Oracle Planning 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, February 2, 2024.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, February 16, 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:

User Assistance

  •        TLS Certificate Renewal
  •         Allow Access to static.oracle.com
  •         Updates to the Implementation Success Program
  •         Performance Validation
  •         Updates to EPM Cloud Accessibility Guide

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  •        Plan to Upgrade All Environments from Non-Hybrid Essbase Version to Hybrid Essbase Version
  •         Updates to the Role Assignment Audit Report

    Security & Access

  •         Option to Disallow Service Administrators from Assigning Predefined Roles in OCI (Gen 2) Environments

    REST APIs

  •         Override Selections of the Data Map When Copying Data with a REST API

    EPM Automate

  •        EPM Spotlight: Scripts to Notify Users When the Daily Maintenance is Complete
  •         EPM Spotlight: Scripts to Support Quarterly Updates with Six Week Test Cycles
  •         EPM Spotlight: Updated Sample Scripts to Make Them Executable
  •         New exportLibraryDocument EPM Automate Command
  •         Updates to simulateConcurrentUsage Command

    Data Integration

  •         New EPM Integration Agent Options

    Data Integration Pipeline

  •        New Export Dimension and Export Dimension Mapping Pipeline Job Types

    Forms & Dashboards

  •         Currency Symbol or Currency Code Displays in Dashboard 2.0 Tiles and Tables for Multicurrency Applications

    Task Manager, Supplemental Data Manager & Enterprise Journals

  •         Export to XLSX Format in Task Manager, Supplemental Data Manager, and Enterprise Journals
  •         Persist Dimension Attribute Values in Supplemental Data Forms and Enterprise Journals When Updated or Deleted Within the Dimension

 

Oracle EPM Cloud Planning

  • New Tutorial
  • Ability to Import and Export Model Data and Metadata in Strategic Modeling Models

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: