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3 Getting Started
As part of the provisioning process, you should receive the links to access the application from the cloud engineering team, along with information on how to upload files into the environment. The link for accessing the tool is like the below, with the Region Name and customer subnamespace being replaced by what is applicable for your environments.
https://rex.retail.<Region Name>.ocs.oraclecloud.com/<Customer Subnamespace>/
DataConversion/faces/Home
The Merchandising File Transfer service will be used for uploading the Data Conversion input files. While uploading the files, use dataconversion/incoming as the object storage (OS) prefix. Details on Merchandising File Transfer service can be found in the Oracle Retail Merchandising System Operations Guide, Volume 2 .
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The File Transfer Services allow you to manage uploading and downloading files to Object Storage that are processed by the Data Conversion Application. These Object Storage buckets are automatically created when the environment is provisioned. You do not need access to the OCI Console because these buckets can be directly used through the File Transfer Service to upload/download files for data conversion.
To get started with using the Data Conversion application, you will first need to configure users for the roles, duties and privileges of the application. There are two roles by default that have been configured for this application:
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Data Conversion Operator (DATACONV_OPERATOR_JOB)
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Data Conversion Administrator (DATACONV_ADMIN_JOB)
| Duty | Priv | Description |
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| Data Clean-up Duty | Data Clean-up Priv | By default, this is assigned to the administrator role only. This privilege allows for access to the System Administration and Uploaded Files screen. |
| Data Inquiry Duty | Data Viewer Priv | This privilege allows for access to the View Uploaded Data screen. |
| Data Validation Duty | Basic Data Validation Priv | This privilege allows for access to the Data Validation screen. |
| Business Data Validation Priv | This privilege allows for access to the Business Validation screen. | |
| Mass Upload Duty | Mass Upload Priv | This privilege allows for access to the Mass Upload screen. |
| Report Viewer Duty | Report Viewer Priv | This privilege allows for access to the in-context reports. |
As with other roles, the data conversion roles are associated with users in the Identity Cloud Service (IDCS)1 and the duties and privileges assigned to the roles are managed in the Oracle
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Because of changes that may occur to foundation data structures during a major update, it is recommended that you clear the data conversion environment using the Mock Conversions functionality and reload what you previously had converted (with updates to templates as needed) before continuing the conversion.
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The Data Conversion application is supported in English only. However, the converted data can and should be loaded in the primary language for your implementation, with additional translations included where applicable.