SAP Convergent Charging 5.0

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1 Release Note - What's New in SP 3 SAP Convergent Charging Document Version: PUBLIC

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3 Document History Version Date Description 1.0 November 2018 First version Introduction Public rights reserved 3

4 Table of Contents 1 Introduction Before You Start Canceling Expired Allowances with Web Services (New) Feature Overview Core Tool Communication Compression (New) Feature Overview Audit Logging Enhancement (New) Feature Overview Manage Mapping Tables with Cockpit (New) Feature Overview Effect on User Interface Effect on Business Configuration Manage Mapping Table Classes with Cockpit (New) Feature Overview Effect on User Interface Effect on Business Configuration Table Rollover for Rating Sessions (New) Feature Overview Operating Systems (New) Feature Overview Release Note - What's New in SP 3 rights reserved Introduction

5 1 Introduction Audience Solution and technology consultants System and application administrators SAP sales representatives About this Document This Release Note - What's New documentation lists all the features that are introduced in SAP Convergent Charging 5.0 SP 3. Note If you update a support package earlier than SAP CC 5.0 SP 3, refer to all the Release Note - What's New documents published with the previous support packages. What's New in SP 3 The support package 3 provides the following features in your SAP system landscape: Canceling Expired Allowances with Web Services (New) Core Tool Communication Compression (New) Audit Logging Enhancement (New) Manage Mapping Tables with Cockpit (New) Manage Mapping Table Classes with Cockpit (New) Table Rollover for Rating Sessions (New) Operating Systems (New) The support package 3 uses the SAP Fiori Launchpad in the front-end, which natively provides the following features: User sessions support, to handle situations such as timeouts/expiration or locking/unlocking mechanisms Notifications display, to inform users about situations that require their action or just their attention Recent activity display, that contains the list of recently or frequently visited apps User preferences management, that gives the possibility to specify: o A language, among the list of languages supported by SAP Convergent Charging o A theme, among 3 available themes (SAP Belize, SAP Belize Plus and SAP Belize High Contrast) o An animation mode, that modifies the level of animation experienced by users when interacting with the launchpad Introduction Public rights reserved 5

6 o Content density, that modifies the size of the user interface controls depending on the interaction style (keyboard/mouse/touch) o Notification settings, that modifies the display of notifications (enablement, levels, and so on) o User activity settings, that gives the possibility to enable or disable the activity tracking The support package 3 also provides the following improvements: Modification of the SAP Convergent Charging architecture: o Version 7.0 and 8.0 of Apache Tomcat are no longer supported by the SAP CC Cockpit user interface o Version 8.5 and 9.0 of Apache Tomcat are now supported by the SAP CC Cockpit user interface instead Modification of the storage location for variants and settings. Data are now associated to the user, and no more to the browser, which means that both variants and settings created or modified by a given user are now available when switching between the supported browsers Note Variants and settings created or modified before SP 3 are not automatically migrated and must thus be recreated after the update to SP 3. New Cockpit embedded database, that is used to store variants and settings, and drafts of master data created within the different apps Two new apps dedicated to the Pricing Specialist, that you can use to configure the pricing catalogs: o "Manage Mapping Table Classes", that you can use to display, create, and maintain the mapping table classes for your service providers and their customer services o "Manage Mapping Tables", that you can use to display, create, and maintain the mapping tables for your service providers and their customer services For further information, refer to the "Roles and Authorizations" section of the SAP CC 5.0 Security Guide documentation Enhancement of the smart execution mode for the partitions distribution operations performed by the master dispatcher. The following new system parameters now give the possibility to specify delays between the assignment of partitions to raters and guiders, that can be used to protect raters and guiders against possible overloading during warmup operations: o RATER_PARTITION_SWITCH_BURST_PROTECTION_INITIAL_DELAY o RATER_PARTITION_SWITCH_BURST_PROTECTION_ DELAY o GUIDER_PARTITION_SWITCH_BURST_PROTECTION_INITIAL_DELAY o GUIDER_PARTITION_SWITCH_BURST_PROTECTION_ DELAY For further information, refer to the SAP Convergent Charging System Parameter Reference documentation Enhancement of the session-based execution mode of the Chargeable Items Charging process. The new RATING_SESSION_PER_SUBSCRIBER_ACCOUNT_LIMIT system parameters now gives the possibility to limit the number of charging sessions that can be started per subscriber account For further information, refer to the SAP Convergent Charging System Parameter Reference documentation For performance and compatibility purposes, the support package 2 also provides the following of the SAP Convergent Charging architecture: New "catalog.cache.retention_period" configuration parameter for the Core Tool user interface. For further information about this parameter, refer to the "Configuring Core Tool" section available in the SAP Convergent Charging Tuning Guide documentation 6 Release Note - What's New in SP 3 rights reserved Introduction

7 Version 2.0 of the SAML standard is now supported by SAP CC for web services operations MDC (Multiple Data Containers) mode and high-availability (active-passive) feature are now supported by SAP CC for SAP HANA databases Section "What's New" in SAP CC Guides For more details about the new features of the support package 2, see the section What's New in the guides of. Abbreviations The following table shows the list of abbreviations used throughout this document. Abbreviation CC CRM ERP GUI JCo WS Meaning Convergent Charging Customer Relationship Management Enterprise Resource Planning Graphical User Interface Java Connector Web Services Introduction Public rights reserved 7

8 2 Before You Start SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management SAP CC 5.0 is part of the SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management with the SAP ERP and SAP CRM components of SAP S/4 HANA OP. Depending on your SAP Industry, you consider the following ERP applications: SAP for Industries: SAP ERP/FI-CA (Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable) SAP for Telecommunications: SAP ERP/RM-CA (Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, Receivables Management - Contract Accounting) SAP for Utilities: SAP ERP/ Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable for the Utilities Industry SAP Help Portal SAP Help Portal is the central place to access SAP product documentation. Find the documentation of SAP Convergent Charging at: Important SAP Notes In the following table, the SAP Notes contain information for delivering and implementing SAP CC 5.0 SP 3: Title SAP Note Description SAP CC 5.0 Support Package 3 Technical Implementation of SAP CC 5.0 SP This delivery and information note contains delivery and content information to facilitate the technical implementation of this new SP This last-minute information is about the technical implementation of this support package (SP) of the SAP Convergent Charging 5.0 software. This user assistance provides you with few supplementary maintenance procedures that are necessary to perform the technical implementation of this SP in your SAP system landscape. In the following table, the SAP Notes contain information for installing the initial shipment and the previous support packages of SAP CC 5.0: Title SAP Note Comment Release Information Note for SAP CC This Release Information Note (RIN) contains information and references to documents or notes to 8 Release Note - What's New in SP 3 rights reserved Before You Start

9 Title SAP Note Comment install the initial shipment stack of SAP CC 5.0. Release Restriction Note for SAP CC This Release Restriction Note (RRN) provides information about release restrictions for installing the initial shipment stack of SAP CC 5.0. Additional Information For more information about specific topics, see the quick links in the following table: Content SAP Convergent Charging (Customers and Partners) SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management Related SAP Notes Product Availability Matrix SAP Solution Manager Quick Link on SAP Service Marketplace or SCN Before You Start Public rights reserved 9

10 3 Canceling Expired Allowances with Web Services (New) 3.1 Feature Overview As of SP 3, SAP Convergent Charging is enhanced with a new web service operation for canceling expired allowances manually. Summary In the Allowance Management web service, SAP implements the new chargingcontractexpiredallowancecancel operation that allows you to cancel all the expired allowances of a charging contract. This operation uses the identifier of the charging contract and the identifier of the related subscriber account. Benefits This enhancement allows you to cancel and remove all the expired allowances of a charging contract before the end of the retention period. More Information See the Web Services Documentation for more information about this feature. 10 Release Note - What's New in SP 3 rights reserved Canceling Expired Allowances with Web Services (New)

11 4 Core Tool Communication Compression (New) 4.1 Feature Overview As of SP 3, SAP Convergent Charging is enhanced for compressing data used by the Core Tool on the network. Benefits This enhancement allows to reduce the amount of exchanged data and the response time of the Core Tool. Core Tool Communication Compression (New) Public rights reserved 11

12 5 Audit Logging Enhancement (New) 5.1 Feature Overview As of SP 3, SAP Convergent Charging is enhanced with a new parameter to permanently remove change logs related to customer data when it is deleted. Summary In SAP Convergent Charging, the new AUDIT_CUSTOMER_DATA_DESTRUCTION_ENABLED parameter allows you to synchronously delete the customer data and their related change logs including object snapshots. You can only delete the snapshots of the following objects: Subscriber Accounts Provider Contracts Accesses Subscriber Mapping Tables Subscriber Range Tables Note: Object snapshots related to subscriptions are outside this scope because subscriptions are deprecated since SAP Convergent Charging 3.0. Benefits This enhancement provides better compliance with data protection and privacy concerns. You don t need any more to follow the recommendation defined in the section Data Protection and Privacy: How to Configure the Data Object Auditing Based on Snapshot Recording of the SAP Note More Information See the System Parameter Reference for more information about this feature. 12 Release Note - What's New in SP 3 rights reserved Audit Logging Enhancement (New)

13 6 Manage Mapping Tables with Cockpit (New) 6.1 Feature Overview As of SP 3, SAP CC Cockpit provides you with a new app dedicated to the pricing specialist for creating, maintaining, and viewing mapping tables that you designed for the pricing configuration of the end-customer services to monetize. Figure 1: The new app Manage Mapping Tables Summary With the app Manage Mapping Tables, you can: Search for mapping tables within the list of existing ones, and organize the results list Create a new mapping table Import a set of rows within an existing mapping table Export all the rows defined in an existing mapping table Delete an existing mapping table Manage Mapping Tables with Cockpit (New) Public rights reserved 13

14 Benefits This app provides you with a modern and helpful user interface. When configuring the master data in your pricing catalogs, you complete your tasks more efficiently. More Information See the following product documentation and user assistance for more information about this feature: Primary Help 6.2 Effect on User Interface Changes in SAP CC Cockpit In your Convergent Charging Cockpit launchpad, an app tile is available in the Pricing Configuration category. To work with this app, you must have the Marketing or Remote Support role in your SAP CC user profile. 6.3 Effect on Business Configuration As an SAP CC pricing specialist, you use this new Fiori app to configure and maintain the pricing configuration for the end-customer services of the service provider that you represent. In SAP CC Cockpit, you manage the mapping tables in the pricing catalogs. 14 Release Note - What's New in SP 3 rights reserved Manage Mapping Tables with Cockpit (New)

15 7 Manage Mapping Table Classes with Cockpit (New) 7.1 Feature Overview As of SP 3, SAP CC Cockpit provides you with a new app for creating, deleting, and viewing mapping table classes that you designed for the pricing configuration of the end-customer services to monetize. Figure 1: The new app Manage Mapping Table Classes Summary With the app Manage Mapping Table Classes, you can: Display a list of mapping table classes configured in the pricing catalogs for end-customer services. Do a live search and sort, filter, and group the displayed classes by different criteria easily. Display a mapping table class and its n-column definition. Create or copy the necessary mapping table classes. The app manages your drafts automatically. Delete a specific mapping table class that is no more referenced. Manage Mapping Table Classes with Cockpit (New) Public rights reserved 15

16 Benefits This app provides you with a modern and helpful user interface. When configuring the master data in your pricing catalogs, you complete your tasks more efficiently. More Information See the following product documentation and user assistance for more information about this feature: Primary Help 7.2 Effect on User Interface Changes in SAP CC Cockpit In your Convergent Charging Cockpit launchpad, an app tile is available in the Pricing Configuration category. To work with this app, you must have the Marketing or Remote Support role in your SAP CC user profile. 7.3 Effect on Business Configuration As an SAP CC pricing specialist, you use this new Fiori app to configure and maintain the pricing configuration for the end-customer services of the service provider that you represent. In SAP CC Cockpit, you manage the mapping table classes in the pricing catalogs. 16 Release Note - What's New in SP 3 rights reserved Manage Mapping Table Classes with Cockpit (New)

17 8 Table Rollover for Rating Sessions (New) 8.1 Feature Overview As of SP 3, SAP Convergent Charging is enhanced with a new feature to avoid the fragmentation of the Session database Summary In SAP Convergent Charging, charging operations performed using the session-based execution mode lead to the recording of rating session data within the back-end database. In case you implemented the Dual Database feature, your landscape contains the Session database, that is used to store the different data related to the business objects handled by SAP CC during the session-based charging operations. During such operations, different kind of events occur, each event impacting the database table that is used to store the different information related to the rating session. As time goes by, these recurrent impacts may lead to the fragmentation of this database table, that decreases the performances of the Session database, and by extension, the performance of the overall system. Benefits This enhancement gives the possibility to store the rating sessions among a set of destination tables instead of a single one, according to a defined period of time. At the end of this period, the destination of the storage changes, and the previously one is emptied which removes its fragmentation. More Information See the Application Help for more information about this feature. Table Rollover for Rating Sessions (New) Public rights reserved 17

18 9 Operating Systems (New) 9.1 Feature Overview As of SP 3, SAP Convergent Charging supports the following Operating Systems: Windows Server 2016 LTSB 64BIT Windows Server 2019 LTSB 64BIT More Information See the following product documentation and user assistance for more information about this feature: SAP CC 5.0 Product Availability Matrix (PAM) Operating Systems Supported by SAP CC Release Note - What's New in SP 3 rights reserved Operating Systems (New)

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