20.1.14

This patch contains bug fixes.

Document 8285 contains a list of bugs fixed in the patch.
Document 8286 describes documentation updates to support the patch.

Advance Notice - Action Required

As part of ongoing security updates, we will remove weak and deprecated SSH cipher suites from the next release of Reporting and Analytics (20.1.15) and Inventory Management (9.1.37). The cipher suites are used to securely establish sFTP server connections and to encrypt the data transfer through sFTP.

These changes could affect your:

Custom exports
Legacy standard exports
Self-service exports
Gift and Loyalty segmentation exports
sFTP connections within Business-to-Business (B2B) or Closed Financial Periods in Inventory Management.

Note:

If you use your own sFTP server or a third-party sFTP server, you must check its compliancy to avoid business interruption. Your exports might fail if you do not follow the corrective actions to the sFTP servers described below.

If you use an Oracle Food and Beverage-provided sFTP account, you do not need to make any changes. Oracle Food and Beverage-provided sFTP services are already configured with the appropriate SSH cipher suites.

Corrective Actions

As the receiver of exports, you must contact the owner(s) or administrator(s) of the sFTP servers you are using and refer them to Secure Protocols in the Oracle Restaurants Enterprise Back Office Security Guide. This page lists the supported ciphers, the ciphers we are removing, and the ciphers we are adding.

The sFTP servers used to receive files sent from Oracle MIRCROS Reporting and Analytics and Inventory Management must be configured to negotiate SSH connections using a collection of supported key exchange, host key, encryption, and MAC algorithms compatible with current releases of Reporting and Analytics and Inventory Management and upcoming releases (that is, 20.1.15 and 9.1.37).

If weak or deprecated ciphers are enabled on the server, you must disable them once Reporting and Analytics is upgraded to 20.1.15 and Inventory Management is upgraded to 9.1.37.

It is strongly recommended that you follow these corrective actions as soon as possible to avoid interruptions in your business processes and integrations.

Reporting and Analytics

20.1.14.13 introduces the following changes:

Enhancements to the Business Intelligence API:

To support further and customized categorization of several definition types, the category group information of cash management items, discounts, order types, revenue centers, service charges, taxes, tenders, menu items, family groups, and major groups were added to the relevant Dimensions endpoints. To create category group hierarchies, category groups, and see how to assign them to master items, see Creating Category Group Hierarchies, Creating Category Groups, and Configuring Master Items in the Reporting and Analytics User Guide.
Customers using the Simphony tip track feature can now query tips that were paid out by employees using the newly added tipsOutTtl field in the getEmployeeDailyTotals endpoint.

Enhancements to Self-Service Export Subject Areas:

The Cash Management Details subject area was enhanced to include four new fields to allow for a complete view of cash management transactions and deposits. The new fields are actual business date, session number, target receptacle number, and target session number.

20.1.14.12 introduces the following fiscal reports changes for the Philippines. They are in the Regional report category.

Added the following reports:

BIR NAC (National Athletes & Coaches)
BIR MOV (Medal of Valor)
BIR SP (Solo Parents)

Updated the following reports:

Replaced Official Receipt with Invoice in report names, descriptions, and labels
Replaced OR# with INV# in report labels

20.1.14.11 introduces the following changes:

The character limit was increased for several point of sale definition types so that names with up to 128 characters are displayed on reports. The increased limit applies to the following definitions:
- Discount, Service Charge, Tax, Tender Media
- Family Group, Major Group, Menu Item
- Cash Management Item, Account, Count Sheet, Receptacle, Vendor
- Employee, Employee Class
- Order Type
- Revenue Center
- Event Area, Definition, Subtype, Type
- Cashier, Currency, Job Code, Reason Code, Report Group, User Workstation

20.1.14.9 introduces the following changes:

Added a new report with drill-down reports related to Acknowledging Time Card Adjustments.
- Adjusted Time Cards
- Unacknowledged Adjustments (drill-down report from Adjusted Time Cards)
- Time Card Adjustment Details (drill-down report from Adjusted Time Cards)
To start using the new feature, click the side menu, click Labor Management, click Payroll Preprocessing, click Admin, and then click Location Configuration. Make a selection for the organizational hierarchy or location and then set a start date for the Time card adjustment acknowledgement required option.

Refer to Time Cards in the Oracle Simphony User Guide for more information on the new feature.

20.1.14 introduces the following changes:

Processed Customer Transactions report. See Processed Customer Transactions in the Oracle Restaurants Reporting and Analytics Reports Reference Guide.
Changes to attributes and new attributes for the following Business Intelligence (BI) API endpoints:
New API activity dashboard for monitoring the Simphony Transaction Services Gen2 REST API. The dashboard shows API activity for environments that use Simphony 19.5.3 or later. See Monitoring API Performance for more information.

Parent topic: Features and Updates