1.  NCOAUG 2011 Winter by Ravi Sagaram,PMP, Motorola Solutions Inc.
 Agenda Summary on R12.1.2 including 12.1.1 Summary on R12.1.3 New Features in
R12.1.2 including R12.1.1 New Features in R12.1.3 Questions and Answers
 Summary on R12.1.2 (Including R12.1.1) Module Key Enhancements OM, Shipping and
Pricing • Copy Function enhancements in Sales Order • Copy Functionality across OUs •
Creating Multiple copies of an order • Copying shipsets and fulfillment sets • Navigation
to the new order after copy • Population of current order number in the „Get Header level
info from‟ on copy • Enhancement to Hold Sources in OM • Progress Work flow for OM
headers and lines after release of hold • Mass Change function in quick sales order form •
Enhancement to Mass Changes on Order entry form • Enhancements to High Volume
Order Import • Two new Seeded RMA workflows • Credit Overshipped quantities for
RMA • Shipping tolerances • Pricing Performance Purchasing • Coordination between IR
and ISO on changes • Mass Change Functionality of buyer on PO, PO Requisition and IR
• Mass Closing of PO SLA • Program to initialize historic transactions for proper
reconciliation in newly created sub ledgers Financials • GL enhancements –
Enhancement to FSG • AP enhancements -- Changing the supplier bank account on
unpaid invoices • AR enhancements -- Defaulting customer bank AC on inidentified
receipts Inventory • New Material Status for Onhand quantities Fusion Configurator
engine • New Configurator engine provides better numerical handling, defaulting and
auto config completion features. The engine is based on new Java technology
 Summary on R12.1.3 Module Enhancements General • Changes to Look and feel •
Search Feature • Navigator in Self Service Page New Features in Quoting • • • • New
Features in Financials • Some new features were introduced in Collections, Credit
Management, SLA and Legal Entity configurator Application Technology • • • • • • •
Internationalization • Enabling of new languages/Additional languages without applying
NLS Patches. Enhancements to Copy Functionality in Quoting Changing customer on an
existing quote Creation of a new template from an existing quote Other Quoting features
Flex Field Validation Delivery Options feature in concurrent programs enhancements to
Key Flexfield Cross-Validatio Rules Report enhancements Support the oracle 11g case
sensitive passwords Performance improvement of AutoConfig Autoconfig support for the
11g Scan Listener feature Automated deployment of forms ear file
 R12.1.1, R12.1.2 OM Copy Features You can copy orders across OUs when you turn
on Multi Org Access Control Display You new order after copy as default can create
multiple copies of sales order in single copy function
 R12.1.1, R12.1.2 OM Copy Features (contd..) While copying lines on to a new sales
order, the order number is defaulted from the source order into the field „Get Header
Level info From‟
 R12.1.1, R12.1.2 OM Copy Features (contd..) Fulfillment Sets and Ship/Arrival Sets
can be copied on the lines from the source line Copy Complete Configuration can be
automatically checked while copying the sales order by setting the OM System Parameter
„Default value for Action - Copy Complete Configuration‟ to Yes
 R12.1.1, R12.1.2 OM Hold Sources Additional Attributes are available for Hold
Criteria while creating Hold Source The additional attributes are Order Type Line
Type Price List Creation Sales Date Channel Code Deliver to Site Payment Type
Shipping Top Method code Model Project Number Transaction Currency Code
Hold Sources can be applied across OUs

2.  Progress WF after hold release Order and line Work flow can be progressed
automatically after releasing the hold
 Enhancements to Quick Sales order form Enhancements are made to the quick sales
order form. Mass Change functionality is added.
 Enhancements to Mass Change in SO Cascading of order header attributes from
headers to lines functionality is extended to mass change of order headers
 Enhancements to High Volume Order Import High Volume Order Import is enhanced
with additional parameters to process tax and configurations A public API has been
provided for repricing the order
 New Workflows for RMA Two New line level workflows are provided for RMA
Return with receipt and Approval Return with Receipt There is no invoicing in both
these line types
 New Features for RMA RMA creation has been enhanced to enter shipped quantity on
the sales order instead of booked quantity. This is useful where overshipment is done on
the sales order. This can be done by selecting system parameter „Overshipment Invoice
Basis‟ to „Invoice Shipped Quantity‟ If you select „Invoice Ordered Quantity‟ then
RMA can be entered for booked quantity only as in R12.0.6
 R12.1.1 Coordination of Changes between IR and ISO Synchronization of a line
cancellation on IR with ISO Changes to IR will be syncronized to ISO after ISO is
created. Changes like Request date, quantity or cancelling IR or line after approval of IR
can be synchronized to ISO. Similarly Quantity, Schedule ship date, arrival date or
cancelling ISO is synchronized to IR Schedule Ship Date on ISO and Arrival date on IR
can be sysnchronized by setting the profile „POR: Sync up Need by date on IR with OM‟
If a line on ISO is partially shipped, leaving the balance quantity back ordered, then the
line on IR will be split accordingly.
 R12.1.1 Coordination to Changes in IR and ISO Synchronization of change in QTY on
IR with ISO Original Qty on IR was 10. Out of that Qty 1 was shipped on ISO Now
Modify the QTY to 8 on IR The Order Line went on „Internal Requisition‟ hold till the
IR was approved by WF Background Process If the quantity on the IR is changed, then
the line on ISO will go on „Internal Requisition Approval‟ hold till the changes to IR are
approved using WF.
 R12.1.1 Coordination to Changes in IR and ISO Synchronization of change in QTY on
IR with ISO Once the IR is approved, then the hold on the ISO line is released and the
quantity on ISO is sysnchronized accordingly . However, adding new lines to IR cannot
be synchronized to ISO IC invoices can be viewed from order organizer ISOs Types
QTY on the ISO was automatically synchronized can be created with different Order
 R12.1 Enhancements to Shipping Incremental Shipping for overshipment and under
shipment tolerances When the overshipment and undershipment tolerances are set, then
the sales order line can be shipped incrementally multiple times until the maximum
shipment quantity is reached. In prior release, the remainder unpicked quantity is
cancelled when the tolerances are met. Shipping tolerances can be specified for sales
order lines to control the minimum and maximum acceptable quantities. These can be
controlled using profile options OM: Under Shipment Tolerance and OM: Over Shipment
Tolerance. These can be setup at the item level, customer, shipping tolerances form and
in the sales order form

3.  R12.1.2 Enhancements to Pricing Performance of pricing engine is improved by a
pattern based search feature. The feature can be turned on using a profile „QP: Pattern
Search‟. You can do this for Modifiers or price lists or both. After the profile is set,
Run a one time concurrent Program „QP: Pattern Upgrade‟ from Oracle Pricing Manager
to upgrade all the existing setups to the new format This should enhance the
performance of the pricing engine.
 R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 SLA enhancements When you create new sub ledgers for
reporting currencies, a new concurrent program „SLA Secondary/ALC Ledger Historic
Upgrade‟ is provided to initialise the historical transactions for proper reconciliation.
This program retroactively posts historical accounting data from primarly ledgers to the
newly created secondary or reporting currency ledgers. A new report „Subledger
Accounting Rules Detail Listing Report‟ is provided to list the information about
accounting rules defined for a SLA. You can review the setup details for a given
application for the following Jourmal Line Journal Line Account Definition Type
Derivation Rule Journal Header Journal Line Description Description
 R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 GL enhancements FSG has been enhanced with a content set.
When the page expand option is selected, then each value in the content set can be seen in
a separate tab in excel workbook. Content sets are like row sets and they replace the
definition of row set dynamically and generate 100s of similar reports in a single run.
FSG reports can be published in Excel
 R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 AP enhancements When the suppliers bank account is changed,
then AP will automatically update remit to bank account on unpaid and partially paid
invoices without manual update to each invoice.
 R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 AR enhancements Defaulting customer bank account info on
unidentified receipts is provided. The MICR that comes in the lockbox file is used to
derive the customer account and is defaulted on unidentified receipts.
 R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 PO enhancements MASS CHANGE FUNCTIONALITY A
Concurrent Program „Mass Update of Purchasing Documents‟ is provided to mass
update Buyer, Approver, and deliver to person on all on Purchase Order or Blanket
Purchase Agreement or Contract Purchase Agreement or Planned PO A Similar
concurrent Program ‟Mass Update of Requisitions‟ is provided for updating PO
requisitions and Internal Rerquisitions too. A new concurrent Program „Mass Close of
Purchasing Documents‟ is provided for mass closing Purchase documents that have been
fully processed but are not closed. This can be used for standard Purchase Order or
Blanket Purchase Agreement or Contract Purchase Agreement or Planned PO
 R12.1.1 and R12.1.2 PO enhancements Enhancents to Advanced Pricing in PO for
increased flexibility to buyer to view and apply pricing Users can view the modifier
information for a PO Users can view the pre calculated pricing adjustments applied by
pricing engine on a PO Manually enter a modifier, change the modifier rate and
recalculate the price.
 R12.1.1 Inventory enhancements On hand Material Status A new status called
„Material Status‟ for onhand balance is introduced. This is like Item status control for
items. With this feature, you can tag the onhand quantities to different material status
like good, broken, Expired, Inspected etc. and control the material movement and
transactions like reservable, transactable. This avoids setting up sub inventories for

4. different status of onhand quantities The feature can be enabled on org parameters form
for the existing inventory orgs using the concurrent program „Activate On Hand level
Material Status Tracking‟ and then by specifying the inventory Orgs and default on hand
status. For new inventory Orgs, this can be set up at the setup of inventory orgs. The
status of the onhand is the cumulative status of lot, sub inventory and serial control
 R12.1.1 New Fusion Engine for configurator Fusion Configurator Engine features A
new It fusion configurator engine was introduced in R12.1.1 is based on constraint
based technology. It is written in Java Language It provided improved numerical
functionality. You can define equations using relational operators. You can specify the
minimum and maximum numerical ranges (ex hard disk range, memory range or number
of hard drives etc. ) The end user will have the new feature to Auto Complete the
configuration just by selecting the config features they want and then by hitting the finish
button leaving the remaining work to the configurator engine to decide on the remaining
options required for the valid configuration. Existing Profile models may be
converted to use new engine CZ: Enable Configurator Engine indicates which engine to
be used The Profile value Original Indicates that the existing engine will be used for the
existing configurations. When the profile is set to Fusion, then the new fusion engine will
be used for the configurations. When the profile is set to Both, then user will get an
option to use which configuration to be used for new models based on the configuration
preferences. Use the model configuration utility concurrent program to convert the
existing models.
 Oracle Release 12.1.3 Home Page Look Home Page Look is changed. You see this page
after you log into the applications. The responsibilities, main menus and sub menus are
shown as expandable list in the left side pane and the work list is show in a bigger right
side pane. 12.1.3
 Oracle Release 12.1.3 Search Feature Intellisense Searching was introduced in the
application. This is enabled in the HTML pages where magnify glass is shown. This is
like the suggested list that pops up when you are typing a search word in Google
 R12.1.3 – Navigator in Self Service page You can now navigate to other responsibilities
from the self service pages using Navigator Drop down Lists on the self service pages
have been marked with a down arrow next to the List
 R 12.1.3 Flex Field Segment Validation The flexfield segment setup forms for both key
and descriptive flexfields are enhanced to provide field-level validation of the segment
name fields so that the user receives immediate feedback on invalid segment names.
12.1.3 12.1.2
 Delivery Options for Conc Requests When submitting concurrent requests, users can now
choose to have the request output delivered using BI Publisher's Delivery Manager. The
output can be automatically emailed, faxed, sent to an IPP printer, or delivered using FTP
or SFTP.
 Cross Validation Violation Rule Enhancement Users have the option to run this report for
just one cross-validation rule at a time to test if the specific rule is set up correctly, by
seeing which existing combinations violate the specific rule. In Previous releases, users
can run for all the rules at once.
 R12.1.3 Quote -- Copy Functionality Users can copy a quote to a customer different from
the one on the original quote. The user can also specify which quote attributes should be
copied to the newly created quote

5.  R12.1.3 Quote – Change Customer on an existing quote You can change the customer on
the quote.
 Quote – Create a template from an existing quote You can create a template from the
existing quote. Also you can use a template from any OU to create a quote.
 R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Quoting Business Needs Configurator enhancements (HTML
UI only) Usability enhancements (HTML UI only) Apply quote templates from different
operating units QA Check framework (HTML UI only) R12.1.3 Solution Currently, the
effective date for a model configuration in the quote is the creation date of the model
configuration and cannot be changed. The creation date of a model configuration is the
date when the model was initially configured in the quote. Subsequently, if there are
changes to the configuration rules or the Bill of Materials for the model item, then these
changes are not available when the user reconfigures the model item. This enhancement
allows the effective date to be the current date or the creation date of the model
configuration. Additional flexibility is provided for customers who wish to write their
own rule for determining the effective date. Users can also manually check the validity of
the model configurations in the quote during the quote lifecycle. Quotes and quote
templates are inherently striped by the operating unit. Currently, the quoting user cannot
apply a quote template from an operating that is different from the quote operating unit.
This enhancement removes this restriction and provides a larger library of quote
templates to choose from. This promotes better reuse of the quote templates. Currently,
quoting validates the quote prior to quote transitions such as approval submission and
place order. Users cannot easily add custom validation checks prior to the key quote
transitions. The QA Check framework allows business process owners to define custom
business rule validations that need to be automatically performed prior to key quote
actions. Based on the outcome of the business rule validations, the user is either allowed
to perform the quote action or prevented from doing so. The quoting user can also
manually invoke the QA check during the quote lifecycle to preemptively fix any errors
prior to the automatic validation checks.
 R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Quoting (contd..) Business Needs Service reference for
serviceable item in the Install Base for the End Customer (HTML UI only) Allow Service
item to point to a serviceable item in the product catalog (HTML UI only) R12.1.3
Solution In a business relationship where a company sells to a distributor who ultimately
resells an item to an end user, there is a need to quote a service contract to the end user.
Currently, the service reference for a serviceable item in the Install Base must Oracle E-Business
Suite Release 12.1 Release Content Document Oracle Quoting 23 be owned by
the Sold To customer on the quote. This does not work well for reseller scenarios where
the Sold To Customer is not the same as the End Customer. The item in the Install Base
is associated with the End Customer not the Sold To Customer. This enhancement allows
the Quoting user to specify a service reference for a serviceable item in the Install Base
for the End Customer on the quote. In Quoting, you can quote a service long after the
original purchase. In such a scenario, the service item on the quote must point to the
serviceable item in the Install base. In reseller scenarios, there is a need to create separate
quotes, one quote for the serviceable item and a second quote for the service item. Each
of the two quotes may be created by different resellers. Since the first quote has not been
fulfilled, the service item on the second quote cannot reference the serviceable item in the
Install Base. This enhancement allows the service item to point to a serviceable item from

6. the Product Catalog. The service item can be priced based on the price for the serviceable
item in the Product Catalog. After the order for the first quote is fulfilled, the second
quote is changed so the service item points to the serviceable item in the Install Base.
Subsequently, the second quote can be placed as an order.
 R12.1.3 Feature – Order Management Business Needs International Trade Managenment
Adapter Enhancements for Global Trade Management (GTM) R12.1.3 Solution
Enhancements in Global Trade Management (GTM) Supports master data
synchronization of items; Supports master data synchronization of parties between EBS
and GTS, Sends an expanded number of party types etc. to GTM from EBS.
 R12.1.3 Feature – Shipping Execution Business Needs Fulfillment Batches for
Distributed Warehouse Management System R12.1.3 Solution Delivery details can now
be grouped into fulfillment batches based on the criteria selected in the 'Create Shipment
Batches for Fulfillment' concurrent program. The fulfillment batches can then be sent as a
shipment request to the Distributed Warehouse Management Systems (e.g. Oracle EBS
WMS deployed in Distributed/LSP Mode) for execution. The Distributed Warehouse
Management System will need to send the shipment advice once the shipment request is
processed and executed.
 R12.1.3 Feature – Advanced Pricing
 R12.1.3 Feature – Configurator
 R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Advanced Collections Business Needs Staged Dunning R12.1.3
Solution In addition to the Aged Dunning method that is based on a customer‟s oldest
aged invoice, Collections organizations may now use Staged Dunning method. The
Staged Dunning method ensures the dunning notices set to a customer automatically
incremented based on the collection score and pre-defined number of days between
letters being sent.
 R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Credit Management Business Needs Configurable Analyst
Assignment Rules R12.1.3 Solution In addition to the seeded assignment rules, Oracle
Credit Management can now assign credit analyst to case folders based on user-defined
assignment rules and parameters. This offers greater flexibility in addressing customer
specific work load management needs.
 R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle Legal Entity Configurator Business Needs Enhanced Legal
Address R12.1.3 Solution In prior releases, when defining the address for a new legal
entity, users could only select from existing locations identified as legal addresses. Users
can now select any existing location as an address for a legal entity.
 R12.1.3 Feature – Oracle SLA Business Needs New Control Accounts Qualifier R12.1.3
Solution “Restrict Manual Journals” has been added as a new qualifier on the natural
account segment to provide users the ability to specify the control accounts that do not
require third party detail for posting. Navigation Setup FlexFinancials  Key
Fields Values and query for str and accounting segment
 R12.1.3 Oracle Receivables
 R12.1.1, 12,1.2, R12.1.3 Application Technology Oracle E-Business Suite uses the
following major technology components in Release 12.1.1, R12.1.2, R12.1.3 Oracle
Technology Most Recent Version Included in or Certified with 12.1.1 Most Recent
Version Included in or Certified with 12.1.2 Most Recent Version Included in or
Certified with 12.1.3 Oracle Database 11g 11.1.0.7 11.2 11.2 Oracle Database 10gR2
10.2.0.3 10.2.0.5(Certified for upgrading customers) 10.2.0.5(Certified for upgrading

7. customers) XDK for the Database Tier 11.1.0.7 Matches the Database version as
indicated above Matches the Database version as indicated above Oracle Applications
server (for Application Tier forms and Reports) 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3 10.1.2.3 Oracle
Applications server (for Application Tier java code and Oracle Applications Frame work)
10.1.3.4 10.1.3.5 10.1.3.5 XDK for the Application Tier 10.1.3.4 10.1.3.5 10.1.3.5 Oracle
HTTP Server 10.1.3.4 10.1.3.5 10.1.3.5 Oracle HTTP Client 10.1.3.4 10.1.3.5 10.1.3.5
OJSP 10.1.3.54(based on JSP 2.0 Specification) 10.1.3.5 (based on JSP 2.0 Specification)
10.1.3.5 (based on JSP 2.0 Specification)
 R12.1.1,R12.1.2, R12.1.3 Application Technology (Contd..) Oracle Technology (Third
Party Technology) Version for R12.1.1 Most Recent Certified version for 12.1.2 Java SE
Development Kit – JDK( for Application Tier Java Code and Oracle Applications Frame
work) 6.0 6.0 Java SE Development Kit – JDK( for Concurrent Processing Tier) 6.0 6.0
Native Java Plug – in (for client side java code running in the Browsers) 6.0 6.0 –
Included in Rapid Install; Most recent certified 5.0 – supported for version for 12.1.2
upgrading Oracle Technology (Technology Components Delivered in APPL_TOP)
Version for R12.1.1 Oracle JDeveloper runtime libraries 10.1.3 10.1.3 Oracle BI Beans
3.1.1.7 3.1.1.10 Oracle Thin JDBC Drivers ( for Application Tier Java Code) 11.1.0.7
11.2 Oracle Technology (Externally Installed Oracle Technology) Version for R12.1.1
Most recent certified version for 12.1.2 Oracle Portal 10.1.4.2 11.1.1.2 Oracle Single
Sign-on/Oracle Internet Directory 10.1.4.3 11.1.1.0 Oracle Discoverer 10.1.2.3 11.1.1.2
Oracle Collaboration Suite 10.1.2 10.1.2
 R12.1.3 Application Technology (contd…) Oracle Technology (Externally Installed
Oracle Technology) Version for R12.1.1 Version Included in or Certified with 12.1.x
Oracle Access Manager N/A 10.1.4.3 Oracle BI Enterprise edition 10.1.3.4 10.1.3.4
Oracle Web Center 10.1.3.4 11.1.1.2 Oracle BPEL Manager Process Manager 10.1.3.4
11.1.1.2 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10.1.8.4 11g Oracle Enterprise Manager
10.2.0.2 10.2.0.2
 R12.1.3 Application Technology (Contd..) Business Needs AutoConfig Performance
Improvements under Technology Configuration R12.1.3 Solution AutoConfig
performance has been improved significantly by implementing the parallelization of jobs
executed within a product top. Also the longest running scripts have been modified to
significantly increase their execution performance. AutoConfig support for the 11g Scan
Listener feature under Technology Configuration This feature allows customers to take
advantage of the 11gR2 database scan listener feature without manual modifications to
tns/dbc file. Automated deployment of forms ear file under Technology Configuration
Previously whenever the forms ear file was patched in the 10.1.2 Oracle Home, customer
had to redeploy it manually to the 10.1.3 Oracle Home. In Release 12.1.3, this process
has been automated assuring that the customer will not experience forms execution
problems due to an obsolete forms executable.
 R12.1.3 Application Technology (Contd..) Business Needs Lightweight MLS for
Internationalization iSetup MLS for Internationalization Improved MLS Export
Functionality in Oracle Application Framework for Internationalization Oracle
Application Framework Rich UI BiDirectional Support for Internationalization R12.1.3
Solution The Lightweight MLS feature, new in Release 12.1.3, allows additional
languages to be enabled without the need to apply the corresponding NLS patches. In
previous releases, it was necessary to apply the relevant NLS patches before additional

8. languages could be used. Oracle iSetup MLS offers greater flexibility in Release 12.1.3
with the ability to move data across systems with different sets of installed languages.
Customers can choose to move data of all configured languages from a source system to
a target system at once, or they can choose to move data of one installed language or a
subset of installed languages from the source to the target. Continuing on the theme of
improving multilingual support (MLS) in Oracle EBusiness Suite, Oracle Application
Framework export functionality is improved to allow users to Oracle E-Business Suite
Release 12.1 Release Content Document Internationalization 10 choose between
UnicodeLittle or UTF-8 encoding for their exported files. They can also choose between
a comma or tab as the delimiter value between the exported values. This flexibility allows
users to address limitation in older releases of Microsoft Excel with regard to lack of
UTF-8 support or the mishandling of files containing commaseparated values in Unicode.
New rich UI components, released in 12.1.2, now support Bi-Directional languages such
as Arabic and Hebrew.
 R12.1.3 Application Technology (Contd..) Business Needs Concurrent Processing
Integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Delivery Manager under AOL
Oracle Applications Support for 11g Case Sensitive Database Passwords under AOL
R12.1.3 Solution When submitting concurrent requests, users can now choose to have the
request output delivered using BI Publisher's Delivery Manager. The output can be
automatically emailed, faxed, sent to an IPP printer, or delivered using FTP or SFTP.
With this release, the Oracle Application Object Library (AOL) is enhanced to support
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Release Content Document Oracle Application
Framework 15 the Oracle Database 11g case-sensitive database passwords feature for
database user authentication. In previous releases, Oracle EBusiness Suite database
passwords were not case-sensitive. Support for casesensitive database passwords
provides for more secure Oracle E-Business Suite schema passwords. This feature is not
enabled by default and its use is optional. To enable case-sensitive database passwords,
the database administrator (DBA) must perform the appropriate setup steps.
 R12.1.3 Application Technology (Contd..) Business Needs FNDMENU Diagnostics
Menu Security Enhancement under AOL Database Connection Tagging under AOL
Opening Portlet Links in a New Window In-Context Diagnostics under Diagnostics
R12.1.3 Solution This enhancement removes the challenge for the APPS password when
trying to access submenus under the Diagnostics menu. Access to the Diagnostics
submenus is controlled by the „Utilities: Diagnostics‟ profile option and standard E-Business
Suite function security. When the user selects a menu item, Oracle Application
Object Library checks whether the submenu items are granted to the current
responsibility. If the „Utilities: Diagnostics‟ profile option is set to No and the end user
has not been granted the securing function for the menu item, an error message is
displayed. Additionally, this enhancement provides a read-only mode for the Examine
menu, the Item Properties window, and the Forms Personalization form. This feature
provides users with an ability to tag database connections with module and context
specific attributes. The feature offers several session attributes that allow applications to
record the current user, code module and business action that a connection is being used
for. Populating these attributes helps users track metrics required for Audit control,
resource allocation, and problem diagnosis. Links within an Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle Application Framework portlet can now be opened in a new browser window.

9. This feature allows the base portal or Oracle WebCenter page to be in context while
drilldown links open content in a separate window. All Oracle E-Business Suite content
will launch into a single window. In-context Diagnostics uses the inline pop-up feature in
Oracle Application Framework to enable a user to enter input for a diagnostic test,
execute it, and view the result or report, all from the current product page, without
navigating to the Diagnostics screens to run the test.
 R12.1.3 Application Technology (Contd..) Business Needs Repository Management
Security for Oracle Reports Notification Mailer - SMTP Authentication in Workflow
R12.1.3 Solution Additional security capabilities have been added to the Oracle Report
Manager Repository to restrict individual user actions on folders and documents. A new
user interface lets you define the users who have viewer and owner privileges for a folder
or document. Users must have either viewer or owner privilege to view a secured folder
or document. Only users with owner privileges can perform actions such as updating,
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Release Content Document Oracle User
Management (UMX) 34 moving, archiving, deleting, or creating a menu item for a
secured folder or document, or publishing reports or adding subfolders within a secured
folder. You can use Repository security for reports that do not use the user to value,
flexfield This feature provides users methods, as to alternative to creating menu items to
segment, or custom securitywith an ability an tag database connections with module and
context specific attributes. The Repository security session attributes that control access
to those reports.The feature offers severalfeature can help reduceallow applications
overhead when you need to secure large numbers of reports because maintenanceto
record the current user, code module and business action that a connection is being used
for. Populating these attributes helps users track metrics you can publish multiple reports
to the same secured folder, instead of having to required for Audit menu resource
allocation, creating individualcontrol,items for each report.and problem diagnosis. The
Oracle Workflow notification mailer now supports SMTP authentication, enabling
customers to use the notification mailer with their enterprise SMTP servers that are
configured for SMTP authentication. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Release
Content Document Oracle Workflow 38 SMTP authentication requires the sender to
authenticate by identifying itself to the mail server. After successful authentication, the
mail server grants transmission of the sender‟s emails. SMTP authentication can be used
to allow legitimate users to relay mail while denying relay service to unauthorized users,
such as spammers. Oracle Workflow currently supports the PLAIN, LOGIN, and DIGST-MD5
authentication mechanisms. Administrators can enter the user name and password
that the notification mailer should use for authentication in either the basic or advanced
configuration pages for the mailer.