August 2022 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
12 AUG 2022	IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations		Updated document. Added content to EPM Common section.
29 JUL 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

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Feature Summary

Strategic Workforce Planning

Strategic Workforce Planning

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, August 5, 2022.

Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, August 19, 2022.

NOTE: The monthly update will not be applied to any environment for which this monthly update is requested to be skipped using the EPM Automate skipUpdate command or service request to Oracle.

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, August 5, 2022.

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.

Documentation Updates Available One Week After Readiness Documents

Updated documentation is published on the Oracle Help Center on the first Friday of each month, coinciding with the monthly updates to Test environments. Because there is a one week lag between the publishing of the readiness documents (What's New and New Feature Summary) and Oracle Help Center updates, some links included in the readiness documents will not work until the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/epm-cloud/index.html

Fixed Issues and Considerations

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

NOTE: Fixed issues for EPM Cloud Common components (Smart View for Office, EPM Automate, REST API, Migration, Access Control, Data Management/Data Integration, Reports, Financial Reporting, and Calculation Manager) are available in a separate document on the My Oracle Support “Release Highlights” page.

This provides visibility into EPM Cloud release contents.

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Features

New Tutorials

New tutorials are available.

Configuring Insights

Learn how to configure IPM Insights by selecting the type of analysis to perform, specifying the slice definitions for analysis, configuring the analysis, and then defining the settings for the insights displayed on the Insights dashboard. You can define insights for as many data intersections as you need. Planners see insights only for slices of data to which they have access.

Running and Scheduling Insights

Learn how to run and schedule Insights in EPM Cloud.

Analyzing Insights and Taking Action

Learn how to use the Insights dashboard to review the insights your administrator configured for you. The dashboard includes all available insights based on your user security. Each row on the Insights dashboard represents an insight, which can help you find patterns to analyze. Insights are displayed in the order of magnitude of the deviations to help you prioritize the order in which to evaluate them. For example, if the deviation is higher, it's more important for you to evaluate it.

Importing ML Models

Learn how to import a fully trained ML model and deploy it to a Planning application. Planners can then leverage robust, ML-based forecasting that uses advanced predictive modeling techniques to generate more accurate forecasts.

Making Predictions with ML Models

Learn how to take the Groovy rule created from an imported ML Model, and add it to a form. Then you make predictions with the ML model in Planning.

Business Benefit: Tutorials provide instructions with sequenced videos and documentation to help you learn a topic.

Updates to the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Operations Guide

The Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Operations Guide has been updated with information on a new request for blocking access from specific countries to OCI (Gen 2) environments.

Business Benefit: The new request provides the ability to block connections originating from unwanted countries to OCI (Gen 2) environments.

Key Resources

• Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Operations Guide

EPM Automate Updates

A new version of EPM Automate is now available. This version introduces the executeReportBurstingDefinition, getIPAllowlist, and setIPAllowlist commands. Additionally, this update contains changes to the addUsers, recreate, replay, and updateUsers commands.

executeReportBurstingDefinition Command

This command executes bursting for a single report or book for more than one member of a single dimension, and publishes a PDF or static (not refreshable in Oracle Smart View for Office) Excel output for each member.

getIPAllowlist Command

This command displays the IP addresses and Classless Inter-Domain Routings (CIDRs) included in the current allowlist in an OCI (Gen 2) environment.

setIPAllowlist Command

This command configures an allowlist of IP addresses and CIDRs that are permitted to access an OCI (Gen 2)  environment. This command can be used to add or remove IP addresses and CIDRs.

Changes to the addUsers and updateUsers Commands

Additional validations have been added to the addUsers and updateUsers command. Each column in the user definition CSV file used with these commands must have valid information such as first name, last name, user login, and email ID for each user. These commands validate each definition for mandatory values and display error messages that identify each missing or invalid value.

Changes to the recreate Command

The behavior of this command has been modified to retain the current version of Essbase if a value for the EssbaseChange optional parameter is not specified. Previously, the command used to change the Essbase version to hybrid Essbase if the environment was created after April 20, 2020 and EssbaseChange=Downgrade was not specified.

Changes to the replay Command

The lagTime optional parameter, which specifies the number of seconds that the command should wait between the execution of each HAR file included in the replay file, has been updated to use a default value of 5 seconds. The command now displays an error if you specify a value less than 5 seconds.

Business Benefit: 

The executeReportBurstingDefinition command helps you automate the process of bursting a report or book.

The getIPAllowlist and setIPAllowlists commands provide a self-service method to configure and manage allowlists for OCI (Gen 2) environments without requiring a service request to Oracle.

Changes to the addUsers and updateUsers commands provide user-friendly error messages to help you fix the input file provided in the command.

Changes to the recreate command ensures that the current Essbase version is not changed unless you request a change using the essbaseChange optional parameter.

Update to the replay command enforces a minimum lag time between replay execution to mimic real-life scenarios that exert processing load on an environment.

Key Resources

Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud:

• Installing EPM Automate
• addUsers
• getIPAllowlist
• executeReportBurstingDefinition
• replay
• setIPAllowlist
• updateUsers

New Version of Migration REST APIs

A new, simplified v2 version of several Migration REST APIs has been released. This new version contains all parameters in the payload and does not require URL encoding while calling the REST APIs. The new version is backward compatible, so no changes are needed for existing REST APIs.

The new v2 version applies to these REST APIs:

• Copy to Object Store (v2)
• Copy From Object Store (v2)
• Send Email (v2)
• Delete File (v2)
• Run Recreate on a Service (v2)
• Restart the Service (v2)

Business Benefit: The new version of the REST APIs is easier to use, and does not require URL encoding.

Key Resources

• Migration REST APIs in REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Role Information

• Service Administrators

Update to the EPM REST API for Run Recreate on a Service

The EPM REST recreate API has been changed to not update the Essbase version if the EssbaseChange parameter is not specified. Previously, the API used to change the Essbase version to hybrid Essbase if the environment was created after April 20, 2020 and EssbaseChange=Downgrade was not specified.

Business Benefit: This ensures that the Essbase version is not updated if you run recreate on your environment unless you request a change using the EssbaseChange optional parameter.

Key Resources

• Run Recreate on a Service in REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Role Information

• Service Administrators

Ability to Keep the Daily Maintenance Start Time of Target Environment in Clone Environment

A new check box Daily Maintenance Start Time is now available in the Clone Environment feature. By default, the maintenance start time of the target environment is reset to that of the source environment. Deselect this check box to keep the current maintenance start time of the target environment.

Clone Environment

Business Benefit: While cloning an environment, you now have the option to not change the daily maintenance start time of the target environment. This is especially useful if you have different daily maintenance start times for test and prod environments, or for primary and disaster recovery environments.

Key Resources

• Steps to Clone Environments in Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud guide.

Modified Sorting in Access Control

In Access Control, the searched information is now displayed in a default sort order. Additionally, the User Group and Role Assignment reports list the direct groups and predefined roles in bold font.

Default Sort Order

The screens in the following table have a default sort order for the listed information.

Screen	Sorted By
Manage Groups	Group Name
Manage Users	User Login
Assign Application Roles	for Users - by User Login for Groups - by Group Name
Role Assignment Report	for Users - by User Login for Roles - by User Login, and by application roles
User Login Report	Access Date and Time
User Group Report	User Login

Differentiate Values in Reports

The following reports differentiate these values by bold font.

• User Group- Groups
  • Direct groups
  • Indirect groups

• Role Assignment report - Roles
  • Predefined roles
  • Application roles

Business Benefit: The default sort order makes it easier to scroll down the information that matches your search criterion. Additionally, you can now easily identify the predefined roles and the application roles in Role Assignment report. You can also easily identify in the User Group report, the direct and indirect groups that user belongs to.

Key Resources

• Administering Access Control for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

New Version of Oracle Smart View for Office

Oracle Smart View for Office version 22.100 is available for download from My Oracle Support and Oracle Technical Resources (formerly Oracle Technology Network).

The following new features are included in this release:

• Show or hide the Documents folder in the EPM Cloud Library

• Set and export default Smart View options in the Options dialog box

• New cell styles for Parent and Child members

• Enhanced Reports functionality, including:
  • Create an ad hoc grid based on an imported report       
  • View properties for a report

• For Narrative Reporting users, Reports functionality no longer requires the Narrative Reporting extension (starting with the 22.06 Narrative Reporting extension update)

• Microsoft WebView2 and Edge support for importing Financial Reporting documents

• Microsoft .NET Framework Version now displayed in the Health Check dialog

Business Benefit: This Smart View release includes new features and defect fixes.

Steps to Enable

Download and install Smart View. See Downloading and Installing Clients in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

Key Resources

• Working with Oracle Smart View for Office
• Developing Applications for Oracle Smart View for Office
• Oracle Smart View for Office Readme

Smart View SVEXT Extensions Now Downloadable from Firefox

Using Mozilla Firefox, you can now download Oracle Smart View for Office extensions (SVEXT files) from the Downloads page of your business process.

Once downloaded, double-click the SVEXT file to install it. Then, start (or restart) your Microsoft office application (Excel, Word, or PowerPoint). View the newly installed in the Smart View Options dialog, Extensions tab.

Most Smart View extensions have the SVEXT file extension. Previously, when attempting to download an SVEXT extension from a business process Downloads page, Firefox did not allow opening or saving the extension. Instead, it opened a new tab showing binary data. You were required to use an alternative supported browser to download SVEXT extensions. Starting in 22.08, there is no longer any issue with downloading Smart View SVEXT extensions from Firefox.

Business Benefit: Smart View extensions (SVEXT files) are now downloadable from all supported browsers.

Tips And Considerations

• Smart View SVEXT extensions can also be downloaded using the extension download and update process in Smart View, using the Extensions tab in the Smart View Options dialog.

Key Resources

• Downloading and Installing Clients in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators
• Downloading and Installing Clients in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Users
• Installing Extensions in Working with Oracle Smart View for Office

Reports Include Hidden Dimensions When Importing or Exporting to Excel Ad-Hoc

Previously, when importing or exporting a grid to Excel ad-hoc which had hidden dimension row and column headings, the hidden dimensions would get moved to the POV.

Now, Reports and Smart View supports hidden dimension rows and columns.

Reports and Smart View Supports Hidden Dimensions

Business Benefit: This new capability enables you to perform Smart View Ad-hoc operations with ease. 

Grid Formulas and Text Segments in Reports Removed from Importing or Exporting to Excel Ad-Hoc

Previously, when importing or exporting a grid to Excel ad-hoc with formula and text segments, the formula and text content were included as static (non-refreshable) text. 

Now, formula and text segments are not included in the ad-hoc output in Excel. 

Grid Formula and Text Segments Are Not Included in the Excel Ad-Hoc Output

Business Benefit: This new capability enables you to perform Smart View Ad-hoc operations with ease.

Suppressing Repeated Members Now Supported in Standard Mode in Smart View Ad Hoc Grids

You can now suppress repeated members in Smart View ad hoc grids when connected to Standard-mode applications

Grids can contain members that are repeated on multiple rows. To simplify the view and improve readability for users, these repeated members can be suppressed in ad hoc grids when connected to Standard-mode applications.

Previously, suppressing repeated members was only supported when connected to Native mode applications.

To suppress repeated members in ad hoc grids:

1. In Smart View, open an ad hoc grid with repeated members.
2. In the Smart View ribbon, click Options, and then select the Data Options tab.
3. In the Suppress Rows section, select the Repeated Members check box, and then click OK.
4. In the Smart View ribbon, click Refresh. The repeated members are no longer seen in the ad hoc grid.

Business Benefit: Users can now suppress repeated members in ad hoc grids even while connected to Standard-mode.applications.

Steps to Enable

To use the Repeated Members suppression option for Smart View users working with ad hoc grids, the business process application option, Smart View Ad Hoc Behavior, must be set to Standard.

All new and recreated applications are automatically set to Standard.

For existing and migrated applications, to set the application option, Smart View Ad Hoc Behavior, to Standard:

1. Click Application, and then click Settings.
2. For the Smart View Ad Hoc Behavior option, select Standard.
3. Click Save.

Tips And Considerations

The Suppress Repeated Members option is supported for Standard-mode applications only.

Key Resources

• Administering Planning
  • What Application and System Settings Can I Specify?

• Working with Oracle Smart View for Office
  • Data Options

Display Member Names and Aliases in Separate Columns in Smart View Ad Hoc Grids

A new Member display option in Oracle Smart View for Office, Member Name and Alias, allows you to display both the member names and their aliases in separate columns on row dimensions in ad hoc grids.

The Member Name and Alias display option allows users to see the member name and the alias side by side during ad hoc zoom interactions within the grid. This provides additional member level alias information that is useful during ad hoc operations.

Additionally, side by side display of member names and aliases is a common feature in Essbase ad hoc, which helps in migrating worksheets maintained in Essbase into the FreeForm business process in EPM Cloud.

You may display both member names and their aliases when connected to a Standard-mode application. In Standard-mode, the application setting, Smart View Ad Hoc Behavior, is set to Standard.

Aliases are alternate names for database members. You can create ad hoc grids that use the database member name, which is often a stock number or product code, and also display the member's alias name, which can be more descriptive than the member name, in your ad hoc worksheet.

For example, in the Vision database, the alias name for the Product member P_110 is Sentinal Standard Notebook. By selecting the Member Name and Alias option in Smart View, you can display both the P_110 member name and the Sentinal Standard Note alias, on the same row in two columns in your ad hoc grid. At a quick glance, you can view the product code along with the product name, side by side in two columns along the row dimensions.

To display both member names and their aliases in an ad hoc grid:

1. In Smart View, place an ad hoc grid on a worksheet. You may have more than one row dimension in the grid.
2. In the Smart View ribbon, select Options.
3. In the Member Options tab, Member Name Display, select Member Name and Alias, then click OK.
4. In either the Smart View ribbon or the provider Ad Hoc ribbon, click Refresh.

For row members, both member names and their corresponding aliases are displayed in the ad hoc grid.

Business Benefit: In Standard-mode applications, the Member Name and Alias display option allows users to see the member name and the alias side by side, providing additional member level alias information that is useful during ad hoc operations.

Steps to Enable

To enable the Member Name and Alias option for Smart View users working with ad hoc grids, the business process application option, Smart View Ad Hoc Behavior, must be set to Standard.

All new and recreated applications are automatically set to Standard.

For existing and migrated applications, to set the application option, Smart View Ad Hoc Behavior, to Standard:

1. Click Application, and then click Settings.
2. For the Smart View Ad Hoc Behavior option, select Standard.
3. Click Save.

Tips And Considerations

The Member Name and Alias option is supported with:

• Standard-mode applications only
• Smart View 22.100 and later

Key Resources

• Administering Planning
  • What Application and System Settings Can I Specify?

• Working with Oracle Smart View for Office
  • Member Options
  • Displaying Member Names and Their Aliases in the Grid

Direct Drill

A new Direct Drill feature enables you to drill through directly from a form to source data when you use the Quick Mode method to load data. Source data can now be queried and launched using an external URL or EPM Integration Agent URL. Additionally, for standard mode data loads, you can define a custom drill region and you can continue to use the standard landing page. The custom drill region enables you to define custom drill regions using Essbase member functions instead of individual members.

To use this feature, you select the Drill Details option on the Application page for a local application, manually define the drill detail definition and then associate the source drill URL with the application.

Business Benefit: The new Direct Drill features enables you to drill to source data with or without staging the data in Data Management. It provides the flexibility to simplify the drill bypassing the landing page. This feature allows you  to customize the scope of the drill region using Essbase member functions, which simplifies maintenance and improves performance. Previously a drill through query included individual member names, which sometimes made the drill region big and might have led to a load failure, or performance issues.

Key Resources

• Using Direct Drill in Administering Data Integration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

New Save As Option for Jobs

The new "Save As" option for jobs enables you to create a duplicate of an existing job, and then update it to avoid starting over making selections each time you create a new job.

"Save As" is supported for the Export Data, Import Data, Export Metadata, Import Metadata, Refresh Database, Clear Cube, and Import Exchange Rates job types.

To duplicate a job, click Application, then Overview, click Actions, and then select one of the following actions:

• Export Data
• Import Data
• Export Metadata
• Import Metadata
• Refresh Database
• Clear Cube
• Import Exchange Rates

On the listing page, click the ellipses icon in the Actions column next to the job that you want to duplicate. Click Save As, enter a name for the new job, and then click OK. After the duplicate job is created, you can then open the job and update it. The error file for the duplicate job will automatically use the new job name as a prefix.

Business Benefit: The ability to duplicate existing jobs and then update them makes the job creation process easier. This is especially useful for jobs that require member selections, like Export Data.

Key Resources

• Administering Planning
  • Duplicating Jobs

Drop-Down List for Date Format for Pre-Built Task Manager Account Reconciliation Integrations

In Task Manager, the Date format parameter for the Account Reconciliation integrations has now changed from text field to a drop-down list.

The following integrations are converted:

• Import Profile
• Import Pre-Mapped Transactions
• Import Pre-Mapped Transactions (Transaction Matching)

Business Benefit: You can use this new capability to select only valid date format from the list when setting the tasks for those integration types.

Key Resources

• Administering Planning
  • Integrations for Account Reconciliations

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

One-Week Lag Between Readiness Documents Live and Help Center Live

Because Oracle readiness documents (What's New and New Feature Summary) are live one week before the monthly update is applied to Test environments, some links to documentation included in the readiness documents will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete when the monthly update is applied to Test environments.

Valid Intersection and Cell-level Security Import & Export File Format Update

In an upcoming release, both Valid Intersection and Cell-level Security Import and Export files in .XLSX format will include new columns for each dimension in the Sub Rules worksheet. These new columns to support excluding all instances of members by name will apply to each dimension and will be positioned after each dimension’s “Exclusion” column. If you use these exported files for integration with other systems and the order of columns is fixed, you may need to modify your process to account for these new columns in these export files. The release of these new columns will coincide with the planned release of this enhancement for Valid Intersections and Cell-Level Security.

Change in Behavior for Grids Created from Groovy and REST APIs for ASO Cubes

In an upcoming release, the suppression behavior for grids created via Groovy DataGridDefinitionBuilder and the exportdataslice REST API for ASO cubes will be made consistent with that of the run time data grids created using the Form Designer. Previously, if a grid was built for an ASO cube in Groovy or REST API, then the system used the NON EMPTY MDX clause to suppress missing rows when the suppressMissingBlocks flag was true. Now, when a grid is built for an ASO cube, it will use the NON EMPTY MDX clause when suppressMissingRows is true, and suppressMissingBlocks will be ignored. This means that ASO grids with suppressMissingRows true and suppressMissingBlocks false will now start using MDX. Likewise, ASO grids with suppressMissingRows false and suppressMissingBlocks true will no longer use MDX. Grids where the suppressMissingRows and suppressMissingBlocks flags had the same value will not be impacted. These changes may result in a change in behavior or performance for some ASO grids. If this happens and is undesirable, consider toggling the value of suppressMissingRows from the builder or the JSON payload in case of the REST API.

Mandatory Steps Required to Make the Explore Repository Artifacts Accessible to Users

Prior to the 22.07 update, Strategic Workforce Planning used the WORLD pre-seeded group to grant access to Explore Repository artifacts such as reports and folders. Starting with the 22.07 update, the WORLD group was removed. If you previously used the WORLD group to grant access to repository artifacts, complete these steps to ensure that users can access Repository artifacts:

1. Create a group in Access Control with all Strategic Workforce Planning Cloud users as its members.
2. In Explore Repository, grant access privileges to the group you created in the preceding step.

For detailed steps, see Granting Access Permissions to Document Repository Users in Working with Financial Reporting for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

Default Time Zone for New Users

Starting in the October (22.10) update, the default time zone for new users will be (UTC) Reykjavik - Greenwich Mean Time. To reset the time zone, click Tools, then User Preferences, and then click General.

Rolling Back Changes Made to Page Title Display for Horizontal tabs

Starting in the July (22.07) update, we have rolled back changes made in the April (22.04) update to the page title for horizontal tabs. The change was to not display the page title in horizontal tabs while using the Redwood Theme. From the feedback received on this change, we've decided to roll it back.

Loaner Program for Cloud Infrastructure Generation 2 Testing and OCI Migration Assistance Early Adopter Program

Oracle Strategic Workforce Planning Cloud is now live on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen 2 environments. If you are interested in testing your application performance on an OCI 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 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 environment. For more information, see What is a Gen 2 Cloud?

Additionally, Oracle has instituted a program to assist a limited number of early adopters on Oracle Cloud Classic to migrate to OCI. For more information, see Oracle Cloud Classic to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Migration Assistance Program for Early Adopters.

Alerts Cannot be Migrated to Prior Version

Due to a major upgrade in Alert functionality, any service that has defined Alert Types will not be able to migrate them or the Alerts that are based on them from the 22.04 update to an earlier update. This normally happens if artifacts are moved from Test to Production during the two week period when Test is upgraded to the 22.04 update while Production is still on the 22.03 update. All other objects in the migration are not affected.

Task Manager Email Notification Settings

Starting in the 22.04 update, the service changed the handling of Task Manager’s Email Notification settings during a migration. The target service’s Task Manager Email Notification settings were updated with the settings from the source service. If a customer wants to retain the target service’s Task Manager Notification settings, they can generate an LCM export with the notification settings from the target service, perform the source migration, then import the LCM file with the notification settings.

See LCM Export and LCM Import in REST API for Oracle Performance Management Cloud.

Date Format when Using the EPM Digital Assistant

When using the EPM Digital Assistant, note that the Date format is not taken from User Preferences, and the assistant does not ask which format to use for the date. The assistant attempts to detect the date format based on the user locale set in the browser and other common formats.

Drill Landing Page in Data Integration / Data Management

The Enhanced Drill Landing page is the default starting in this update. Starting with the 22.09 update, the option to switch the Drill Type user interface will no longer be available, and the Enhanced version will be the only version.

Internet Explorer 11 End of Support and Smart View

Microsoft has announced end of support of Internet Explorer 11 by June 15, 2022.

Do not uninstall Microsoft Internet Explorer, even after the end-of support date of June 15, 2022. Instead, you may securely disable Internet Explorer following Microsoft’s guidelines. In situations where the Internet Explorer browser would be called, the Edge browser will be launched instead.

Oracle Smart View for Office does not require the Internet Explorer browser specifically. However, Smart View depends on Windows components (for example, WinInet APIs) that may have dependencies on Internet Explorer. Microsoft recommends keeping Internet Explorer installed on the machine since uninstalling may cause other applications that are dependent on it to work incorrectly. Microsoft also recommends updating to the latest security patches as they become available.

For more information, Oracle Support Document 2877741.1 (Impact on Smart view with Microsoft decommissioning Internet Explorer 11 on June 15, 2022) can be found at: https://mosemp.us.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2877741.1.

Change in Reports Behavior with Suppress Missing Blocks Enabled with Zoom on the Column

Starting in this update, Suppress Missing Blocks are no longer supported with Zoom enabled on column segments. This combination of properties results in unpredictable members returned when doing the query for a Zoom on the column axis.

Data Maps with Mapping or Cross Applications

Data Maps with mapping or cross applications are not supported in this update. If the Data Map has mapping or is a cross application, it needs to be attached to a form or included in the Groovy rule and run as a Smart Push.