Netsuite integration

We are working on a native plsql integration between popay.net and Netsuite. We need such for some new customers in Kenya and South Africa. The solution will be based on raw SOAP messages, all handled with plsql, including the token based authentication (TBA).

By pure coincidence, Larry opted to acquire Netsuite during the same period.

The documentation is sometimes a little though to get through it, so maybe not such a coincidence after all.

issue with security profiles while upgrading

TL;DR: Do not use secured view in the definition of a security profile

During a migration from 11i to R12.2 we noticed that whatever chance in the assignment screen had as side effect that the employee was not visible anymore under secured responsibilities.

So Oracle deleted all records for such employee from the per_person_lists table, but the call to renew them did nothing.

The security profiles in question contain a subquery on per_assignments_f. That was a table, long time ago, in 11i, but is now a (secured) view in R12. So replacing the secured view by the base table resolved the issue.

R12.2

A long time I was not really active on eBS, a long time I was not blogging anymore.

I just want to document my R12.2 adventures.

One was that the fast formula text is now stored in a clob column, gone is the long column. Finally. Our Documentool for Payroll supports this little change already for a while.

Value set security. I was not able anymore to enter values for a value set. Reading several notes, praising the Security by Default approach, so that something that worked for decades involves now an enterprise level of confusion and complexity. Bitter sweet.

This article describes how to enforce backwards compatibility, by linking your user to the "Flexfield Value Set Security: All privileges" role, done under SYSADMIN / User management.

But overall impression of R12.2 is that is it very stable and solid. So a sign of an end of live technology, viva Fusion.