Release of Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Patch Set 18 (Doc ID 1564992.1)

SR Number

Bug Number

Issue Fixed

3-5687642121        

14097100

The BRM out-of-the-box report templates were generating an error while fetching the report data. This was due to the UTF-8 issue.

3-3848978661        

14362828

In the previous releases, the same refund amount was being shown twice: once in the billed-earned report and again in the previous-billed-earned report.

3-5916852131        

14538036

The FTP or SFTP was not working in BI Publisher. The pin_inv_doc_gen utility was changed not to construct a delivery request when the delivery configurations in pin_inv_doc_gen's Infranet.properties is set to an empty value.

3-6056883991        

14755552

In the previous releases, when profile sharing is used for CUG promotion, the CUG flag was not being set.

3-6351718824        

14793459

In the previous releases, the cancel event was not being generated for tailormade products.

This has been fixed. The pin_cycle_fees utility in cancel mode will update the status of tailormade products when executed after end date.

3-6166015201        

15827569

In the previous releases, BRM was not always honoring the order in which item tags were specified in the config_item_tags.xml configuration file.

Note: This fix may result in an undesired item tag being used if the incorrect order was producing the correct results. In this case, check the order and realign.

3-5578174271        

15878486

In the previous releases, the suspense manager was not displaying the recycle time in the local timezone.

This has been fixed. A new entry, display.local.timezone, is introduced in the custom.properties file, which when set to true, will display all times in the local timezone. If set to false, the earlier behavior continues.

3-6256008521        

15897283

In the previous releases, CMT was not managing rollovers correctly.

This has been fixed. A new element, RollData, is added in the Sub balances array in the CMT_Balances.xsd file. If RollData is populated in the XML, the CMT application will use the rollover specified in the XML, otherwise CMT will compute its own rolldata value based on UOR and Frequency.

3-5967291991        

15922534

It is essential to make sure that all the children are billed before billing the parent. A new billing business parameter, SkipCheckForSubordinatesBilled, has been added that will allow you to enable/disable checking that all the children are billed before billing the parent. The default is false, enabling the check.

3-7331902991        

15943877

In the previous releases, sometimes it is observed that there is a mismatch between the count of EDRs sent for recycling and the actual number of EDRs recycled.

3-6246774861        

15959593

In a parent child account scenario, if the child account is transferred, such as from prepaid to post paid, its /ordered_balgrp can have a new instance. This results in more than one /au_parent objects for the child service in the /au_ordered_balgrp resulting in SQL exceptions.

3-6612054981        

16059493

Whenever a BRM object is added or modified, the MOD_T field is updated with the timestamp of the operation. This was not happening for the /bill object.

This has been fixed so that MOD_T is getting updated in the bill_t and billinfo_t tables.

3-5398269781        

16102995

In the previous releases, the deferred taxation performance was poor when there are entries in the temporary table of events not yet processed by RE Loader.

3-6177090101        

16191185

In the previous releases the Account Migration Manager (AMM) for migrating accounts across schemas was hanging at POST_MIGRATION_WAITING status.

3-5363354871        

16191191

When a 30 day proration is enabled and the end date of a discount is changed, the balance impacts were incorrect.

3-6553157811        

16191201

In case of a discount sharing group, when a product is canceled, the shared discount was not refunded.

3-6625636981        

16194470

In the previous releases, the purge utility execution was failing when a huge volume of data was involved.

The queries are now modified to handle high volume data.

3-6670592051                        

16195976

While creating an order in Voucher Administration Center, a deal is associated with the order. If it is a service level deal, then the deal details like Resource, Quantity, Amount, ValidFrom, ValidTo were not being displayed.

3-6688704381        

16212990

When the PCM_OP_SUBSCRIPTION_PURCHASE_DISCOUNT opcode is invoked with flist having discount POID as NULL, it returned an error, but it did not close the transaction opened internally.

This has been fixed. If the discount POID in the PCM_OP_SUBSCRIPTION_PURCHASE_DISCOUNT opcode flist is NULL, the transaction will be aborted.

3-5848566207        

16216631

In the previous releases, the PCM_OP_RATE_EVENT opcode was not returning the custom information structures that are passed in rating input flist.

3-6430427641        

16228416

In the previous releases, while trying to do 100% Bill Level adjustment from the Customer Center, an incorrect GLID was being assigned.

3-6746248491        

16264023

In the previous releases, dm_oracle reports an error while trying to create the /reservation_list object for newly created accounts where the value of POID_IDS2 sequence is greater than 2147483647.

3-6536108181        

16273944

While creating duplicated EDRs, the FCT_SUSPENSE plugin was not populating all the fields correctly. There were fields missing in the duplicate EDR.

3-6558232211        

16290242

In a multischema environment, when pinlog_open was concurrently accessed, the pin_inv_accts utility sometimes failed.

3-6496853051        

16293978

In the previous releases, sometimes billing was failing with memory corruption error.

3-6794353871        

16314151

In the previous releases, when an account is suspended, the Monthly Cycle Forward charges with Prorate set to Y was applying the whole amount instead of the prorated amount.

3-5937980521        

16323157

In the previous releases, when the rollover events generated were high, rerating was resulting in an out of memory error.

3-5316366321        

16329172

In the previous releases, if a product was configured with Prorate=N with an in-advance billing, when canceling the product, the charges were not refunded correctly. For example, if the in-advance fee was collected for Jan and Feb on Jan 1st and the product was canceled on Jan 15th, the charges from Jan 16th to Jan 31st were also refunded.

3-6762112098        

16343193

When a database connection could not be established, dm_oracle prints the DB Username and Password in clear text in the dm_oracle.pinlog file.

This has been fixed so that the passwords are not displayed in log files.

3-6770524071        

16346426

In a multischema setup, after terminating a transaction if you tried to open a new transaction on the same object type, it was throwing a TRANS_ALREADY_OPEN error.

3-6398560431        

16360209

In the previous releases, the item assignment was not correct after subscription transfer.

3-6802673491        

16367070

In the previous releases, if a product was purchased for an account (activated in the past) on the current date with the product start date in the future, the cycle fees applied was incorrect.

3-6612054981        

16409851

Whenever a BRM object is added or modified, the MOD_T field is updated with the timestamp of the operation. This was not being done by PIN_REL_UPDATER.SQL. After processing an EDR, MOD_T is getting updated in the bal_grp_t table.

3-6878694537        

16425433

In the FM_CUST_POL policy, Papua New Guinea was incorrectly spelt.

3-6808115451        

16426583

In the previous releases, Collection Center was dropping characters while writing them to the database.

3-6804436351        

16426596

In the previous releases, the suspended payments were under the customer account instead of the suspense account.

3-6731225751        

16431350

In the previous releases, dummy deal purchase was failing when the validate_deal_dependencies parameter was enabled.

When the dummy deals is purchased, they will not be validated if they do not have any restrictions configured.

3-5236524741        

16452435

In Discount Sharing Group scenarios, where sequential discounting is enabled, updating the discount with an end date was not resulting in refund for member services.

This has been fixed.

3-6840187551        

16452442

In the previous releases, when the timezone (TZ) is set to America/Sao_Paulo and billing delay is set, the account was not billed immediately after the delay period. In this case, the delay end time was not rounded to mid night.

3-6878694537        

16473836

In the FM_CUST_POL policy, country names and locales were missing.

3-6645466991        

16477207

In the previous releases, pipeline was triggering business event processing even when it was not meeting any of the conditions in DAT_Listener required to start business event processing. The listener's interleaving was not working as expected.

3-6661589111        

16484487

In the Suspense Management Center spanish version, there was an error in the label of bulk search criteria for purge.

3-6204691689        

16488470

In Pipeline Manager, while validating the number of fields in the input file, if the number of fields is one less than that defined in stream description, an incorrect error message was thrown.

A check on the number of fields in the input file has been added, and now the appropriate error message is displayed.

3-6385736491        

16488477

In the previous releases, the batch controller was logging errors after successfully processing a rerate request file.

3-6825956161        

16502362

In the previous releases, the START_T value was incorrectly being set and was same as END_T in the credit-threshold notification xml.

3-6743793501        

16502368

The RUM quantity needs to be recalculated if the corresponding candidate product is not used. If the candidate product, selected is the very first product, then no recalculation is done.

This has been fixed. the RUM is recalculated regardless of the current product location in the product list, as long as the rated quantity is still zero.

3-6926130931        

16539701

In the previous releases, multiple devices swapping in one request was generating an incorrect service order.

3-6559585011        

16572106

During the delayed billing period, if a monthly cycle arrear deal backdated to the previous month is purchased and then the end date of the same deal is updated to the end of the current month, the monthly charges are not calculated correctly.

3-6898960621        

16589547

If BRM is configured to generate separate tax event for write-offs, in cases where the event has more than one tax balance impact (with the same PIN_FLD_QUANTITY and TAX_CODE), the amounts in journal_t.cr_ar_net_amt and journal_t.cr_ar_tax_amt for a write-off entry are incorrect.

If the event has more than one tax balance impact (with the same PIN_FLD_QUANTITY and TAX_CODE); then these multiple tax balance impacts are combined into one tax balance impact.

3-6730679201        

16600767

When moving accounts under a hierarchy from paying to non-paying type, an error occurred if the paying account being moved as non-paying is closed.

3-6521951561        

16600771

With this patch, the pin_bill_day utility was optimized to improve the performance of calculating cycle forward fees.

3-6988827201        

16607114

In the previous releases, pipeline was freezing when a semaphore was sent prior to the completion of the earlier one.

3-6738918671        

16612611

In the previous releases, during inactivation or cancellation on the same day as the billing date, fold was considering invalid buckets and was generating incorrect balances.

3-6900498371        

16613143

In the previous releases, an account level adjustment with tax was failing.

3-5558210141        

16621761

In the previous releases, rerating is run, the EARNED_START_T and EARNED_END_T values are set to the current time.

Rerating now takes care of setting the earned period of the adjustment to match the cycle event for non-GL posted cycle events. In case the GL posting is already done for the event, the adjustment created from rerating will have EARNED_START_T and EARNED_END_T fields as the current time.

3-6904646871        

16629292

In a multischema setup, when calling the PCM_OP_PRICE_COMMIT_PRODUCT opcode to delete a product, it was deleting that product even if the product was purchased by an active account.

3-6924316611        

16656886

In the previous releases, when the credit control notifications were generated by pipeline, the time stamp of the call details were incorrect.

A new field, TIMEZONE_ID, is added in the balance breach notification XML which has the UTC-offset value of the CDR. The XSD file is also updated accordingly with this new field.

3-2203320611        

16660463

In the previous releases, Pipeline Manager had intermittent issues with closing intermediate files.

3-7042543211        

16672127

In the previous releases, the pin_cycle_fees utility with purchase option was hanging when there were products with no purchase fee event defined.

3-6901848941        

16686140

Whenever a CDR was processed and filter set rule did not match, the "EDR index creation failed: illegal blocktype" error was logged. This error was being reported because of memory corruption.

This has been fixed. The filter set data is now extracted from the global memory pool, thus avoiding any possible memory corruption.

3-6069999361        

16715859

For products with multiple /rate_plan objects, some of /rate_plan audit instances are not picked up by rating. As a result, the corresponding rates are not found during the cancellation process.

This has been fixed to retrieve audit /rate_plan from a given product by their unique name and currency combinations.

3-6967792101        

16723614

In the previous releases, when the pin_ledger_report utility is run with the export option, the transaction was taking a long time and the commit was occurring only at the end. The option was ignoring the pin.conf's transaction_grouping parameter.

This has been fixed so that you can now specify the number of accounts to include in each transaction.

3-6688784471        

16767269

In the previous releases, the PCM_OP_SEARCH opcode was not returning all the second level arrays and it was only returning the first second level array mentioned in the PIN_FLD_RESULTS.

The PCM_OP_SEARCH opcode now returns all second level arrays mentioned in PIN_FLD_RESULTS.

3-6837530731        

16832782

In the previous releases, rerating failed in the case of item type product rerating, if PACKAGE_ID was not present in the purchase event. This occurred when a customer was created without a deal.

3-7250955071                        

16945583

In the previous releases, the resource names containing numbers were being truncated due to which their validity was also being affected.

3-4991121561

13897894   

The iScript ISC_GetResourceBalance.isc was not available at IFW_home/iScriptLib/iScriptLib_Standard. This has been fixed now. Also, updated signature of getResourceBal function is used in the iScript.

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