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Oracle e-Commerce Gateway

User’s Guide

Release 11i.2

August, 2000

Part No. A75089-02

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway User’s Guide, Release 11i.2 (as a variable) for Platform (as a variable)

Part No. A75089-02

Primary Author: Bonnie Williams

Contributing Authors: Fred Graham, Janet Lee, Garret Minakawa, Steve Moriarty

Contributors: Debbie, Quezada, Bonnie Shebat Williams, David Wrightson

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Contents

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Preface............................................................................................................................................................		ix
1	Overview.................................................................................................................................	1 - 1
	Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Overview ......................................................................................	1 - 2
	How Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Works...................................................................................	1 - 3
	EDI Transaction Support ................................................................................................................	1 - 5
2	Setting Up ..............................................................................................................................	2 - 1
	Setting Up Oracle e-Commerce Gateway.....................................................................................	2 - 2
	Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Profile Options............................................................................	2 - 4
	Setting Profile Options ...................................................................................................................	2 - 8
3	Trading Partners..................................................................................................................	3 - 1
	Trading Partners ................................................................................................................................	3 - 2
	Defining Trading Partner Data .....................................................................................................	3 - 4
4	Code Conversion ................................................................................................................	4 - 1
	Code Conversion...............................................................................................................................	4 - 2
	Defining Code Conversion Categories ........................................................................................	4 - 8
	Assigning Categories ....................................................................................................................	4 - 10
	Predefined Code Categories .........................................................................................................	4 - 11
	Defining Code Conversion Values .............................................................................................	4 - 15
5	Interface Data File...............................................................................................................	5 - 1
	Changing the Interface Data File Record Layout ......................................................................	5 - 2
	Assigning Process Rules .................................................................................................................	5 - 5

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Assigning Column Rules ...............................................................................................................

5 - 7

6 Inbound Exception Processing .....................................................................................		6 - 1
	Inbound Exception Processing .......................................................................................................	6 - 2
	Viewing Staged Documents ...........................................................................................................	6 - 3
	Viewing Process Violations ...........................................................................................................	6 - 7
	Viewing Column Violations ..........................................................................................................	6 - 8
7	Inbound Transactions ......................................................................................................	7 - 1
	Running the Invoice Inbound (INI) Program ............................................................................	7 - 2
	Running the Price / Sales Catalog Inbound (CATI) Program ..................................................	7 - 4
	Running the Response to Request for Quote Inbound (RRQI) Program .............................	7 - 6
	Running the Ship Notice / Manifest Inbound (ASNI) Program .............................................	7 - 9
	Running the Shipping and Billing Notice Inbound (SBNI) Program .................................	7 - 11
8	Outbound Transactions...................................................................................................	8 - 1
	Extensible Architecture....................................................................................................................	8 - 2
	Running the Application Advice Outbound (ADVO) Extract Program ...............................	8 - 2
	Running the INTRASTAT Movement Statistics (MVSTO) Extract Program ......................	8 - 4
	Running the Invoice Outbound (INO) Extract Program ..........................................................	8 - 7
	Running the Credit Memo / Debit Memo (CDMO) Extract Program ....................................	8 - 9
	Running the Payment Order / Remittance Advice Outbound (PYO) Extract Program ....	8 - 10
	Running the Planning and Shipping Schedule (SSSO and SPSO) Extract Program .......	8 - 12
	Running the Purchase Order Outbound (POO) Extract Program ........................................	8 - 15
	Running the Outbound Purchase Order Change Request (POCO) Extract Program .......	8 - 17
	Attachments .....................................................................................................................................	8 - 20
9 Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Reports ......................................................................		9 - 1
	Reports ................................................................................................................................................	9 - 2
	Code Conversion Values Report ....................................................................................................	9 - 2
	Interface File Data Report ...............................................................................................................	9 - 3
	Transaction Layout Definition Report ..........................................................................................	9 - 5
	Trading Partner Report ....................................................................................................................	9 - 5
	Transactions / Trading Partners Report.........................................................................................	9 - 6

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Viewing the Status of Concurrent Programs...............................................................................

9 - 7

A Windows and Navigator Paths

Windows and Navigator Paths.......................................................................................................

A - 2

B Seed Data Reconciliation

Seed Data Reconciliation ................................................................................................................	B - 2
Performing Seed Data Reconciliation ..........................................................................................	B - 4

Index

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Preface

Welcome to the Oracle® e-Commerce Gateway User’s Guide, Release 11i.

This user’s guide includes the information you need to work with Oracle e-Commerce Gateway effectively. It contains detailed information about the following:

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Oracle e-Commerce Gateway setup.

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway windows.

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway reports and processes.

This preface explains how this user’s guide is organized and introduces other sources of information that can help you.

About This User’s Guide

This guide contains overviews as well as task and reference information about Oracle e-Commerce Gateway.

Note: For Release 11i, we created the Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual. Most of the information contained in previous releases of the Oracle EDI Gateway User’s Guide has been moved to the implementation manual. For detailed information, see the Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual.

Also note that for Release 11i, the product name changed from

Oracle EDI Gateway to Oracle e-Commerce Gateway.

This guide includes the following chapters:

■Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of e-Commerce Gateway.

■Chapter 2 describes basic setup procedures.

■Chapter 3 describes how to set up trading partners.

■Chapter 4 provides setup details on how to set up code conversion.

■Chapter 5 describes how to customize the interface data file.

■Chapter 6 provides instructions on viewing staged documents, process violations, and column violations.

■Chapter 7 provides instructions on how to run inbound transactions.

■Chapter 8 provides instructions on how to run outbound transactions.

■Chapter 9 describes how to run reports.

■Appendix A lists windows and navigator paths.

■Appendix B describes how to reconcile your seed data during an upgrade.

Audience for This Guide

This guide is intended for Oracle e-Commerce Gateway users. The Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual is intended for system administrators, consultants, and any member of your implementation team.

Do Not Use Database Tools to Modify Oracle Applications Data

Because Oracle Applications tables are interrelated, any change you make using Oracle Applications can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle Applications data using anything other than Oracle Applications, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle Applications.

When you use Oracle Applications to modify your data, Oracle Applications automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle Applications also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.

Consequently, we STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you never use SQL*Plus or any other tool to modify Oracle Applications data unless otherwise instructed.

Other Information Sources

Here are some other ways you can increase your knowledge and understanding of e-Commerce Gateway.

Online Documentation

All Oracle Applications documentation is available online on CD-ROM, except for technical reference manuals. There are two online formats, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Adobe Acrobat (PDF).

All user’s guides are available in HTML, PDF, and paper. Technical reference manuals are available in paper only. Other documentation is available in PDF and paper.

The content of the documentation does not differ from format to format. There may be slight differences due to publication standards, but such differences do not affect content. For example, page numbers and screen shots are not included in HTML.

The HTML documentation is available from all Oracle Applications windows. Each window is programmed to start your web browser and open a specific, context-sensitive section. Once any section of the HTML documentation is open, you can navigate freely throughout all Oracle Applications documentation.

Related User’s Guides

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway shares business and setup information with other Oracle Applications products. Therefore, you may want to refer to other user’s guides when you set up and use e-Commerce Gateway.

If you do not have the hardcopy versions of these manuals, you can read them online using the Applications Library icon or Help menu command.

Country-Specific User’s Guides

These manuals document functionality developed to meet specific legal and business requirements in more than 25 countries. You should use the appropriate user’s guide, such as the Oracle Financials for Germany User’s Guide, for more information about using Oracle Financials in a specific country. Consult your country-specific user’s guide, Oracle Financials Regional User’s Guide, and your financial product’s manual to effectively use Oracle Financials in your country.

Global Accounting Engine

Use the Global Accounting Engine to replace the transfer to General Ledger and create subledger accounting entries that meet additional statutory standards within some countries. The Accounting Engine provides subledger balances, legal reports, and bidirectional drilldown from General Ledger to the subledger transaction.

Oracle Applications User’s Guide

This guide explains how to enter data, query, run reports, and navigate using the graphical user interface (GUI) available with this release of e-Commerce Gateway (and any other Oracle Applications products). This guide also includes information on setting user profiles, as well as running and reviewing reports and concurrent processes.

You can access this user’s guide online by choosing ”Getting Started with Oracle Applications” from any Oracle Applications help file.

Oracle Applications Demonstration User’s Guide

This guide documents the functional product flows for Vision Enterprises, a fictional manufacturer of personal computers products and services. As well as including product overviews, the book contains detailed discussions and examples across each of the major product flows. Tables, illustrations, and charts summarize key flows and data elements.

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Oracle Inventory User’s Guide

This guide describes how to define items and item information, perform receiving and inventory transactions, maintain cost control, plan items, perform cycle counting and physical inventories, and set up Oracle Inventory.

Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning User’s Guide

This guide describes how to anticipate and manage both supply and demand for your items. Using a variety of tools and techniques, you can create forecasts, load these forecasts into master production schedules, and plan your end-items and their component requirements. You can also execute the plan, releasing and rescheduling planning suggestions for discrete jobs and repetitive schedules.

Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling User’s Guide

This guide describes how to use Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling to view and reschedule single discrete jobs or the entire shop floor. Specifically, this guide details how to easily use the drag and drop functionality to view and reschedule jobs, operations, and resources.

Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide

This guide describes how to create and approve purchasing documents, including requisitions, different types of purchase orders, quotations, RFQs, and receipts. This guide also describes how to manage your supply base through agreements, sourcing rules and approved supplier lists. In addition, this guide explains how you can automatically create purchasing documents based on business rules through integration with Oracle Workflow technology, which automates many of the key procurement processes.

Oracle Supplier Scheduling User’s Guide

This guide describes how you can use Oracle Supplier Scheduling to calculate and maintain planning and shipping schedules and communicate them to your suppliers.

Oracle Payables User’s Guide

This guide describes how accounts payable transactions are created and entered in Oracle Payables. This guide also contains detailed setup information for Oracle Payables.

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Oracle Receivables User’s Guide

Use this manual to learn how to implement flexible address formats for different countries. You can use flexible address formats in the suppliers, banks, invoices, and payments windows.

Reference Manuals

Oracle Technical Reference Manuals

Each technical reference manual contains database diagrams and a detailed description of database tables, forms, reports, and programs for a specific Oracle Applications product. This information helps you convert data from your existing applications, integrate Oracle Applications data with non-Oracle applications, and write custom reports for Oracle Applications products.

You can order a technical reference manual for any Oracle Applications product you have licensed.

Oracle Manufacturing and Distribution Open Interfaces Manual

This manual contains up-to-date information about integrating with other Oracle Manufacturing applications and with your other systems. This documentation includes open interfaces found in Oracle Manufacturing.

Oracle Applications Message Reference Manual

This manual describes all Oracle Applications messages. This manual is available in HTML format on the documentation CD-ROM for Release 11i.

Installation and System Administration

Oracle Alert User’s Guide

This guide explains how to define periodic and event alerts to monitor the status of your Oracle Applications data.

Multiple Reporting Currencies in Oracle Applications

If you use the Multiple Reporting Currencies feature to record transactions in more than one currency, use this manual before implementing e-Commerce Gateway. This manual details additional steps and setup considerations for implementing e-Commerce Gateway with this feature.

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Multiple Organizations in Oracle Applications

If you use the Oracle Applications Multiple Organization Support feature to use multiple sets of books for one e-Commerce Gateway installation, this guide describes all you need to know about setting up and using e-Commerce Gateway with this feature.

Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard User’s Guide

If you are implementing more than one Oracle product, you can use the Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard to coordinate your setup activities. This guide describes how to use the wizard.

Oracle Applications Developer’s Guide

This guide contains the coding standards followed by the Oracle Applications development staff. It describes the Oracle Application Object Library constituents needed to implement the Oracle Applications user interface described in the Oracle Applications User Interface Standards. It also provides information to help you build your custom Developer/2000 forms so that they integrate with Oracle Applications.

Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide

This guide provides flexfields planning, setup and reference information for the e-Commerce Gateway implementation team, as well as for users responsible for the ongoing maintenance of Oracle Applications product data. This manual also provides information on creating custom reports on flexfields data.

Oracle Applications Upgrade Preparation Manual

This guide explains how to prepare your Oracle Applications products for an upgrade. It also contains information on completing the upgrade procedure for each product. Refer to this manual and the Oracle Applications Installation Manual when you plan to upgrade your products.

Oracle Applications System Administrator’s Guide

This manual provides planning and reference information for the e-Commerce Gateway System Administrator.

Other Sources

Training

We offer a complete set of formal training courses to help you and your staff master e-Commerce Gateway and reach full productivity quickly. We organize these courses into functional learning paths, so you take only those courses appropriate to your job or area of responsibility.

You have a choice of educational environments. You can attend courses offered by Oracle Education Services at any one of our many Education Centers, or you can arrange for our trainers to teach at your facility. In addition, Oracle training professionals can tailor standard courses or develop custom courses to meet your needs. For example, you may want to use your organization structure, terminology, and data as examples in a customized training session delivered at your own facility.

Support

From on-site support to central support, our team of experienced professionals provides the help and information you need to keep e-Commerce Gateway working for you. This team includes your Technical Representative, Account Manager, and Oracle’s large staff of consultants and support specialists with expertise in your business area, managing an Oracle8 server, and your hardware and software environment.

Oracle Support Services maintains the Metalink web site. Metalink is a valuable resource that contains supplemental documents, white papers, and product announcements about Oracle e-Commerce Gateway (and other products). Register for Metalink 2.0 at the server nearest you:

■United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, and The Netherlands should use the UK server:

http://support.oracle.com.uk/

■Asia Pacific customers should use the Singapore server:

http://support.oracle.com.sg/

■United States customers should use the US server:

http://metalink.oracle.com/

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Email The Oracle e-Commerce Gateway management team maintains an email address and distribution list to broadcast product announcements and solicit information about EDI best practices. To add yourself or

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another EDI expert to the email distribution list, send your email address to edisig@us.oracle.com. Please include the full name and the Oracle customer number. (This email address is not intended for questions that should be directed to Oracle Support Services.)

About Oracle

Oracle Corporation develops and markets an integrated line of software products for database management, applications development, decision support, and office automation, as well as Oracle Applications, an integrated suite of more than 45 software modules for financial management, supply chain management, manufacturing, project systems, human resources and sales and service management.

Oracle products are available for mainframes, minicomputers, personal computers, network computers and personal digital assistants, allowing organizations to integrate different computers, different operating systems, different networks, and even different database management systems, into a single, unified computing and information resource.

Oracle is the world’s leading supplier of software for information management, and the world’s second largest software company. Oracle offers its database, tools, and applications products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in over 140 countries around the world.

Thank You

Thank you for using e-Commerce Gateway and this user’s guide.

We value your comments and feedback. At the end of this guide is a Reader’s Comment Form you can use to explain what you like or dislike about e-Commerce Gateway or this user’s guide. Mail your comments to the following address or call us directly at (650) 506-7000.

Oracle Applications Documentation Manager

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Overview

This chapter provides a general overview of Oracle e-Commerce Gateway, including:

■Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Overview on page 1-2.

■How Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Works on page 1-3.

■EDI Transaction Support on page 1-5.

For a detailed overview, see: Overview, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual.

Overview 1-1

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Overview

Oracle Applications provides users with the ability to conduct business electronically between trading partners based on Electronic Commerce standards and methodology. One form of Electronic Commerce is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). EDI is an electronic exchange of data between trading partners. Interface data files are exchanged in a standard format to minimize manual effort, speed data processing, and ensure accuracy. The Oracle e-Commerce Gateway (formerly known as Oracle EDI Gateway) performs the following functions:

■Define trading partner groups and trading partner locations.

■Enable transactions for trading partners.

■Provide general code conversion between trading partner codes or standard codes and the codes defined in Oracle Applications.

■Define interface data files so that application data can integrate with your trading partner’s application or an EDI translator.

■For inbound transactions, import data into application open interface tables so that application program interfaces (API) can validate and update Oracle application tables.

■For outbound transactions, extract, format, and write application data to interface data files.

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway augments the existing standard paper document capabilities of Oracle Applications, or adds functionality where no corresponding paper documents exist.

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual

The documentation for previous releases of Oracle EDI Gateway (renamed to Oracle e-Commerce Gateway for Release 11i) consisted only of the User’s Guide. Please note that we have moved much of the documentation from the User’s Guide into the new Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual. The Implementation Manual is written for system administrators, consultants, and any members of your implementation team. This User’s Guide is written primarily for the end user.

How Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Works

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway is designed with an open and flexible architecture for easy integration with trading partners and / or EDI translators. The e-Commerce Gateway provides a seamless application to application integration solution. When used for EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) solutions, e-Commerce Gateway integrates with EDI translators to provide specific EDI standard formats and versions.

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway is a file-based integration layer between Oracle Applications and any other external application. It uses ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) formatted interface data files.

Transaction data originating from an external trading party is formatted and transmitted to the receiving trading partner. Once received, the data may go through another formatting process, an EDI translator for example, resulting in an interface data file based on the standard layout defined in the e-Commerce Gateway. The e-Commerce Gateway then processes the interface data file and passes the data to the receiving application for additional business rule validation and transaction creation.

Transaction data originating from Oracle Applications is processed by the e-Commerce Gateway and formatted into a standard interface data file. The e-Commerce Gateway then routes the data to the next step in the process flow. The process flow may include processing by an EDI translator for EDI-specific formatting or may involve transmission to the receiving trading partner. Each of these processing steps are integrated and automated so transaction data can flow seamlessly in either direction from trading partner to trading partner with little if any human intervention.

Inbound Transactions

For inbound transactions, the e-Commerce Gateway does the following:

The e-Commerce Gateway receives a file from any source in the standard transaction interface data file format defined in the e-Commerce Gateway.

The e-Commerce Gateway then processes the data by first validating the trading partner sending the transaction against trading partners defined in e-Commerce Gateway. The e-Commerce Gateway then processes any enabled code conversion, process rules, and column rules.

Transactions that pass process and column rules are mapped and written to specified Oracle Applications open interface tables for application-specific business rule validation. Transactions that do not pass these validation / code conversion

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How Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Works

rules remain in the exception module where users can analyze the exceptions. After corrective action in other modules or in the e-Commerce Gateway, the transaction may be resubmitted for re-validation. Alternatively, if your trading partner will re-send the transaction, you may delete the transaction from the exception module.

The base Oracle application continues validating transactions written to the application’s open interface tables. All valid transactions are written to the application tables. Invalid transactions remain in the open interface tables subject to the application’s standard error handling procedures. All these processes are automated so that transactions with no errors are posted directly to the base application tables with no human intervention.

Outbound Transactions

For outbound transactions, the e-Commerce Gateway does the following:

A user-defined or an application event signals the e-Commerce Gateway to begin the outbound process. User-defined events are set up using Oracle Application’s Concurrent Manager.

The e-Commerce Gateway extracts data from the application transaction tables and verifies that the receiving trading partner is authorized to receive the transaction. Code conversion rules are applied to the data and the data is mapped and written to the transaction interface data file. The format of this file is based on the standard file layout define in the e-Commerce Gateway.

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EDI Transaction Support

The following transactions are supported:

Table 1–1 EDI Transaction Support

ASC		Transaction
X12	EDIFACT	Code	Description

Inbound Transactions

810	INVOIC	INI	Inbound Invoice. This includes support for the following
			transactions: Air Freight Details and Invoice (110), Motor
			Carrier Freight Details and Invoice (210), Rail Carrier
			Freight Details and Invoice (410), and Grocery Product
			Invoice (880).

832	PRICAT	CATI	Inbound Price / Sales Catalog

843	QUOTES	RRQI	Inbound Response to Request for Quote

856	DESADV	ASNI	Inbound Ship Notice / Manifest

857	No	SBNI	Inbound Shipping and Billing Notice
	equivalent

Outbound Transactions

824	APERAK	ADVO	Outbound Application Advice

810	INVOIC	INO	Outbound Invoice. This includes support for the following
			transactions: Air Freight Details and Invoice (110), Motor
			Carrier Freight Details and Invoice (210), Rail Carrier
			Freight Details and Invoice (410), and Grocery Product
			Invoice (880).

812	CREADV /	CDMO	Outbound Credit Memo / Debit Memo
	DEBADV

820	PAYORD /	PYO	Outbound Payment Order / Remittance Advice
	REMADV

830	DELFOR	SPSO	Outbound Planning Schedule

862	DELJIT	SSSO	Outbound Shipping Schedule

850	ORDERS	POO	Outbound Purchase Order

860	ORDCHG	POCO	Outbound Purchase Order Change Request

None	CUSDEC	MVSTO	Outbound Movement Statistics

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EDI Transaction Support

Other Transactions

The following transactions are available through other products, specifically, Oracle Process Manufacturing, Oracle Order Management, and Oracle Release Management.

ASC		Transaction
X12	EDIFACT	Code	Long Name

Oracle Process Manufacturing Transactions

850	ORDERS	GPOI	OPM: Inbound Purchase Order

855	ORDRSP	GPOAO	OPM: Outbound Purchase Order Acknowledgment

856	DESADV	GASNO	OPM: Outbound Ship Notice / Manifest

Note: The following transactions will be supported in a future release that includes the Oracle Order Management and Oracle Shipping Execution products:

ASC		Transaction
X12	EDIFACT	Code	Long Name

Oracle Order Management and Shipping Execution Transactions

850	ORDERS	POI	Inbound Purchase Order

855	ORDRSP	POAO	Outbound Purchase Order Acknowledgment

856	DESADV	DSNO	Outbound Ship Notice / Manifest

860	ORDCHG	POCI	Inbound Purchase Order Changes

865	ORDRSP	PCAO	Outbound Purchase Order Change Acknowledgment

Oracle Release Management Transactions

830	DELFOR	SPSI	Inbound Planning Schedule

862	DELJIT	SSSI	Inbound Shipping Schedule

866	No	PSQI	Inbound Production Sequence
	equivalent.

Setting Up

This chapter explains the Oracle e-Commerce Gateway profile options and how to set them up:

■Setting Up Oracle e-Commerce Gateway on page 2-2.

■Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Profile Options on page 2-4.

■Setting Profile Options on page 2-8.

Setting Up 2-1

Setting Up Oracle e-Commerce Gateway

This section briefly describes Oracle e-Commerce Gateway setup steps. For the complete discussion, refer to Setting Up, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual.

Note: Oracle e-Commerce Gateway relies on several base Oracle Applications. Please refer to the setup and open interfaces documentation for those products, specifically the appropriate Oracle Applications Implementation Wizard. See: Setting Up,

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual.

Step 1. Set Profile Options

Profile options must be set up for basic e-Commerce Gateway functions. See: Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Profile Options on page 2-4.

Step 2. Define Data File Directories

To use e-Commerce Gateway, you must first create directories where data files, for both inbound and outbound transactions, are stored. You must then specify these in the INIT.ORA file and in the e-Commerce Gateway profile options. See: Defining Data File Directories, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual.

Step 3. Define Trading Partner Data

First, define a trading partner group and associate all trading partner location (address) entities to this group. Assign the trading partner to an address entity in Oracle Applications such as a customer, supplier, or bank branch address. The trading partner assignment and entry of the trading partner detail data establishes the link between the trading partner as defined in Oracle Applications and its identification in your trading partner’s application or EDI translator application. See: Overview of Trading Partners, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual, and Defining Trading Partner Data on page 3-4.

Step 4. Define Code Conversions

The Oracle e-Commerce Gateway code conversion function provides a method by which trading partner and standard codes can be converted to Oracle Application codes and vice versa. See: Overview of Code Conversion, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual.

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Setting Up Oracle e-Commerce Gateway

1.Define code conversion categories to specify a subset of codes within the code conversion table. See: Defining Code Conversion Categories on page 4-8.

2.For each data element in a transaction that requires code conversion by e-Commerce Gateway, assign one code conversion category. See: Assigning Categories on page 4-10.

3.Enter the actual code conversion values from the internal codes to external codes into the code conversion table. The internal codes are defined in the Oracle Applications. The external codes are the associated values required by the trading partner or chosen EDI standard.

Step 5. Customize Interface Data File Formats

Oracle delivers a standard predefined data file format containing all the data that may be required to support a particular EDI transaction. You may customize this data file to meet specific business needs. See: Overview of Data File Structure,

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual and Changing the Interface Data File Record Layout on page 5-2.

Step 6. Transactions

Once data file directories, trading partner information, code conversions, and optional customizations of interface data file formats have been performed, use Oracle Applications Standard Request Submission to run extract programs for outbound transactions and import programs for inbound transactions.

Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Profile Options

There are three system level profile options you must set. These affect all e-Commerce Gateway transactions:

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Outbound directory.

Inbound directory.

Allow Split Words in Attachment.

There are other transaction level profile options.

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Enable / disable each transaction.

Address derivation precedence.

Attachment segment size.

Enabling header-level attachments.

Enabling line-level attachments.

Enabling inventory line attachments.

Enabling master item attachments.

Note: There may be more profile options in other Oracle Applications products that affect e-Commerce Gateway. These products include: Purchasing, Inventory, Order Entry / Shipping, Payables, Receivables, Supplier Scheduling, and Planning.

System Level Profile Options

ECE_IN_FILE_PATH (ECE: Inbound File Path)

Indicate the directory where inbound interface data files are expected. This value must match the actual directory on disk and that designated in the INIT.ORA file.

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ECE_OUT_FILE_PATH (ECE: Output File Path)

Indicate the directory where outbound interface data files are written. This value must match the actual directory on disk and that designated in the INIT.ORA file.

Note: For the e-Commerce Gateway, you must create inbound and outbound directories on your server, and then specify them in the INIT.ORA file and in the “ECE: Inbound directory” and “ECE: Outbound file path” profile options, respectively. See: Defining Data File Directories, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual, Release 11i.

ECE_ATT_SPLIT_WORD_ALLOWED (ECE: Split Word Allowed)

An attachment is usually plain text used as a note.

If you allow words to be split in an attachment, a new line begins within a word. If you do not allow words to be split, the new line is created after a space or a punctuation mark, not within a word. Thus, if you do not allow words to be split, some segment sizes fall below the attachment segment size, and vice versa.

New lines are created once the current line reaches the attachment segment size. For further information, refer to attachment segment size profile options for individual transactions.

Transaction Level Profile Options

Each transaction has a common set of profile options. For purposes of brevity, each type is documented below. For complete documentation, see: Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Profile Options, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Manual, Release 11i.

Each of the profile options below lists the variable <transaction_code>. For a listing of the transaction codes used below, see: EDI Transaction Support on page 1-5.

ECE_<transaction_code>_ENABLED

Indicates whether the transaction is enabled at the site level. The default is Yes.

ECE_<inbound_transaction_code>_ADDRESS_PRECEDENCE

Applies to inbound transactions only. Determines the precedence by which trading partner addresses are derived.

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Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Profile Options

When inbound EDI transactions are imported into Oracle Applications, the unique business site address must be established before the transaction can be processed. Each trading partner must have a unique address.

A trading partner is a site, such as a plant, a warehouse, a bank branch, or some other business unit. A trading partner is not necessarily a company; one company can have several sites.

The correct address can be obtained from one to three sources, each of which has a precedence code:

Precedence Code	Meaning

LON	Unique ID number for location name.
LTC	Location / translator code combination.
PHA	Physical address or site detail.

When you set this profile option using the Transaction Profiles window, you must select from the following values:

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LTC, PHA, LON (default).

LTC, LON, PHA.

PHA, LTC, LON.

PHA, LON, LTC.

LON, LTC, PHA.

LON, PHA, LTC.

You must set up each inbound transaction to derive the correct address based on the precedence of the three precedence codes, LON, LTC, and PHA. For example, one transaction may be set up to derive the address based first on location / translator code (LTC), then the physical address (PHA), and finally, the location name (LOC).

This means that the first attempt to derive the trading partner uses the combination of the EDI location code and the translator code. If a unique address ID is not found, a second attempt uses the physical site address. Finally, if the second attempt fails, the location name is used.

The following profile options apply only to the Purchase Order Outbound (POO) and Purchase Order Change Request Outbound (POCO) transactions:

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