Enhancement Requests and Bugs for Oracle eBusiness Suite

From time to time I create enhancement requests or bugs, commonly on Oracle eBusiness Suite. Additionally I come across enhancement requests that I think deserve more visibility. This page is dedicated to that cause. If you have an Oracle Enhancement Request (ER) or Bug you would like to raise the visibility on, please feel free to comment or contact me.
If you like the looks of one of the Enhancement Requests noted below, log a Service Request (SR) on My Oracle Support (MOS) and ask for your MOS Customer record to be attached to the ER / Bug.

Created	Logged By	Bug / ER	Status	Product	Description
2015/02/22	See ER	9130428	Open	AR	Need a Standard Way to Export the Aging 7 Buckets By Account Report Output to Excel
2013/10/07	See ER	17069048	Open	BIP	Enable use of recursive with clause
2013/06/05	See ER	12872320	Open	BIP	Request to add autofilter functionality to native Excel template (binary)
2012/01/22	Gareth	13616572	Open	BIP	BI Publisher RTF unable to show a fixed number of lines for a word wrapped cell
2011/05/13	See ER	12423249	Open	BIP	Adding support of SMTP username/password to "XAPI:EMAIL" bursting for E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.1.X
2010/11/09	See ER	8208646	Open	AP/IBY	R12 Unable to send Separate Remittance Advice as email attachment in PDF
2010/08/11	Gareth	10019593	Rejected	AP/IBY	ARXRWMAI - In Receipts Summary form, cannot query by payment server id - PSON (Payment Server Order Number)
2010/07/14	See ER	9908713	Open	BIP	Need the DeliveryManager API to have a trackback variable for bounced emails
2010/07/18	See ER	9918364	Open	BIP	Need email body to be set to UTF-8 charset when using East Asian language emails
2010/07/08	Gareth	9891120	Open	eAM	Need hook to extend EAM Maintenance Work Order Detail Report
2010/06/19	Gareth	9834226	Open	AP	Need to embed email images Payables/Payments "Send Separate Remittance Advices"
2009/01/07	See ER	7694052	Open	AP	Does the Supplier Open Interface API Support Updates to Supplier Information?
2005/03/25	See ER	4262148	Open	AP	Need Public API to manage custom AP Invoice Holds

PS. If you would like to monitor Enhancement Requests, and be notified by Oracle of status updates, create a Favorite in My Oracle Support and ensure Hot Topics (Favorites) emails are on as follows.

Create a Favorite:

1. Login to My Oracle Support
2. Search on the ER / Bug number in the Search box e.g. 4262148
3. Click on the orange star next to the Title in the list view, or click on the article and click on the orange star. You should see "Favorite added" status message.
   

Switch on Hot Topics Emails:

1. Go to the Settings tab
2. Click on Hot-Topics Email under Personal on the left side menu list.
3. Switch On the Hot Topics email, every 1 days (or suitable), and ensure you have checked "Product Bugs Marked as Favorites"
4. Save

To see your Favorites, click on the Knowledge tab, then click Favorite Articles in the Recent Activity tab.

Table of Enhancement Request Statuses

Status Code	Definition
11	Code/Hardware Bug (Response/Resolution)
12	To External (User Group) Review
15	Enhancement Req. Internal(Oracle) Review
19	Approved for User Group Voting
20	To Requestor, Need More Info
22	Approved for Future Release
23	Scheduled for Future Release
50	ER Waiting for Base ER Fix
82	QA/PM to Eval ER, Chg Delivered Internal
97	Closed, Enhancement Rejected
98	Closed, Enhancement Implemented

Catch ya!
Gareth
This is a post from Gareth's blog at http://garethroberts.blogspot.com

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• OraPatch: Javascript Install or grab the XML file.
• OraNote: Javascript Install or grab the XML file.
• OraBug: Javascript Install or grab the XML file.

Catch ya!
Gareth
This is a post from Gareth's blog at http://garethroberts.blogspot.com

 

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Bye Bye Metalink, Hello MOS - My Oracle Support. Fingers crossed for continued HTML content!

Disclaimer: This page may become out of date very quickly!

Only a couple of days of Metalink access left, with the change over to full My Oracle Support due on Friday - 6 November 09.

For me this is a somewhat sad occasion. Metalink has been around for such a long time, and has been a great companion, it will be a shame to see it go.

We now herald in the era of MOS (My Oracle Support). And of course, with any shiny new thing, there have been discussions and more discussions. With that debate there has been some good feedback, some negative. To be honest I'm a bit nervous about this change. I'd be keen to know why the APEX interface of Metalink is on the out, when APEX was just brought in for the latest Oracle Store, and with some very sexy functionality on the horizon. The answer is sure to be a double edged sword ;-)

At the end of the day MOS as I've seen so far just doesn't tick all the boxes for me. That will hopefully change. Hopefully soon. My biggest gripe of course would be Flash versus HTML. Given Oracle's current catchphrase "Open. Complete. Integrated." I'd have thought Flash would be a little further down the list than HTML for many of the MOS components. One issue related to this can be summed up by the following screenshot. The eagle-eyed amongst you will spot the problem in the following picture:

… with the issue being the Firefox "Find" not finding "Font" when it was present many times on the MOS search results presented. A bit of a hassle that something I use regularly ain't gonna work. Guess I'll need to have two sessions up, one Flash, one HTML.

Fortunately, it seems an HTML interface will still be available according to Note 841061.1, with limited functionality including SR Management? BUT WAIT ... while I was writing this post I got another MOS related announcement... No SR Management??? Hmm, this is specific to "On Demand" functionality. Fingers crossed for SR Management through the HTML only interface!

The HTML option will not support the following On Demand functionality:

• Service Request management
• Change Request Management
• Viewing performance reports

And there are some other little things that will probably come out in the wash, like email notifications no longer linking directly to an SR:

Prior:

New:

Oh, and of course, let's hope the powers that be manage to keep the gremlins away...

Exception Gremlin:

I/O Gremlin:

Error 1088 Gremlin:

Internal Gremlin:

Well ... I guess we'll find out where we stand in a couple of days!

Catch ya!
Gareth
This is a post from Gareth's blog at http://garethroberts.blogspot.com

References

• APEX Statement of Direction
• Support Blog

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