP printer, or delivered using FTP or

SFTP.


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Cross Validation Violation Rule Enhancement

Users have the option to run this report for just one cross-validation rule at a time to test if the specific rule is set up

correctly, by seeing which existing combinations violate the specific rule. In Previous releases, users can run for all the

rules at once.


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.3 Quote -- Copy Functionality

Users can copy a quote to a customer different from the one on the original quote. The user can also specify which quote

attributes should be copied to the newly created quote


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.3 Quote – Change Customer on an existing quote

You can change the customer on the quote.


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y Quote – Create a template from an existing quote

You can create a template from the existing quote. Also you can use a template from any OU to create a quote.


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Configurator enhancements

(HTML UI only)

Currently, the effective date for a model configuration in the quote is the creation dateof the model configuration and cannot be changed. The creation date of a model

configuration is the date when the model was initially configured in the quote.

Subsequently, if there are changes to the configuration rules or the Bill of Materials forthe model item, then these changes are not available when the user reconfigures the

model item. This enhancement allows the effective date to be the current date or the

creation date of the model configuration. Additional flexibility is provided for

customers who wish to write their own rule for determining the effective date. Users

can also manually check the validity of the model configurations in the quote during

the quote lifecycle.

Business Needs R12.1.3 Solution

R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Quoting

Usability enhancements(HTML UI only)

Apply quote templates

from different operating

units

Quotes and quote templates are inherently striped by the operating unit. Currently,

the quoting user cannot apply a quote template from an operating that is different

from the quote operating unit. This enhancement removes this restriction and

provides a larger library of quote templates to choose from. This promotes better

reuse of the quote templates.

Currently, quoting validates the quote prior to quote transitions such as approval

submission and place order. Users cannot easily add custom validation checks priorto the key quote transitions. The QA Check framework allows business process

owners to define custom business rule validations that need to be automaticallyperformed prior to key quote actions. Based on the outcome of the business rule

validations, the user is either allowed to perform the quote action or prevented from

doing so. The quoting user can also manually invoke the QA check during the quote

lifecycle to preemptively fix any errors prior to the automatic validation checks.

QA Check framework (HTML

UI only)


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In a business relationship where a company sells to a distributor who ultimatelyresells an item to an end user, there is a need to quote a service contract to the end

user. Currently, the service reference for a serviceable item in the Install Base must

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Release Content Document Oracle Quoting 23be owned by the Sold To customer on the quote. This does not work well for reseller

scenarios where the Sold To Customer is not the same as the End Customer. The

item in the Install Base is associated with the End Customer not the Sold To

Customer. This enhancement allows the Quoting user to specify a service reference

for a serviceable item in the Install Base for the End Customer on the quote.

Service reference for

serviceable item in the

Install Base for the End

Customer

(HTML UI only)


Allow Service item to point to

a serviceable item in the

product catalog

(HTML UI only)

In Quoting, you can quote a service long after the original purchase. In such a

scenario, the service item on the quote must point to the serviceable item in the Install

base. In reseller scenarios, there is a need to create separate quotes, one quote for

the serviceable item and a second quote for the service item. Each of the two quotes

may be created by different resellers. Since the first quote has not been fulfilled, the

service item on the second quote cannot reference the serviceable item in the Install

Base. This enhancement allows the service item to point to a serviceable item from

the Product Catalog. The service item can be priced based on the price for theserviceable item in the Product Catalog. After the order for the first quote is fulfilled,

the second quote is changed so the service item points to the serviceable item in the

Install Base. Subsequently, the second quote can be placed as an order.

R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Quoting (contd..)

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International TradeManagenment Adapter

Enhancements for Global

Trade Management

(GTM)

Enhancements in Global Trade Management (GTM) Supports master data

synchronization of items; Supports master data synchronization of partiesbetween EBS and GTS, Sends an expanded number of party types etc. to GTM

from EBS.


R12.1.3 Feature – Order Management


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Fulfillment Batches for

Distributed Warehouse

Management System

Delivery details can now be grouped into fulfillment batches based on the

criteria selected in the 'Create Shipment Batches for Fulfillment' concurrent

program. The fulfillment batches can then be sent as a shipment request to the

Distributed Warehouse Management Systems (e.g. Oracle EBS WMS deployed

in Distributed/LSP Mode) for execution. The Distributed Warehouse

Management System will need to send the shipment advice once the shipment

request is processed and executed.


R12.1.3 Feature – Shipping Execution

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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.3 Feature – Advanced Pricing


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.3 Feature – Configurator


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Staged Dunning

In addition to the Aged Dunning method that is based on a customer‟s oldest aged

invoice, Collections organizations may now use Staged Dunning method. The Staged

Dunning method ensures the dunning notices set to a customer automatically

incremented based on the collection score and pre-defined number of days betweenletters being sent.


R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Advanced Collections


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Configurable Analyst

Assignment Rules

In addition to the seeded assignment rules, Oracle Credit Management can now

assign credit analyst to case folders based on user-defined assignment rules and

parameters.

This offers greater flexibility in addressing customer specific work load managementneeds.


R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Credit Management


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Enhanced Legal AddressIn prior releases, when defining the address for a new legal entity, users could onlyselect from existing locations identified as legal addresses. Users can now select any

existing location as an address for a legal entity.


R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Legal Entity Configurator


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New Control Accounts

Qualifier

“Restrict Manual Journals” has been added as a new qualifier on the natural account

segment to provide users the ability to specify the control accounts that do not require

third party detail for posting.


R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle SLA

Navigation

Setup

Financials Flex

Fields KeyValues and query

for str and

accounting

segment


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.3 Oracle Receivables

R12 1 1 12 1 2 R12 1 3 Application Technology


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I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y R12.1.1, 12,1.2, R12.1.3 Application Technology

Oracle E-Business Suite uses the following major technology components in Release 12.1.1, R12.1.2, R12.1.3

Oracle Technology

Most Recent Version

Included in or Certified

with 12.1.1

Most Recent Version

Included in or Certifiedwith 12.1.2

Most Recent Version

Included in or Certifiedwith 12.1.3

Oracle Database 11g 11.1.0.7 11.2 11.2

Oracle Database 10gR2 10.2.0.3 10.2.0.5(Certified for upgrading

customers)

10.2.0.5(Certified for upgrading

customers)

XDK for the Database Tier 11.1.0.7 Matches the Database version

as indicated above

Matches the Database version as

indicated above

Oracle Applications server (for

Application Tier forms and Reports)10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3

Oracle Applications server (for

Application Tier java code and Oracle

Applications Frame work)

10.1.3.4 10.1.3.5 10.1.3.5

XDK for the Application Tier 10.1.3.4 10.1.3.5 10.1.3.5

Oracle HTTP Server 10.1.3.4 10.1.3.5 10.1.3.5

Oracle HTTP Client 10.1.3.4 10.1.3.5 10.1.3.5

OJSP 10.1.3.54(based on JSP

2.0 Specification)

10.1.3.5 (based on JSP 2.0

Specification)

10.1.3.5 (based on JSP 2.0

Specification)

R12 1 1 R12 1 2 R12 1 3 Application Technology (Contd )


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Oracle Technology

(Third Party Technology)

Version for

R12.1.1Most Recent Certified

version for 12.1.2

Java SE Development Kit – JDK( for Application Tier Java Code and Oracle Applications Frame work)

6.0 6.0

Java SE Development Kit – JDK( for Concurrent Processing Tier) 6.0 6.0

Native Java Plug – in (for client side java code running in the Browsers) 6.0 6.0 –Included in Rapid

Install;

5.0 – supported for

upgrading

Oracle Technology

(Technology Components Delivered in APPL_TOP)

Version for

R12.1.1Most recent certified

version for 12.1.2

Oracle JDeveloper runtime libraries 10.1.3 10.1.3

Oracle BI Beans 3.1.1.7 3.1.1.10

Oracle Thin JDBC Drivers ( for Application Tier Java Code) 11.1.0.7 11.2

Oracle Technology

(Externally Installed Oracle Technology)

Version for

R12.1.1

Most recent certified

version for 12.1.2

Oracle Portal 10.1.4.2 11.1.1.2

Oracle Single Sign-on/Oracle Internet Directory 10.1.4.3 11.1.1.0

Oracle Discoverer 10.1.2.3 11.1.1.2

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10.1.2 10.1.2

R12.1.1,R12.1.2, R12.1.3 Application Technology (Contd..)

R12 1 3 Application Technology (contd )


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Oracle Technology

(Externally Installed Oracle Technology)

Version for R12.1.1 Version Included in or

Certified with 12.1.x

Oracle Access Manager N/A 10.1.4.3

Oracle BI Enterprise edition 10.1.3.4 10.1.3.4

Oracle Web Center 10.1.3.4 11.1.1.2

Oracle BPEL Manager Process Manager 10.1.3.4 11.1.1.2

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10.1.8.4 11g

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10.2.0.2 10.2.0.2

R12.1.3 Application Technology (contd…)

R12 1 3 Application Technology (Contd )


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AutoConfig performance has been improved significantly by implementing the

parallelization of jobs executed within a product top. Also the longest running scripts

have been modified to significantly increase their execution performance. AutoConfig Performance

Improvements under

Technology Configuration


Automated deployment of

forms ear file under

Technology Configuration

Previously whenever the forms ear file was patched in the 10.1.2 Oracle Home,

customer had to redeploy it manually to the 10.1.3 Oracle Home. In Release 12.1.3,

this process has been automated assuring that the customer will not experience

forms execution problems due to an obsolete forms executable.

R12.1.3 Application Technology (Contd..)

AutoConfig support for the

11g Scan Listener feature

under Technology

Configuration

This feature allows customers to take advantage of the 11gR2 database scan listener

feature without manual modifications to tns/dbc file.



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Oracle iSetup MLS offers greater flexibility in Release 12.1.3 with the ability to move

data across systems with different sets of installed languages. Customers can choose

to move data of all configured languages from a source system to a target system at

once, or they can choose to move data of one installed language or a subset of

installed languages from the source to the target.

iSetup MLS forInternationalization


Oracle Application

Framework Rich UI Bi-

Directional Support for

Internationalization

New rich UI components, released in 12.1.2, now support Bi-Directional languagessuch as Arabic and Hebrew.


Improved MLS Export

Functionality in Oracle

Application Framework

for Internationalization

Continuing on the theme of improving multilingual support (MLS) in Oracle E-

Business Suite, Oracle Application Framework export functionality is improved to

allow users to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Release Content Document

Internationalization 10

choose between UnicodeLittle or UTF-8 encoding for their exported files. They can

also choose between a comma or tab as the delimiter value between the exported

values.This flexibility allows users to address limitation in older releases of Microsoft Excel

with regard to lack of UTF-8 support or the mishandling of files containing comma-separated values in Unicode.

Lightweight MLS for

Internationalization

The Lightweight MLS feature, new in Release 12.1.3, allows additional languages tobe enabled without the need to apply the corresponding NLS patches. In previousreleases, it was necessary to apply the relevant NLS patches before additional

languages could be used.



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Oracle Applications Support

for 11g Case Sensitive

Database Passwords

under AOL

With this release, the Oracle Application Object Library (AOL) is enhanced to support

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Release Content Document Oracle Application Framework 15 the Oracle Database 11g case-sensitive database

passwords feature for database user authentication. In previous releases, Oracle E-

Business Suite database passwords were not case-sensitive. Support for case-

sensitive database passwords provides for more secure Oracle E-Business Suite

schema passwords. This feature is not enabled by default and its use is optional. Toenable case-sensitive database passwords, the database administrator (DBA) must

perform the appropriate setup steps.


Concurrent Processing

Integration with OracleBusiness Intelligence

Publisher Delivery

Manager under AOL

When submitting concurrent requests, users can now choose to have the request

output delivered using BI Publisher's Delivery Manager. The output can beautomatically emailed, faxed, sent to an IPP printer, or delivered using FTP or SFTP.



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This feature provides users with an ability to tag database connections with module

and context specific attributes. The feature offers several session attributes that allowapplications to record the current user, code module and business action that a

connection is being used for. Populating these attributes helps users track metrics

required for Audit control, resource allocation, and problem diagnosis.

Database Connection

Tagging under AOL


In-Context Diagnostics under

Diagnostics

In-context Diagnostics uses the inline pop-up feature in Oracle Application

Framework to enable a user to enter input for a diagnostic test, execute it, and view

the result or report, all from the current product page, without navigating to the

Diagnostics screens to run the test.


Opening Portlet Links in a

New Window

Links within an Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle Application Framework portlet can

now be opened in a new browser window. This feature allows the base portal or

Oracle WebCenter page to be in context while drilldown links open content in a

separate window. All Oracle E-Business Suite content will launch into a single

window.

FNDMENU Diagnostics

Menu Security Enhancement

under AOL

This enhancement removes the challenge for the APPS password when trying to

access submenus under the Diagnostics menu. Access to the Diagnostics submenus

is controlled by the „Utilities: Diagnostics‟ profile option and standard E -Business

Suite function security. When the user selects a menu item, Oracle Application Object

Library checks whether the submenu items are granted to the current responsibility. If

the „Utilities: Diagnostics‟ profile option is set to No and the end user has not been

granted the securing function for the menu item, an error message is displayed.

Additionally, this enhancement provides a read-only mode for the Examine menu, the

Item Properties window, and the Forms Personalization form.



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This feature provides users with an ability to tag database connections with module

and context specific attributes. The feature offers several session attributes that allowapplications to record the current user, code module and business action that a

connection is being used for. Populating these attributes helps users track metrics

required for Audit control, resource allocation, and problem diagnosis.

Notification Mailer - SMTP

Authentication in

Workflow



The Oracle Workflow notification mailer now supports SMTP authentication, enabling

customers to use the notification mailer with their enterprise SMTP servers that are

configured for SMTP authentication. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Release

Content Document Oracle Workflow 38

SMTP authentication requires the sender to authenticate by identifying itself to themail server. After successful authentication, the mail server grants transmission of the

sender‟s emails. SMTP authentication can be used to allow legitimate users to relay

mail while denying relay service to unauthorized users, such as spammers. Oracle

Workflow currently supports the PLAIN, LOGIN, and DIGST-MD5 authentication

mechanisms. Administrators can enter the user name and password that the

notification mailer should use for authentication in either the basic or advanced

configuration pages for the mailer.

Repository ManagementSecurity for Oracle Reports

Additional security capabilities have been added to the Oracle Report Manager

Repository to restrict individual user actions on folders and documents. A new user

interface lets you define the users who have viewer and owner privileges for a folder

or document. Users must have either viewer or owner privilege to view a secured

folder or document. Only users with owner privileges can perform actions such as

updating, Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Release Content Document Oracle

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moving, archiving, deleting, or creating a menu item for a secured folder or document,

or publishing reports or adding subfolders within a secured folder.

You can use Repository security for reports that do not use the user to value, flexfield

segment, or custom security methods, as an alternative to creating menu items to

control access to those reports. The Repository security feature can help reducemaintenance overhead when you need to secure large numbers of reports because

you can publish multiple reports to the same secured folder, instead of having to

creating individual menu items for each report.


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