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, 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

Enterprise Data Management Cloud (EDMCS)

There are no new features in this update except for the applicable features listed in the EPM Cloud Platform section.

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: