Release of Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Patch Set 7 (Doc ID 1273696.1)

In previous releases, during billing, if there were profiles attached either to the account or service or both, the database was queried multiple times for the profiles. This led to performance issues during billing. To improve performance, the profiles are now retrieved using the cache mechanism.

In previous releases, the Xerces library compiled on Linux was not able to parse Latin characters supplied in the input XML file, and a NULL value was populated in the corresponding field in the database. This issue is resolved and the Latin characters are now parsed correctly.

BRM now includes new validations to handle standard timescale and exceptional situations for the records in the TAP file as specified by Billing and Accounting Roaming Group (BARG) PRD BA.08.

Resolved issues with the calculation of cycle forward fee for base product in case the validity of a tailor-made product ends in the middle of the cycle.

BRM now allows the creation of services and resources with the creation date backdated beyond the account creation date.

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In previous releases, if the collections agent did not change the status of an assigned manual task, Collections Center would display the status as Error. Collections Center now displays a new status, No Action Executed, if the collections agent does not change the status of a manual task.

Resolved issues with item publications to BRM for the Product Hub PIP.

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Pipeline Manager now does not start when it encounters database errors or exceptions.

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BRM now generates a single audit event when changing collections action status from CANCELED to PENDING.

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 In previous releases, if fm_subscription rate_change in cm/pin.conf file is set to 1 (enabled), a backdated purchase of a sequential discount was not applying correctly over the backdated cycles if there are other discounts to be applied over the cycles. This issue is now resolved.

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When BRM JCA Adapter restarts, the old connections to the BRM Connection Manager (CM) are now closed and new connections are recreated.
Important:  For this fix to work with Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.4, install SOA patch 6839144.

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The TAP file regenerated from suspended and recycled Server RAP records now has the correct values populated in the RecEntityId and RecEntityCode fields.

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Resolved issues with the generation of duplicate invoices and email delivery option in Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher-enabled environments.

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Resolved issues with data being inconsistently serialized to the database.

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Resolved issues related to export of latest collection dunning letters using the pin_collections_send_dunning utility.

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For a product with future dated purchase START_T, a new condition is added to avoid checks for not allowing backdating of purchase/usage/cycle END_T before the purchase START_T.

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Resolved issues with retrieval of accounts receivable items when using the PCM_OP_AR_GET_ACTION_ITEMS opcode.

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The recurring charge is now applied correctly in the first bill for a cycle arrears product with a deferred start.

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BRM now correctly checks the threshold values to ensure the proper calculation of bill time discounts when several thresholds are defined.

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In the Pricing Center work area, if you drag a product or discount created in a work area into a new work area, the product or discount is now copied correctly and validated to prevent accidental overwriting.

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In previous releases, while rerating, locked accounts lost the lock status if the rating pipeline was restarted. Changes were made to ensure that the correct columns are read from the database table and the correct value is stored in the batch ID.

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Resolved issues with generation of a purchase fee event during future dated purchase of a product.

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When you set an end date/expiry date for a bundle product with free resources using the PCM_OP_SUBSCRIPTION_ SET_PRODINFO opcode and set END_T = next month (for example, the 21st of next month), the charges are now not reset to 0 for the duration of 1st to 21st of the next month.

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The POID ID from the /job/rerate object is now correctly populated in the PIN_FLD_ JOB_ID field of the corresponding /job_batch/rerate object.

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You can now create an account using an external transaction using the new PIN_FLD_TXN_FLAGS field in the PCM_OP_CUST_COMMIT_CUSTOMER opcode