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 specific to:

CLOUD EPM PLATFORM

Deprecation of Java 8 for EPM Automate

Starting with the August (25.08) update, EPM Automate will discontinue the use of Java 8. Instead, it will start using Java 17.

Windows users of EPM Automate are not affected by this change because the Windows installer ships with the required Java distribution. Because the use of EPM Automate on Linux/UNIX operating systems is dependent on a user installed a Java version, users of such operating systems must update to Java 17 to continue using 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

Start Using the New URLs for Oracle Help Center Libraries

When accessing Enterprise Performance Management and Enterprise Data Management libraries on the Oracle Help Center, update your bookmarks to use the new URLs. For example, the new Planning library URL is https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/planning-budgeting-cloud/index.html

The older URLs, such as  https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/planning-budgeting-cloud/index.html are currently being redirected, so the best practice is to use the new URLs.

Start using these new Oracle Help Center URLs now for the libraries for Enterprise Performance Management and Enterprise Data Management:

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

Rederive and Store No Longer Generates an Extra Clear Action

Starting with this update, Derived and Stored properties configured with the Rederive and Store option will only generate a property update action for a request item. Previously, rederive and store operations generated both a clear property action and a property update for each node that had a property value rederived and stored during a request. This optimization reduces the number of request actions and transactions recorded.

Lock on Commit and Rederive on Update Cannot Both Be Enabled

Starting with this update, the Lock on Commit and Rederive On Update options cannot be enabled for the same property. Previously, both could be enabled on a property and Lock On Commit would take precedence. Now, you cannot enable one of these settings on a property if the other is already enabled.

Model After Generates Inserts Instead of Moves when Shared Nodes are Disabled

Starting with this update, when a Model After action is performed using a node that has shared nodes but the hierarchy set does not allow shared nodes, Insert actions are generated for the new node but those actions will have validation issues that need to be resolved before the request can be submitted. Previously, a Model After action generated a Move action when modeling after a node that has shared nodes but the hierarchy set is configured to not allow them.

Revised Match Scoring for String Properties

Starting with this update, match scores are calculated differently in the following ways:

  1. When determining whether the source and target nodes are a potential match, words consisting of two characters or fewer are no longer considered. For example, the string of “A to F” is no longer considered a match with the string “G to P” because the word “to” that they have in common is only two characters.

  2. When calculating a match score, the order of the words in a matched property value is weighted differently. For example, the calculated match score for the string “peas and carrots” when matched to the string “carrots and peas” will be higher than it was previously.