3 Impact of Essbase 21c on EPM 11.2.15

Installation and Configuration Changes

  • Oracle Essbase 21c is embedded with EPM 11.2.15.

  • You can configure all Essbase components using the EPM Configurator or selectively choose the required Essbase, EAS, and APS components.

    Note:

    • Adding individual Essbase components to the same server after the initial configuration is not supported.
    • Essbase reconfiguration is not supported.
  • Essbase 21c supports only Unicode applications.
    • All the newly created Essbase applications are Unicode by default.
    • You can still create non-Unicode apps with CAPI, JAPI, MAXL, and EAS.
  • The requirement to deploy HPCM or APS on the same host is no longer applicable.
  • The default value of the Essbase environment variable Esslang, which defines the encoding used to interpret text characters, has changed. The only supported Esslang value is .UTF-8@Binary.

  • For Profitability and Cost Management:

    • Beginning with Release 11.2.15, only Unicode mode Essbase applications are supported. The Unicode checkbox in the New Application dialog is now disabled and grayed out. By default, all the new Essbase applications will be set to Unicode mode. The existing non-Unicode applications will be automatically converted to Unicode during the 11.2.15 upgrade.
    • For Profitability and Cost Management Standard Applications, the Essbase Web Interface Jobs Page is the new approach for loading data into the calculation cube or the reporting cube. Please refer to the Load Data details within Jobs Page documentation. See Run and Manage Jobs Using the Web Interface for more details on loading data.
  • Before applying the update to move to EPM 11.2.15 and before configuring Essbase Server, see Applying an Update Prerequisite Tasks (Essbase 21c Only).

  • Table 3-1 Essbase 21c Update Summary

    Update Area Reference
    Updates to Essbase Ports See Essbase Ports
    Changes to the Essbase 21c install and deployment location See Essbase Install and Deployment Location
    Changes to Essbase Client URLs See Essbase URLs
    Changes to Essbase logs location See Essbase logs
    Changes to Essbase Configuration Settings See Configure Essbase Server
    Essbase 21c System Requirements for Linux See System Requirements for Linux

Essbase Administration Services Lite Changes

Table 3-2 EAS Lite Changes Summary

Area Details Reference
Essbase Administration Services (EAS) Replacement EAS is replaced with EAS Lite in Essbase 21c. See Using Essbase Administration Services (EAS) Lite for more details.
EAS Instance Every Essbase 21c instance comes with its own EAS instance. You can choose one of the EAS instances to manage all the Essbase instances. NA
Deprecated MaxL statements Several MaxL statements related to user and group administration are deprecated. See History of Removed Features.
Shared Services Filter Assignment Essbase filter assignment through Shared Services is no longer supported. NA
APS Read-Only Cluster Definition When upgrading to EPM 11.2.15, the APS read-only cluster definitions (domain.db file) is not migrated from Essbase 11g to Essbase 21c. NA
APS Configuration in EAS Lite
  • Provider Services Configuration in EAS Lite is no longer supported.
  • APS read-only clusters, which were not supported for configuration through EAS in 11.1.2.4, can be set up using newly provided scripts.
See Access multiple Essbase servers for more details.

Start and Stop Changes

  • Changes to Essbase start and stop scripts: see Essbase Server.

  • Essbase 21c does not support Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN).

High Availability and SSL Configuration Changes

  • Essbase 21c uses a central request leasing system to manage Essbase failover.

  • The Join Cluster button is disabled in Essbase Configuration tool.

  • Essbase 21c removes the limitation of having only two nodes per cluster.

  • SSL for Essbase 21c Configuration procedure has changed.

    - See SSL for Essbase 21c for more information.

Essbase 21c Client Installer Changes

Essbase 21c Client Installer, which includes the MaxL client, Runtime Client (RTC), Java APIs (JAPI), and complete client libraries, are downloadable through Essbase Web Interface.

See Downloading Essbase 21c Clients for more information.

Essbase 21c Information Sources