What's New in Export Engine

PFR-7263 For Subscription Feeds, Export Engine now trims off the exceeding characters from vendor subscription IDs if their length exceeds 48 symbols.

PFR-7160 For Product Feeds in the PS1 architecture, it is now possible to update the vendor ID by trimming off the manufacturer suffix in resource records. To enable the functionality, set the following properties to true in the Export Engine configuration file:

Engine	Property	Default Value
Export Engine Main	ps1.productfeed.export.manufacturerSuffixRemoval.enabled	true
Export Engine Migrator	products.exporter.manufacturerSuffixRemoval.enabled	true

Requirements

BSS 21.15 or later

Export Engine 4.7.32 (February 23, 2024)

PFR-7207, PFR-7088, PFR-7086 In the PS1 profile, BITs as well as the Subscription and Account Feeds are now aligned with each other to support referral end-customers.

To switch on the account export, set the referralAccountsExport parameter to True in the Export Engine configuration file.
PFR-7208 The migration procedure has been improved to support the upcoming account data transfer from PC1 to PS1.

Export Engine 4.5.41 (February 15, 2024)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1804 Non-cancellable subscriptions could appear as cancellable in Export Engine reports if these subscriptions had been changed.

Export Engine 4.6.34 (January 26, 2024)

Features

PFR-7013 For vendor invoices containing taxes, Export Engine now generates the FLCT BiT in the Cost BiT.

To enable this feature, set the bss.transformer.bit.vendorInvoiceTaxCalculation parameter to True in the Export Engine configuration file.
PFR-7118 Capturing credit card authorization details for products in the PS1 architecture has been improved.
PFR-7123 Product Feeds can now be sent both for products in the PC1 and PS1 architecture.

To enable the feature, set the bss.reader.catalog-export-mode parameter to 2 in the Export Engine configuration file..
PFR-7125 The Subscription Feed file can now be generated only for PC1 subscriptions during the export from the Migration pod.
PFR-7117 Product Feeds now include resource MPN related to the original resource and ignore Superseded MPN (if any).
PFR-7159 Product Feeds now only include resources which are available for sale or have associated active subscriptions.

PFR-7144 To support MPNs longer than 40 characters, Export Engine has introduced the following settings:

ps1.productfeed.export.mdg.mpnTrimming.enabled
products.exporter.mpnTrimming.enabled

To enable the feature, set the ps1.productfeed.export.mdg.mpnTrimming.enabled parameter to True in the Export Engine Main Pod configuration file and the products.exporter.mpnTrimming.enabled parameter to True in the Export Engine Migrator Pod configuration file. Additionally, the following settings must be configured:

Property	Required for PC1-PS1 Migration
ps1.productfeed.mpn.filters.zzSkuCategories	Google - Cloud Identity, Google Chrome Enterprise, Google Cloud Platform, Google G Suite, Google Workspace, Google Workspace for Education, CoreStack
ps1.productfeed.mpn.filters.zzVendorIds	VA-185-233
ps1.productfeed.mpn.filters.zzResourceNames	Movere
ps1.productfeed.mpn.filters.zzMpns	Cloudamize
ps1.productfeed.mpn.filters.zzSkuCategoriesByLength	Vendasta, Symantec

Export Engine 4.5.40 (January 19, 2024)

This patch release includes internal improvements only.

Export Engine 4.5.39 (December 22, 2023)

Features

PFR-6730, PFR-7011, PFR-7096 - The new Export Engine Migrator pod has been introduced to facilitate subscription migration tasks and allow XVS to generate product and subscription feeds, not interrupting regular Export Engine jobs. To learn more about the new module, refer to these articles:

PFR-7034 - The product feed delta file is now not sent to MDG if it is empty and has no resource changes.
PFR-7007 - The Cancellable flag for subscription feeds can now work with multiple plan periods.

Export Engine 4.4.27 (November 22, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1593 An export job could fail with the "Incorrect result size" exception.

Export Engine 4.4.23 (November 8, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1555 ACH payments were not sent to SAP.

Note: To start sending ACH payments to SAP, the corresponding payment system name must be added to the new helm variable paytoolsForNullGate.

Export Engine 4.4.22 (November 6, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1543 The sourceTransactionId value could be too long for the reseller and vendor bits and made requests to SAP fail with the error "Property 'Srctaid' at offset 'XXX' has invalid value...".
EE-1539 There was performance degradation for several SQL queries.

Export Engine 4.4.20 (November 6, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1541 There was performance degradation for the subscription feed SQL query.

Export Engine 4.4.19 (November 4, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1535 Export Engine could incorrectly identify the resourceMeasurable parameter for the MDG product feed.

Export Engine 4.4.18 (November 2, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1515 Export Engine could send non-cancellable subscriptions as cancellable in a report to SAP.
EE-1521 BITs for the payments that first failed and then were successfully processed were not sent to SAP PC1.

Export Engine 4.4.16 (October 31, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1511 Export Engine could fail to process payments with more than one e-transaction.
EE-1514 The "more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression" error occurred for plans that had more than one plan period with an activation policy.

Export Engine 4.4.14 (October 27, 2023)

Features

PFR-6999 The logic used for defining cancellable products is now the same across all the Export Engine interfaces.
PFR-6977 The Export Engine payment reporting now aligns with the new capture Request ID design for the Unite payment scenarios.
PFR-6943 Export Engine now reports TCV BITs for referral program customers and reseller-centric subscriptions to SAP PC1.

Export Engine 4.3.36 (October 18, 2023)

Features:

PFR-6910 Export Engine can now generate delta feed which is then consumed by MDG (Master Data Governance). When the new delta mode is switched on, Export Engine will only generate the product feed delta for the new and updated products.
PFR-6918 Export Engine now sends the following fields to SAP:
- subscriptionGuiId to the AR/AP BITs interface
- imsubguid to the Subscription Feed interface
- imsubguid to the Credit Check interface
PFR-6902 Export Engine now sends the information about the product billing model, that is, whether the billing model is vendor or Ingram based, to SAP in the subscription header.
PFR-6522 Refund taxes are now calculated based on the tax rate used in the last charge.

Fixes

EE-1453 Export Engine jobs could fail with the "Incorrect result size" exception.
EE-1438 The Invoice Date, Invoice Number, Line Item unit measure code, SSEU ID End Customer ID, End Customer Name, and End User PoNo fields were not exported and sent to SAP.
EE-1405 Reseller transactions could be stuck in the New status and Export Engine job could fail with the "Unrecognized field "structured_value"" exception.
EE-1399 TCV bits were stuck in the New status and not processed by Export Engine after Export Engine downtime.
EE-1396 Too many TCV bits in the New status could accumulate and get stuck.

Export Engine 3.8.21 (October 13, 2023)

This release includes internal improvements only.

Export Engine 3.8.20 (October 9, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1440 The "bss.reader.overpaymentAsExceptionalPayment" value could not be set to False.

Export Engine 3.8.19 (October 3, 2023)

Features:

PFR-6949 The logic of retrieving the payment data from an external payment plugin and passing it to SAP has been improved in this release.

Fixes

EE-1400 TCV Bits with the 0 delta could be ignored and not processed by Export Engine. A new "SKIPPED_TCV_NO_DELTAS" status for TCV Bits has been added.

Export Engine 4.2.6 (September 21, 2023)

Features

PFR-6913 Export Engine now reports IMC Hub ID to SAP PS1 in Subscription Feed.
PFR-6889The Product Feed reporting has been improved to align with the XVS 3.0 requirements.

Export Engine 4.1.18 (September 13, 2023)

Fixes

EE-1318 Pre-auth payments could have the payment group attribute missing.

Export Engine 4.1.16 (September 7, 2023)

Features

PFR-6847 AR BiTs for the PS1 profile now include payment authorization details.

Export Engine 3.8.14 (August 30, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1243 Resellers' orders could be ignored by Export Engine due to issues with the account status which was processed incorrectly by EE.
EE-1182 For the overpayment scenario, payments could have invoice numbers missing.

Export Engine 3.7.40 (August 28, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1243 Some orders could be ignored by Export Engine due to an incorrect reseller's account status.

Export Engine 4.0.15 (August 22, 2023)

Features:

PFR-6585, PFR-6716 EE now supports the integration with PC1 (PRISM) and PS1 (TS) SAP profiles, allowing them to work simultaneously in the hybrid mode.

Fixes:

EE-1173 An exceptional payment could be sent with the Cloudblue invoice number missing.

Note: Export Engine version 4.0.15 and later require OSS and BSS version 21.13 or later.

Export Engine 3.7.39 (August 2, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes:

EE-1187 Duplicate TCV values could be sent in a report.

Export Engine 3.8.12 (June 26, 2023)

Fixes:

EE-1159 An overpayment could be sent as a regular payment instead of being sent as an exceptional payment.

Export Engine 3.8.11 (June 1, 2023)

Features

PFR-6174 To handle overpayments properly, Export Engine now detaches payments from invoices if the payment amount is more than the invoice amount and sends it as an exceptional payment later when all of the order items are completed.
PFR-6629 Export Engine can now retrieve payment data from an external payment plugin and send it to SAP.

Fixes

EE-1106 A payment in the Payment sent with charge or rtg status could be missing in SAP.
EE-1112 Duplicate TCV BiTs could be sent in a report.

Export Engine 3.7.37 (May 9, 2023)

Features

EE-949 The BCN field has now been introduced in TCV report and can be exported through Export Engine.
EE-725 Vendor-driven promotions for NCE are now supported.

Fixes

EE-1037 The product_code_text field in TCV BiT contained an incorrect value.
EE-1061 After core components were upgraded to version 21.10, Export Engine stopped sending data to SAP.
EE-1017 Export Engine could fail to send an invoice due to the length of the crmId value.
EE-568 There could be missing CoS BiTs in Export Engine.
EE-559 Documents could not be processed by an export job due to the Warn level of the LastProcessedEntityAfterStepSaver event.
EE-548 The data export for an account could not be sent due to the account being locked.

Export Engine 3.6.204 (February 6, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1045 TCV BiTs were not sent when renewing NCE subscriptions.

Export Engine 3.6.201 (January 12, 2023)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1028 TCV Bit could not be sent because tax mapping was missing.

Export Engine 3.6.197 (December 22, 2022)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1019 There was no tax classification in TCV BiTs for partial upgraded order.

Export Engine 3.6.194 (December 15, 2022)

This is a patch release.

Fixes

EE-1113 When a monthly subscription was downsized, BT01 was received instead of BT51.
EE-1114 After a partial upgrade, the related TCV/TCC BITs were not received for the new subscription.

Export Engine 3.6.192 (December 6, 2022)

This patch fixes the following issues:

EE-1001 TCV BiTs were flipped when a subscription was upgraded.
EE-1003 Redundant TCV BiTs were received on billing date.

Export Engine 3.6.187 (December 1, 2022)

This patch fixes the following issue:

EE-996 Unexpected BiTs were received in case of subscription upsize.

Export Engine 3.6.186 (November 17, 2022)

This release includes the following improvement:

EE-982 The Impulse User ID field can now be exported using Export Engine.

Export Engine 3.5.183 (November 8, 2022)

In this release, the following issue was fixed:

EE-976 When monthly billing was received, Export Engine sent two redundant TCV BiTs to SAP.

Export Engine 3.5.182 (October 28, 2022)

In this release, the following issue was fixed:

EE-970 Duplicate TCV BiTs could be sent on subscription cancellation.

Export Engine 3.5.181 (October 19, 2022)

In this release, the following issue was fixed:

EE-968 TCV BiT types were flipped when switching a NCE plan.

Export Engine 3.5.180 (October 14, 2022)

In this release, the following issue were fixed:

EE-941 An incorrect TCV discount BiT was received when upgrading a non-cancelable contract.
EE-951 TCV BiTs could be sent to SAP when only regular BiTs were expected.
EE-961 TCV BiTs are not logged after operations with NCE subscriptions.

Export Engine 3.5.167 (September 21, 2022)

In this release, support for the following features was added to Export Engine:

PFR-6064 Ability to send information about TCV and TCC as special BIT type to SAP integration through TIBCO.
PFR-5784 Ability to collect information for NCE subscriptions.
PFR-5543 Support for PostgreSQL 13 for OSS and BSS databases.
PFR-5497 Support for vendor-driven promotions for NCE service plans.
PFR-4861 Support for ordering and invoicing with the price protection.

The following issues were fixed:

EE-787, EE-782, and EE-766 Customer payments were not sent to SAP.
EE-613 Balance payments were not exported to SAP.

Export Engine 3.4.79 (June 10, 2022)

In this release, the following issues were fixed:

EE-822 A query that fetches BITs took too much time.
EE-823 Refund lines with discounts were duplicated in EE.

Export Engine 3.4.74 (March 31, 2022)

In this release, the following issues were fixed:

EE-724 COSCHARGE bits were not generated for a cancellation order.
EE-734 A reseller transaction export failed if an order item was removed from the order.
EE-741 A SubscriptionFeed could not be sent if a customer did not have the country state specified.

Export Engine 3.4.65 (February 17, 2022)

In this release, support for the following features was added to Export Engine:

PFR-4894 Multi-currency support for FSE.
PFR-3479 Price management scenarios in UX1 for multicurrency.
PFR-4990 Ability to enable rating engine for existing subscriptions.

The following issues were fixed:

OA-22504 Renew request REST API call for cosrtg failed.
EE-681 Reason codes were added to the lines with adjustments.
EE-641 Export Engine could have Revenue bits without Cost bits.
EE-624 Export Engine ran for several days without exporting data.
EE-557 Export job got stuck in the STARTED/UNKNOWN state.
EE-502 Negative lines could have a payment group assigned.