Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management Application Pack v8.0.0.0.0 Minor Release #1 (8.0.1.0.0)

Description

OFS PFT Application Pack v8.0.0.0.0 Minor Release #1 8.0.1.0.0 (ID 21031791)

This release of OFS PFT Application Pack is cumulative of all enhancements and bug fixes done since v8.0.0.0.0 release.

Prerequisite

The minimum patch set level should be OFS PFT Application Pack v8.0.0.0.0.

How to Apply This Release?

For detailed instructions on installing this OFS PFT Release, please refer to Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management Application Pack Installation Guide 8.0.1.0.0.

Starting with the version 8.0.0.0.0 release, OFSAA applications are packaged and released as Application Packs. The OFS Profitability Management Application Pack includes OFS AAI, OFS PFT, OFS FTP, OFS IPA, OFS RPA, and OFS EFPA. Refer to the subsequent sections for more details.

·         Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure

·         Oracle Financial Services Funds Transfer Pricing

·         Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management

·         Oracle Financial Services Institutional Performance Analytics

·         Oracle Financial Services Retail Performance Analytics

·         Oracle Financial Services Enterprise Financial Performance Analytics

Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure

This section includes the following sub-sections:

·         New Features in This Release

·         List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

·         Known Issues/ Limitations

New Features in This Release

Following is the list of new features incorporated in this release.

1.          Business Restructure

·         Business Restructuring in corporate management is act of reorganizing Ownership, Operational or other structures of the company for making it more profitable or better organized for its present needs. Other reasons for restructuring include demerger or a response to major change in the business such as repositioning or buyout.
A module has been introduced in this release to configure and manage the restructuring process across the organization.

2.          Process Orchestration Framework

·         A new module has been introduced to support built-in tooling for orchestration of human, automatic workflow interfaces as well as various OFSAA Processes.

·          Support for visual modeling of the Workflow and Processes.

·          Support for registration of Process /Activity/ Transition Logic implementation, separated from the modeling process itself.

·          Built-in orchestration engine (included within OFSAAI’s runtime) for workflow execution (interactive model as opposed to the batch model supported through Rule Run Framework).

·          Published interface for abstraction of workflow task implementation. 

·          Representation of the workflow-routing rule logic in Java/ PL-SQL / Web-service.

·          Process Monitoring Admin Tool to view and control the Execution Process Instances.

3.          Data Management Tools

·         Ability to preview Database details while creating Data Sources has been introduced.

·         Ability to preview data of the source/ target entities has been provided while defining Data Mapping and Data File Mapping.

·         For Data Mapping, there is no default limit set for Rejection Threshold and the value needs to be set if it is required.

·         Data Sources creation has been modified to pick up the connection details created from the Database Details screen.

4.          Data Quality Framework

·         Data Quality rules can be defined on Data Management Sources. 

·         Data Quality checks can be performed based on Unique Identifier Columns other than Primary Key columns.

·         In the Data Quality Reports, the Primary Key columns or Unique Identifier Columns are displayed.

5.          Mapper

·         Copy feature of Mapper definitions is introduced.

·         While defining a Mapper, an option to create Database View has been provided.

6.          Business Metadata Management

·         Ability to preview the query and the data from the Dataset definition is introduced.

7.          Object Migration

·         Command Line Migration now supports Security Management System (SMS) objects such as Users, Usergroups, Functions, Roles, and Profiles along with the mappings.

·         The Object Migration Command Line Utility (offline option) supports wildcard (*) feature.

8.          Run Rule Framework

·         The Use Descendants option for a Parent Child hierarchy has been provided to apply self/ descendants to a Run/Process condition implicitly.

·         The Process engine has been enhanced to support “Select Insert” and “Partition Swap” query along with the “Merge” query.

·         The Rule engine has been enhanced to support “Select Insert” and “Partition Swap” query along with the “Merge” query.

9.          Model Upload

·         A command line utility has been introduced to perform Object Registration independently for an Information Domain where model upload is done successfully.

10.      DEFQ

·         From the Excel Entity Mappings and Excel Upload screen, you can download the Excel template which is used in the mapping.

11.      System Configuration and Identity Management

·         Create New Application feature has been introduced, which enables to create an Application using the standard platform frameworks.

·         The Database details screen has been enhanced to support for heterogeneous database.

·         Users can be created with an option to authenticate through SMS even when LDAP or SSO authentication is enabled.

·         SSO authentication using SAML v2 is introduced. This release supports only 1-way SAML authentication.

·         User Provisioning API is provided so that User Objects can be provisioned in OFSAAI using web service call.

·         An option to reinstate the deleted users has been introduced.

12.      Forms Framework

·         Flexible Key Business Dimensions(KBDs)

·          Configuring Flexible KBDs is supported, which provides centralized configuration approach to KBD usage in the Applications, other than the seeded KBDs.

·         Other Enhancements

·          Spell check feature can be enabled for Text Box, Text Area, and Rich Text controls.

·          A new feature is provided to pick the list of values for radio button and check box dynamically.

·          Dynamic Filtering of drop-down for multi-select control has been introduced.

·          Tool tips are provided for the wrap and unwrap buttons when the Image text is blank.

·          Auto-fit feature is provided for Editable grid with multiple grids.

·          Special characters are supported in multi-select control.

·          Document delete feature is provided.

13.      Metadata Browser

·         Data Mapping along with User Defined Properties (UDPs) can be exported to Excel.

·         An option to display Data Mapping with the selected UDPs is provided.

·         The following objects are supported:

·          Data Sources

·          Data Source Entity

14.      Link Analysis

·         Single click option has been provided for Nodes.

·         If multiple links (different types) are shared between two nodes, then the link is considered as complex link instead of duplicate link.

·         Link Analysis graph has been enhanced to display with scroll bars for large graphs. Additionally, when a graph is zoomed out, the scroll bars will be displayed.

List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

Unified Metadata Manager

Metadata Browser

21237919

COLUMN NAME ON WHICH MEASURE BUILT IS MISSING IN METADATA BROWSER

20873646

FORMAT OF PDF DOWNLOADED FROM MDB SCREEN IS NOT PROPER

Data Quality Definition

19986171

QUERY VALIDATION FAILING WHEN CLICKED ON GENERATE QUERY FOR CUSTOM CHECK

Technical Metadata Management

19435376

REMOVE RLT FROM MAPPING SCREEN FOR FILE EXTRACTS (SysDate and Constant value are supported)

19429082

IF TABLE LOGICAL NAME IS EMPTY THE UI APPENDS NULL TO IT WHEN U REOPEN ENTITIES

Data Entry Forms and Queries

Forms Designer

19786363

'SELECT LIST' DOES NOT WORK IN 'INEDIT OR ADD' IN DEFQ FOR FOREIGN KEY COLUMN

Data Entry

21339254

NUMBER FORMAT CAUSE EDIT TO FAIL WITH SPECIAL CHARACTER NOT ALLOWED ALERT

19928860

FILTERS NOT WORKING PROPERLY ON DEFI WHEN EXPORT SELECTED

19684150

DATA ENTRY SCREEN ALLOWS TO ENTER SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN TABLES USING COPY/PASTE

20753155

FILTER CONDITION IS MISSING WHEN EXPORTING DATA FROM ENTRY FORM INTO CSV FILE

17568615

CLICKING ON GRID VIEW & THEN COPY IS SHIFTING TO THE RIGHT BY ONE COLUMN.

-

19635160

INVALID INPUT FOUND FOR PARAMETER TABLE NAME" ERROR ON CLICKING COLUMN HEADER

19634971

SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY NOT WORKING WHEN CREATED A FORM WITH TWO TABLE

Dimension Management

18876170

REV_HIER_FLATTENED USE & AS DELIMITER CAUSING BATCH HIERARCHY LOAD OVERLOAD

Operations

19824312

TIMESTAMP(DATE & TIME) REQUIRED IN ICCSERVER LOG

Batch Execution

20605588

BATCH EXECUTION SHOULD THROW PROPER ALERT IF ICCSERVER IS DOWN

Forms Framework

Forms Manager

20626675

MASKING ISSUES IN FORMS FRAMEWORK

20753413

FORM DATASET ENTITIES DOES NOT ALLOW CONFIGURATION OF MORE THAN 4000 CHARACTERS

Metadata such as T2T, F2T, etc

20802601

MESSAGESERVER SHOULD SHOW PROPER LOG IF PASSWORD ABOUT TO EXPIRE

19689752

F2T LOAD SUCCESSFUL BUT RECEIVED [6601] COULD NOT READ HEADER FILE

F2T Issues

21103110

UNABLE TO F2T WHEN SOURCE IS DEFINED ON A REMOTE SERVER

Preferences

Global

21345344

GLOBAL PREFERENCES: FUNCTIONAL CURRENCY AND SIGNAGE BLANK

Rules Framework

Manage Run Execution

20760953

WHEN ATTEMPTING TO LAUNCH 2 RRF BATCHES IN PARALLEL ORA-00001 IS RECEIVED

21105097

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY MISSING FOR WSMRE UTILITY

17585185

GETTING WEBSERVICEEXCEPTION WHILE EXECUTING WSMRESTARTUP.SH

Rule Execution Engine

20228822

CHANGE OF MERGE WITH PARTITION SWAP

19610888

MERGE ARE NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PARTITION LOGIC IN CASE QRY_OPT_USE_ROWID=Y

Link Analysis

-

21176553

NETWORK VISUALIZATION GRAPH IS NOT LOADING (DISPLAYING), ITS THROWING JSP ERROR.

20754376

LINK ANALYSIS AFTER LOADING THE GRAPH ACKNOWLEDGMENT IS REQUIRED

Install and Upgrade Issues

-

21220708

MEDIA PACK INSTALLERS ARE NOT VALIDATING ORACLE DATABASE VERSION PRE-REQUISITES

21168440

PRE-CHECK UTILITY SHOULD VALIDATE THE EXISTENCE OF EN_US.UTF-8 LOCALE

21052420

SCHEMA CREATOR UTILITY VALIDATION FAILS IF ORACLE SERVER IS ON A WINDOWS MACHINE

20952939

PORTC.JAR DOES NOT CHANGE PORT TO 443

Administration

Utilities

21112846*

LINK TO METADATA PUBLISH FROM UI TO BE REMOVED

 

* User Interface link to publish Metadata in Metadata Browser is removed from Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure > Object Administration > Utilities. Instead Command Line Utility is available to publish Metadata in Metadata Browser.

Known Issues/ Limitations in This Release

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

Administration

-

21423196

OFSAAI does not allow to enter the special characters such as '~!@#$%^&*()_+' in SFTP / FTP details screen

Data Entry Forms and Queries

Excel Upload

21354370

The Description of an Excel-Entity mapping definition is not getting updated in edit mode.

Model Upload

 

21207454

Model upload summary grid does not display the status of Object Registration process.

Rules Framework

Rule Execution Engine

21335353

Execution log does not provide detailed steps of execution if Execution mode is set as SELECT or PARTITION SWAP at Rule/Process/Run Level.

System Configuration

Database Details

21341795

No field restriction is given for the Name field in the Database details. Validation is done only after user clicks Save.

Unified Metadata Manager

Business Metadata Management

21205832

When a multi level hierarchy is used and the same hierarchy is repeated in more than one level, Pushdown operation is failing.

Data Quality Group

21297551

Data Quality Group Summary grid does not display whether the DQ group is defined on Data Source or Infodom.

Data Quality Definition

21421824

Java script error occurs when user clicks the online help icon from DQ Rule Summary page.

21297543

Data Quality Rule Summary grid does not display whether the DQ Rule is defined on Data Source or Infodom.

21216533

If you are defining Data Quality check on a Data Management Source, only quality check will be done; data correction will not be done since it is an external source. The UI does not restrict to perform any assignments on such DQ rules.

Import Business Model

21422610

Model Upload log file provides incorrect information about indices.

Metadata Archive Restore

21178745

From the Object Migration> Restore Metadata, when you click Browse to select the DMP file, the folders are not displayed.

Technical Metadata Management

21229361

Table Logical name is empty for Data File Mapping screen.

21201150

Show Details/ Data Preview should be available under selected Members tree.

21420020

Saving Data Mapping definition takes long time if an entity containing many attributes (>100 columns) is selected as Source entity.

Forms Framework

Forms Manager

21221027

Forms Manager application expects IE 11 Compatibility Mode setting from every client browser.

Link Analysis

-

20920008

Link Analysis context menu is going out of page and user has to scroll to view it.

 

Oracle Financial Services Funds Transfer Pricing

This section includes the following sub-sections:

·         New Features in This Release

·         List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

·         Known Issues/ Limitations

New Features in This Release

Following is the list of features incorporated in this release.

·          Change in sequence of the calculation line items:  The Calculation elements in the TP Process have been re-ordered to reflect the logical processing sequence as performed by the engine

·         Option Cost Calculation should automatically update the OPTION_COST field: The OPTION_COST column is now automatically updated by the Stochastic TP Process, and is equal to Historic OAS – Historic Static Spread

·         Add Skip Non Zero option to the Propagate line in TP Process:  Users can now have the option to skip non-zero records during propagation

·         Provide option to migrate Breakage Charges to Ledger table: Users now have the option in the TP Process to migrate Breakage Charge results to the Ledger table

·         Break Identification Performance Enhancements: Users can now manage performance of the Break Identification process by providing database hints via the FSI_PARALLEL_PARAMETERS table

·         Enhance FTP Rate Card report to show all TP Rate outputs: The FTP Rate Card report has been expanded reformatted to better display standard FTP rate results.

 

List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

Calculation Engine

21435251

Incorrect TP method use when Conditional Assumption is defined on more than one product and currency combination

Other

21146118

Forward port for bug 21027269 - OFSTP fails with 'syntax error at line 1' after

21095658

Forward port for bug 21095642 - FTP Web Services is crashing Tomcat server rando

20812903

When an FTP process runs with a Transfer Pricing Rule using the Straight Term method, process is using the wrong term on the Interest Rate Curve (IRC). (20687924 )

20292448

All-in rate calculation is not aggregating all selected elements

20234515

FTP process ignores data filter when tractor method is used

 

19347046

EV calculation is incorrectly adding "interest rate spread" to TP rate

Calculation Engine Int Error

 

18959203

Account type not defined for leaf errors for node level TP assumptions

Option Adjusted Cost

 

20601478

Migration of option cost is happening with reversed signage

Performance issues

 

18245095

Tractor method is not operating correctly with multi-processing enabled

Adjustments Calculations

 

21042499

Adjustment propagation + charge/credit calculation is ending w/ "failed" status

Breakage Charge

20098590

Signage is wrong for economic loss - partial and change in attributes

Known Issues/ Limitations in This Release

None      

Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management

This section includes the following sub-sections:

·         New Features in This Release

·         List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

·         Known Issues/ Limitations

New Features in This Release

Following is the list of features incorporated in this release.

·         Lookup allocation for Management Ledger

·         Aggregate amounts for Management Ledger          

List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

Engine for Allocations

21498795

Forward port : Parallel DML not specified in table or improper entry in table errors

21126842

Circular allocation model fails before launching Sweep allocation

Allocation Entries

21461715

Error - ORA-00904: "A"."ID_NUMBER": invalid identifier

21119978

Forward port for bug 19996688 - Data filters not applied to some SELECT statements

Engine

21119876

Forward port for bug 21096529 - ORA-00918 on transaction table dynamic driver allocation

20561078

Use detail leaves account type in FE element dimension member not working on management ledger

Known Issues/ Limitations in This Release

None

Oracle Financial Services Institutional Performance Analytics

This section includes the following sub-sections:

·          New Features in This Release

·          List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

·          Known Issues/ Limitations

New Features in This Release

Following is the list of features incorporated in this release.

·         Additional Reports in Customer Central and Graphical Representation of Customer Group Structure.

·         What-if Analysis – Supports the ‘Advanced’ methodology for of applying variations and analyzing the effect in a scenario. Variations can also be applied through graphical representation.

·         Point in Time Reporting – The reports can be viewed at any historical data and the data represented in the report will be pertaining to the specified date.

·         Representation of Customer Income Statement in a Standalone as well as Consolidated format.

·         Multiple Segmentation types – Multiple segmentation types are supported, with each segmentation type being defined on a different set of dimensions.

·         Enhanced RM Visibility – The visibility of an RM could be configured to provide him the visibility of his parent and child members.          

List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

RPD

21134632

Customer central - Total size of relationship mapped to N_CUST_CNR

21040801

IPA - Summary - Product Penetration report - Numbers are wrong

20776845

Slow performance OBIEE customer hierarchy

20691787

Recommended approach for the calculation of report line 98500: Tax Expense

20583890

SQL performance issue in OBIEE/IPA reporting

19854116

Customer hierarchy parents must always be reported with children

OTHER

21142496

IPA -Customer central - Customer group structure

20328837

Expose columns V_SALES_REP_ID,D_CALENDAR_DATE,V_FUND_CLASS TO IPA RPD

19804239

Descriptions mapping are missing for level1, level2 and level3 FOPR PRODUCT SCD

META

21097115

Issue with top 10 current quarter opportunities- current period report

19972742

T2tT mappings from stage mutual funds to fact common account summary

19434815

Defaulting logic for transactions summary table

19434484

Issue with length of N_MANAGER_SKEY of DIM_MANAGEMENT table

19125126

Defaulting logic for dimensions in T2T -product team

DATA_MODEL

 

20383498

Want to change OOTB T2T forT2T_ACCOUNT_MANAGERS_REL

 

20356475

Partner code is not exposed to OOB OBIEE reports

 

20302928

Physical foreign key missing in DIM_DEALER and DIM_SALES_REPRESENTATIVE

 

19972664

SCD mapping for DIM partner , DIM dealer and DIM sales rep dimension tables

 

19972632

Reference of dim dealer code/id needs to be added to mutual funds & common accounts

 

19972527

Stage dealer master and dim dealer need to be added as part of IPA

 

19811629

IPA implementation - V_ACCOUNT_MGR_LOCATION missing in DIM_MANAGEMENT SCD CONFIG

Known Issues/ Limitations in This Release

Known Issues:

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

Others

 

21838951

The web service does not returns only the reference number

 

21499634

Missing mappings for columns in FCT_PFT_CUSTOMER_SUMMARY table.

 

21231306

The IPA model execution is failing

 

21865952 

Cubes not working -IPA 

Note: It fails ONLY when the same value exists for 2 leafs of the same parent.

Limitations:

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

RPD

 

21784312

Transfer pricing credit/charge should be in percentage form.

SCRIPTS

 

21753056

-VE variations are currently not allowed in what-if - IPA

Oracle Financial Services Retail Performance Analytics

This section includes the following sub-sections:

·         New Features in This Release

·         List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

·         Known Issues/ Limitations

New Features in This Release

Following is the list of features incorporated in this release.

·         Additional Reports in Customer Central.

·         What-if Analysis – Supports the ‘Advanced’ methodology for of applying variations and analyzing the effect in a scenario. Variations can also be applied through graphical representation.

·         Point in Time Reporting – The reports can be viewed at any historical data and the data represented in the report will be pertaining to the specified date.

·         Multiple Segmentation types – Multiple segmentation types are supported, with each segmentation type being defined on a different set of dimensions.

·         Enhanced RM Visibility – The visibility of an RM could be configured to provide him the visibility of his parent and child members.          

List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

RPD

21230683

RPA - Customer central reports -report title has "albertson alta dena industrie

DATA_MODEL

20955826

Batch REPLINE_DIMENSION_UPDATE is not populating the data into DIM_REP_LINE

META

20873560

T2T_FCT_APPLICATION having inner join with customer dimension

Known Issues/ Limitations in This Release

Known Issues:

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

WEBCAT

 

21752649

Issue with calculations in summary of balance (receivables) breakdown

OTHER

 

21865969 

RPA cubes not working 

Note: It fails ONLY when the same value exists for 2 leafs of the same parent.

RPD

 

21790952

RPA/IPA: Variation specification rows are not available

Limitations:

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

WEBCAT

 

21753049

-VE variations are currently not allowed in WHAT-IF - RPA

 

 Oracle Financial Services Enterprise Financial Performance Analytics

This section includes the following sub-sections:

·         New Features in This Release

·         List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

·         Known Issues/ Limitations

New Features in This Release

Following is the list of features incorporated in this release.

·         What-if Analysis – Supports the ‘Advanced’ methodology for of applying variations and analyzing the effect in a scenario. Variations can also be applied through graphical representation.

·         Multi-currency Reporting – Enables to represent the reports in multiple currencies.

          

List of Bugs Fixed in This Release

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

META

21091891

FN_MGMT_REP_MGMT_LEDGER batch fails with ORA-00942 and ORA-01747 errors

20951780

SCD generating multiple keys for default members for all dimensions

20898286

Interest Expense and TP charge included in net interest revenue

20772476

ORA-00904: "DIM_ORG_STRUCTURE"."N_ENTITY_ID" error running T2T_FCT_LEDGER_STAT

SCRIPTS

20197671

LEDGER_STAT_TRM transformation ignores PSOURCE_TYPE PARAMETER

Known Issues/ Limitations in This Release

Known Issues:

Component

Sub Component

Bug No

Subject

RPD

 

21620046

EFPA cubes: Cubes are failing for mgt and financial reporting 

Note: It fails ONLY when the same value exists for 2 leafs of the same parent.

META

 

21319305

Unable to resave the hierarchy " HEPMGLFR"

 Limitations:

None