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XAI Best Practices available on My Oracle Support

The latest whitepaper to hit My Oracle Support is XAI Best Practices. This document took a long while to compile but contains workflows for common configuration tasks for XAI as well as a set of Best Practices obtained from customers...

Should I use preloading or not?

One of the features of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework is the ability to preload the screens for performance reasons. Let me explain about this facility. All the screens in the product are dynamically built using the screen definition and...

New updated Operations Guides for V2.2

Since Service Pack 1, 2 and 3 introduce exciting new enhancements to the framework, the Operations Guides for Batch and online have been updated to include the latest information and the following metalink documents have been replaced: 753303.1 - Oracle...

Documentation Status - April 2009

I know it is not the end of April yet, but I am off to a customer site next week to teach the new technical training courses for the product line and then off for a two week break. Here...

New Architecture Whitepaper available

A new whitepaper outlining the possible Architectures's for our product line are outlined as well as advantages/disadvantages of each. The whitepaper was written to assist technical architects and partners in making architecture decisions. It was originally part of the internal...

Important Fixes for CCB V2.1/V2.2 and ETM V2.1.5

We have compiled a list of important fixes for a number of products and versions. They are grouped by subject area for selected functional groups. The notes are available on My Oracle Support (myoraclesupport.oracle.com): Note 804612.1 Important Patches for Customer...

Technical Whitepaper List: March 2009

Quite a few whitepapers have been published for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products such as Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing. Below is a list of the available whitepapers (with Metalink Ids): Operations And Configuration Guide (753303.1) - Manual...

Advanced Oracle JDBC Connection Support

By default the connection string for the database used for the product is as per the JDBC standard and is in the format: jdbc:oracle:thin:@[hostname]:[dbport]:[database] where [hostname] - Database hostname [dbport] - Database Listener portname [database] - Database Name The URL...

Single Sign On Whitepaper available

Integration of single sign on technology with products using the Oracle Utilities Application Framework is possible. A whitepaper has been publish which generically outlines the process necessary to perform integration between an SSO product and the Oracle Utilities Application Framework....

Automatic shunning of Child COBOL JVM's

There are a series of COBOL Child JVMs created for products that support COBOL using the Oracle Utilities Application Framework for backward compatibility between the java based framework and the remaining COBOL based business objects in the product set. There...

New JMX client for batch for V2.2

As part of changes to the batch component in the framework, a JMX command line utility has been released as Patch #8222333 available from My Oracle Support. This utility allows the following: Identify what thread pools are defined in a...

New security methods introduced

Over the next few releases you will see a trend in introducing additional security functionality in the product set. While we had good security facilities the markets demand more sophisticated and flexible security systems. Typically in the Oracle Utilities Application...

New Security Whitepapers on the way

Over the next few days a number of security based whitepapers for Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing and Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management will be published on My Oracle Support (metalink.oracle.com). They are: MetaLink 774783.1 - LDAP Integration - Whitepaper...

Invaluable Technical Resources

Many people ask me how I got my knowledge of the products and the products we integrate to. Well, sometimes it is experience (21+ years in IT) but mostly I make sure I have access to online technical resources to...

Version, Convience Downloads and Service Pack Information for Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing

A Service Pack (SP) is a compilation of software patches delivered in the form of a single installable package. It is usually cumulative, unless otherwise indicated. A software patch is defined to be anywhere from a simple bug fix to...

New Operations, Configuration and Batch Guides available for V2.2

A new set of Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing technical documentation is available at MetaLink. The documentation includes: Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing Operations and Configuration Guide for V2.2 MetaLink Id: 753303.1 Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing...

New Service Packs for V2.2 available

A new Service Pack has been added for Oracle Utilities Application Framework V2.2 (MetaLink 7566325) and Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing V2.2 (MetaLink 7566312). This service pack includes some performance and security fixes that will be useful....

Product Wide Web Services

One of the questions I have received recently requires some clarification as I am getting the same question from partners a lot these days. The question is this: "Why doesn't the product have ALL the Web Services it offers predefined?"...

SQL to list tables for a DB Process

To list the tables that are included in a Database Process (DB Process) you can use the following SQL: SELECT DISTINCT m.tbl_name as "Table Name" FROM ci_md_mo_tbl m, ci_db_instr d WHERE m.maint_obj_cd = d.maint_obj_cd AND d.DB_PROC_CD = 'CI_COCNT' order by...

Architectural Discussions

At the moment I am in the middle of writing a guide to choosing the hardware architectures for our product line. One of the ideas I am playing with at the moment is boiling the factors that go into the...