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  4. Release 21.1.0.0.1 - February 2021

Release 21.1.0.0.1 - February 2021

Here’s an overview of new features, enhancements, issues, patches, other changes, and version information for this OCI Marketplace deployment version.

New Features and Enhancements

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure secrets, entered in the Vault interface, are now used instead of key-encrypted values.
  • Flexible shapes support for Essbase compute, allows you to customize the number of OCPUs when launching or resizing your VM.
  • Shadow Cubes using REST APIs is a new feature in 21c. A shadow application enables you to perform cube modifications and outline restructure on the shadow application, while the primary application serves read-only operations, such as queries. See Create Shadow Application, Delete Shadow Application, and Promote Shadow Application, in REST API for Oracle Essbase documentation.
  • Outline enhancements:
    • Verify Outline allows you to quickly identify problems with the outline and to easily navigate to a member that has a problem.
    • Resize columns feature enables you to resize property columns.
    • Display selected columns in the table gives you a more EAS look and feel, with additional properties, such as alias names and consolidations. See Select the Member Properties to Display in the Outline.
  • Web interface enhancements:
    • Execute Calc scripts and Report scripts during design - you can now execute calc scripts while designing / writing calc scripts. You no longer have to go to the Jobs tab to execute calc scripts. See Execute Calculations.
    • Load multiple data files in a single data load job allows you to select multiple files, from the catalog, to load in a single job. See Load Data.
    • Use Outline member selector while defining partitions, while defining partitions, enables you to now navigate the Outline.
  • Cube Designer enhancements:
    • Block Storage Optimization Utility enables optimization of block storage cube while using the Cube Designer, and improves overall performance of Essbase applications. See Optimize Cubes Using Cube Designer.

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Software versions:

Applied patches: listed below and as noted in the documentation.

  • 28186730 - OPatch 13.9.4.2.5 for FMW/WLS 12.2.1.3.0 and 12.2.1.4.0
  • 32253037 - WebLogic Patch Set Update 12.2.1.4.201209
  • 31544353 - ADR for WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4.0 July CPU 2020
  • 32124456 - Coherence 12.2.1.4.7 Cumulative Patch
  • 31676526 - RCU Patches for ADB
  • 30540494 - RCU Patches for ADB
  • 30754186 - RCU Patches for ADB
  • 31666198 - OPSS Bundle Patch 12.2.1.4.200724
  • 32264996 - ADF Bundle Patch 12.2.1.4.201211
  • 32341909 - Essbase Release Set Update 21.1.1.0.0

Patches

See Patch and Roll Back instructions.

Bug Fixes and Known Issues

The known issues in this version of Oracle Essbase via Marketplace:
To see defects fixed and other known issues in Oracle Essbase, see: https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2735146.1.