LoadIfwConfig Generated Xml With Incorrect IFW_RATEPLAN_VER Order (Doc ID 1566960.1)

Last updated on MARCH 29, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

The Billing and Revenue Manger (BRM) Pipeline application allows Rate Plans to be hierarchically defined : one Rate Plan, the "delta" Rate Plan, inherits attributes from another Rate Plan, the "basic" Rate Plan and only defines those attributes different from it.

The "LoadIfwConfig" is a utility that extracts from or imports data into the BRM Pipeline Manager database. Among other configuration information, the Rate Plan configuration information can be transferred.

Given the following Pipeline Rate Plan structure:

RatePlan_1 is a basic Rate Plan
RatePlan_2 is a delta Rate Plan inheriting from a basic Rate Plan RatePlan_1
RatePlan_3 is a delta Rate Plan inheriting from a delta Rate Plan RatePlan_2

This problem happens when the LoadIfwConfig tool is used to import an xml file which defines the Rate Plans in a different order than the the order that respects the Rate Plan basic-delta hierarchy.

According to the "RatePlan_1, RatePlan_2, RatePlan_3" structure above, the following xml Rate Plan definitions is naturally expected :

Cause

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