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 |
|---|---|---|
| 24 JAN 2019 | Created initial document. |
Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud, February Update
This document outlines the upcoming Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud update.
Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 23:00 UTC (15:00 PST) on Friday, February 1, 2019 and to your production environment on Friday, February 15, 2019, also starting at 23:00 UTC. 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 February 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.
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.
"Ready for Use" Indicator on Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Application Tab
New symbols on the Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Application tab indicate whether the application is ready to use. When the service is restarted, a blue circle indicates that the application cache is building. A green check mark indicates that the application is cached and ready to use. To view the Application tab, on the Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Home page, click Application, and then Application again.
Execution Statistics Report Available in Microsoft Excel Format from the Job Library
The Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Execution Statistics Report now supports output in Microsoft Excel file format when run from the Job Library. Previously that format was available only when System Report and then Execution Statistics Report are selected in the Navigator.
Key Resources
- Execution Statistics Report Example in Administering Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud
View Size and Last Modified Date of Snapshot
The Snapshots tab in Migration has been modified to include the size and last modified date and time of available snapshots.
Snapshots Tab Displaying Snapshot Size and Last Modified Time
The last modified time is displayed based on the time zone specified in User Preferences. If it is not set, the last modified time is displayed based on the browser time zone.
To access the Snapshots tab, open Migration and then click Snapshots.
Key Resources
- About Snapshots in Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
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 documents to enable TLS 1.2 support:
- How to enable TLS 1.2 with EPM 11.1.2.4 (Doc ID 2432564.1)
- Does EPM to Support TLS 1.2 Communication via OHS? (Doc ID 2179810.1)
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.
Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.
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