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, March 3, 2023.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, March 17, 2023.
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 Common

This section contains announcements related to the common EPM Cloud components:

  • OCI Migration: Oracle-Managed Migration Notifications Being Sent and Customer-Managed Migration Program Ends on April 30, 2023
  • Updates to the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Operations Guide
  • New Video to Create an EPM Center of Excellence
  • EPM Automate Updates
  • Assigning and Unassigning Predefined Roles Using REST APIs in OCI Environments Requires Only the Service Administrator Role
  • New Idle Session Timeout Migration REST APIs
  • Updated EPM Books Extension for Smart View
  • Starting Certain Scheduled Jobs Disallowed During the Daily Maintenance Process
  • Valid Intersection and Cell-Level Security Definitions Allow Exclusion of Shared Members
  • New Examples for Groovy Feature to Write a Log File
  • Audit Will Now Retain Records for Up to 365 Days
  • Data Management Feature Replacement by Data Integration
  • Shared Reports and Shared Objects Support in the Cloud EPM Platform

Financial Consolidation and Close

  • Calculation Manager Rule Validation Warnings
  • Metadata Validation Enhancements
  • Data Discovery Enhancements
  • Journal Validations for Unposting Journals
  • Retaining Order of Seeded Members After an Update
  • Performance Substitution Variables

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: