IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

One-Week Lag Between Readiness Documents Live and Help Center Live

Because Oracle readiness documents (What's New and New Feature Summary) are live one week before the monthly update is applied to Test environments, some links to documentation included in the readiness documents will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete when the monthly update is applied to Test environments.

This update includes Important Actions and Considerations for:

• EPM Cloud Platform
• Enterprise Data Management

EPM CLOUD PLATFORM

User Interface Updates

Oracle continues to adopt the latest technology to enhance and secure the user interface experience. Some updates may potentially affect the GUI automation managed by your company. Oracle recommends that you take these changes into consideration as you manage your GUI automation efforts.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, FreeForm, Planning, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

Install the Newest Version of EPM Automate

Oracle strongly recommends that you install and use the latest version of EPM Automate. The best practice is to update EPM Automate every month so that you get to take advantage of the latest new features, bug fixes, and stability, security, and reliability improvements.

• Installing EPM Automate
• Upgrading EPM Automate

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, FreeForm, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

Allow access to static.oracle.com

The Getting Started with EPM Cloud for Administrators Guide is updated to remind customers to allow access to static.oracle.com. For the Oracle Redwood Experience to work, Customers must allow access to static.oracle.com, which it provides image files, JavaScript, and other static content.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, FreeForm, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

See About Redwood Experience in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators.

Plan to Remove Users Administration and Groups Administration from Audit Reports

Currently, you can get information on Users Administration and Groups Administration from the Audit Reports available in the Identity Console. You can also get this information using EPM Automate and EPM Cloud REST APIs. In an upcoming monthly update, information on Users Administration and Groups Administration will no longer be included in audit reports.

In the Enable Audit dialog box, the Users Administration and Groups Administration options will remain available for some time to allow customers who already have these records to view any existing user and group provisioning records. However, after this change, no new records will be displayed in the Audit Report.

• Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud:
  • roleAssignmentAuditReport
  • groupAssignmentAuditReport

• REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud:
  • Role Assignment Report
  • Role Assignment Audit Report for OCI Gen 2
  • Group Assignment Audit Report

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, FreeForm, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT

Additional Reserved Column Names in Request File Format

Starting with the October (24.10) update, the request file format includes four additional reserved column names:  Data Source, Source Node Name, Source Node Type, and Source Node ID.  If you have an existing custom property that uses any of these names, the custom property may be inadvertently updated during a request file load or in a subscription request.  To avoid this situation, you should rename your custom property to prevent any unintended updates to the property.  See Editing Property Parameters in Administering and Working with Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud for details on how to rename a property.

Additional Fields Inadvertently Returned in Get Job API Call

Starting in the October (24.10) update, the Get the job run with the given ID API call inadvertently returns two additional fields in the response: “jobProgress”, and “jobSize”. These fields will be removed from the response in the upcoming December (24.12) update.