Updates to Default Location for EPM Automate to Store Files on Windows

Starting with this update, EPM Automate has implemented the following order to determine where it will store files:

  • The directory identified by the EPMAUTOMATE_BASE_DIR environment variable. The Windows user executing EPM Automate must have read and write access to this directory.
    EPM Automate creates the directory if it does not already exist and normalizes the directory path.
  • The ProgramData\Oracle\EPM Automate directory, if it contains EPM Automate runtime files from previous sessions.
  • The current working directory if ProgramData\Oracle\EPM Automate does not contain previous EPM Automate runtime files so long as the Windows user running EPM Automate  has read and write permissions for the directory.
  • The ProgramData\Oracle\EPM Automate directory if the current Windows user does not have read and write access to the current working directory and has permission to create the ProgramData\Oracle\EPM Automate directory, if it does not already exist.

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: The adoption of this logical order for storing runtime files provides backward compatibility and ease of use while still ensuring security by abiding by Windows security parameters.

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