Update 22A

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	Module	Feature	Notes
11 AUG 2022	Functional Setup Manager	Deprecation of Oracle Data Integrator in the Audit UI	Updated document. Functionality changed in update 22A.
11 AUG 2022	Functional Setup Manager	Deprecation of Attributes in OPSS Audit Data	Updated document. Functionality changed in update 22A.
28 JUL 2022	Approvals and Notifications	Updated Assignees Tab for Workflow Task Configuration	Updated document. Removed content from the feature description.
16 MAY 2022	Geography	Import the Latest Loqate Geography Data - 2022.01.20	Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 22A.
28 APR 2022	User Experience	Redesign of the Dialog Boxes for Error Messages	Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 22A.
09 MAR 2022	API and Schema	Changes to the Date Format in SOAP Response	Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 22A.
23 FEB 2022	API and Schema		Updated document. Changed module from Tables and Views.
18 FEB 2022	Reporting and Analytics	Updates to Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence	Updated document. Changed feature name from Updated Versions of Oracle Analytics Publisher and Answers.
04 FEB 2022	User Experience	Last Hour as Default Saved Search in Scheduled Processes Work Area	Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 22A.
17 JAN 2022	Extensibility	Updated Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In	Updated document. Revised feature information.
11 JAN 2022	Reporting and Analytics	Updated Versions of Oracle Analytics Publisher and Answers	Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 22A.
23 DEC 2021			Created initial document.

Overview

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Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)

Oracle Cloud Applications delivers new updates every quarter. This means every three months you'll receive new functionality to help you efficiently and effectively manage your business. Some features are delivered Enabled meaning they are immediately available to end users. Other features are delivered Disabled meaning you have to take action to make available. Features delivered Disabled can be activated for end users by stepping through the following instructions using the following privileges:

• Review Applications Offering (ASM_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_OFFERINGS_PRIV)
• Configure Oracle Fusion Applications Offering (ASM_CONFIGURE_OFFERING_PRIV)

Here’s how you opt in to new features:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
2. On the Features Overview page, select your offering to review new features specific to it. Or, you can leave the default selection All Enabled Offerings to review new features for all offerings.
3. On the New Features tab, review the new features and check the opt-in status of the feature in the Enabled column. If a feature has already been enabled, you will see a check mark. Otherwise, you will see an icon to enable the feature.
4. Click the icon in the Enabled column and complete the steps to enable the feature.

For more information and detailed instructions on opting in to new features for your offering, see Offering Configuration.

Opt In Expiration

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Feature Summary

Common Technologies and User Experience

Approvals and Notifications

Updated Assignees Tab for Workflow Task Configuration

In BPM Worklist, you use the Assignees tab to configure the approval rule sets and rules for a specific workflow task. Various aspects of the UI have changed, for example the general layout and how you do certain things. In general, what you're able to do with respect to configuring rule sets and rules remains the same; the exact UI element you use might just be different. For example, instead of clicking an icon from a toolbar to create a rule set, you now select an option from a drop-down list for rule sets. In a few cases, there are differences in what you can or can't do. For example, you can no longer select multiple rules at once, but you can now delete predefined rule sets (though you need to be very careful about doing that).

Here are some of the key changes in the Assignees tab, specifically, in the Rules subtab.

• Find the list of rule sets, as well as the option to create a rule set, in a drop-down list.

List of Values to Select and Create Rule Sets

• To delete a rule set and see its effective dates and active setting, click the View Properties link after the rule sets list of values.

Rule Set Properties Including Option to Delete

• Use the Rules pane to manage the rules for the selected rule set. To create a new rule, click the icon in the toolbar and select General Rule. For the rule selected in the Rules pane, you can see its details to the right of the pane. There, click the Properties link after the rule name to see the rule's effective dates, active setting, and advanced mode option.

• In the If section of the rule, you click on a line, or test, to make it editable, and you can edit only one line at a time. You now use the toolbar in the If section to create or delete lines. All options for creating a line are available, even ones that are previously available only if you select the Advanced mode for the rule.

Rules Pane and Details for the Selected Rule

• When you select the Surround option for a line (not for a pattern), instead of brackets, you get a subsection in the rule named the following test is true, with its own toolbar right above.

Subsection You Get with the Surround Option

• After you click the Validate button, you still see results in the Business Rule Validation – Log subtab at the bottom of the page, but you no longer get a dialog box or the affected fields highlighted.

In the Assignees tab, here's also a new Value Sets subtab next to the Rules subtab, but you should not use it because it's not applicable.

Updates to the Assignees tab help you configure rule sets and rules in a more efficient way.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

You can delete predefined rule sets, but make sure you’re really not using them and never will. Don’t delete the predefined Modification Rules and Substitution Rules rule sets.

Key Resources

• Configure Approval Rule Sets and Rules
• Create Rules in Advanced Mode

Role Information

You need a role that lets you perform administrative tasks in BPM Worklist.

Audit Changes Made to Workflow Task Configurations

Get audit information about changes made to workflow task configurations. For example, you can see which tasks were updated, who made the changes, and when they did so. In the Audit Reports work area (Navigator > Tools > Audit Reports), here's what you search on to get the audit results:

• Product: Oracle SOA Suite (SOA)
• Event Type: SOA DT@RT Change

The audit information helps you troubleshoot and manage workflow setup.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

For auditing to happen, the audit level for Oracle SOA Suite must be set to anything other than None.

• If you're not coming from any earlier release update, the Oracle SOA Suite audit level is automatically set to Low.

• If you're moving from an earlier release update to 22A, whichever audit level you had for Oracle SOA Suite remains after you're on 22A. If that level is None, you need to change it to Low, Medium, or High. You get the same audit results for workflow tasks no matter which of the three you choose. To set the audit level, go to the Setup and Maintenance work area and use the Manage Audit Policies task in the Application Extensions functional area.

Key Resources

• Audit the Changes Made to Task Configurations (Available January 7, 2022)

Role Information

• To get audit results, you need a role with the View Audit History (FND_VIEW_AUDIT_HISTORY_PRIV) privilege.
• To check the audit level, you need a role with the Manage Audit Policies (FND_MANAGE_AUDIT_POLICIES_PRIV) privilege.

User Experience

Status Details for Scheduled Processes

After you submit a scheduled process, use the Status Details tab in the Scheduled Processes work area to track its status and progress. For example, you can see how long your process has been running, or how long it took to finish. If it hasn't started running yet, you can see how many processes need to run first before yours do, or how long it's been blocked. If the process is blocked, you can get more information on why that is. For some processes, you can even see graphs that show how many records the process has successfully worked on, how many resulted in error, and how many are still pending.

1. In the Scheduled Processes work area (Navigator > Tools > Scheduled Processes), find and select your process.
2. Open the Status Details tab to get more information about the process. What's available depends on what the current status is.
   • On the Status Details tab, expand the Status of Items to Process section, if available. For some processes, here you can see graphs that tell you about the records the process is working on. These graphs replace the This Job's Items Processed / Errors / Total column, which is no longer available in the Search Results table.

Status Details Tab with Graphs Showing Progress

• If your process has the Blocked status, expand the Incompatibilities section on the Status Details tab. Here you see which processes are incompatible with yours, meaning they can't run at the same time. So you can wait for the other process to finish so that yours can start, or do something like cancel the incompatible process.

Status Details Tab Showing Incompatible Scheduled Processes

The Status Details tab gives you more information and options to manage submitted processes, which also helps you determine what's going on or how to proceed when processes aren't running as you expect.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• View Status and Other Details for Scheduled Processes
• Resolve Blocked or Incompatible Processes (Available January 7, 2022)

Role Information

You need a role with the Manage Scheduled Processes (FND_MANAGE_SCHEDULED_PROCESSES_PRIV) privilege to access the Scheduled Processes work area.

Updates to Profile Options Related to Logging

The profile options associated with the logging functionality are disabled at the Site level. Although they remain available on the UI at the User level, you must never set these profile options unless instructed to do so by Oracle Support.

Here are the impacted profile options:

• FND: Log Enabled (AFLOG_ENABLED)
• FND: Log Level (AFLOG_LEVEL)
• FND: Log Module Filter (AFLOG_MODULE)
• FND: Incident Enabled (AFLOG_INCIDENT_ENABLED)
• FND: QuickTrace Enabled (AFLOG_QUICKTRACE_ENABLED)
• FND: QuickTrace Level (AFLOG_QUICKTRACE_LEVEL)
• FND: Log File for PL/SQL (AFLOG_PLSQL_FILENAME)
• FND: Buffer Mode for PL/SQL (AFLOG_BUFFER_MODE)
• FND: Buffer Size for PL/SQL (AFLOG_BUFFER_SIZE)
• FND: Log File for C (AFLOG_FILENAME)

This restriction improves the performance of your application.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Last Hour As Default Saved Search in Scheduled Processes Work Area

When you first open the Scheduled Processes work area, by default you can now see the processes submitted within the last hour in the search results table. Previously, this table displayed processes submitted within the last 24 hours.

This change saves your time by displaying only the scheduled processes ran during the last hour by default.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• View Status and Other Details for Scheduled Processes

Redesign of the Dialog Boxes for Error Messages

In the 22A release, the look and feel of the dialog boxes for error messages is enhanced. For example, the font style of the message header is changed.

This is how the header looked in the 21D release.                                                             

And here's how it looks now in the 22A release.

These changes are made to enhance the look and feel of the application.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Applications Security

Support Descriptive Flex Fields in the Roles Mapping

Roles autoprovisioning is done using a fixed set of applicable criteria to drive the role assignment process.

You can model the role mapping based on a non-typical criteria using the assignment descriptive flex fields.

Role Mapping

This option lets you model the role assignment mappings based on any non-typical criteria.

Steps to Enable

A new seeded profile option 'ORA_PER_ROLE_MAPPINGS_UI_DISPLAY_CUSTOM_ATTRIBUTES' is used to control whether the new custom assignment attributes region must be displayed or not. The region will be displayed only if the profile option value is set as 'Y', and is not rendered otherwise. This profile option is turned off by default.

To enable this profile option:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, search for the task Manage Administrator Profile Values.
2. On the Manage Administrator Profile Values page, search for the profile option code ORA_PER_ROLE_MAPPINGS_UI_DISPLAY_CUSTOM_ATTRIBUTES.
3. Set the profile value to Y.
4. Click Save and Close.

Key Resources

For more information please go to Application Help for the following topics in the Securing HCM guide:

• Role Mappings
• Examples of Role Mappings

Custom Password Complexity for Non-Federated Users

Starting  with update 22A, you can create a password policy with custom password complexity in addition to the existing password complexity types. In a custom password policy, you can set a minimum count for each of the following password elements:

• Minimum Characters
• Minimum Letters in Uppercase
• Minimum Letters in Lowercase
• Minimum Digits
• Minimum Special Characters

Custom password policy is applicable only for non-federated users.

You can set the minimum count of password characters to enforce secure passwords as per your business needs.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

For existing users, changes to password policy (with custom or other password complexity types) take effect only after they reset their password.

Role Information

• IT Security Manager 

Extensibility

Updated Oracle Visual Builder Studio

Here are some key things you can now do to extend your application pages using Visual Builder Studio:

• Use base component context parameters: You can now use the parameters in the base component context to extend your application. These parameters are displayed under the Parameters tab of the Fields editor in your layout.

• Size and sort dynamic table columns: When editing the layout for a dynamic table, you can now edit table properties to configure the width of each column in the table. You can also sort the table by any of the fields.

• Easily add required and custom fields in the Layout editor: In a rule sets layout editor, the Fields palette now contains a Suggested Fields section that lists fields that are important or relevant. Fields marked as required are now added automatically when you create a new layout.

• Easily add field converters and validators: A suggested validator or converter type is now automatically selected for you based on the field type. You can now also use an expression validator and converter. An expression validator checks whether a field's value matches a pattern defined by a regular expression. An expression converter converts the field's value to a regular expression for evaluation.

• Get clear visibility of sandboxes that aren't publishable: When selecting a sandbox for a new workspace, or when switching the sandbox used with a workspace, sandboxes that aren't publishable are now clearly indicated. You will also see a note in the Current Sandbox column on the Workspace page if you’re using any unpublishable sandboxes with your workspace.

The new Visual Builder Studio functionality provides you with a platform to extend your Oracle Applications Cloud extensively.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• Use Application and Page Parameters in a Layout
• Configure How Columns Are Rendered in a Dynamic Table Layout
• Add Converters and Validators to Fields
• File-Management Operations

Updated Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In

You can now download the latest version of the Oracle ADF Desktop Integration add-in, version 5.1.0.23822.

Here are some key things that you get with this version:

• Added support for WebView2, the embedded browser based on Microsoft Edge/Chromium, instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer. For more information, see ADFdi Support for WebView2 Embedded Browser (2790862.1) on My Oracle Support at https://support.oracle.com.

• A new add-in installer, adfdi-excel-addin-installer-current-user.msi. It replaces the installer, adfdi-excel-addin-installer.exe which is now deprecated. For more information, see How to install the ADF Desktop Integration Add-in for Excel (2681794.1) on My Oracle Support at https://support.oracle.com.

• Various accessibility improvements.

• Ukrainian as another language for translation.

• Designer strings that are now translated into the standard set of languages.

• Simplified add-in version reporting.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In for Excel

Simple Panel Configuration Is Desupported

You can no longer use the Page Composer tool to configure a simple panel and make changes to all instances of a UI component across pages. Instead, you should use this tool to configure individual pages. If you’ve configured a simple panel previously in your sandbox, those configurations will continue to work. But we recommend you to delete such configurations, make the changes on individual pages, and then publish your sandbox. Doing this will improve the application's performance and avoid issues when your application is updated or upgraded.

NOTE: Make sure you note all the simple panel configurations in your sandbox before deleting them so that you can configure the components at individual page levels again in the same sandbox.

Here are some FAQs to help you find simple panel configurations and delete them, if required.

How do I know if an active sandbox has simple panel configurations?

Before publishing an active sandbox, you can verify if the sandbox has simple panel configurations.

1. Click Navigator > Configuration > Sandboxes.
2. Identify the active sandbox in which configurations are done.
3. On the Sandbox Details page, verify the list of artifacts. If you see /oracle/apps/fnd/applcore/patterns/ui/components/SimplePanel.jspx listed in the artifacts, don’t publish the sandbox. Instead, delete the configuration and then publish the sandbox, if required.

How can I find out if my environment has any simple panel configurations that were already published?

Follow these steps:

1. Click your user image or name in the global header, and on the Settings and Actions menu, select Manage Configurations.
2. On the Manage Configurations dialog box, use the Search field to search for the /oracle/apps/fnd/applcore/patterns/ui/components/SimplePanel.jspx document.

How do I delete simple panel configurations that were already published?

Follow these steps:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Administrator Profile Values task in the Application Extensions functional area.
2. Search for the Manual Updates to Metadata Allowed (FND_ALLOW_MANUAL_METADATA_UPDATES) profile option.
3. In the FND_ALLOW_MANUAL_METADATA_UPDATES: Profile Values section, set the profile value to Yes.
4. Click Save and Close.
5. Click Done.
6. Sign out of the application and sign back in.
7. Create and activate a sandbox that has the Page Composer tool in it. Make sure the context layer of your sandbox is supported by the page you want to edit. Otherwise, you won’t be able to edit the page.
8. Go to the home page.
9. Click your user image or name in the global header, and on the Settings and Actions menu, select Manage Configurations.
10. On the Manage Configurations dialog box, use the Search field to search for the /oracle/apps/fnd/applcore/patterns/ui/components/SimplePanel.jspx document.
11. If the document is listed at the Site level, click the Delete link to delete the simple panel configurations.
12. After verifying your changes, publish the sandbox to make your changes available to all users.

NOTE: After publishing your sandbox, reset the Manual Updates to Metadata Allowed (FND_ALLOW_MANUAL_METADATA_UPDATES) profile option to No.

Configuring individual pages increase performance.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Impact of New Groovy Version on Existing Scripts Authored in Application Composer

In this release, a new version of the Groovy scripting engine, version 2.5.14, is available with Application Composer. This new version changes some runtime application behavior as described below.

• LinkedList method behavior now matches Java behavior

  The push and pop methods now work the same as in Java.

  In Groovy 2.4.13 and below, LinkedList worked like a stack: Last In First Out (LIFO). In the new version, LinkedList works like a queue data structure: First In First Out (FIFO).

  Let’s look at the push method:

def LinkedList list=new LinkedList();

list.add('A');

list.add('B');

list.push('C');

list.add('D');

println(list);

• In 21D (Groovy 2.4.13 and below), the result was:

[A, B, C, D]

• In 22A (Groovy 2.5.14), the result is now:

[C, A, B, D]

To preserve the same behavior of Groovy 2.4.x, modify your scripts as follows in Groovy 2.5.x:

Instead of list.push(), use list.add().

Now, let’s look at the pop method:

def LinkedList list=new LinkedList();

list.add('A');

list.add('B');

list.add('C');

list.add('D');

println(list.pop());

In 21D (Groovy 2.4.13 and below) release, the result was:

prints "D"

In 22A (Groovy 2.5.14) release, the result is now:

prints "A"

To preserve the same behaviour of Groovy 2.4.x, modify your scripts as follows in Groovy 2.5.x:

Replace list.pop() with def value = list.last() ;  list.remove(value);

• ObjectRange iterator now returns NoSuchElementException instead of null when hasNext returns false

Calling next() on an ObjectRange iterator now returns NoSuchElementException (instead of null) when hasNext returns false, to adhere to the Iterator contract.

def itr = ('a'..'b').iterator()

assert itr.next() == 'a';

assert itr.next() == 'b';

itr.next();  /* itr is null in 21D - in 22A it throws a NoSuchElementException) */

To preserve the same behavior of Groovy 2.4.x, modify your scripts as follows in Groovy 2.5.x:

To avoid getting the unchecked exception NoSuchElementException, always have itr.hasnext() check before calling itr.next.

You can review your existing Groovy to confirm that everything still operates as expected, or modify your scripts as needed.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Reporting and Analytics

Updates to Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence and New Documentation Library

In 22A, Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) is updated from functionality available in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.9 to 12c.

For general information about feature differences you can expect, go to: What's Notable and Different in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

There are some important one-time considerations when you prepare for Oracle to update OTBI from 21D to 22A or later. For other issues related to updates, carefully review Known Issues.

1. The OTBI catalog is placed in read-only mode three days before your update from 21D to 22A. During this three-day period, you can access the catalog, but changes you make aren’t retained. This one-time activity, which is required to ensure that the catalog is migrated in a consistent state prior to 22A update, won’t be repeated for the next Oracle Applications Cloud update.

When the catalog is in read-only mode, you can’t retain:

• Changes to artifacts such as Publisher objects, analyses, and agents (including artifacts that were edited)
• Modifications to objects in the catalog (such as renaming objects or changing their permissions)
• Modifications to the catalog structure (such as adding or deleting folders)

To retain your changes after update, it's recommended you archive changed content before the update and then unarchive after the update is complete.

2. Before you move the catalog content from stage to production environments using the Archive and Unarchive actions, prepare for Oracle to update both stage and production environments to OTBI. You can’t move catalog content from a 22A environment to a 21D environment. See Can’t Move Catalog Content from a 22A Environment to a 21D Environment.

OTBI is updated from functionality available in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.9 to 12c.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

There's a new OTBI library, with a new set of OTBI guides for Oracle Cloud Applications. It's recommended that you refer to the library below, and not to the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition and Oracle Analytics Server Middleware libraries on Oracle Help Center. 

Key Resources

For information about using, configuring, and administering OTBI, go to the OTBI library, a new set of OTBI guides for Oracle Cloud Applications.

• Get Started

• Guides

  1. Use OTBI to explore and analyze data by building and sharing analyses and dashboards.

Creating Analyses and Dashboards in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

2. Model data and design pixel-perfect reports in Publisher.

Designing Pixel-Perfect Reports in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

3. View, publish, and manage pixel-perfect reports.

Using Oracle Analytics Publisher in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

4. Manage users and configure OTBI.

Administering Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

5. Administer and configure Publisher for pixel-perfect reporting.

Administering Oracle Analytics Publisher in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

6. Review developer and integrator information, and known issues.

More...

API and Schema

Notice About Obsolete Tables in Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle Fusion Applications tables that were obsoleted in the past releases will no longer be available starting the next quarterly release. Read this document to identify the impacted tables and the release in which they were obsoleted so that you can plan your development tasks accordingly.

 You can use this information to exclude obsolete tables from your development environment and prevent any broken links or missing references to them.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• Oracle Fusion Applications Obsolete Tables (Doc ID 2819840.1)

Changes to the Date Format in SOAP Response

Starting in update 22A, the response body of a SOAP web service presents the time stamp differently if the millisecond value isn't specified in the payload.

Until update 21D, if the millisecond value wasn't specified in payload, the value 0 was appended to the time stamp along with the letter Z and displayed in the response. For example, if the time stamp in the payload didn't have a millisecond value (2022-01-28T19:07:53), it appeared as 2022-01-28T19:07:53.0Z in the response. Suppose the millisecond value 403 was specified in the payload (2022-01-28T19:07:53.403), the time stamp appeared as 2022-01-28T19:07:53.403Z in the response.

With this update, the time stamp format in the response changed if the millisecond value isn't specified in the payload. For example, if the time stamp didn't have a millisecond value (2022-01-28T19:07:53), it appears as 2022-01-28T19:07:53Z in the response, without displaying the 0 before the letter Z.

There's no change in the format if the millisecond value is specified in the payload. It would appear as it used to appear in the earlier versions, for instance, 2022-01-28T19:07:53.403Z.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Geography Data

Import the Latest Loqate Geography Data - 2022.01.20

You can import the latest geography data drop from Loqate: 2022.01.20. This is available for 82 countries. See the List of Available Countries with GBG | Loqate Geography Reference Data.

In this release, geography data was enhanced for a few countries.

Oracle licenses geography data from Loqate that you can import at no additional cost.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• See Known Issues.

NOTE: GSI (Global Single Instance) customers who either actively implement or who could prospectively implement HCM Cloud for payroll or payroll interface purposes must import Vertex Geography data for the United States and Canada.

• Follow the steps in the Geography chapter to uptake the latest Geography data: Replace Existing Master Geography Data with Revised Oracle-Licensed Geography Data.

Role Information

You must have the Master Data Management Administrator role to access and submit import activities for geographies.

Functional Setup Manager

Deprecation of Attributes in OPSS Audit Data

The attributes in Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) are continuously updated, and so, you need to check for the updated attributes in every release.

In this release, the Managed Application and Policy Principals attributes are deprecated. So, you can’t extract them from OPSS in the audit reports you generate using the Audit Reports page.

These attributes are deprecated to stay current with the security services.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• Audit Policies
• Audit the Changes Made to Task Configurations

Deprecation of Oracle Data Integrator in the Audit UI

The usage of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is no longer supported in the Audit work area.

While setting up auditing for the application, don't set the audit level of ODI because your setting won't be saved.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.