Enterprise Data Management and EPM Cloud Platform Updates:

Monthly Update Schedule:

  • Test Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, October 4, 2024.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, October 18, 2024. 
NOTE: The monthly update will not be applied on any environment for which this monthly update is requested to be skipped using the EPM Automate skipUpdate command.

NOTE: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle strongly recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud Platform

This section contains announcements related to the common EPM Cloud components:

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    • Application Environment Management for EPM Cloud Environments in OC4 (UK Government OCI) Regions
  • Security and Access
    • Deprecation of EPM Automate and REST API Settings for Idle Session Timeout for OCI (Gen 2) Environments
  • REST APIs
    • Export Library Documents REST API Enhanced to Export a Batch of Documents
  • EPM Automate
    • exportLibraryDocument EPM Automate Command Support of Multiple Documents
  • Smart View
    • New Version of Oracle Smart View for Office
    • Updated Admin Extension for Smart View
  • Smart View for Office (Mac and Browser)
    • Enhanced Member Selection Dialog for Smart View (Mac and Browser)
  • Digital Assistant
    • New Voice Recognition Service
  • Audit
    • New Audit Types: Report Artifacts and Documents
  • Task Manager, Supplemental Data Manager, and Enterprise Journals
    • Object Storage Now Available for Task Manager, Supplemental Data Manager, and Enterprise Journals Attachments
  • Approvals
    • New Approval Unit Hierarchy Option
  • Activity Report
    • Last 15 Clear Data and Clear Block Commands Tables

Enterprise Data Management Cloud (EDMCS)

  • Access Policy Group Details in Policy Audit
  • Custom Validations on Previous Parent or Both Parents
  • Data Sources for Matching, Merging, and Linking Nodes
  • Defined Viewpoint Loads for Application Dimensions
  • Delegate Request Approvals and Commits While out of Office
  • Delete Unused Workflow Policies
  • Extract Package Inspector Usability Enhancements
  • Improved Request Processing for Updating Nodes with Calculated Names
  • Invited Approvers and Committers Included as Contributors to Requests
  • Match and Merge Request Items to Existing Nodes in Viewpoints
  • Matching Rules for Node Types By Data Source
  • Node Links to Visualize Lineage from Sources to Targets
  • Policy Group Filter and Column Improvements for Policy Listing Report
  • Prevent Pushback and Recall Actions for Selected Request Types
  • Property Groups for Nodes in Viewpoints
  • Survivorship Rules for Node Types By Data Source
  • Uniqueness Constraints for Calculated Node Names
  • View Users of Invited Policy Groups in Request Inspector

Defects Fixed:

  • Software issues addressed each month will be posted to Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Release Highlights (Doc ID 2055579.1)

Refer to the following links and documents for further information: