Financial Consolidation and Close and EPM Cloud Common 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, April 5, 2024.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, April 19, 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
    • Monthly Status History on EPM Cloud Environments Now Available on My Services in OCI
  • Daily Maintenance
    • Randomization of Daily Maintenance Start Time
  • Provide Feedback
    • Ability to Disable the Submit Application Snapshot Feature in Provide Feedback Utility
    • REST APIs to Get and Set Restricted Data Access
    • New setRestrictedDataAccess and getRestrictedDataAccess EPM Automate Commands
  • EPM Automate
    • Reliability and Performance Improvement of EPM Automate Using Basic Authentication
  • REST APIs
    • New “Security REST APIs” Chapter in the REST API Guide
  • Accessibility
    • Defined Landmark Regions in Page Areas
  • User Interface
    • Improved Redwood Experience in EPM Cloud
  • Smart View
    • Updated EPM Books Extension for Smart View
  • Data Integration
    • Reliability and Performance Improvement of EPM Integration Agent Using Basic Authentication
    • New Ignore Option for Auto-Commit in the EPM Integration Agent
  • Data Integration Pipeline
    • Allowing Non-Administrators to Execute Jobs in the Pipeline
  • Data Analysis
    • New essbaseBlockAnalysisReport EPM Automate Command
    • REST API to Generate an Essbase Block Analysis Report
  • Forms and Dashboards
    • Ability to Export Data to Microsoft Excel in Forms 2.0
    • Edit Forms from Dashboards Opens the Layout Tab of the Form
    • Ability to Save a Dashboard as a New Dashboard While Editing It
  • Jobs
    • The Jobs Page and the Jobs Filter Now Display Only One Day of Data
    • Retain Comments, Attachments, and Job Status after a User is Removed
  • Task Manager, Supplemental Data Manager, Enterprise Journals
    • Predefine Approvers Routing for Ad Hoc Enterprise Journals and Supplemental Data Forms
    • New Optimization Routines for Task Manager, Supplemental Data, and Enterprise Journal Jobs
  • User Preferences
    • The User Variables Dimension Column Honors the Alias Setting in User Preferences
  • Simplified Dimension Editor
    • Enhanced Simplified Dimension Editor

Financial Consolidation and Close

  • Consolidation Settings
  • Ability to Debug Configurable Calculation Rules
  • New runIntercompanyMatchingReport EPM Automate Command

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: