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  1. April 2021 Update
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. Feature Summary
  4. Enterprise Data Management Cloud
        1. Monthly Update Schedule
        2. Fixed Issues and Considerations
        3. Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect
        4. Give Us Documentation Feedback
        5. Follow Us on Social Media
    1. Features
      1. EPM Cloud Common
        1. New Topics in EPM Cloud Operations Guide
        2. EPM Automate Updates
        3. REST API to Send Email
        4. Updates to the Clone Environment Feature
      2. Enterprise Data Management
        1. Updated Videos
        2. Access Current Date/Time and Calculate Date Offset in Expressions
        3. Appearance Option to Display Business Process Name
        4. Arithmetic Methods for Integer and Float Data Types in Expressions
        5. Create Unbound Dimensions for Custom Data Sets
        6. Custom Validations Report
        7. Derived Values and Property Transformations for List Data Type Properties
        8. Disable Existing Subscriptions for Viewpoint
        9. Download Subscriptions Report to File
        10. Enrich Request Items During Approval
        11. Filter Archived Dimensions and Viewpoints
        12. Global Connections to Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
        13. Inspect Request Items and Delete Individual Request Actions
        14. Match Nodes Across Viewpoints Using Alternate Name
        15. Original Request and Subscription Links in Request Inspector
        16. Participant Permission and Granular Data Access by Action and Property
        17. Recall Requests Awaiting Approval
        18. Reconnect Parents, Header/Footer, and Zip File Options in Dimension Extracts
        19. Reference Node Data Type Properties in Expressions
        20. Request Title Included in Transaction History
        21. REST API to Dimension Import, Export, and Export Mappings by Name
        22. REST API to Download Transaction History
        23. REST API to Upload, List, and Delete Files in the Staging Area
        24. Set Archived View Back to Active Status
        25. Subscription Indicator on Viewpoints
        26. Suffix for Node Type Qualifiers
        27. Tools Cluster on Home Page
        28. Request Object in Expressions for Validations, Policies, and Subscriptions
  5. IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

April 2021 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Product Feature Notes
25 MAR 2021     Created initial document.

Overview

This document outlines the upcoming Enterprise Data Management Cloud update.

Feature Summary

Column Definitions:

Report = New or modified, Oracle-delivered, ready to run reports.

UI or Process-Based: Small Scale = These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of minor field, validation, or program changes. Therefore, the potential impact to users is minimal.

UI or Process-Based: Larger Scale* = These UI or process-based features have more complex designs. Therefore, the potential impact to users is higher.

Features Delivered Disabled = Action is needed BEFORE these features can be used by END USERS. These features are delivered disabled and you choose if and when to enable them. For example, a) new or expanded BI subject areas need to first be incorporated into reports, b) Integration is required to utilize new web services, or c) features must be assigned to user roles before they can be accessed.

Ready for Use by End Users
(Feature Delivered Enabled)

Reports plus Small Scale UI or Process-Based new features will have minimal user impact after an update. Therefore, customer acceptance testing should focus on the Larger Scale UI or Process-Based* new features.

Customer Must Take Action before Use by End Users
(Feature Delivered Disabled)

Not disruptive as action is required to make these features ready to use. As you selectively choose to leverage, you set your test and roll out timing.

Feature

Report

UI or
Process-Based:
Small Scale

UI or
Process-Based:
Larger Scale*

Enterprise Data Management Cloud

EPM Cloud Common

EPM Automate Updates

REST API to Send Email

Updates to the Clone Environment Feature

Enterprise Data Management

Access Current Date/Time and Calculate Date Offset in Expressions

Appearance Option to Display Business Process Name

Arithmetic Methods for Integer and Float Data Types in Expressions

Create Unbound Dimensions for Custom Data Sets

Custom Validations Report

Derived Values and Property Transformations for List Data Type Properties

Disable Existing Subscriptions for Viewpoint

Download Subscriptions Report to File

Enrich Request Items During Approval

Filter Archived Dimensions and Viewpoints

Global Connections to Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Inspect Request Items and Delete Individual Request Actions

Match Nodes Across Viewpoints Using Alternate Name

Original Request and Subscription Links in Request Inspector

Participant Permission and Granular Data Access by Action and Property

Recall Requests Awaiting Approval

Reconnect Parents, Header/Footer, and Zip File Options in Dimension Extracts

Reference Node Data Type Properties in Expressions

Request Title Included in Transaction History

REST API to Dimension Import, Export, and Export Mappings by Name

REST API to Download Transaction History

REST API to Upload, List, and Delete Files in the Staging Area

Set Archived View Back to Active Status

Subscription Indicator on Viewpoints

Suffix for Node Type Qualifiers

Tools Cluster on Home Page

Request Object in Expressions for Validations, Policies, and Subscriptions

>>Click for IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

Enterprise Data Management Cloud

Monthly Update Schedule

Test Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, April 2, 2021.

Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, April 16, 2021.

NOTE: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle strongly recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

The Oracle Help Center provides access to updated documentation. The updates will be available in the Help Center on Friday, April 2, 2021.

NOTE: Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this readiness document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Fixed Issues and Considerations

Software issues addressed each month and considerations will be posted to My Oracle Support.

This provides visibility into EPM Cloud release contents.

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

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.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation.

Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

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These are great resources for the latest updates and information about EPM Cloud.

Features

EPM Cloud Common

New Topics in EPM Cloud Operations Guide

The Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Operations Guide has been enhanced with topics that help you troubleshoot additional EPM Cloud-related issues, especially, issues related to EPM Automate. Additionally, a section on creating business rules using a unit testing has been added to help facilitate the creation of business rules.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

Newly added topics include:

  • Creating a Business Rule Using a Unit Test
  • Resolving EPMAT-7: Session is Not Authenticated. Please Execute the Login Command Before Executing Any Other Command Error
  • Correcting EPMAT-9: Invalid Credentials and EPMAT-7: Invalid Parameter Errors
  • Resolving EPMAT-7: Unable to Modify Access Permission of Password File: .prefs Error
  • Resolving EPMAT-7: Unable to Parse Password File: .prefs Error
  • Resolving EPMAT-7: Unable to Delete Password File: .prefs Error
  • Resolving EPMAT-7: Unable to Connect, Unsupported Protocol: https Error
  • Resolving EPMAT-7: Invalid Command Upgrade Error
  • Correcting EPMAT-9: Insufficient Privileges To Perform the Operation Error
  • Resolving EPMAT-7: Invalid TempServiceType Error
  • Resolving EPMAT-1: Invalid Snapshot Error
  • Resolving EPMAT-1: Command Failed To Execute. The Parameter Location Is Invalid Error While Running the ImportMetadata Command
  • Handling EPMAT-1: A Job with Name <rulename> and Type RULES was not Found Error
  • Resolving EPMAT-6: Service Unavailable Error While Running Business Rules

Business Benefit: The Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Operations Guide helps you self-diagnose and fix EPM Cloud issues.

Key Resources

EPM Automate Updates

A new version of EPM Automate is now available. This version introduces the exportCellLevelSecurity, exportValidIntersections, extractDimension, importCellLevelSecurity, importReconciliationAttrbutes, importValidIntersections, and sendMail commands.

Applies To: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

exportCellLevelSecurity Command

This command exports cell-level security settings from a Planning or Tax Reporting business process into a ZIP file.

exportValidIntersections Command

This command exports valid intersection groups from a Planning, Consolidation and Close or Tax Reporting business process into a ZIP file. Valid intersections are cell interactions that are filtered based on rules you define, called valid intersection rules, which filter certain cell intersections to users when they enter data or select runtime prompts.

extractDimension Command

This command extracts an Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud dimension to a file or to a global connection.

importCellLevelSecurity Command

This command imports cell-level security settings from a ZIP file that contains an Excel file with cell-level security definitions into Planning or Tax Reporting business process.

importReconciliationAttributes Command

This command imports reconciliations attributes from a file into existing reconciliations.

importValidIntersections Command

This command imports valid intersection groups from a ZIP file that contains an Excel file with valid intersection definitions into a Planning, Consolidation and Close or Tax Reporting business process.

sendMail Command

This command sends an email to specified recipients with the option to attach files from EPM Cloud. This command can be incorporated into EPM Automate scripts to notify users of various conditions or to send reports.

Business Benefit: The newly added commands facilitate the management of complex EPM Cloud operations.

Key Resources

REST API to Send Email

You can now use REST APIs to send an email to specified recipients, optionally attaching files from EPM Cloud. This API can be incorporated into REST API programs and scripts to notify users of various conditions or to send reports.

Applies To: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

Business Benefit: Using REST APIs allows you to automate sending email.

Key Resources

Role Information

  • Service Administrators

Updates to the Clone Environment Feature

The Clone Environment feature is now available for all EPM Cloud business processes including Enterprise Data Management. This feature provides a screen-based method to clone environments. It is an alternative to writing EPM Automate scripts to clone an environment.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

NOTE: This feature supports the cloning of both Classic and OCI (Gen2) EPM Cloud environments. For Classic EPM Cloud environments, security (users and their predefined and application role assignments, and group assignments) cannot be cloned using this feature.

Cloning of environments is useful in migration scenarios, including the following:

  • Production to test cloning
  • Test to production cloning

When you clone an environment, EPM Cloud automatically completes all the actions required to create an exact copy of the current application in the target environment. Because this process recreates the target environment, be sure to backup data and artifacts from the target environment before using this feature.

Business Benefit: Using the Clone Environment feature allows you to clone EPM Cloud environments without writing EPM Automate scripts.

Key Resources

Enterprise Data Management

Updated Videos

The following videos have been updated.

Registering Oracle Financials Cloud General Ledger Applications

Learn how to register Oracle Financials Cloud General Ledger applications in Enterprise Data Management Cloud. This video has been updated to include global and context-sensitive descriptive flexfields, and for user interface changes.

Registering Universal Applications

Learn how to register a universal application in Enterprise Data Management Cloud. You add dimensions, node types, and properties, and view the default view, viewpoints, and data chain objects created during the registration process. This video has been updated to reflect user interface changes and differences in procedural steps.

Sharing Data Across Applications

Learn how to share data across applications in Enterprise Data Management Cloud. This video has been updated to reflect user interface changes and differences in procedural steps.

Creating Node Sets

Learn how to create node sets in Enterprise Data Management Cloud. This video has been updated to reflect user interface changes and differences in procedural steps.

Business Benefit: Videos provide overviews and step-by-step instructions to help you perform your related business activities.

Access Current Date/Time and Calculate Date Offset in Expressions

The current date and time are accessible in an expression to allow for comparison to node property values. Additional methods can be used to calculate an offset (days, months, years) to a specified date.

The following objects and methods are available for these purposes:

  • Now - returns the current date and time
  • Today - returns the current date
  • Plus - adds the specified period to a date
  • Minus - subtracts the specified period from a date

Business Benefit: Derived properties, custom validations, and other types of expressions need to compare to the current date or time. In some cases, it is also necessary to be able to calculate a past or future date based on the current date.

Key Resources

Appearance Option to Display Business Process Name

A new Appearance option is available to display or hide the Enterprise Data Management business process name in the global header at the top of the user interface. The Display Business Process Name option can be used with any theme along with custom logo and background images.

Business Benefit: Some organizations who customize the user interface with their own branding and logos do not want to show the business process name.

Key Resources

Arithmetic Methods for Integer and Float Data Types in Expressions

Arithmetic methods are available in expressions to perform basic mathematical operations on Integer and Float data type values.

The following methods can be used for this purpose:

  • Add
  • Subtract
  • Multiply
  • Divide
  • Modulo

Business Benefit: Some derived properties and property transformations need to perform math operations on integer and float values in an expression to calculate the proper result.

Key Resources

Create Unbound Dimensions for Custom Data Sets

Unbound dimensions can be created in an application to manage data sets which are not natively handled by the adapter for a particular application type. These dimensions are created in application inspector and support user defined node types, hierarchy sets, node sets, viewpoints, and properties to model the enterprise data within the dimensions. Data can be loaded into unbound dimension viewpoints using request files and distributed to consuming systems using extracts.

Business Benefit: Complex data sets such as related value sets, account combinations, and multi-dimensional mappings may need to be maintained in Enterprise Data Management but are not supported by an application adapter. These data sets can be modeled and managed within unbound dimensions.

Key Resources

Custom Validations Report

A Custom Validations Report provides a complete listing of validations for all node types and hierarchy sets to easily identify which custom validations have been defined.  Custom validations can be filtered by application, dimension, node type, or hierarchy set. You can inspect a validation from the report to view more details or make changes to the validation.

Business Benefit: Users, with the Owner permission to the application or dimension, who are managing custom validations need a way to view validations which have been defined across all applications and dimensions. This allows them to determine which validations have been configured and if changes are necessary.

Key Resources

Derived Values and Property Transformations for List Data Type Properties

List data type properties can be configured with an expression to derive a value or transform a value for a property using custom business logic. Use the Derived default type for List properties to derive property values for specific applications and node types. Setup a property transformation for a List property in a node type converter to calculate a value when sharing, mapping, and synchronizing nodes across applications.

Business Benefit: List property values can be calculated using business logic rather than manually defining them resulting in reduced maintenance and improved data quality.

Key Resources

Disable Existing Subscriptions for Viewpoint

Subscriptions can be disabled to prevent new subscription requests from being generated without the need to delete the subscriptions from their viewpoints. Existing subscription requests will remain and can continue to be processed while a subscription is disabled. Disabled subscriptions can be enabled again when necessary or deleted if no longer required.

Business Benefit: Disabling a subscription allows a user with the Owner permission to the application or dimension to stop changes from being synchronized from a source to target viewpoint.  This may be necessary when attempting to compare and manually align the viewpoints or isolate and resolve unexpected changes.

Key Resources

Download Subscriptions Report to File

The Subscriptions Report can be downloaded to a file to retain a local copy or share with other parties outside of Enterprise Data Management Cloud. The downloaded file contains the same information that is displayed in the user interface.

Business Benefit: Subscription report users need a way to access the information offline, keep a point-in-time copy, or share it with others.

Key Resources

Enrich Request Items During Approval

Request items can be enriched by approvers during the Approve stage of a request. This allows users who are involved in a request after submission to make corrections or additional changes to the request items based on their Write data access. The Allow Enrichment During Approval option can be enabled for specific approval policies where enrichment is necessary. Enrichment may result in additional required approvals for a request based on the changes that are made and the approval policies which are active.

Business Benefit: Some approvers need the ability to make changes to request items while approving a request.

Key Resources

Filter Archived Dimensions and Viewpoints

Archived dimensions are hidden on the Dimensions tab in the application inspector. The Show Archived filter can be used to display archived dimensions to view their details and set them back to active status if necessary. Archived dimensions are also hidden on the Import, Export, and Extract screens.

Archived viewpoints are hidden on the Viewpoints tab in the view inspector. The Show Archived filter can be used to display archived viewpoints to see their details and change them back to active status if desired.

Business Benefit: Archived dimensions and viewpoints that are no longer used should be hidden during normal user activity. The filter can be used to view archived dimensions and viewpoints when required.

Key Resources

Global Connections to Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Global connections can be defined to Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud in order to share data with those external applications using dimension extracts in Enterprise Data Management. Oracle ERP Cloud connections send data to a Universal Content Management document account for use by an File Based Data Import process. Oracle EPM Cloud connections send data to an Enterprise Performance Management inbox for use by a metadata import process. These connection types can be restricted for use by specific Enterprise Data Management applications.

Business Benefit: Global connections to Oracle ERP Cloud can be used to transfer data such as account combinations, mapping sets, and related value sets for import into Financials Cloud. Global connections to Oracle EPM Cloud can be used by Universal applications which manage dimensions for the Account Reconciliation business process.

Key Resources

Inspect Request Items and Delete Individual Request Actions

Request items can be inspected directly from the request details pane in an open view. This displays all of the actions for the request item along with the user who made each change. Individual request actions can be deleted from an item in the request inspector based on a user's data access, and validation issues are now displayed for each action in the request inspector.

Business Benefit: Request users sometimes need to identify the individual actions for a specific request item. In cases where multiple users have made changes to the same request item, it is helpful to know which user made a particular change. In some situations, changes which were made in a request need to be removed. The ability to delete a request item or item instance was previously available, but those operations remove all actions for a particular node or node instance. Sometimes a user only wants to remove individual changes.

Key Resources

Match Nodes Across Viewpoints Using Alternate Name

Alternate names can be defined for nodes in viewpoints in cases where similar nodes have completely different primary names across multiple applications. Nodes can matched using their alternate name during a locate or compare operation. The Core.Alternate Name property can be added to node types where nodes will use alternate names. Alternate name values can be imported, loaded from a request file, copied or transformed from another viewpoint, or manually entered. Locate and compare operations across viewpoints will attempt to use alternate names where they are defined when a node cannot be matched using its primary name.

Business Benefit: Alternate names allow you to find a similar node in a viewpoint where its primary name is different. It also enables nodes with different primary names to be treated as similar nodes when identifying differences during a comparison.

Key Resources

Original Request and Subscription Links in Request Inspector

The inspector for a subscription request includes links to the original request and the subscription(s) which generated the request items for the subscription request. You can navigate to the original request to get more details about the source changes including user comments and attachments. You can also inspect the subscriptions for the request to better understand how the changes originated.

Business Benefit: When reviewing a subscription request, users may need more information about how the changes in the request originated. This includes being able to view the details of the original request as well as the subscriptions which generated the subscription request.

Key Resources

  • Inspecting Requests in Administering and Working with Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud

Participant Permission and Granular Data Access by Action and Property

The Browser and Submitter permissions for users and groups have been combined into a single permission named Participant, which can be assigned at the application, dimension, node type, or hierarchy set level. Participants can view data as well as submit and enrich requests based on their data access.  

The Participant permission can be configured with Read or Write data access. Data access can be filtered to specific request actions and properties at the node type or hierarchy set level. Each property can be configured as displayed, editable, or hidden.

Business Benefit: Application and dimension owners need to assign users with limited access to read and write data. This includes the ability to restrict users from performing certain types of changes or viewing specific properties.

Key Resources

Recall Requests Awaiting Approval

In Flight requests in the Approve stage can be recalled by the submitting user to make changes to request items or withdraw the request entirely. When a recall is performed, approvals are cleared and the request is returned to the Submit stage. The original submitter is reassigned the request where they can modify the request and resubmit it, or delete the request if it is no longer needed.

Business Benefit: Users who have submitted requests sometimes need to make changes to a request which have not yet been approved. Instead of asking an approver to push back the request, the submitter would like the ability to recall the request without having to involve the approver.

Key Resources

  • Recalling a Request in Administering and Working with Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud

Reconnect Parents, Header/Footer, and Zip File Options in Dimension Extracts

Additional options are available for dimension extracts to further customize the results of an extract process. The Reconnect Parents option outputs the closest ancestor that is not excluded by the node filter expression in the Parent column for each extracted node. The Custom Header and Footer options allow for user-defined text to be output at the beginning or end of the extract file. The Zip File option enables the extract file to be compressed and output in a zip file format.

Business Benefit: These additional extract options can be used to produce a variety of different file formats required by external systems which consume enterprise data from Enterprise Data Management.

Key Resources

Reference Node Data Type Properties in Expressions

Node data type properties can be used in expressions for derived properties, property transformations, custom validations, policy filters, and subscription filters. The Name and Description of the node referenced in the property are available for evaluation in the expression. You can also check to see if the property has a value using the IsNull attribute.

Business Benefit: Some customers have business rules or policies which are based on information for a node referenced in a Node data type property. An example is a validation which ensures a Node data type property can only have specific values under certain conditions.

Key Resources

Request Title Included in Transaction History

Request titles are included in transaction history to provide more information about the requests which produced the transactions. The request title is displayed on the Audit page as well as included in the output file when downloading transaction history.

Business Benefit: Including the request title allows users to better understand which transactions came from which requests without having to inspect each request to get that information.

Key Resources

REST API to Dimension Import, Export, and Export Mappings by Name

New REST API endpoints are available to import dimensions, export dimensions, and export dimension mappings based on the name of an application, dimension, and connection. This eliminates the need to call additional endpoints beforehand in order to get the IDs of an application and dimension that will be imported or exported and the connection that will be used.

Business Benefit: Integration processes which perform imports and exports need a way to run these operations in a more simplistic manner.

Key Resources

Role Information

  • Service Administrators

REST API to Download Transaction History

A REST API endpoint is available to download transaction history to a file in an automated manner using a programmable interface. The endpoint provides the same filtering capabilities and output format that is used on the Audit page in the user interface.

Business Benefit: Application owners want to periodically download transaction history to share with other parties in the organization and have a way to automate that process.

Key Resources

Role Information

  • Service Administrators

REST API to Upload, List, and Delete Files in the Staging Area

REST API endpoints are available to upload, list, and delete files in an Enterprise Data Management staging area. Upload files to the staging area for import into an application dimension. List files in the staging area to identify which files currently exist. Delete files from the staging area to remove files which have already been downloaded or are no longer needed.

Business Benefit: Integration processes need a way to upload and manage files in the staging area used by import, export, and extract operations.

Key Resources

Role Information

  • Service Administrators

Set Archived View Back to Active Status

A previously archived view can be set back to Active status to allow it to be visible and used again. Once a view has been reactivated, archived viewpoints in the view can be changed back to active.

Business Benefit: View owners sometimes archive views to temporarily hide them from other users.They want to be able to reactivate these views once they no longer need to be hidden.

Key Resources

Subscription Indicator on Viewpoints

A subscription indicator is included in the popup that is displayed when hovering over a viewpoint tab in an open view. This indicator identifies which viewpoints in a view subscribe to other source viewpoints and guides users to those viewpoints that should be receiving changes as part of a subscription request.

Business Benefit: Users want to be able to easily identify viewpoints in a view which are expected to receive changes synchronized from other source viewpoints.

Key Resources

Suffix for Node Type Qualifiers

Suffixes can be used for node type qualifiers to make node names unique within an application or dimension for referential integrity purposes. Default and alternate qualifiers support both prefixes and suffixes. This allows node names which use suffixes for uniqueness purposes in one application to be matched with similar nodes in another applications where the suffix is not used.

Business Benefit: Similar nodes existing in different node types where they have different naming conventions need to be properly located, compared, and synchronized across viewpoints.

Key Resources

Tools Cluster on Home Page

The Enterprise Data Management Home page includes a Tools cluster which contains the Access Control, Migration, Daily Maintenance, and Appearance cards that were previously available as well as the new Clone Snapshot card. The Tools cluster is displayed and accessible to Service Administrators only.

Business Benefit: The Tools cluster groups related modules together and reduces the number of cards displayed on the Home page and in the filmstrip to reduce scrolling.

Request Object in Expressions for Validations, Policies, and Subscriptions

Information about the current request can be accessed in an expression for a custom validation, policy filter, or subscription filter. This allows for different behavior based on the characteristics of a particular request. The following request attributes are available:

  • Title
  • Description
  • Owner
  • Status
  • Stage
  • Type
  • IsNull

Business Benefit: In some cases, validations, policies, or subscriptions need to behave differently for some requests versus other requests. Examples include custom validations based on the type of request or approval policies based on who submitted the request.

Key Resources

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

LOANER PROGRAM FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE GENERATION 2 TESTING

Oracle EPM Cloud is now live on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen 2 environments. If you are interested in testing your application performance on an OCI Gen 2 environment, open a service request following the process at https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/enterprise-performance-management-common/tsepm/op_procs_loaner_envs.html and request for a loaner environment in an OCI Gen 2 data center for a duration of 30 days with the business justification as “Want to test application performance in an OCI Gen 2 data center”.

After you have performed the testing, submit Provide Feedback from the loaner environment. Create a service request using the normal support process, if you have any issues or feedback for the OCI Gen 2 environment.

For more information, see What is a Gen 2 Cloud?