EBS Integration Repository and eTRM

As a lot of companies and users shift their focus towards the Cloud Products, sometimes it's easy to forget that an enormous number of customer still utilize EBS and will continue to do so for years to come. As such, those customers will continue to integrate their EBS environments with other systems, like early payment engines, OCR engines, tax engines, third party SCM systems, other ERP's and more. The following two resources are extremely powerful when planning integration work for EBS, and I have leveraged them countless times.

First, I wanted to remind everyone that the Integration Repository responsibility in EBS is a great resource to see whether there is already an Oracle API to accomplish a specific task. Please make use of it when building solutions to address customer needs or if you have doubts in regards to whether the vendor you are working with for your project, or your own development team, is building a custom function for an existing standard function or procedure, as you always want to leverage seeded functionality that will be supported by Oracle and doesn't break when upgrades happen.

For those that are not familiar with the Integration Repository, you simply need to add it as a responsibility under your user and browse the different modules to drill down to the specific service interface you want to look at. Once you drill into a specific API, you will see a list of the details including function names, parameters, rules, and much more.

Browsing the repository:

• I am showing Projects related API's in the screenshot.

Additionally, remember the Oracle eBusiness Suite Electronic Technical Reference Manual (eTRM), is also available to us with our Oracle Support accounts.

This one is especially useful to see EBS database design and dependency information, you can also browse the FND model and the Data Dictionary with it! This is an extremely powerful tool to see what happens to those database objects that you rely on when upgrades occur, as those changes will likely impact your custom concurrent programs, reports, alerts, and other extensions.

Link: http://etrm.oracle.com