1. •
• New Features in R12.1.2 including R12.1.1 New Features in R12.1.3 Questions and
Answers
• 3. 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
• 4. 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
• 5. 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
• 6. 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‟
• 7. 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‟
• 8. 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
• 9. Progress WF after hold release Order and line Work flow can be progressed
automatically after releasing the hold
• 10. Enhancements to Quick Sales order form Enhancements are made to the quick sales
order form. Mass Change functionality is added.
• 11. Enhancements to Mass Change in SO Cascading of order header attributes from

2. headers to lines functionality is extended to mass change of order headers
• 12. 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
• 13. 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
• 14. 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
• 15. 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.
• 16. 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.
• 17. 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
• 18. 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
• 19. 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.
• 20. 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

3. Jourmal Line Journal Line Account Definition Type Derivation Rule Journal Header
Journal Line Description Description
• 21. 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
• 22. 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.
• 23. 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.
• 24. 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
• 25. 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.
• 26. 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 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
• 27. 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.

4. • 28. 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
• 29. 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
• 30. 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
• 31. 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
• 32. 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.
• 33. 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.
• 34. 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
• 35. R12.1.3 Quote – Change Customer on an existing quote You can change the customer on
the quote.
• 36. 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.
• 37. 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.

5. • 38. 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 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.
• 39. 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.
• 40. 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.
• 41. R12.1.3 Feature – Advanced Pricing
• 42. R12.1.3 Feature – Configurator
• 43. 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.
• 44. 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.
• 45. 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.

6. • 46. 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  Financials  Flex Fields  Key
 Values and query for str and accounting segment
• 47. R12.1.3 Oracle Receivables
• 48. 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 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)
• 49. 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
• 50. 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
• 51. 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.
• 52. R12.1.3 Application Technology (Contd..) Business Needs Lightweight MLS for
Internationalization iSetup MLS for Internationalization Improved MLS Export

7. 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 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.
• 53. 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.
• 54. 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.
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

8. 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.
• 55. 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