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1 [1]Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center Release Notes Release 11.1 E April 2016

2 Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center Release Notes, Release 11.1 E Copyright 2011, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law, you may not use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify, license, transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish, or display any part, in any form, or by any means. Reverse engineering, disassembly, or decompilation of this software, unless required by law for interoperability, is prohibited. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice and is not warranted to be error-free. If you find any errors, please report them to us in writing. If this is software or related documentation that is delivered to the U.S. Government or anyone licensing it on behalf of the U.S. Government, then the following notice is applicable: U.S. GOVERNMENT END USERS: Oracle programs, including any operating system, integrated software, any programs installed on the hardware, and/or documentation, delivered to U.S. Government end users are "commercial computer software" pursuant to the applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation and agency-specific supplemental regulations. As such, use, duplication, disclosure, modification, and adaptation of the programs, including any operating system, integrated software, any programs installed on the hardware, and/or documentation, shall be subject to license terms and license restrictions applicable to the programs. No other rights are granted to the U.S. Government. This software or hardware is developed for general use in a variety of information management applications. It is not developed or intended for use in any inherently dangerous applications, including applications that may create a risk of personal injury. If you use this software or hardware in dangerous applications, then you shall be responsible to take all appropriate fail-safe, backup, redundancy, and other measures to ensure its safe use. Oracle Corporation and its affiliates disclaim any liability for any damages caused by use of this software or hardware in dangerous applications. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo, and the AMD Opteron logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. This software or hardware and documentation may provide access to or information about content, products, and services from third parties. Oracle Corporation and its affiliates are not responsible for and expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind with respect to third-party content, products, and services unless otherwise set forth in an applicable agreement between you and Oracle. Oracle Corporation and its affiliates will not be responsible for any loss, costs, or damages incurred due to your access to or use of third-party content, products, or services, except as set forth in an applicable agreement between you and Oracle.

3 Contents Preface... v Audience... Downloading Oracle Communications Documentation... Documentation Accessibility... Document Revision History... v v v v 1 New Features PDC Now Allows You to Create Account-Level Charge Offers, Chargeshare Offers and Discount Offers for ECE (Patch Set 8) Simplified Process to Configure New Services and Events (Patch Set 7) Migrating Pricing Data to a BRM System with PDC and ECE (Patch Set 7) Truncation and Rounding in Discount Expressions (Patch Set 7) Minimum Charges, Price Overrides, Effective Periods, and Relative Date Ranges (Patch Set 7) Select Bill Items Based on Business Profiles (Patch Set 7) Charge, Discount, APN, and USC Selectors Supported by ECE (Patch Set 7) Changesets for Setup Components (Patch Set 7) Effective Periods for Conditional Balance Impacts (Patch Set 7) PDC Now Allows You to Configure Item Type Selectors (Patch Set 6) Special Pricing for Members of Closed user Groups (Patch Set 6) PDC Now Allows You to Configure Conditional Balance Impacts (Patch Set 5) Balance Elements Can Now Be Created in the PDC UI (Patch Set 5) PDC Now Provides a Migration Utility for Migrating BRM Pricing Data to PDC (Patch Set 4) Discounts Can Now Be Filtered Based on the Pricing Name (Patch Set 4) Discounts Can Now Be Filtered Based on the Impact Category in the Charge Selector (Patch Set 4) PDC Now Displays Offers by Service (Patch Set 4) PDC Now Allows You to Configure Some of the Selectors Without Specifying a Service or an Event (Patch Set 4) PDC Now Provides a Web Service to Create or Update Pricing Components (Patch Set 4) Regular Expressions Can Now Be Used for G/L IDs in Discount Filters (Patch Set 4) Complex Expressions Are Supported in Discount/Chargeshare Triggers (Patch Set 3) Multiple Balance Elements and G/L IDs Are Supported in Discount/Chargeshare Filters (Patch Set 3) Multiple RUMs Are Supported in Charge Selectors (Patch Set 3) iii

4 Customer Segment and Type Can Be Specified in the Package List (Patch Set 3) PDC Now Displays Successfully Submitted Changesets (Patch Set 3) Utility Changes New Utilities Changed Utilities Known Problems Fixed Known Problems You Are Not Warned to Save Your Changes iv

5 Preface This guide includes information about Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center (PDC) patch sets. Detailed information on the patch set features is included in the PDC documentation. Audience This document is intended for all PDC users. Downloading Oracle Communications Documentation Product documentation is located on Oracle Help Center: Additional Oracle Communications documentation is available from the Oracle software delivery Web site: Documentation Accessibility For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at Access to Oracle Support Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit or visit if you are hearing impaired. Document Revision History The following table lists the revision history for this guide: Version Date Description E September 2012 Initial release. Information about Patch Set 2 features, which are identified by "(Patch Set 2)", is added. v

6 Version Date Description E May 2014 Information about Patch Set 3 through Patch Set 5 features, which are identified by "(Patch Set 3)", "(Patch Set 4)", and "(Patch Set 5)" is added. E November 2014 Information about Patch Set 6 features, which are identified by "(Patch Set 6)", is added. E June 2015 Information about Patch Set 7 features, which are identified by "(Patch Set 7)", is added. E April 2016 Information about Patch Set 8 features, which are identified by "(Patch Set 8)", is added. vi

7 1 1New Features This chapter provides an overview of the various feature enhancements introduced in Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center (PDC) 11.1 Patch Set 3 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 8. PDC Now Allows You to Create Account-Level Charge Offers, Chargeshare Offers and Discount Offers for ECE (Patch Set 8) With this enhancement, you can now create account-level charge offers, chargeshare offers, and discount offers when you are using ECE for usage rating. For more information about creating account-level charge offers or discount offers, see PDC User's Guide. Simplified Process to Configure New Services and Events (Patch Set 7) With this enhancement, creating new services and events when using Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) for usage rating contains fewer steps. In PDC, you can now enrich the events that are created in Developer Center and publish them to ECE for processing usage requests. You need not manually create and reformat request specification files in ECE. For more information, see the discussion about enriching event definitions in PDC User s Guide. Migrating Pricing Data to a BRM System with PDC and ECE (Patch Set 7) If you use BRM with real-time and batch rating engines with either PDC or Pricing Center, you can now use the migration utility to migrate the pricing data to a BRM system that uses PDC and ECE. For information about the migration process and the migration utility, see PDC Pricing Migration Guide. Truncation and Rounding in Discount Expressions (Patch Set 7) PDC now supports truncation and rounding of elements in discount expressions. You can use the Round, Round Up, Round Down, or Round Bankers element to specify the precision for rounding or truncating a discount expression. New Features 1-1

8 Minimum Charges, Price Overrides, Effective Periods, and Relative Date Ranges (Patch Set 7) For more information, see the discussion about discount expressions in PDC User s Guide. Minimum Charges, Price Overrides, Effective Periods, and Relative Date Ranges (Patch Set 7) You can now do the following in PDC even when you are using ECE for usage rating: Specify minimum charges Override balance impacts for a prerated event by adjusting or replacing the amount charged Use effective periods for pricing Use relative date ranges in a charge For more information, see PDC User s Guide. For instructions on how to specify or use these, see the PDC Help. Select Bill Items Based on Business Profiles (Patch Set 7) You can now associate bill item types to business profiles in the item type selector. This enables you to aggregate balance impacts based on the subscriber's business profile. For information about item type selectors, see the discussion about configuring item type selectors in PDC User s Guide. Charge, Discount, APN, and USC Selectors Supported by ECE (Patch Set 7) You can now use the following specialized selectors even when you are using ECE for usage rating: charge selectors, discount selectors, usage scenario (USC) selectors, and access point name (APN) selectors. For instructions on how to create charge selectors, discount selectors, USC selectors, and APN selectors, see the PDC Help. Changesets for Setup Components (Patch Set 7) You can now create, modify, and submit setup components in a changeset. This enables you to save new and modified setup components as drafts until they are ready to be submitted. For more information, see the discussion about changesets in PDC User s Guide. Effective Periods for Conditional Balance Impacts (Patch Set 7) You can now align the start time of a conditional balance impact period with the start time of the associated charge offer, the start of a calendar day, or the event occurrence. For conditional balance impacts that credit noncurrency balance elements, you can specify whether the balance is available from the start time of the conditional balance impact period or from the time the event occurs. For more information, see the discussion about conditional balance impacts in PDC User s Guide. 1-2 PDC Release Notes

9 Discounts Can Now Be Filtered Based on the Pricing Name (Patch Set 4) PDC Now Allows You to Configure Item Type Selectors (Patch Set 6) If you are using ECE for usage rating, you can now assign different bill items for balance impacts within the same event by configuring item type selectors. For example, you can define separate bill items for international and national calls and apply a different tax to each bill item at billing time. For information about configuring item type selectors, see the discussion about configuring item type selectors in PDC User s Guide. Special Pricing for Members of Closed user Groups (Patch Set 6) PDC now allows you to configure special pricing for events between members of a closed user group. For example, you can configure a closed user group for applying special rates on calls between members of that group. For information about setting up closed user groups, see the discussion about configuring closed user groups in PDC User s Guide. PDC Now Allows You to Configure Conditional Balance Impacts (Patch Set 5) You can now configure a conditional balance impact to credit or debit a customer s balance when the customer uses a charge offer for the first time within a specified number of days. The days can be either calendar days or days from the event time. For example, you can configure conditional balance impacts, instead of using recurring events, to grant daily included minutes to a customer. Conditional balance impacts are applicable only for charges with the Convergent Usage pricing profile. For more information, see the discussion about conditional balance impacts in PDC User s Guide. Balance Elements Can Now Be Created in the PDC UI (Patch Set 5) You can now create, modify, or delete balance elements in the PDC UI. For more information, see the discussion about creating balance elements in the PDC Help. PDC Now Provides a Migration Utility for Migrating BRM Pricing Data to PDC (Patch Set 4) PDC now supports the migration of existing BRM pricing data to the PDC database. The new migration utility, MigrateBRMPricing, migrates the configuration and pricing objects from the BRM database to the PDC database. For information about the migration process and the migration utility, see PDC Pricing Migration Guide. Discounts Can Now Be Filtered Based on the Pricing Name (Patch Set 4) You can now filter discounts based on the Pricing Name value in the Pricing Details section of the Charge tab. New Features 1-3

10 Discounts Can Now Be Filtered Based on the Impact Category in the Charge Selector (Patch Set 4) For more information, see the discussion about creating a discount filter in the PDC Help. Discounts Can Now Be Filtered Based on the Impact Category in the Charge Selector (Patch Set 4) You can now filter discounts based on the impact category specified in the charge selector rules. For more information, see the discussion about creating charge selector rules and creating a discount filter in the PDC Help. PDC Now Displays Offers by Service (Patch Set 4) You can now view the number of offers, sorted by service, in your product catalog by clicking Offers by Service in the Analytics section of the navigation pane. For more information, see the discussion about viewing a chart of offers by service in the PDC Help. PDC Now Allows You to Configure Some of the Selectors Without Specifying a Service or an Event (Patch Set 4) When creating a discount selector or a price selector, if you want to use only customer attributes in the selector rules, you no longer need to specify a service or an event. In this case, the selector can be used in a charge with any service or event. If you want to use service or event attributes in the selector rules, you need to specify the service or event. When creating a USC selector or an APN selector, you no longer need to specify a service or an event. The event attributes in the selector are validated against the event attributes of the charge when the selector is included in a charge. For more information, see the discussion about creating a price selector, a discount selector, a USC selector, or an APN selector in the PDC Help. PDC Now Provides a Web Service to Create or Update Pricing Components (Patch Set 4) You can now create or update pricing components by using the PDC Web service. For more information, see the discussion about creating pricing components by using the PDC Web service in PDC User s Guide. Regular Expressions Can Now Be Used for G/L IDs in Discount Filters (Patch Set 4) When configuring general ledger (G/L) IDs in the discount filter, in addition to selecting multiple values from the list, you can now enter a specific value or use a regular expression to match a pattern. For more information, see the discussion about creating a discount filter in the PDC Help. 1-4 PDC Release Notes

11 PDC Now Displays Successfully Submitted Changesets (Patch Set 3) Complex Expressions Are Supported in Discount/Chargeshare Triggers (Patch Set 3) In previous releases, you could add only one element to an expression for a discount or chargeshare trigger. You can now add multiple elements to an expression using the new Expression field in the Expression Builder dialog box. In this field, you can enter elements, standard arithmetic operators, and decimal constants. For more information, see the discussions about creating a discount trigger and creating a chargeshare trigger in the PDC Help. Multiple Balance Elements and G/L IDs Are Supported in Discount/Chargeshare Filters (Patch Set 3) In previous releases, to add multiple balance elements and G/L IDs as criteria for applying a discount or chargeshare, you had to configure multiple discount or chargeshare filters. You can now add multiple balance elements and G/L IDs to a single discount or chargeshare filter. For more information, see the discussions about creating a discount filter and adding a new chargeshare filter in the PDC Help. Multiple RUMs Are Supported in Charge Selectors (Patch Set 3) In previous releases, you could select only one ratable usage metric (RUM) in the Measured by field in the Create Charge Selector page. You can now select multiple RUMs in the Measured by field in the Create Charge Selector page. For more information, see the discussions about creating a charge selector in the PDC Help and about measuring events in PDC User s Guide. Customer Segment and Type Can Be Specified in the Package List (Patch Set 3) When creating a package list, you can now specify segment and type, which together determine the package list name when the package list is used in Customer Center. For more information, see the discussion about specifying the package list segment and type in PDC User s Guide. PDC Now Displays Successfully Submitted Changesets (Patch Set 3) PDC now displays successfully submitted changesets. You can view the list of the successfully submitted changesets by moving the mouse over the Successfully Submitted link in the Workspace task pane. For more information, see the discussion about submitting a changeset in the PDC Help. New Features 1-5

12 PDC Now Displays Successfully Submitted Changesets (Patch Set 3) 1-6 PDC Release Notes

13 2 2Utility Changes This chapter provides an overview of the utility changes introduced in Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center (PDC) 11.1 Patch Set 3 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 8. New Utilities Table 2 1 lists the utilities introduced in PDC 11.1 Patch Set 3 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 8. Table 2 1 New Utilities New Utility MigrateBRMPricing Description (Patch Set 4) Migrates the configuration and pricing objects from the BRM database to the PDC database. See the discussion about MigrateBRMPricing in PDC Pricing Migration Guide for more information. Changed Utilities Table 2 2 New Utility MigrateBRMPricing Table 2 2 lists the utilities that were changed in PDC 11.1 Patch Set 3 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 8. Changed Utilities Description (Patch Set 7) Modified to migrate the configuration and pricing objects from the BRM database to the PDC database or from the PDC database to another PDC database. See the discussion about MigrateBRMPricing in PDC Pricing Migration Guide for more information. Utility Changes 2-1

14 Changed Utilities 2-2 PDC Release Notes

15 3 3Known Problems This chapter provides an overview of the known problems in Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center (PDC) 11.1 Patch Set 2 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 8. Fixed Known Problems Table 3 1 lists the known problems in previous patch sets that are now fixed. Table 3 1 Known Problems Fixed SR Number Bug Number Resolution Not Applicable (Patch Set 6) When you create a saved search, the search criteria is now saved and the saved search appears in the Saved Searches list in the Search Pricing section. Note: PDC 11.1 Patch Set 5 did not support saved searches. Therefore, if you had installed PDC 11.1 Patch Set 5, the saved searches created in the earlier patch sets do not appear in the Saved Searches list. Not Applicable (Patch Set 5) You can now install PDC in silent mode and then run the ImportExportPricing utility without any errors. Not Applicable (Patch Set 5) You can now install PDC on Oracle Database 12c. Not Applicable (Patch Set 5) You can now create a bundle and package with the same name in different changesets. Not Applicable (Patch Set 3) Using the Created User field in Advanced Search now displays correct results. Not Applicable (Patch Set 3) You can now map the alias event and the PDC event to the same service. Not Applicable (Patch Set 3) In the Map RUMs dialog box, clicking the disabled Edit icon now does not display the RUM Expression Builder dialog box. You Are Not Warned to Save Your Changes SR Number: Not applicable Bug Number: and After modifying a setup or pricing component, you are not warned that you have unsaved changes when you do the following: Close the tab Known Problems 3-1

16 You Are Not Warned to Save Your Changes Log out of PDC If you perform any of the above actions before saving your changes, the changes are lost. To work around this problem, save your changes before closing a tab or logging out of PDC. 3-2 PDC Release Notes