1. Release Notes for Oracle Essbase
  2. Releases
  3. Stack Deployment on OCI
  4. Release 21.4.0.0.1 - September 2022 - Marketplace Deployment

Release 21.4.0.0.1 - September 2022 - Marketplace Deployment

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

Enhancements and updated / improved features

For recent new features and enhancements, see previous Release Notes. For a description of current features, see the Oracle Essbase 21c documentation.

Marketplace deployment only

  • Update Essbase stack image process - Allows you to patch or upgrade existing Essbase OCI deployments to the latest version without having to run the manual patches or deploy new stack images that require migrating of applications. See Create Stack Image and Update Stack Image.
  • Deploy Autonomous Database with private endpoint - Supports deploying Essbase with repository as Autonomous Transaction Processing in a private endpoint that has a private IP, and allows you to secure the user metadata repository.
  • Catalog storage in object storage - You can now choose to deploy Essbase catalog on OCI object storage.
  • OCI support for government customers - Essbase on Oracle Cloud Marketplace is now available for U.S. government customers, empowering agencies to automate deployment of certified solutions directly on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

All deployments

  • Auditing features - New audit capabilities allow you to track changes to audit security, artifacts changes, LCM events, and executed MaxL statements (including imports), as well as a change to the audit trail setting. See Audit Security, Artifact Changes, and LCM Events and AUDITTRAIL.
  • Optimize cubes using cube designer - Enables you to optimize performance and setup on aggregate storage cubes, in addition to hybrid cubes. This applies to building and loading cubes, calculating and aggregating data, running queries, exporting data, and more. See Create Optimized Aggregate Storage Cubes.
  • Improved migration and backup of applications - CLI and Essbase web interface improvements enable you to back up all applications on the instance to a single zip file, including server artifacts. You can also now selectively export individual cube artifacts. See LcmExport CLI command and Export LCM job.
  • Efficient file uploads - Multi-part file upload, using the REST API, improves performance of uploads by paralleling them into threads, reducing the need to restart large uploads after network failures. See Create Multipart File Upload.
  • Clear data in multiple aggregate storage regions - You can now clear multiple regions of data from aggregate storage cubes. See Clearing Data from Specific Regions of Aggregate Storage Databases.
  • MaxL statements - display privilege, drop user, and drop group are available again for limited use cases.
  • Drill through report execution in REST API - Enables you to run a drill through report, using REST API. See Execute Drill Through Report.
  • Drill through region selection - When creating drill through reports, you can now define drillable regions by browsing a Drillable Region Selector in the Essbase web interface. You browse for a member, select it, and then choose from a menu of options to define the region. See Define Drillable Regions for Drill Through Reports.

Version Details

  • Software versions:
  • Applied patches - listed below and as noted in the documentation:

    Note:

    Essbase Release Update patches only contain Essbase binaries. In addition, other patches, such as for Fusion Middleware, can be downloaded and applied manually. These patches are included in the latest listings.
    • 34373563 - WLS Stack Patch Bundle 12.2.1.4.220711
      • 33639718 - ADR for WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4.0 CPU July 2022
      • 34236279 - WLS Patch Set Update 12.2.1.4.220602
      • 34248976 - Coherence 12.2.1.4 Cumulative Patch 14 (12.2.1.4.14)
      • 33093748 - FMW Platform 12.2.1.4.0 SPU for APRCPU2021
      • 28186730 - OPatch 13.9.4.2.8 for EM 13.4 and FMW/WLS 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.1.0.0
      • 32720458 - JDBC 19.3.0.0 for CPUJAN2022 (WLS 12.2.1.4, WLS 14.1.1)
      • 34212770 - RDA 22.3-20220719 for FMW 12.2.1.4.0
    • 31676526 - RCU Patches for ADB
    • 30540494 - RCU Patches for ADB
    • 30754186 - RCU Patches for ADB
    • 34247006 - ADF Bundle Patch 12.2.1.4.220606
    • 33950717 - OPSS Bundle Patch 12.2.1.4.220311
    • 33735326 - Fix for Bug 33735326, log4j (2.17.1) patch

Patching

See Patch and Roll Back for patching instructions.

Bug Fixes and Known Issues

The known issues in this version of Oracle Essbase via Marketplace:

For defects fixed and other known issues in Oracle Essbase, see https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2814450.1 .

Deprecation Notes

Measures Dimension (DV) Flattening Selector has been deprecated from the Essbase web interface. Essbase metadata is managed by DV.