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	Feature	Notes
02 NOV 2017	Defects Fixed	Added descriptions of additional fixed defects: 26279095, 26999627, and 26993313
27 OCT 2017		Created initial document.

Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, November 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, November 3, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, November 17, 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 November 3, 2017.

Changes to CSV Version of the Provisioning Report

This monthly update reverts the changes made to the CSV version of the Provisioning Report in the September monthly update (17.09) so that it now lists the application roles that are mapped to the predefined identity domain roles assigned to users. It also lists the groups to which users are assigned, even if the group is not assigned to any role. For example, if the user is assigned the Service Administrator role, the CSV version of the report lists one row for each application role mapped to the Service Administrator role.

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

Registering Duplicate Target Application Names in Data Management

Data Management supports registering target applications with the same name. This may be the case where a customer has multiple service environments and the application name is the same in each environment, or the application names are identical in development and production environments. This feature enables you to add a prefix to the application name when registering the application so that it can be registered successfully in Data Management and be identified correctly in the list of target applications.

Target applications with prefixes are not backward compatible, and cannot be migrated to a 17.10 or earlier release. Only a target application without a prefix name can be migrated to an earlier release.

For detailed information, see "Reusing Target Application Names Multiple Times" in Administering Data Management for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Only

Currency Conversion for Weekly Plans

If you're planning at the weekly level in the Financials business process, when you enter monthly level exchange rates in the Global Assumptions configuration task and save the form, the monthly exchange rates are copied to the weekly level. The copy is based on how you mapped weeks to months (4-4-5,  4-5-4, or  5-4-4). This functionality applies to the Financials cube (OEP_FS) only.

For detailed information, see "Enabling Weekly Planning" in Administering Planning for Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Detailed Configuration for Weekly Planning

In the Financials business process, if you enable weekly planning, by default all entity and account combinations are set up for weekly planning. You can now specify that some entity/account combinations use monthly planning. This is useful when most entities use weekly planning, but certain entities use monthly planning; or when an entity plans at the monthly level except for certain accounts. Forms are updated to show the correct granularity for entities and accounts. After enabling weekly planning, to set up a custom planning granularity for entities and accounts, from the Home page, click Application, and then click Configure. Select Financials from the Configuration list, and then click Weekly Configurations.

For detailed information, see "Weekly Configurations" in Administering Planning for Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Strategic Modeling Supports Creating and Editing Dataviews

You can now create and edit Dataviews in Strategic Modeling on the Web. In the Account View, from Actions menu, click Dataviews.

For detailed information, see "Working with Dataviews" in Administering Planning for Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Groovy Rules Support Data Maps and Smart Push

For applications of type “Enterprise” (available with Enterprise PBCS or PBCS Plus One licenses), you can now write a groovy rule that moves the input and calculated data from source cube to target cube by either executing a Data Map (for administrators) or Smart Push (for users who have launch access to the rule). See “DataMap” and “SmartPush” in the Java API Reference for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Groovy Rules.

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.

Classic Dimension Editor

For users of the Simplified Interface, effective the February 2018 (18.02) update, the Dimensions link in the Navigator will link to the Simplified Dimension Editor, which was released with the 17.05 update (May 2017). Consequently, the Classic Dimension Editor will not be supported starting with the February 2018 update to the service (February 2, 2018 for test and February 16, 2018 for production instances).

For detailed information on using the Simplified Dimension Editor, See Editing Dimensions in the Simplified Dimension Editor in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

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.

Defects Fixed

Check this list again for the latest information when the update is applied to your test environment.

Defect Number	Description
26999627	Currency conversion now works in Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud forms that have formula columns.
26993313	In the Financials business process of Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, you can now add children members to OFS_Cash in Bank.
26968870	Errors when running business rules after taking the latest patch are now fixed.
26965567	Business rules that reference Smart Lists now correctly validate, launch, and give the expected results in Planning.
26965519	Business rules for the ASO model now correctly validate if the rule contains a member range in the format of Jan:Jun.
26897073	In browsers configured for the Japanese language, the labels used in Provide Feedback Utility screens now appear correctly as designed. Note: The messages on the Confirmation Application Submission section of the screen appear in English. This will be fixed in a later update.
26863693	The Expand All function in Financial Reports with page dimensions now works correctly. The Expand All function in Financial Reports with page dimensions now works correctly.
26850877	The issue where some batch jobs with a "running" status could not be stopped or deleted has been fixed.
26840992/ 26676546	The Valid For Plan Type property is now correctly migrated for all Period dimension members.
26721676	Percentage values now display with the correct precision setting in Planning forms, even for very large numbers.
26697191	Data load schedules are no longer deleted when monthly patches are applied.
26279095	Because the Fiscal Year settings are set during application creation and cannot be changed after the application is created, the Calendar menu option is no longer necessary. This option has been removed from the Simplified dimension editor and the documentation has been updated to reflect this change.
26424075	You no longer receive an error when selecting four or more members during report creation.
26570462	Financial Reporting Studio now requires you to specify an application and database in order to establish the initial database connection. This eliminates the persistent issue of the server's error log message.
26544159	The dates for scheduled task lists are now displaying correctly.
25171331	With the Planning Admin Extension, when importing the HSP_View dimension onto a worksheet, Smart View now correctly displays only the default properties.

Considerations

USING FIREFOX ESR 52.4.2 WITH SMART VIEW

Future releases of Mozilla Firefox will be phasing out support for XUL-based add-ons such as Smart View. Starting in mid-November 2017, only add-ons and extensions built with new web extension technology will work in Firefox. Therefore, Smart View 11.1.2.5.710 only supports Firefox versions up to ESR 52.4.1. If you want to continue using Firefox with Smart View 11.1.2.5.710, do not upgrade your Firefox browser.

If your Firefox browser is set to automatically install updates, Oracle recommends changing the setting to “Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them.” See the Firefox help for instructions on changing this setting.