BI Publisher + Release 12 Known Issues on Metalink

Quick pointer to a handy note on Metalink. I think it's excellent for Oracle to keep known issue lists and troubleshooting guides up to date.

Oracle XML Publisher Release 12 Known Issues

Some of the key issues that I think deserve reference as I've seen posts on the Oracle forums / public blogs about them:

12.1. Decimal Numbers and Rounding with BI Publisher syntax

Rounding Issue When Adding Decimal Numbers

As Oracle XDK conforms to XSL standards for IEEE 754, you might encounter rounding issues when adding numbers that are decimals. For example, suppose you add 13683.80 and 516.39, using this syntax in Oracle BI Publisher:
<?13683.80 + 516.39?>
The value returned is 14200.189999999999 which is caused by a limitation based on the IEEE 754 Binary Floating-Point-Arithmetic.

To work around this issue, use the format-number function or the round syntax as shown here to obtain a return value of 14200.19:
<?format-number:(13683.80 + 516.39);'D99'?>
or
<?(round((13683.80 + 516.39)*100) div 100)?>

12.2. XML Publisher Bursting "Request ID" parameter LOV values

Request ID Parameter LOV Not Populated for XML Publisher Bursting Report Program and XML Report Publisher Program

When you submit the XML Publisher Bursting Report Program (XDOBURSTREP) or the XML Report Publisher Program (XDOREPPB) you are prompted to select the Request ID for the data generation program. The LOV for this parameter is not being populated due to an incorrect profile option reference. You therefore cannot select the appropriate data file to complete the request.

See Note:404928.1 for details of workaround.

If anyone hits any other known issues not documented in the above note whether Release 11i or 12 related, please comment on this post, or ask Support to add it to Note:404928.1!