Update 22C

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

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon. 

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

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Compensation

Compensation

Oracle Compensation enables your organization to plan, allocate, and communicate compensation using the most complete solution in the market. Make better business decisions using embedded analytics and a total com

Individual Compensation

Mandate the Submission of Documents with Individual Compensation Proposals

Ensure proposers attach relevant documents while submitting individual compensation proposals. The submitted documents are available in the individual's document of records after approval.

Pending Approval Display of Personal Contribution, Individual Compensation, and Administer Compensation on Compensation Spotlight

See an indicator on the compensation spotlight whenever a personal contribution or individual compensation record is pending approval. Depending on your relationship with the submitted transaction, you can view details about the submitted transaction and take action.

View Individual Compensation Input Value Details in Offer Read-Only Pages

View the input values of the individual compensation proposals on read-only offer pages.

Salary

Simulate Salary Range

Empower your compensation Managers and HR specialists by showing them how the differential applied salary range values are calculated. This lets them troubleshoot issues, compare grade rate based salary ranges with differential calculated values, and see the various parameters relevant in the calculations. Seeing these calculations lets them do what-if analysis and view potential issues as warnings.

Workforce Compensation

Configure Currency Column Display

Use a new configuration option to display the currency code, currency name, or currency code and name in the currency columns in your plan worksheets.

Configure Country Column Display

Use a new column property configuration option to display the country code, country name, or country code and name in the country column in your plan worksheets.

Copy Dynamic Column Configuration

Simplify your plan configuration activities by copying dynamic column configurations from one Workforce Compensation plan to another, or from one column to another within the same plan.

Prevent Allocations When Budgets Are Null

Use a new configuration option to prevent managers from making allocations or submitting worksheets before a they're issued a budget.

Budget Pool Configuration Moved To A Drill-Down Page

Use the new drill-down page in Budget Pools to more easily configure budgets in Workforce Compensation.

Compensation Component Configuration Moved To A Drill-Down Page

Use the new drill-down page in Compensation Components to more easily configure components in Workforce Compensation.

Receive Warning Message When You Submit a Workforce Compensation Batch Processes

Receive a warning message that asks if you want to review your parameters before continuing when you submit any Workforce Compensation batch process.

Updated Performance Tab Layout In Administer Workers

Use the new updated layout in the Performance tab in Administer Workers to review performance rating information for people.

Workforce Compensation: Add OTBI Dashboards

Extend your ability to add OTBI reports in Workforce Compensation with the new feature to integrate an OTBI dashboard on the Compensation Landing Page.

Grade-Step Progression

Enhanced Assignment Selection for Grade Step Progression Batch Processes

Update salaries for all assignments on a grade ladder, even if they're excluded from grade step progression. We added a new configuration option that lets you exclude an assignment from the Run Grade Step Progression process without excluding it from the Synchronize Grade Step Rates process. If configured, the Include in grade step progression assignment attribute will apply to only the Run Grade Step Progression process.

Record Configuration Details in Grade Step Progression Batch Logs

Improve your ability to analyze and troubleshoot grade step progression results. Parameters and configuration details are now recorded in the batch logs.

Grade-Step Progression Replaced or Removed Features

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing features with new features, or removes existing features.

Replaced features may be put on a path of removal, the features below will let you know what update you will have to have moved to the newer feature. As a best practice, you should move to the newer feature as soon as possible for full support and to stay up with the latest updates that the product offers.

Any feature that is removed, will have an Update in which that feature is no longer available. Please make necessary plans to move off the feature by the Update indicated, as it will no longer be available.

Discontinued Support for Salary Default From Grade Ladder Rates In HCM Classic Simplified User Interface

Transition to using the HCM Responsive page HR actions if you use the feature that defaults the salary from grade ladder rates in HR actions. In an upcoming release, the default salary feature will be removed from the classic Person Management > Employment page.

Market Data

Market Data: Import Composites Miscellaneous Columns

Track the miscellaneous column values that you import into composites.

Stock

Stock: Allow Other Person Assignment Types

Support other person assignment types in Stock Grants, including contingent worker and nonworker.

Total Compensation Statement

Total Compensation: Receive Warning Message When Submitting Batch Processes

Receive a warning message that asks if you want to review your parameters before continuing when you submit any Total Compensation batch process.

Total Compensation: Proration for Element Entries

Control proration for element entry compensation items.

Total Compensation: Items Page Improvements

Improve your ability to search and select and to see item tester results in the compensation items page.

Transactional Business Intelligence Enterprise for Compensation

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making.  Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing, compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee benefits.

Don’t want to start from scratch building a report or analytics? Check out the library of sample reports for all products on Customer Connect on the Report Sharing Center.

Compensation: New External Data Subject Area

Enhance your reporting capabilities in compensation with the addition of the new subject area: Compensation - External Data Real Time. It helps you to report on the data of individuals from external or legacy systems.

Compensation: Reporting on Standard Components

Augment your reporting on salary subject areas with new folders that let you report on the new standard components salary basis type.

Compensation: Filter Out Individual Compensation Plans from Workforce Compensation

Improve your reports that use the Workforce Compensation subject areas now that individual compensation plans are excluded. Use the Individual Compensation Subject Area for reporting on individual compensation style plans.