Tax 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, February 2, 2024.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, February 16, 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:

User Assistance

  •        TLS Certificate Renewal
  •         Allow Access to static.oracle.com
  •         Updates to the Implementation Success Program
  •         Performance Validation
  •         Updates to EPM Cloud Accessibility Guide

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  •        Plan to Upgrade All Environments from Non-Hybrid Essbase Version to Hybrid Essbase Version
  •         Updates to the Role Assignment Audit Report

    Security & Access

  •         Option to Disallow Service Administrators from Assigning Predefined Roles in OCI (Gen 2) Environments

    REST APIs

  •         Override Selections of the Data Map When Copying Data with a REST API

    EPM Automate

  •        EPM Spotlight: Scripts to Notify Users When the Daily Maintenance is Complete
  •         EPM Spotlight: Scripts to Support Quarterly Updates with Six Week Test Cycles
  •         EPM Spotlight: Updated Sample Scripts to Make Them Executable
  •         New exportLibraryDocument EPM Automate Command
  •         Updates to simulateConcurrentUsage Command

    Data Integration

  •         New EPM Integration Agent Options

    Data Integration Pipeline

  •        New Export Dimension and Export Dimension Mapping Pipeline Job Types

    Forms & Dashboards

  •         Currency Symbol or Currency Code Displays in Dashboard 2.0 Tiles and Tables for Multicurrency Applications

    Task Manager, Supplemental Data Manager & Enterprise Journals

  •         Export to XLSX Format in Task Manager, Supplemental Data Manager, and Enterprise Journals
  •         Persist Dimension Attribute Values in Supplemental Data Forms and Enterprise Journals When Updated or Deleted Within the Dimension

 

Tax Reporting:

  • There are no new features in this update except for the applicable features listed in the EPM Cloud Platform section. Under Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, please review the information under Plan to Upgrade All Environments From Non-Hybrid Essbase Version to Hybrid Essbase Version.

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: