Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top.

Date	What's Changed	Notes
31 AUG 2017	Added fixed bugs: 26643972, 26184685, 26324650, 25456997, and 25453658	Added descriptions of additional fixed defects
24 AUG 2017		Initial Document Creation.

Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, September Update

This document outlines the announcements and fixed issues in the upcoming Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud updates.

Announcements and New Features

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Planning and Budgeting Cloud and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environment on Friday, September 1, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, September 15, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on September 1, 2017.

Integrated Business Process Navigation Flows

Service Administrators can set up connections that enable users to navigate across Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud subscriptions to create unified business process flows across multiple subscriptions, which can belong to any combination of EPM subscriptions. The following subscriptions are supported within this feature:

• Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud
• Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud
• Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud
• Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud
• Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
• Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud
• Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud

Considerations:

• Connections can be created using any of the following services as a source for the connection:
• Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud
• Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud
• Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud
• Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud
• All EPM service subscriptions can be connected into from these source connections. Connections can also be created between subscriptions of the same service type. Following connections are supported with this feature:
• Connections where services are in the same domain within the same data center
• Connection across multiple subscriptions when services are in different domains and different data centers if an identity provider is set up for federated SSO

Connection across multiple subscriptions when services are in different domains within the same data center will be supported in a future update.

For detailed information about integrated EPM Cloud subscriptions and navigating across subscriptions, see “Connecting Subscriptions in EPM Cloud” in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Automatic Application Snapshot Uploads to Facilitate Troubleshooting

While submitting feedback, Service Administrators can consent to submit the last maintenance snapshot of the instance to Oracle to expeditiously troubleshoot the issue and test fixes.

Oracle uses the submitted application snapshot for testing purposes only; no changes will be made to the application or data. If you consent to submit the maintenance snapshot, Oracle automatically encrypts and copies the log files and maintenance snapshot to Oracle Support. For detailed instructions, see “Helping Oracle Collect Diagnostic Information Using the Provide Feedback Utility” in Using Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Support for Single Sign-on Using Oracle Identity Cloud Services (IDCS)

You can configure single sign-on (SSO) access to Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud using Oracle Identity Cloud Services (IDCS), which provides a comprehensive cloud-based identity management and security platform that supports a universal set of access controls, permissions, and password security constraints.

Configuring SSO requires you to configure a SAML 2.0 link between Oracle Identity Cloud Service and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud. See “Configuring Single Sign-On” in Using Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud for information on configuring SSO using IDCS.

Simplified Provisioning Report

This release includes a simplified Provisioning Report that provides a concise view of the roles assigned to each user. In addition to providing the number of provisioned users, the enhanced report presents information on each provisioned user in one row to provide a comprehensive view of all assigned roles.

For information on viewing the Provisioning Report, see “Generating Service-Level Provisioning Report” in Administering Access Control for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

Enhancements to the Activity Report

To help you understand the processes that may impact the service performance, Oracle has updated the Activity Report, which now contains information on the top 15 user interface requests that took the most time to execute.

New REST API, Copy Snapshot

You can now use a REST API to copy an application snapshot. See “Copy Application Snapshot” in Oracle Cloud REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

Selecting Identity Domain at Sign In

The sign in process no longer requires you to select an identity domain while accessing the service. To simplify the sign in process, the name of your identity domain is now derived from the URL that you specify.

NOTE: This is an Oracle Cloud enhancement, which may already have been rolled out through Oracle Cloud data centers.

Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Only

Ability to Add Child Members for OFS_Pension Plan

For the Financials business process in Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, you can now add child members under OFS_Pension Plan, so that the associated Smart List in Workforce Planning shows more detailed accounts in the Benefits & Tax wizard.

Changes to Labels: Models and Consolidation Icons

In Strategic Modeling, the Models icon is renamed to Model View; the Consolidation icon is renamed to Consolidation View.

New Context Menu in Strategic Modeling

In Strategic Modeling on the web, you can right-click a cell to access a context menu that includes Account Forecast, Subaccounts, Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, and Audit Trail.

Ability to Add Sub Accounts in Bulk

In Strategic Modeling on the web, you can add subaccount members in bulk.

Ability to Change Default Unit and Currency

In Strategic Modeling on the web, you can change model properties including Default Unit, Default Currency, Input Decimal Places, and Output Decimal Places.

Upgrades to Strategic Modeling Reports

Reports in Strategic Modeling have improved performance and can be re-ordered and hidden.

Reports will be upgraded when you open a model for the first time, which may take some time. Check in the model after you open it to make sure that the upgraded reports are saved with the Model.

Removal of Support

Standard Interface (Planning and Budgeting Cloud Workspace Interface)

This change affects only Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service customers who activated their subscriptions on or before July 31, 2016.

The Simplified Interface, an option available in the service since November 2014, will be established as the standard across the service. As a result, the current Standard Interface, which is also known as the Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Workspace, will not be supported starting with the December 2017 update to the service (December 1, 2017 for test instances and December 15, 2017 for production instances). After the deployment of the November update to production instances on November 17, 2017, bugs or enhancements for the Standard Interface will not be addressed.

To prepare for this change, have your users familiarize themselves with the Simplified Interface using the following information sources:

• Accessing the Service for steps to access service.
• Displaying the Simplified Interface in in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.
• Working with Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud for information on completing Planning tasks.
• Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud for information on performing Planning Administrative tasks.

Financial Reporting Studio Desktop Client

Oracle is committed to providing a simple and intuitive user experience. To achieve this, Financial Reporting Web Studio, available since March 2016, will become the only environment for designing and building reports.

Oracle is providing additional time for users to transition from Financial Reporting Desktop Studio to Financial Reporting Web Studio. Tentative plans call for functional parity between Financial Reporting Web Studio and Financial Reporting Desktop Studio in late 2017, at which time, support for the desktop Studio will transition to the Web Studio and distribution of the Desktop Studio will cease.

Oracle recommends that you transition to using Financial Reporting Web Studio at the earliest opportunity. Please send questions and concerns to Oracle using the Provide Feedback option in the service.

File-Based Integration of Data Management with Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud

Oracle Fusion Financial Cloud Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting is now fully integrated with Data Management.

This enhancement brings the integration of Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud on par with the current, out of the box, file-based integration. As a result, the file-based integration is no longer supported starting this update to the service.

Defects Fixed

Defect Number	Description
26643972	Dimensionalized accounts now calculate properly.
26614891	In Financial Reporting, the vertical scroll bar is now displayed correctly in the "Respond to Prompts" popups.
26583972	When importing a Financial Reporting report in Smart View as Fully-Formatted, the values for cells which have replacement text that contains both numeric and non-numeric characters are no longer stripped of the non-numeric characters.
26571651	In Strategic Modeling, subaccounts as a weighted average now total correctly, as appropriate for values such as interest rates.
26554054	In Strategic Modeling, the Models icon is renamed to Model View; the Consolidation icon is renamed to Consolidation View.
26552648	Rules tasks are now launching correctly.
26550754	Composite forms now properly load when you change the Page selection, and you no longer receive a Java error.
26540610	In Financial Reporting Web Studio, if you have a grid with more than 20 columns and you click Save after making a change, you are no longer returned to the far left of the report.
26531423	You can now delete children of the member OFS_Adjustment to Revenue.
26522684	Action menus now work consistently in simple forms that are included in a composite form.
26520503	After refreshing an aggregate storage (ASO) cube in Smart View, members display as expected.
26504227	When you add hiring requisitions for one fiscal year, the requisitions are carried over to subsequent fiscal years (until they are associated with an employee hire, their status is changed, or they are removed). Hiring requisitions added in future years don’t overwrite those added in previous years.
26477618	The Merit Adjustment value is now calculated in subsequent years as of the month it is set for in OWP_Merit Month.
26445428	Forms now display correctly if an attribute name contains “BR”.
26421993	In Financial Reporting Web Studio, when a default member for a prompt is left blank, you no longer receive an "unable to process request" error.
26417313	The @MDSHIFT Essbase calculation function now works correctly after Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud update.
26357870	The browser freezing intermittently when navigating task lists is resolved.
26324650	The scrolling behavior in the Announcements panel on the Home page now works correctly.
26309094	Shared members that are set to include their descendants with IDescendants now correctly include all members in rows and columns, even if the Suppress Missing Blocks option is enabled.
26184685	Within the same data center and domain, you can now connect to different services and navigate between different applications.
25963632	Export step executes even when no data has been imported.
25780133	When building reports in Financial Reporting Web Studio, custom text in column headers is now displayed correctly in the report output.
25554729	With Internet Explorer 11, you can now enter data into multiple cells and use Tab without intermittent issues, such as the window closing.
25464144	Intermittent display issues (for example, flickering) when navigating in forms are resolved.
25456997	Additional job types and job statuses are now available in the Job Console in Smart View to filter jobs.
25453658	Smart View now supports valid intersections in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud forms.
25249659	Smart Push executes successfully when an empty form is populated through a business rule run on save.