January 2020 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:

Overview

This document outlines the upcoming Enterprise Data Management Cloud update.

Enterprise Data Management Cloud

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest monthly updates to your Test environments during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 23:00 UTC (15:00 PST) on Friday, January 3, 2020. Oracle will apply the latest monthly updates to your Production environments during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 23:00 UTC (15:00 PST) on Friday, January 17, 2020.

The Oracle Help Center provides access to updated documentation. The updates will be available in the Help Center on Friday, January 3, 2020. 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.

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.

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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Defects Fixed and Considerations

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

Announcements

There are no new features in this update.

New Documentation: Additional Troubleshooting Procedures for EPM Cloud

New sections to enable  users to troubleshoot common issues in EPM Cloud are available in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators. These sections also provide complete lists of information that must be submitted for each issue through the service request that users create to seek help from Oracle Support. These  new troubleshooting sections are now available:

• Dealing with Down Environments
• Resolving Import and Export Errors
• Resolving User, Role, and Group Management Issues
• Resolving Form and Ad Hoc Grid Performance Issues
• Handling Unexpected Timeouts During Database Refresh or Restructure
• Resolving Performance Issues with Data Maps, Copying of Data, Data Push, and Smart Push
• Fixing Smart View Functional and Performance Issues
• Troubleshoot Data Load Issues
• Resolving Overall Performance Issues
• Handling Financial Consolidation Data Inaccuracies

Key Resources

• Troubleshooting EPM Cloud Issues in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators

Upcoming Changes

REMOVAL OF INSTANCE NAME FROM PREDEFINED ROLE NAMES

Currently, the predefined role names displayed in the Access Control screens of EPM Cloud environments prefix the instance name to the role name in INSTANCE_NAME ROLE_NAME format. They are also stored in this format in the snapshots, making it difficult to migrate snapshots from one instance to another.

To facilitate the migration of security across EPM Cloud environments, Oracle plans to rename predefined role names displayed within EPM Cloud applications by removing the instance name prefix. For example, if the instance name is Planning1, predefined role names are Planning1 Service Administrator, Planning1 Power User, Planning1 User, and Planning1 Viewer, the new role names will be Service Administrator, Power User, User, and Viewer.

NOTE: This change does not affect how the role names are displayed in the MyServices customer portal.

This change won't impact customers who currently use predefined roles for managing application-level provisioning and access to artifacts. Oracle will ensure that all application role assignments and artifact security assignments are automatically updated after the roles are renamed. This change makes it easy to migrate EPM Cloud artifacts across environments.

This change is being implemented to address customer feedback. If you have any concerns about this change, please contact Oracle Support.

PREDEFINED ROLE NAMES AS EPM CLOUD KEY WORDS

Starting with an update in the near future, Oracle plans to treat the following predefined role names as EPM Cloud key words, which should not be used in the name of any custom artifacts that you create; for example, as a group name in Access Control.

• Service Administrator
• Power User
• User
• Viewer
• Planner
• System Administrator
• Application Administrator
• Library Administrator
• Reports Administrator

If you have any groups or artifacts named using these keywords, Oracle requests that you rename or delete them; else Oracle will rename them to ensure that there is no impact because of this change. For example, a group named Power User will be renamed as Power User1 without affecting the current role assignments. If you do not want Oracle to automatically rename such groups, you must rename them.

This change is being implemented to address customer feedback. If you have any concerns about this change, please contact Oracle Support.

Key Resources

• Modifying Groups in Administering Access Control for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

ALL BUSINESS PROCESSES TO SUPPORT AN IDENTICAL SET OF PREDEFINED ROLES

In an upcoming release, Oracle plans to implement the following predefined roles for Enterprise Data Management. Other EPM Cloud business processes already use this common set of predefined roles, which will become the standard set of predefined roles as a result of this change. This update will allow Oracle to address customer issues related to migrating services from current environments to EPM Standard Cloud Service and EPM Enterprise Cloud Service environments.

• Service Administrator
• Power User
• User
• Viewer

This change is automatic; you do not need to update current role assignments. If you have any concerns about this proposed change, please contact Oracle Support by submitting a service request which explains your concerns.

Enterprise Data Management Cloud will support two additional predefined roles, Power User and Viewer.

CAUTION: Do not assign the Power User and Viewer roles to Enterprise Data Management users because these roles do not assign any privileges to users.