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PONR for the service OrderManagement

  • 1.  PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted May 26, 2020 23:53
    Hi all,

    Is there a way that a service provider can send PONR for TMF641( service Ordering) API to the consumer.  There are no notifications available for such scenarios.

    Also, if there are multiple orderItems, is there a way to send the notifications at OrderItem level for individual orderItems?



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    Rati Mehrotra
    Telstra Corporation
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  • 2.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted May 27, 2020 02:11
    Wouldn't this be a status change notification? Assuming that the order changes state after the Point of No Return (PoNR) is reached, a consumer who subscribed to these notifications would be expected to get this. Both Order and Order Item have a state attribute so an API implementation could send such a notification at both levels.

    Main block is that the state is defined as an enum, and I don't think that there is an appropriate value for passing PoNR.

    An alternative approach would be to add an explicit attribute (perhaps boolean) reachedPoNR, and then have an attribute change notification.

    Over to you @Ludovic Robert for further comment​​.

    Hope it helps

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    Jonathan Goldberg
    Amdocs Management Limited
    Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
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  • 3.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted May 27, 2020 03:17
    Hello Rati, Jonathan

    About the PONR we introduced in the latest version (coming soon) an alternative way to handle it by providing a specific operation to request an order cancel. This is a distinct resource from the service order itself. This will allow client side to request a cancel and for server side to assessif the order is canceable (if it did not yet reach the PONR).

    We not have request as of now to to introduce a specific PONR attribute. I'm not sure if it should be at item or order level (perhaps both - order level calculated from item ones).  I'm sharing Jonathan proposal - Note that state are "extensible" and you can define a inProgress.PoNEReached state in your implem.

    Hope it helps

    Ludovic

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    Ludovic Robert
    Orange
    My answer are my own & don't represent necessarily my company or the TMF
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  • 4.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted May 28, 2020 02:08
    Hi @Ludovic Robert

    In regards to the cancel transaction introduced as part of TMF 641 v4,  its the assessment of PONR  for a request originating from the  consumer.  The scenario that we have is the provider reaches a PoNR in its fulfilment journey and want to send a PoNR notification to consumer.

    The option suggested above are 

    • Adding inProgress.PONR  -  This option will complicate the state machine to depict any failure in terms of InProgress.PoNR-> Failed and other states. If we follow this option, i assume that we will have to send a StateValueChangeNotification with state as inProgress.PoNR
    • Adding PoNR specific attribute - This would require TMF to add this attribute in the future enhancements and provider can generate AttributeValueChangeNotification or we can also think of adding PoNR as a milestone and send  serviceOrderMilestoneNotification (future notification to be added in TMF ) to make the implementation clean.
    Thanks,
    Rati

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    Rati Mehrotra
    Telstra Corporation
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  • 5.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted May 28, 2020 02:24
    Hi Rati

    Both options could be studied & both seems to be valid (I'm note sure option 1 complexify the state engine if we considere inProgress.PoNR as a inProgress substatus). I will raise a Jira to discuss this point with the TMF team. If you did not mind i will copy you last entry for this Jira :)

    To be honest, speaking from myself (and not as TMF API team member),   I'm not confortable to add any of them in the standard API because both options could be added per implem (without breaking API compliance). Adding this feature will enforce a way to manage PONR - we have here already 2 options on the table (and for state options 2 flavors: state item or/and order) - I always prefere to keep some flexibility and provide options.... but as I said this is only my view and I will raise the Jira to have a team assessment.

    Hope it helps

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    Ludovic Robert
    Orange
    My answer are my own & don't represent necessarily my company or the TMF
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  • 6.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Jan 15, 2022 13:26
    Hi @Ludovic Robert
    is there any discussion happened on the JIRA item of PONR and did we get any conclusion ?


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    Prateek Mathur
    Infosys
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  • 7.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted May 29, 2020 01:29
    Hi there,

    Can we not use Service Restriction,  We can introduce a new value for Service State called PONR.

    Also, I feel PONR should be dedicated service call  when we initiate the Amend, and this info should not be persisted anywhere in the calling system

    Regards
    Samarth

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    samarth devadas
    Tata Consultancy Services
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  • 8.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Jan 15, 2022 13:26
    @Rati Mehrotra How did you finally implemented it and do you got any challenge?


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    Prateek Mathur
    Infosys
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  • 9.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Jan 16, 2022 18:26
    Hi Prateek, 

    We are using the notification ServiceOrderMilestoneEvent  to inform  consumers that PoNR is reached. 

    Thanks
    Rati


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    Rati Mehrotra
    Telstra Corporation
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  • 10.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Jan 16, 2022 23:42
    @Rati, thanks then did you introduce any new attribute called PONR  or some date field where you pushed the PONR date.​or did you extended milestone type to pass the PONR Date? or did you just pass the milestone status flag only like inprogress.PONR ?

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    Prateek Mathur
    Infosys
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  • 11.  RE: PONR for the service OrderManagement

    TM Forum Member
    Posted May 27, 2020 03:32
    Wouldn't it be enough to have at Service Order level rather than service order item level?

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    Srikanth Minnam
    Qvantel Oy
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