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- Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, May Update
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- Announcements
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- Importing and Exporting Teams and Users
- Increased Number of Attribute Columns
- Exporting and Importing of Match Types Across Environments
- Updated Academy
- New Status Column on Unmatched Transactions
- Viewing Audit Report
- Amortization Requires a Zero Ending Balance
- Loading Exported Journal Entries from Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
- Viewing Period History
- New Version of the EPM Automate Utility
- Removal of Support for Transport Layer Security Protocol 1.0 and 1.1
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- Upcoming Changes
- Defects Fixed
- Considerations
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| 25 APR 2019 | Created initial document. |
Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, May Update
This document outlines the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.
Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, May 3, 2019 and to your production environment on Friday, May 17, 2019, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.
The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on May 3, 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.
Reminder: 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.
NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions is supported. Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.
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.
Key Resources
- Backing Up and Restoring an Environment Using the Maintenance Snapshot in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators
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Describes how Administrators can tailor the interface to best suit different user and group activities using connections for seamless cross-business processes navigation, custom navigation flows that streamline workflow, and interactive infolets that place key data on the homepage.
Many customers want to know how to use the Enterprise Performance Management Help Center more effectively. This video shows you how to find answers quickly and easily using the Help Center.
Importing and Exporting Teams and Users
System Administrators and Power Users can now perform a bulk update of teams and members, rather than having to update teams and members individually. You need to create an export a comma separated value (csv) file, and when you are ready, you can import the information back to the application.
Key Resources
- Importing and Exporting Teams and Members in Administering Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
Increased Number of Attribute Columns
Data Management and Account Reconciliation have increased the number of Attribute columns to which you can import values to 40. Each attribute column can now accept up to 300 characters.
Key Resources
- Defining Import Formats for File-Based Mappings in Administering Data Management for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
Exporting and Importing of Match Types Across Environments
System Administrators can now export the configuration of a Match Type, and then import it using one of the following options:
- Import back into the same environment with a different Match Type name
- Import to another Account Reconciliation Cloud environment
Key Resources
- Exporting and Importing of Match Types Across Environments in Administering Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
The Academy has been updated to reflect recent changes in the software user interface and functionality as well as current videos.
Key Resources
- Videos can be accessed via the Academy in the Account Reconciliation user interface or on the Help Center.
New Status Column on Unmatched Transactions
A Status column has been added to the Unmatched Transactions screen to indicate the current status for each unmatched transaction: New or Supported. You can also select both options through the Filter to select All. if you select All for the status, both the New and Supported icons display for that transaction. There is no separate All icon.
Key Resources
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Creating Manual Matches in Reconciling Accounts with Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
Previously, only Periods could be viewed on a report. With this release, in addition to Periods, a new auditing dashboard is available. This Audit Report enables you to see any changes made to the service for the following objects:
- Attribute
- Filter
- Format
- List
- Organizational
- Unit
- Period
- Profile
- Reconciliation
- Setting
- Team
Administrators can now view the history of all objects in one place, as well as filter the history by any of the attributes.
Key Resources
- Audit Report in in Administering Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
Amortization Requires a Zero Ending Balance
The Ending Amount for amortizing transactions must result in a 0.00 balance; otherwise, an error is displayed. You must manually correct the transaction to render a zero ending balance. Existing non-zero balances will be preserved, but if you edit the transaction, you will need to zero them before the changes can be saved.
Key Resources
- Amortizing or Accreting Transactions in Reconciling Accounts with Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
- Creating Amortizing or Accreting Transactions Manually in Reconciling Accounts with Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
Loading Exported Journal Entries from Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
Data Management can now be used to load exported journal entries created in Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud to a Transaction Matching target application.
Key Resources
- Loading Exported Journal Entries in Administering Data Management for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
You can view a history of all actions performed on a Period, including the dates, and the old and new values.
Key Resources
- Viewing Period History in Setting Up and Configuring Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
New Version of the EPM Automate Utility
A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes support for Mac OS and the ability to run multiple sessions of the utility from the same directory. This version also includes new commands (ApplicationAdminMode and SortMember) and updates to the replay command to support Lagtime parameter and to the ProvisionReport command, which now, by default, generates the simplified version of the Provisioning report instead of the classic version. You must install this version of the utility to use these enhancements.
- Support for Mac OS
The EPM Automate Utility can now be installed on Mas OS computers.
- Ability to run multiple instances of the utility from the same directory
The EPM Automate utility now supports the execution of multiple instances of the utility against an environment from the same directory. You can now
- Run multiple instances of the utility from the same directory
- Execute the utility from separate directories
In both these scenarios, each instance of the utility works independently; logging out of one instance does not log you out of other instances.
- New ApplicationAdminMode command
This command places the application in administration mode so that access to the application is limited to Service Administrators only. This command is useful to prevent users from working on the application when Service Administrators are performing administrative operations.
- New sortMember command
This command sorts members of Entity, Account, Scenario, and Versions dimensions and of custom dimensions. This command is useful for sorting dimension members after loading members into Planning.
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New lagTime parameter for replay command
lagTime, an optional parameter, allows you to set the number of seconds that the replay command should wait between the execution of each HAR file included in the replay file. Because user activities are not usually initiated simultaneously, setting this parameter helps to create a more realistic simulation of load on an environment.
- The provisionReport command now produces a simplified version of the report by default
The provisionreport command now, by default, generates the simplified version of the Provisioning Report identical to the report that is displayed on the Provisioning Report tab of the Access Control screen. You can generate the classic version of the report, which lists the component roles that are subsumed into the pre-defined roles to which users are assigned and the application roles assigned to the user (directly or through groups), by using the format=classic parameter.
Key Resources
- Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
Removal of Support for Transport Layer Security Protocol 1.0 and 1.1
As announced in previous readiness documents, starting with this 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 TLS 1.1 is deprecated, 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:
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.
Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.
In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.
It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.
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