Narrative Reporting 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, March 1, 2024.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, March 15, 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

  •         Domain-based Message Authentications, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) Support for EPM Cloud OCI (Gen 2) Environments
  •         Requests to Block or Allow Connections from Specific Countries No Longer Accepted
  •         Redwood Theme Notification for Service Administrators
  •         Vanity URLs Examples

    Security & Access

  •         EPM Access Control Support of IDCS Groups
  •         Improved Ancestor Member Access

    Daily Maintenance

  •         Generic Daily Clone Scripts
  •         Clone Environment – Change of Behavior
  •         Disallow Starting Certain Unscheduled (Ad Hoc) Jobs During the Daily Maintenance Process
  •         Daily Maintenance Start Time – Change of Behavior

    EPM Automate & REST APIs

  •         SimulateConcurrentUsage Command and REST API now Support Ad Hoc Grids in Standard Mode
  •         REST API to Import Data Without a Job Definition
  •         REST API to Export Data Without a Job Definition
  •         REST API to Get Available Roles
  •         Synchronous REST API to Generate a User Group Report

    Groovy Rules

  •         Groovy Access to a User Account’s Email and Full Name

    Data Integration

  •         EPM Integration Agent Custom Database Connections

    Data Export

  •         Modified Name for Data Export Option for BSO Cubes – Dense Dynamic Members

    Settings & Actions Menu

  •         Share Current Page URL Option Now Available for Cards, Tabs, and Subtabs

Narrative Reporting:

  • New Application Roles for Users
  • Change in Variable Content Control Labels in Report Packages

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: