What's New in Oracle Management Cloud – Global
Learn about what's new in the global areas of Oracle Management Cloud.
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud – Global in October 2020
Feature | Description |
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Newly Externalized REST APIs |
The following Oracle Management Cloud APIs have been externalized for this release: For more information on Common APIs, see Oracle Management Cloud Common REST API. |
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud – Global in September 2019
Feature | Description |
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Changes to the getting started with Oracle Cloud workflow |
The getting started with Oracle Cloud workflow has undergone changes to ensure a unified getting started experience for new and existing customers. For information on how this affects Oracle Management Cloud, see Access Oracle Management Cloud in Getting Started with Oracle Management Cloud. |
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud – Global in June 2019
Feature | Description |
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Monitor Usage in Oracle Management Cloud console |
You can now monitor your usage and obtain information about your billing on the Billing Usage tab on the Licensing page in the Oracle Management Cloud console. See Monitor Your Billing Usage in Getting Started with Oracle Management Cloud. |
Create out-of-the-box entities using the REST API for Oracle Management Cloud |
You can now create entities from a number of predefined WebLogic and Oracle Database entity types using the REST API for Oracle Management Cloud. See Out-of-the-Box Entity Types Reference in Oracle Management Cloud Common REST API. |
Create dynamic groups using the Administration console |
You can now create, edit, and delete dynamic groups directly from the Administration console. See Manage Groups in Working with Oracle Management Cloud. |
What's New in Oracle Management Cloud Agents
Learn about what's new in Oracle Management Cloud Agents.
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud Agents in January 2024
Feature | Description |
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Fix Security Vulnerabilities |
The following security vulnerability fixes are included with Oracle Management Cloud Agents 1.65 release:
Oracle recommends to upgrade the Oracle Management Cloud Agents to version 1.65. For more information on Oracle Management Cloud Agents, see Oracle Management Cloud Agents. |
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud Agents in September 2023
Feature | Description |
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Fix Security Vulnerabilities |
The following security vulnerability fixes are included with Oracle Management Cloud Agents 1.64 release:
Oracle recommends to upgrade the Oracle Management Cloud Agents to version 1.64. For more information on Oracle Management Cloud Agents, see Oracle Management Cloud Agents. |
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud Agents in June 2023
Feature | Description |
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Fix Security Vulnerabilities |
The following security vulnerability fixes are
included with Oracle Management Cloud Agents 1.63 release:
Oracle recommends to upgrade the Oracle Management Cloud Agents to version 1.63. For more information on Oracle Management Cloud Agents, see Oracle Management Cloud Agents. |
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud Agents in March 2023
Feature | Description |
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Fix Security Vulnerabilities |
The following security vulnerability fixes are included with Oracle Management Cloud Agents 1.62 release:
Oracle recommends to upgrade the Oracle Management Cloud Agents to version 1.62. For more information on Oracle Management Cloud Agents, see Oracle Management Cloud Agents. |
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud Agents in December 2022
Feature | Description |
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Fix Security Vulnerabilities |
The following security vulnerability fixes are included with Oracle Management Cloud Agents 1.61 release:
Oracle recommends to upgrade the Oracle Management Cloud Agents to version 1.61. For more information on Oracle Management Cloud Agents, see Oracle Management Cloud Agents. |
What's New in Oracle Database Management
Learn about what's new in Oracle Database Management.
New Features in Oracle Database Management in February 2020
Feature | Description |
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Monitor the metrics supported for Autonomous Databases | You can now monitor the metrics supported for
Autonomous Databases on the Workload tab on
the Performance Hub page.
See Monitor Workload Metrics in Using Oracle Database Management for Autonomous Databases. |
New Features in Oracle Database Management in June 2019
Feature | Description |
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Load data to Autonomous Databases |
You can load data from an on-premises Oracle Database to an Autonomous Database on the Data Movement page of the destination Autonomous Database. The Data Movement feature reduces the overall time and complexity involved in migrating data from an on-premises Oracle Database to an Autonomous Database. It also provides:
See Load Data to Autonomous Databases in Using Oracle Database Management for Autonomous Databases. |
New Features in Oracle Database Management in April 2019
Feature | Description |
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Oracle Database Management is a new component available as part of Oracle Management Cloud |
Oracle Database Management enables you to monitor Autonomous Databases and on-premises Oracle Databases on a unified platform. For information on how to use Oracle Database Management to monitor Autonomous Databases, see Using Oracle Database Management for Autonomous Databases. |
What’s New in Oracle Application Performance Monitoring
Learn about what's new in Oracle Application Performance Monitoring.
New Features in Oracle Application Performance Monitoring in November 2019
Feature | Description |
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Added enable/disable store personal identifiable information under privacy settings |
You can now choose if you want to store private information such as full URLs, page titles, and clicks names. Existing APM users have this behavior enabled, new APM users have this behavior disabled by default. See Configure Privacy Settings in Installing and Configuring Oracle Application Performance Monitoring. |
Support for Oracle Forms monitoring |
You can now deploy the APM Java Agent with Oracle EBS Forms monitoring. See Oracle EBS: Requirements and Installation Instructions in Installing and Configuring Oracle Application Performance Monitoring. |
Support for Web Application Definitions |
With Web Applications, you can define and save a filter to pull together a set of pages in the application that match the defined filter criteria at a particular time point. See Monitoring End User Experience of a Web Application in Using Oracle Application Performance Monitoring. |
New Features in Oracle Application Performance Monitoring in July 2019
Feature | Description |
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Added enable/disable option inside APM Agent Configuration Menu |
You can now enable or disable multiple APM agents by using multi-select from the APM Agent list and clicking Configure. |
Support for Custom Instrumentation |
You can now use Custom Instrumentation to add monitoring capabilities to technologies not supported by Oracle Application Performance Monitoring. See Set Up Custom Instrumentation in Using Application Performance Monitoring. |
New Features in Oracle Application Performance Monitoring in February 2019
Feature | Description |
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Support for
.side files for Synthetic
Tests
|
You can now record scripted actions using
Selenium IDE and save as a See Define Synthetic Tests and Supported Selenium Commands in Using Application Performance Monitoring. |
What’s New in Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring
Learn about what's new in Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring.
New Features in Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring in September 2022
Feature | Description |
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New TCPS Credential Properties |
New TCPS database credential properties have been added allowing you to establish secure communication with the database via TCPS protocol. See Oracle Database (TCPS Credentials) in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. |
Support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) GoldenGate |
Infrastructure Monitoring now supports discovery and monitoring of GoldenGate as a native OCI service. For more information about OCI GoldenGate, see Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GoldenGate. |
New Features in Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring in June 2022
Feature | Description |
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Custom Metric Support for MySQL and MS SQL Server Databases |
You can now create custom metrics for MySQL and MS SQL Server databases via the OS Command collection method. See Creating Custom Metrics for MySQL and MS SQL Server Databases in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. |
New Features in Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring in August 2020
Feature | Description |
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Expanded Time Periods |
Infrastructure Monitoring pages now enable you to view status and performance data up to the Last 30 Days. See Monitor Entity Health in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. |
Delete Published Custom Metrics |
You can now delete published custom metrics from the UI. See Working with Custom Metrics in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. |
SQL Server Performance Metric |
SQL Server monitoring is enhanced with a new performance metric: SQL Server Database Performance Rate. With this metric, you’ll be able to monitor, for each database, performance metrics such as Transactions/sec, Backup/Restore Throughput/sec, Bulk Copy Rows/sec, Bulk Copy Throughput/sec. |
New Features in Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring in February 2020
Feature | Description |
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Advanced Notification Options: Repeat Notification |
You can specify that alert notifications be sent repeatedly at specified intervals until an alert is either cleared or acknowledged or the number of Maximum number of repeat notifications has been reached. This option only applies to Email notification channels. See Create an Alert Rule in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. |
SQL Server monitoring with TLS 1.2 |
Microsoft SQL Server entity types now support monitoring via TLS 1.2. See Add Microsoft SQL Server in Using Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. |
What’s New in Oracle IT Analytics
Learn about what's new in Oracle IT Analytics.
New Features in Oracle IT Analytics in August 2020
Feature | Description |
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ITA - Exadata Analytics now supports Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS) and Cloud at Customer (ExaCC) |
Exadata Analytics presents a fully unified view of your inventory, capacity and performance data for all Exadata systems, on-premises Exadata as well as ExaCS and ExaCC. Exadata Analytics gives you a clear insight into Exadata storage systems, allowing you to do in-depth resource analysis, capacity planning and forecasting for your ExaCS and ExaCC systems. See Analyze Exadata Resources in Using Oracle IT Analytics. |
New Features in Oracle IT Analytics in June 2020
Feature | Description |
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Automatic SQL Text/Plan Data Collection |
Oracle Management Cloud now automatically collects SQL Text and Plan data. By upgrading your agents to the latest version, Oracle Management Cloud can begin collecting SQL Text and Plan data across all your databases. Collecting SQL text and plans across all your databases allows you to analyze problematic or inefficient SQL. See Disable and Re-Enable SQL Execution Plan Collections and Findings and Performance Analysis in Using Oracle IT Analytics. |
New Features in Oracle IT Analytics in November 2019
Feature | Description |
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Enable Text/Plan Data Collection |
You can now enable SQL Text and Plan data to be collected and you can visualize and analyze it with Oracle IT Analytics. Collecting SQL text and plans across all your databases allows you to analyze problematic or inefficient SQL. You can perform tasks that help you tune your SQL, such as view historical data, do trend analysis, review and compare plans, drill down to specific SQL details, and so on. See Disable and Re-Enable SQL Execution Plan Collections and Findings and Performance Analysis in Using Oracle IT Analytics. |
What’s New in Oracle Log Analytics
Learn about what's new in Oracle Log Analytics.
New Features in Oracle Log Analytics in June 2022
Feature | Description |
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New |
Use the For details about the command, see Addinsights Command in Using Oracle Log Analytics Search. |
New |
Use the For details about the command, see Timecluster Command in Using Oracle Log Analytics Search. |
Machine Learning Based Query Enrichment |
Use An example result of running addinsights command after the search: The insights fields that are auto-generated: For an example of using the insights to view similar log records, see Machine Learning Based Query Enrichment in Using Oracle Log Analytics. |
Cluster Similar Time Series |
Use the The following image shows clusters of log sources that have
similar trend grouped by For details about the example, see Cluster Similar Time Series in Using Oracle Log Analytics. |
New Features in Oracle Log Analytics in March 2022
Feature | Description |
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Time Series Analysis Using |
Use the For more details and an example with Application Access Logs, see Use timestats Command for Time Series Analysis in Using Oracle Log Analytics. |
Link Groups Table Timestamps in Milliseconds |
The groups table displayed when Link visualization is used is now enhanced to display timestamps with milliseconds information. For more details and examples, see Groups Table in Using Oracle Log Analytics. |
New Features in Oracle Log Analytics in August 2021
Feature | Description |
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Use the See Eval Command in Using Oracle Log Analytics Search. For an example, see Use the Currency Symbols in Your Log Analysis in Using Oracle Log Analytics. The example demonstrates how to specify the currency unit using the ISO-4217 code, and then view the currency symbols in the link table and charts. In the example, the groups are identified based on region, time and type of gasoline. The average price band of gasoline is used to plot the bubbles along y-axis: Here, the groups table shows the average price of gasoline in various currencies and the charts show the variation of the cost across several years for each currency value: |
Additional information available about filter legends in Analyze Chart |
Hover your cursor over a filter legend in the Link Analyze Chart to view additional information about those values. For each legend displayed in the chart, you can see the values Clusters, Groups, Average Cluster Range, Minimum Value, and Maximum Value. For details about Clusters, Groups, Average Cluster Range, Minimum Value, and Maximum Value, see Additional Information in Analyze Chart in Using Oracle Log Analytics. |
What's New in Data Explorer and Dashboards
Learn about what's new in Data Explorer and Dashboards.
New Features in Data Explorer and Dashboards in August 2020
Feature | Description |
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Enhancement to the Card visualization option in Data Explorer |
In a Card widget, open alert count is now displayed by severity, with icons to denote Fatal and Critical alerts. |
Enhancement to the Line and Area visualization options in Data Explorer |
In a Line or Area widget, you can now view the aggregation of raw data for a 24-hour window in the last 31 days. Previously, you could view aggregation of raw data for a 24-hour window in the last 14 days. |
New Features in Data Explorer and Dashboards in June 2020
Feature | Description |
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Enhancement to the Text/HTML widget in Dashboards |
The character limit in the Text/HTML widget in Dashboards is now 10,000 characters. Previously, the character limit was 4000 characters. |
New Features in Data Explorer and Dashboards in April 2020
Feature | Description |
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Enhancement to the Line and Area visualization options in Data Explorer |
In a Line or Area widget, you can now view the AVG aggregation of raw data. Before you use this feature, you must ensure that:
When these AVG aggregation conditions are met, the X-axis time selection is set to Time (Automatic: Raw) by default. This enhancement applies to both non-key and key based metric groups. For key based metric groups the AVG function is applied across the raw key data values, unless the key is added to the Color or Group by fields. If the key is added to the Color or Group by fields, the AVG aggregation of raw data for each key can be viewed. The AVG aggregation of raw data function can be applied on a 1 Hour or 1 Minute rollup window using the Raw Aggregation option. The rollup window default is 1 Hour. |
New Features in Data Explorer and Dashboards in February 2020
Feature | Description |
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Enhancement to the Line and Area visualization options in Data Explorer |
In a Line or Area widget, you can now view the SUM aggregation of raw data for any 24-hour window within the last 14 days. Previously, SUM aggregation of raw data was only supported in the Last 24 hours time range. |
New Features in Data Explorer and Dashboards in November 2019
Feature | Description |
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Enhancement to the Data Grid visualization option in Data Explorer |
In a Data Grid widget, you can now filter data within a selected time range using Timestamp attributes. A Calendar icon in the Data palette identifies Timestamp attributes and here's a scenario to demonstrate how you can use this feature:
After you set a filter using a Timestamp attribute, the Funnel icon is displayed on the column header to indicate that the data is filtered. To edit or remove the filter, right-click the Timestamp attribute column header and select the required option. Note that you can have more than one date filter in a Data Grid widget by adding the relevant Timestamp attributes. In addition, this feature works in Dashboards too. |
Enhancements to the Quick Calculation feature in Data Explorer |
In Data Explorer, the Quick Calculation feature for metric attributes has been enhanced and includes the following:
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Enhancement to the Line and Area visualization options in Data Explorer |
In a Line or Area widget, you can now view the SUM aggregation of raw data. Before you use this feature, you must ensure that:
When these SUM aggregation conditions are met, the X-axis time selection is set to Time (Automatic: Raw) by default. This enhancement applies to both non-key and key based metric groups. For key based metric groups the SUM function is applied across the raw key data values, unless the key is added to the Color or Group by fields. If the key is added to the Color or Group by fields, the SUM aggregation of raw data for each key can be viewed. The SUM aggregation of raw data function can be applied on a 1 hour or 1 minute rollup window using the Raw Aggregation option. The rollup window default is 1 hour. |
New Features in Data Explorer and Dashboards in August 2019
Feature | Description |
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Metric key data can now be filtered by multiple criteria |
In Data Explorer, when you filter the information displayed in a widget by a metric key, you can now further filter the metric key data by multiple criteria. For example, if you’re creating a Line widget to view information regarding the Oracle Database entity type and you have added the Storage Tablespace Name metric key in the Attribute Filter, you can now click Add Criteria in the Filter dialog and add multiple filtering criteria. After you click Add Criteria, another row is displayed to define the next criterion. In addition, the Match all and any radio buttons are displayed in the Filter dialog and you can use them to specify if the data should match all or any of the criteria added in the Filter dialog. |
Enhancement to the Line visualization option in Data Explorer |
In a Line widget, if you’re using the Group by option in the Visualize column, you can now opt to show or hide the Group labels in the widget by clicking the Options icon on the Group by option and selecting Show or Hide. In addition, the data point tooltips in the Line widget now provide Group by information. |
New Features in Data Explorer and Dashboards in July 2019
Feature | Description |
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Enhancement to the Card, Data Grid, Donut, and Label visualization options in Data Explorer |
In the Card, Data Grid, Donut, and Label widgets, you can now pin the time context selected in the Global Time Selector, including custom date ranges. To do so, select Pin Time Context in the Visualize column. You can select this option to ensure that any changes to the global time context are ignored and the saved time context is displayed in these widgets. For example, when a Card widget with the pinned time context is added to a dashboard, it displays data for the pinned time context rather than responding to the global time selector. |
New Features in Data Explorer and Dashboards in June 2019
Feature | Description |
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Enhancements that allow multiple users to collaborate on Dashboards |
The following enhancements enable you to collaborate with other users when using Dashboards. In the Oracle Management Cloud console, you can:
Advanced dashboard collaboration options using REST API are also available. For example, you can share a dashboard with selected users within the same tenant with the VIEW privilege. Contact Support for more information. |
Enhancement to the Line visualization option in Data Explorer |
When creating a Line widget, you can use the Disable Gaps option in the Visualize column to enable or disable data gaps. If you select Disable Gaps, then data gaps are ignored and a continuous line is displayed. |
Entity Status Detail added to the Data palette in Data Explorer |
The Entity Status Detail attribute allows you to further filter entities based on their detailed availability status. It corresponds with the Entity Status attribute and if the status of an entity is Up or Down, then the Entity Status Detail displays the same value. However, if the status of an entity is Other, then the Entity Status Detail displays values such as Unreachable, Error, or Not Heard From. |
Out-of-the-box linking to Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring pages from the entity display name |
You can click the entity display name in the Card, Table, and Data Grid widgets in Data Explorer and monitor the entity on the Monitoring > Entities page in Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring. The following screenshot shows the entity display name in a Card widget. |
New entity filtering enhancements in Data Explorer and Dashboards |
The following are the entity filtering-related enhancements available in Data Explorer and Dashboards:
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What’s New in Solutions for Packaged Applications
Learn about what's new in the Oracle Management Cloud solutions for packaged applications.
E-Business Suite Applications
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud for Oracle E-Business Suite Applications in June 2020Feature | Description |
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Generate alert when your program exceeds a specific running time |
You can create an alert rule to generate alerts when your program exceeds the threshold of warning time limit or critical time limit. See Create Alert Rule for Program Run Time in Oracle Management Cloud for Oracle E-Business Suite. |
Collection periodicity of Slow Running and Long Pending Requests metrics |
The Slow Running and Long Pending Requests metrics under Long Active Concurrent Requests metrics are collected every 5 minutes. |
Out-of-the-box query for EBS Concurrent Requests analysis in Oracle Log Analytics |
Use the out-of-the-box query available in the Getting Started Panel of Link visualization to perform analysis of logs from EBS Concurrent Requests Logs - Enhanced log source and get the following information:
See Use the Getting Started Panel in Using Oracle Log Analytics. |
Siebel Applications
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud for Siebel Applications in February 2019Feature | Description |
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Enhancement to the Siebel Topology view |
In the Topology view, Siebel component nodes are now collated into the Siebel server node. Previously, Siebel components were displayed as independent nodes in the Topology, which made the view difficult to comprehend. |
PeopleSoft Applications
New Features in Oracle Management Cloud for PeopleSoft Applications in June 2021Feature | Description |
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Manual discovery of the entities |
You can now choose to discover the PeopleSoft application and other dependent entities of your composite using the manual mode. Create a JSON file by specifying the details of the database and the PeopleSoft entities, save it on the same host where the cloud agent is installed, and specify the name of the JSON file and the file path while discovering the PeopleSoft composite entity using the console. See Discover a PeopleSoft Application with the Console and Create JSON File for Manual Discovery in Oracle Management Cloud for PeopleSoft. |
What’s New in Oracle Orchestration
Learn about what's new in Oracle Orchestration.
New Features in Oracle Orchestration in August 2019
Feature | Description |
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Remediation Action Workflow Creation and Submission |
With Oracle Orchestration you can automate remediation actions using workflows. This allows for your environment to automatically respond to alerts or events, helping prevent or fix problems. See Remediation Action Workflow Creation and Submission in Using Oracle Orchestration. |
New Features in Oracle Orchestration in April 2019
Feature | Description |
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JSON Data Passing and Data Extraction |
Oracle Orchestration can now recover the output produced from a workflow in variable form. See Workflow Variables and Data Passing in Using Oracle Orchestration. |
Tracking for Nested Workflows |
You can now view specific metric and execution details for a Nested Workflow in the Execution Details section. See Monitor a Workflow Submission in Using Oracle Orchestration. |
New Features in Oracle Orchestration in March 2019
Feature | Description |
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Nested Workflows |
A parent workflow can now call a child or nested workflow with its own workers and steps, allowing for complex workflows to be executed. See Author Workflows Using V2.0 Syntax in Using Oracle Orchestration. |
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