Hi Richard and all
So sorry, I incorrectly sent you to
@Kevin King, he's doing prepay balance, not usage management.
@Steve Harrop, who replied earlier on this thread, is doing usage management.
Regarding your query, in the latest schema, we have a reference from RatedProductUsage to ProductRef, thus I can know which Inventory Product caused the usage item. Product has references to its implementing services and resources, but this does not give you the specific service that was "responsible" (somehow) for the product usage (and there may be multiple services).
I suggest you take a look at the SID model for usage, which is more extensive than what we have done in the Open API, you can see there that the different types of usage are related to each other, and so it would be possible to navigate to the "responsible" service(s) or resource(s). I tried to upload an image but got an error message.
Needs more discussion if it would be required to bring this into the Open API model.
Hope it helps and again sorry for the confusion.
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Original Message:
Sent: Jul 06, 2020 22:18
From: Richard Loo
Subject: TMF635 -- Usage Management API
Thanks Jonathan, I have sent a message to Kevin King.
While we are on this subject, in the existing TMF635 REST API spec, it looks like the only way that I can related a usage data instance as being related to a TMF638 service instance is via the relatedParty . Can anyone shed some light on whether this is correct, or is there a more correct way of doing this? Does the new TMF635 spec have an explicit way to this by design?
Thanks for your help everyone.
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Richard Loo
Telstra Corporation
Original Message:
Sent: Jun 30, 2020 01:30
From: Jonathan Goldberg
Subject: TMF635 -- Usage Management API
Best to ask @Kevin King, the lead for this API, for a full list of changes. Apart from specific functional enhancements, it includes alignment with the updated TMF630 design guidelines (recently published for member approval).
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Original Message:
Sent: Jun 29, 2020 19:39
From: Richard Loo
Subject: TMF635 -- Usage Management API
Thanks for that. May I ask what the major differences are from the previous version?
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Richard Loo
Telstra Corporation
Original Message:
Sent: Jun 29, 2020 04:21
From: Stephen Harrop
Subject: TMF635 -- Usage Management API
Hi,
Just to say that an updated version v4.0.0 of the TMF635-Usage Management swagger file was put on the public GitHub last week:
https://github.com/tmforum-apis/TMF635_UsageManagement
The UserGuide is being worked on now, followed by Conformance Profile - leading to the CTK!
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Stephen Harrop
Principal Integration Architect
Vodafone Group
Original Message:
Sent: Jun 22, 2020 05:29
From: Jonathan Goldberg
Subject: TMF635 -- Usage Management API
Hi
Without making any promises, the current discussions in the Open API team are towards releasing API definition (Swagger) and CTK at around the end of the month for this API.
Suggest you watch this space for more updates.
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Original Message:
Sent: Jun 17, 2020 19:45
From: Richard Loo
Subject: TMF635 -- Usage Management API
I would like to know about this new release too. Is there a draft that can be shared so that we can see what the changes/additions are ?
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Richard Loo
Telstra Corporation
Original Message:
Sent: Jun 08, 2020 03:51
From: Braam van Heerden
Subject: TMF635 -- Usage Management API
Hello Jonathan
Regarding updated TMF635 specification, any timelines available around its release? Possible to share highlights of anticipated changes?
Thank you
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Braam van Heerden
Openet
Original Message:
Sent: Jun 01, 2020 10:03
From: Jonathan Goldberg
Subject: TMF635 -- Usage Management API
Hi Akansha
I raised this with the Open API team leads.
The current version of the Usage Management API is very old (release 14.5), and a new version is in preparation. Perhaps it will be worth your while waiting for the new version, in terms of business value (certifying an up-to-date version would seem to be more effective than a version released some 5 years ago).
Hope it helps
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Original Message:
Sent: Jun 01, 2020 05:57
From: Akansha Agarwal
Subject: TMF635 -- Usage Management API
Hi Team,
We are developing the TMF635 ( Usage Management API) for certification .
But CTK is not available for testing.
Kindly suggest how can we share the test result and perform the testing for the above API.
Thanks & Regards,
Akansha Agarwal
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Akansha Agarwal
Comviva
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