OIC Scheduling for End of Month style processes – Tip #11 by Phil Wilkins

Setting up calendar schedules that aren’t simply reoccurring, such as a specific date in a month like 28th or third Friday, become more of a challenge with the OIC Scheduler. The calendar works with the ical standard set by the IETF standard 2445. If you review the standard’s section 4.3.0, this describes the reoccurrence options, whilst able, not able to address these needs.

Reoccurring on specific dates can, in theory, be set. If you review section 4.3.4, you will see a date has the potential to be defined as a comma-separated list. So multiple dates for month-end can be provided as a list. Note, this is predicated on the calendar attribute supporting date-mday (DATE). The DTSTART and DTEND attributes accept DATE with no indication that the date-mday is not supported.

Specifying the dates explicitly overcomes the problems of national holidays. The downside is that you need to know when the list needs to be extended and, in the case of OIC, the means to edit the scheduler format safely.

NOTE: we have not tested whether the OIC scheduler is compliant with the use of date-mday at the time of writing.

Complex formulas for scheduling and more manageable scheduling..

There are several options for managing reoccurring events, such as month-end, year-end accounting, payroll and expenses payments etc.

In most options, we assume that we have a simple reoccurring schedule that triggers an integration that determines whether the trigger is legitimate. This could be as simple as daily. If valid, then invoking the main integration with the business process. Read the complete article here.

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OIC Integration Lifecycle Using REST Endpoints by Amy Simpson-Grange

Out-of-the-box, Oracle provides a bunch of REST endpoints available to interact with your Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) instance or the components in which you have built. In this post, we will look at how we interact with an OIC integration using the available REST endpoints throughout it’s lifecycle. This post will not cover all available endpoints and ways to utilize, but rather the key use cases and those that I think are really useful! The full list of available endpoints can be found here.

OIC supports OAuth 2.0 authentication mechanism. Before you can get started using these APIs, you will need to ensure you have the appropriate details to authenticate, retrieve a token and use in your REST calls. For information on doing this, see the Oracle Documentation.

When you call any of the Oracle Integration REST endpoints, the response header returns one of the standard HTTP status codes defined here.

I should also point out that all of this activity can also be completed manually within the OIC service console but these endpoints are specifically useful if you want to script/automate the lifecycle processes. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Assistant for OIC by Niall Commiskey

The artificial intelligence capabilities of OIC have been augmented by the introduction of the Oracle Assistant for OIC. This compelling new feature of the August release is a great resource for folks new to Oracle Integration and also for those who are not so new. 

Usage is simple – here are some examples – read the complete article here.

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Oracle Digital Assistant – Backend Integration with the Oracle Integration Cloud by Daniel Teixeira

With the Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) custom components (powered by Bot Node SDK) we can establish connectivity to anything that has a REST endpoint.

What if we need to connect to a SOAP endpoint, or if we need to always re-use existing integrations? Then we can leverage the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) for this, and invoke that Integration (REST) from the ODA custom component.

Below is a simple example of that implementation, where we receive an OrderId and call an OIC endpoint that takes OrderID as parameter and returns OrderStatus. Read the complete article here.

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Migrate Your Oracle Integration Cloud Classic Services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) by Elizabeth Earle

Oracle encourages you to migrate the following integration cloud resources from OCI Classic to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI):

•     Integration Cloud Service (ICS)
•     Oracle Integration (OIC-C)
•     Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS)

OCI is Oracle’s modern cloud platform that’s based on the latest cloud technologies and standards. It provides more consistent performance and better features. Oracle continues to invest in OCI, including the addition of new regions, services, and features. Note also that new features are continuously being released on Oracle Integration.

Please watch the below 3 minutes video which summarize the benefits of migration to OCI:

Migrate Integrations and Processes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

For more information about how to migrate from classic to OCI please review the following migration guides:

• Migrating Oracle Integration Cloud Service and Process Cloud Service Instances to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Migrating Oracle Integration Classic Instances to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Read the complete article here.

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