Setting Up Employee Self Service V2 Part 6 - Configuring ICS Internals.

Hiya again

Now we're showing how to configure up ICS to deal with the connectivity to EBS.

Construct the JDBC URL

• From the EBS connection information, construct the JDBC URL to insert into the integrations.The URL should look something like jdbc:oracle:thin:rws60039rems.oracle.com:1541:ebs11ic2

Obtain the PAR File

• From the solution distribution, get the selfservice-backend/ICS/EBS_SelfService.par file.

Upload the ICS Integrations Package

Go to ICS homepage and select Designer > Packages > Import Package. Select the PAR file in the file browser and click OK and Import.






This will create nine integrations:

• EBS_DeleteTimecard
• EBS_GetEmployeeProfile
• EBS_GetTimecardCategories
• EBS_GetTimecards
• EBS_CreateTimecard
• EBS_DoTimecardApproval
• EBS_GetTimecardApprovalList
• EBS_GetTimecardDetails
• EBS_GetVacations

It will also create three skeleton ICS Connections that you need to configure before you can activate the integrations:

• ICS Local REST
• 11iEbizDB
• EBS_SelfServiceSOAP

Correct the ICS Local REST Connection

1. Go to Connections and click to open ICS LOCAL REST.
2. Click Configure Connectivity and set the URL based on what is shown in your browser's address bar.For example, if you see https://icsapps-icaspps.integration.dc1.c9dev2.oraclecorp.com/ics/faces/global, the Connection URL should be https://icsapps-icaspps.integration.dc1.c9dev2.oraclecorp.com.
   The username and password should be set to an ICS system user credentials.

Not providing much info here as it is very  install specific. 

1. Click Test and then Exit Connection and Save. Click Yes to confirm that the integrations you just imported will be affected.
2. 
3. If you see the following message, repeat the above steps and test again.
   We cannot save your connection. [Cause: ICS-10954]:
- Unable to marshall the AppInstance into an xmlString.

( this error was not seen ) 

Correct the SOAP Connection

( These steps seem not to be  needed !!!! ) start going again at the Database Connectionsd. 

1. Go to connections and click to open EBS_SelfServiceSOAP.
2. You may need to upload the WSDL again. This WSDL should be in your project zip file (ebsselfservice-backend/ICS/EBS_SelfServiceActions.wsdl).
3. The username and password should be set to an ICS system user credentials.
4. Click Test and then Exit Connection and Save. Click Yes to confirm that 3 of the integrations you just imported will be affected.

Correct the Database Connection Information

1. Edit the DB Connection and configure the hostname, port, SID or service name, and the username and password.
2. Choose the agent group which you earlier created and validated and click Test to get it to 100% configured.

Saving this pops up the same warning box that you are affecting all the integrations; this is fine because you need to connect to EBS ! Click OK. 

Activate All Integrations

Go through all the  integrations and drag across the start button 

Do all the rest and it should look like : 

That's all for now.  In our next blog entry we'll move on to testing the integrations and finally moving towards MCS