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.

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

Deprecation of Transport Layer Security Protocol Version 1.2 (TLS 1.2)

Starting with the June (25.06) update, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM environments in all regions will discontinue the use of TLS 1.2 in favor of TLS 1.3. This change will require you to use a browser that supports TLS 1.3. Additionally, you will also need to ensure that the operating system and EPM Clients (such as EPM Automate, Smart View, and EPM Agent) that you use support TLS 1.3. The newest version of EPM Clients, and many previous versions, already support TLS 1.3. If you integrate on-premises EPM instances with Fusion Cloud EPM using Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE), make sure to use FDMEE version 11.2.7 or newer because older versions do not support TLS 1.3.

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

Business Benefit: TLS-1.3 provides greater security, performance, and privacy over TLS 1.2.

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