This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 21 FEB 2019 | Created initial document. |
Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, March Update
This document outlines the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.
Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 23:00 UTC (15:00 PST) on Friday, March 1, 2019 and to your production environment on Friday, March 15, 2019, starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT). The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.
The Oracle Help Center provides access to updated documentation. The updates will be available in the Help Center on March 1, 2019. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.
NOTE: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.
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NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.
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Videos:
Watch videos and learn about service capabilities, benefits, and how to use key features.
Take a tour of Account Reconciliation Cloud to get an overview of the application and the available features.
Learn simple methodologies for implementing Account Reconciliation Cloud so you can get your reconciliation process out of Excel and into the Cloud quickly and easily.
Review the process to implement an integration to Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
Learning Path:
Use learning paths to interactively perform tasks and access related documentation, videos, and tutorials.
Learn which options are available to you for integrating with Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud.
No New Features in This Update
The March 2019 update (19.03) to the service contains only the software issues that were addressed after the February 2019 (19.02) update. Some fixes to reported software issues may have resulted in code changes, which will be reflected after the update is applied to your environments. Descriptions of the issues that are addressed in this update are posted to My Oracle Support.
The March 2019 update does not contain any new features.
Removal of Support for Transport Layer Security Protocol 1.0 and 1.1
Starting with the May 2019 update (Release 19.05) to EPM Services, Oracle will support only Transport Layer Security protocol version 1.2 (TLS 1.2) to communicate with EPM Cloud. To ensure the highest level of authentication and data encryption security, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will no longer be supported after your environments are updated on May 3, 2019.
NOTE: Support for TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 will be removed for both your Test and Production environments on May 3, 2019.
Because most modern operating systems and browsers support TLS 1.2; users of such systems and browsers will not be affected by the deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1. EPM Automate and Smart View are also not affected by this change.
After the 19.05 update on May 3, 2015, you cannot use client operating systems that do not support TLS 1.2 (for example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Microsoft Windows 2002) to run operating system-specific commands (for example, code to run cURL tools to transfer data and custom code that integrates with the Rest APIs) against EPM Cloud. Additionally, Smart View installed on such systems will also fail to communicate with EPM Cloud. Similarly, you cannot use browsers that do not support TLS 1.2 protocol to access EPM Cloud environments.
If you are using on-premises FDMEE to integrate with EPM Cloud you must update your on-premises EPM 11.1.2.4 deployment to support TLS 1.2. Refer to the following Oracle Support document to enable TLS 1.2 support:
Oracle will provide you a temporary test environment if you want to test your custom code. To initiate a request for a temporary test environment, please submit a service request from My Oracle Support.
In a future update, there will be a revised interface with enhanced navigation and a new theme called Sky Blue.
New Interface of Planning and Budgeting Cloud
The following services will adopt this new theme as their default interface:
- Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud
- Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud
- Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud
- Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud
- Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud
- Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
- Oracle Strategic Workforce Planning Cloud
- Oracle Sales Planning Cloud
The revised interface retains existing functionality and enhances your Home page experience with a more responsive design. The Welcome panel and the global header readjust after resizing, which means less scrolling. Clearer announcements and notification areas are added to the Welcome panel, as are arrows to help you navigate easily between the Home page and your infolets. A bigger Navigator menu has improved usability, more themes for customization are included, and a bigger work area has more space to maneuver and provide better visibility. The interface is more consistent with other Oracle products, such as Fusion Applications.
After the interface is released, all new customers will use the new lighter-colored Sky Blue theme, and existing customers will keep their current theme. You can switch themes using Tools, and then Appearance.
- Watch Overview: Preview EPM Cloud's New Look and Feel video to view highlights of the new user interface theme.
Removal of XLS Report Export Option
Currently, the following report export options are available: xls, xlsx, pdf and html.
In a future release, the option for xls will be removed. Customers who have built custom reports must ensure that their reports will export as desired to one of the remaining formats: xlsx, pdf and html
Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.
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