This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Product | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04 NOV 2021 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
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Contextual Insights in Assets Portal
Badges provide context insights related to asset condition rating and critically in the Assets portal. Contextual insights enhance the user experience by drawing attention to specific asset conditions.
Use a single search box to quickly retrieve asset and asset location data. For complex queries, you can navigate to a pre-configured advanced search portal. You can also search for Oracle Utilities application menu items using the same single search box. These improvements allow you to quickly find asset and asset locations without leaving the current page.
Utilities Application Framework
REST Service to Get Batch Job Details
You can use a REST service to get the details of a batch job and its batch run. For cases where an external system, such as an external scheduler, requires information about a batch job, you can use this REST service to return the detail of a given batch job ID.
There is a new tool available to automatically capture various details needed to report an issue with the product. This saves you time from manually collecting information about your environment and standardizes the information in log files for Oracle Support to analyze. This is the initial release of the user experience only. Additional information collection and the processing for the integration to support systems will be added in future releases.
The OJet library has been upgraded to v11. This upgrade allows access to new components and updated Oracle Redwood user experience standards.
New Facility for Invoking Service Scripts or Business Services
A new JavaScript function has been introduced to provide more flexibility and better performance for the invocation of services. This allows you to send only a portion of a data schema in a service request. This streamlines the server calls and improves execution performance.
REST Service to Maintain Customer Release Details
For cases where an implementation wants to track the version of the custom extensions, you can use this REST service to retrieve and update the Customer Release details. This is particularly useful for Oracle partners and utilities who want to update the customer version from CI/CD tools via curl commands.
See a preview of the database changes coming for 21C in the Oracle Utilities Cloud Services Database Changes Guide. This guide is also available in PDF.
OAuth Credentials Authorization Support for Oracle Utilities Cloud Service REST API
OAuth-based authorization for utility credentials is now supported and provides an industry-standard integration mechanism for inbound web services used by Oracle Utilities Cloud Services REST APIs. OAuth utility credential authorization is the most used mechanism for server-to-server web service communication. This feature provides seamless integration with other Oracle and non-Oracle products and simplifies the implementation of the integration.
Single Submitter Option for Batch Job Submission
Submit batch jobs in a batch stream as a single job for all the threads with the Single Submitter option of the scheduler program. This option reduces lock contention on the Batch Control table for a multi-threaded batch job.
Intuitive Test Data User Interfaces
Build test data using intuitive user interfaces that reduce the time needed to enter data and allow you to share test data across components within a flow. These intuitive user interfaces reduce the test automation design and development periods, and shortens the time spent to automate tests.
Java Script Support for Custom Functions
Create custom function libraries using JavaScript and apply these functions as plugins in the component steps of a flow. This feature allows you to implement custom test data generation or verification routines when such routines are unavailable in the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator's base set of functions.