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, 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

Enterprise Data Management Cloud (EDMCS)

The following features are available in this update:

  • Application Specific Validation on Read Permission for Ownership Approvers
  • Audit Configuration Changes to Properties
  • Calculated Name for Nodes Added to Viewpoints
  • Changes to Workflow Policies Periodically Applied to In Flight Requests
  • Configurable Severity for Application Specific Validations
  • Copy Extract Packages and Publish as Report
  • Corestats Property for Node Type
  • Custom Validation Severity for Viewpoint Validate and Dimension Export
  • Delete Map Bindings for Bound Dimensions
  • Dimension Level Blockout Period Settings
  • Disable Request Workflow for Applications
  • Download Hyperlink Property Values to File as Links
  • Edit and Clear Last Value for Sequence Properties
  • Exclude Archived Objects During Template Import
  • Incremental Extract Options for Property Compare and Output
  • New Themes for Redwood Experience and Compact Header
  • Options to Select All Trigger Actions and Properties for Custom Validations
  • Parent Transform for Top Nodes in Source Viewpoints
  • Property Subtype Included in Download to File
  • Query Orphan Nodes for Hierarchy Viewpoints
  • Request Actions for Nodes in Expressions
  • Recurring Blockout Periods for Applications and Dimensions
  • Rest API Enhancements
  • Saved Filters for Request Activity and Transaction History
  • Select Multiple Nodes to Insert or Move in a Hierarchy Viewpoint
  • Select Multiple Top Nodes for a Viewpoint Subscription Filter
  • Similar To and Is Not Blank Operators for Viewpoint Queries
  • Specify Additional Runtime Parameters for Extracts
  • Target Node Set in Calculated Parent Expressions
  • Track Metadata Creation and Deletion in System Event Audit

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: