Oracle Trading Community Architecture provides a model for managing information about entities such as customers. The TCA Data Sharing and Security (DSS) feature provides the capability to manage who can create, modify, and delete information about TCA data model entities across the applications in the Oracle E-Business Suite.

You can configure applications in the E-Business Suite to implement the data sharing and security rules required by your organization's internal policies and procedures, as well those required by governmental regulations and laws. For example, you can establish security rules so that only healthcare workers can change personal information about patients.

The DSS feature registers data security rules in a central repository using the security features of Oracle's Application Object Library (AOL). Because E-Business Suite applications use the TCA public application programming interfaces (APIs) to create, update, and manage party information, data security rules are encoded in these APIs to enforce consistent behavior across the E-Business Suite.

With the DSS feature, you can control access to the following TCA data model entities:

• Parties

• Person parties

• Organization parties

• Relationships

• Classification code assignments

• Party addresses

• Party contact points

• Party site contact points