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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DOCUMENT HISTORY ······························································································································································································· 7

JULY 2018 UPDATE ················································································································································································· 7

Revision History ························································································································································································ 7

Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, July Update ························································································ 7

Monthly Update Schedule ························································································································································· 7

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect ··················································································································· 8

Give Us Documentation Feedback ········································································································································ 8

Announcements ··················································································································································································· 8

Manage Ownership Enhancements ······································································································································ 8

New EPM Automate Utility Version ······································································································································· 9

Migration Export Scenarios: Clone and Incremental Export ························································································ 9

Changes to Labels and Threshold Values in Activity Report ····················································································· 10

Option to Show Hidden Files in the Financial Reporting Web Studio Repository ············································· 10

Simpler Member Selector ······················································································································································· 11

Updated Vision Sample Application ···································································································································· 11

Only for Smart View for Office with Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus ··········································································· 12

Upcoming Changes ·········································································································································································· 12

Financial Reporting Studio Desktop Client ······················································································································· 12

Classic Dimension Editor ························································································································································ 19

Composite Form Creation Capability ·································································································································· 13

Defects Fixed ······················································································································································································· 13

Considerations ··················································································································································································· 13

Moving Seeded Members ······················································································································································· 13

Consolidation Rules - Errors in Seeded System Rules ······························································································· 13

Calculation Status ······································································································································································ 13

Metadata Aliases ········································································································································································ 27

Exchange Rate Type for Plug Accounts ···························································································································· 13

Intercompany Matching Reports ·········································································································································· 14

Translation Rules ······································································································································································· 14

Reconsolidating Data After Upgrading ······························································································································· 14

Ownership Management Enablement ································································································································ 14

Copying and Clearing Data ···················································································································································· 15

Change in Calculation of CTA for Net Income / Retained Earnings Current Accounts ··································· 42

Self Service Upgrade ································································································································································ 15

Editing Dates in a Data Collection Period ························································································································· 15

Entity Member Names / Aliases with ICP Property ······································································································· 15

Working with Metadata ···························································································································································· 15

Smart View Summary Dialog Display ································································································································· 43

JUNE 2018 UPDATE ·············································································································································································· 16

Revision History ······················································································································································································ 16

Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, June Update ····················································································· 16

Monthly Update Schedule ······················································································································································· 16

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect ················································································································· 17

Give Us Documentation Feedback ······································································································································ 17

Announcements ················································································································································································· 17

Power Users Can Lock and Unlock Data ·························································································································· 17

Referential Integrity for Configurable Consolidation Rules ························································································· 17

New Version of Oracle Smart View for Office ················································································································· 17

Updates to Snapshot Retention Policy ······························································································································ 18

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Forms Listing as a Hierarchy in Navigation Flows Artifact Library ·········································································· 18

More Intuitive POV Bar in Dashboards ······························································································································ 18

Specify a Maximum Email Attachment Size When Scheduling Batches ······························································ 18

Remove Time Stamp From File Name When Bursting Batch Reports ·································································· 18

Upcoming Changes ·········································································································································································· 19

New Data Exchange Card in Oracle EPM Cloud ··········································································································· 19


Composite Form Creation Capability ·································································································································· 19


Defects Fixed ······················································································································································································· 20

Considerations ··················································································································································································· 20




Changing the Exchange Rate Type ···································································································································· 20






Importing Journal Artifacts ······················································································································································ 41

Adding Base Members From Dimension Editor ············································································································· 42








MAY 2018 UPDATE ················································································································································································ 23


Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, May Update ······················································································ 23




Announcements ················································································································································································· 24

Seeded System Consolidation Rule-Sets ························································································································· 24

New EPM Automate Utility Version ····································································································································· 25

Microsoft Excel Version Usage in Activity Report ·········································································································· 25

Retain Last Accessed Tab in Navigation Flow Cards ·································································································· 25

Enhancements to Dashboards ·············································································································································· 25

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud Clusters and Cards as Navigation Flows Targets ······························· 26

Removal of Support ········································································································································································· 26

Close Manager Calendar View ············································································································································· 26


File-Based Integration of Data Management with Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud ·········································· 39


Defects Fixed ······················································································································································································· 27

Considerations ··················································································································································································· 27



Dashboard Folders ···································································································································································· 27

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Migrating Rules with Shared Members ······························································································································ 28




Member Formulas in the Simplified Dimension Editor ································································································· 40


Auto Reversal Journals ···························································································································································· 41




Adding Base Members from Dimension Editor ··············································································································· 49





Editing Dates in a Collection Period ···································································································································· 50



APRIL 2018 UPDATE ············································································································································································· 31


Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, April Update ····················································································· 31




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Additional Charts in Activity Report ····································································································································· 32

Migration and Audit Cards Moved to Tools Cluster ······································································································· 35

Support for Infolets ···································································································································································· 36

Support for Subtitles in Infolets ············································································································································· 36

New Financial Reporting Explore Repository ·················································································································· 36

New Row and Column Suppression Behavior ················································································································ 37

Configurable Consolidations ·················································································································································· 37

Exporting Ownership Management Information ············································································································· 37

New Seeded Member in Other Comprehensive Income Hierarchy ········································································ 38

Support for Custom Automated and Event Monitoring Integrations ······································································· 38

Support for XLSX Format in Close Manager and Supplemental Data Manager Reports ······························· 38





Defects Fixed ······················································································································································································· 39

Considerations ··················································································································································································· 39


Restructuring Cubes ································································································································································· 40

Configurable Consolidation Rules ······································································································································· 40

Setting the Factor in Configurable Consolidation RuleSets ······················································································· 40



Member Formulas in the Simplified Dimension Editor ································································································· 40




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Adding Base Members From Dimension Editor ············································································································· 42








MARCH 2018 UPDATE ········································································································································································· 43


Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, March Update ·················································································· 44




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Updated EPM Cloud Application Creation Page ············································································································ 44

Supplemental Data Manager Multi-Cube Support ········································································································· 45

Reporting Translation Process ·············································································································································· 45

Provisioned Users Audit Report ··········································································································································· 46

New Server Setting in Financial Reporting Web Studio ······························································································ 46

Smart View Support for Integrated Business Process Navigation Flows ····························································· 46

ClearEmptyBlock Rule ····························································································································································· 46

FX Calculations in Other Comprehensive Income Hierarchy ···················································································· 47





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FEBRUARY 2018 UPDATE ································································································································································· 50


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Support for Auto-Reversing Journals ································································································································· 51

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Journal Attachments ································································································································································· 52

Enabling the Balance Calculation ········································································································································ 52

Exporting Tasks From Close Manager Task Lists to Excel ························································································ 52

Selectable Parameters for EPM Integrations ·················································································································· 53

Integration Tasks for Uploading and Downloading Files Within EPM ···································································· 53

New EPM Automate Utility Version ····································································································································· 53

Application-Level Provisioning for Data Management ································································································· 53




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Considerations ··················································································································································································· 55







Change in Calculation of CTA for Net Income/Retained Earnings Current Accounts ······································ 57




Entity Member Names/Aliases with ICP Property ·········································································································· 57


JANUARY 2018 UPDATE ···································································································································································· 58


Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, January Update ·············································································· 58

Announcements ················································································································································································· 58



Validating Metadata Option ···················································································································································· 59

Restructure Cube Job ······························································································································································ 59

Relocate EPM Cloud Environments from One Identity Domain to Another ························································· 60

New EPM Getting Started Guides ······································································································································· 60





Defects Fixed ······················································································································································································· 61

Considerations ··················································································································································································· 62


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Smart View ··················································································································································································· 63


Change in Calculation of CTA for Net Income/Retained Earnings Current Accounts ······································ 64




Entity Member Names/Aliases with ICP Property ·········································································································· 64


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DOCUMENT HISTORY

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Update Version Notes

28 JUN 2018 July 2018 Update Delivered new features in July 2018 update.

24 MAY 2018 June 2018 Update Delivered new features in June 2018 update.

27 APR 2018 May 2018 Update Revised May 2018 update.

05 APR 2018 April 2018 Update Revised April 2018 update.

07 MAR 2018 March 2018 Update Revised March 2018 update.

05 FEB 2018 February 2018 Update Revised February 2018 update.

22 DEC 2017 January 2018 UpdateDelivered new features in January 2018 update.

JULY 2018 UPDATE

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

28 JUN 2018 Created initial document.

ORACLE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE CLOUD, JULY UPDATE

This document outlines announcements and upcoming changes in the upcoming Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud update.

MONTHLY UPDATE SCHEDULE

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, July 6, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, July 20, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The provides access to updated documentation. The updates will be available in the Help Oracle Help CenterCenter on July 6, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

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

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TIPS AND CONSIDERATIONS

Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

KEY RESOURCES

in Backing Up and Restoring an Environment Using the Maintenance Snapshot Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators

PLEASE JOIN ORACLE CLOUD CUSTOMER CONNECT

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the Homescreen), and select .Cloud Customer Connect

GIVE US DOCUMENTATION FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at . In the body or title of the [email protected], state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MANAGE OWNERSHIP ENHANCEMENTS

For the following Ownership Management actions, if the process takes longer than 60 seconds, then the remainder of the process will be continued in the background and the user can navigate to other screens if required. To view the progress of the process, open the Jobs console.

Recompute Ownership DataImport Ownership DataCopy Ownership Data to Next Year

KEY RESOURCES

in Recomputing Ownership Management Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud in Importing Ownership Data Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

in Ownership Settings Year to Year Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=CGSAD-GUID-9C04D9DE-0ED5-47D4-9211-A3A765B076F8


https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/consolidation_recomputing_ownership.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/ownership_management_importing_exporting.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/ownership_settings_year_to_year.html

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NEW EPM AUTOMATE UTILITY VERSION

A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the copyfilefrominstance command, which copies a file from a source environment to the environment (target) from which you run the command.

This version also includes changes to the following commands to make them consistent with other file operation commands:

listfiles: now lists snapshots and files available in an environment deletefile: now deletes snapshots and files from an environment

KEY RESOURCES

in Command Reference Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

MIGRATION EXPORT SCENARIOS: CLONE AND INCREMENTAL EXPORT

Migration has been enhanced to differentiate two export scenarios:

Backup to create a snapshot that can be used to clone an environment, for example to migrate an application from a production instance to a test instance for troubleshooting or additional development work.

When you backup the environment, you create a snapshot of the entire environment, similar to the daily maintenance snapshot, by exporting the application with all of its data and artifacts including artifacts belonging to Document Repository, Data Management, Calculation Manager, Relational and Essbase data, and Groups and Membership.

Export to create an incremental backup of specific artifacts in an environment. Generally, you use incremental snapshots to create backups that can be used to update another environment. For example, you can export artifacts that you tested in a test environment to create an interim snapshot, which you can import into a production environment.

Artifacts that can be exported only as a part of backup operation are greyed out and cannot be selected during export.

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=CEPMA-GUID-37AA9B99-02A0-45F7-AD3C-58EB844B2B53

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Unavailable Artifacts for Incremental Export

KEY RESOURCES

in Exporting Artifacts and Application Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

CHANGES TO LABELS AND THRESHOLD VALUES IN ACTIVITY REPORT

Oracle has lowered the display threshold for the following metrics in the Activity Report to 2 seconds.Additionally, the labels of these metrics have been modified to reflect these changes.

Percentage of UI Requests over 2 SecondsTop 30 Worst Performing User Interface Actions over 2 SecondsUsers Average Response Time by Hour

KEY RESOURCES

in Using Activity Reports and Access Logs to Monitor Usage Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

OPTION TO SHOW HIDDEN FILES IN THE FINANCIAL REPORTING WEB STUDIO REPOSITORY

By default, hidden artifacts are not displayed in Financial Reporting Web Studio. If you need to edit an artifact that is hidden, you can now "unhide" the artifact and edit it directly in the Financial Reporting Web Studio repository.

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=EPMSS-GUID-7A3C742B-84C0-4A6F-8D63-9336D7495DEC

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=CGSAD-GUID-F0496DEA-3B0A-49BB-B222-67538FB29CAF

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KEY RESOURCES

in Viewing Hidden Artifacts Designing with Financial Reporting Web Studio for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

SIMPLER MEMBER SELECTOR

To select items in the Member Selector, you are no longer required to click the checkmark. You can now simply select an item by clicking on it or by selecting the checkmark as before.

UPDATED VISION SAMPLE APPLICATION

An updated version of the Vision sample application is available starting with this update. The Vision sample application helps you learn how to use Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud to plan, forecast and track the financial performance of your business.

The updated sample application contains these features that were added to Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud in recent updates:

INFOLETS

The Vision application now supports Infolets, which provide the dashboard capability to enable data visualization. As a Service Administrator, you can create infolets for any cube to provide enhanced graphical data presentation to users using charts and texts.

ABILITY TO ENTER DATA INTO SUPPRESSED ROWS

The updated sample application allows Service Administrators enable users to enter data in a web form for members on rows that are currently suppressed (because they have no data and the form layout option “Suppress Missing Data – Rows” option is selected).

NAVIGATION FLOWS

Service Administrators can set up connections that enable users to navigate across Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud environments to create unified business process flows across multiple environments. Cross-environment navigation flows allow users of multiple EPM Cloud environments to sign into one environment, and then seamlessly navigate to others without going through additional authentication processes.

Service Administrators can create mash-ups of artifacts from various environments into a single unified business process flow for their users. Clusters, cards, and tabs can be brought together into a single flow. These cards and tabs can contain forms, reports dashboards from various applications. Users will not see the clusters, cards and tabs in the process flow unless they are members of the groups to which these flows are assigned.

SMART FORMS

Three Smart forms one containing Excel formulas, one containing Excel functions, and one containing smart form created in Smart View are included.

REORGANIZED CLUSTERS AND CARDS THAT MATCH THE NEWEST EPM CLOUD INTERFACE

Clusters and cards in the sample application now match the current EPM Cloud interface.

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=FRWEB-GUID-A9D7EEF7-7A65-4BE8-8C7F-9054B84C6C2E

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KEY RESOURCES

Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud

Designing InfoletsDesigning Custom Navigation Flows

Working with Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud

(information on how to enter data into suppressed rows)Cell Icons (Smart Forms)Using Your Own Excel Formulas in Planning

ONLY FOR SMART VIEW FOR OFFICE WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 PROPLUS

A known issue with Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus patch 16.0.10228.20051 updated through the insider slow channel prevents the use of Smart View for Office with Microsoft Office 365. This Microsoft patch was pushed to users who signed up for monthly channel updates between June 12 and June 14, 2018.

Workaround: Do not update Microsoft Office 365 with patch 16.0.10228.20051 if you are using Smart View for Office with Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus. Instead, use Microsoft Office 365 monthly channel Version 1806 (Build 10228.20080), which contains the fix for this issue.

UPCOMING CHANGES

FINANCIAL REPORTING STUDIO DESKTOP CLIENT

As announced in preceding Readiness Documents, Oracle will stop distributing the Financial Reporting Desktop Studio installer starting the 18.08 update (August 3, 2018 for test and August 17, 2018 for production environments). The command line utilities associated with Financial Reporting Desktop Studio will also be discontinued starting with the 18.08 update.

NOTE: Existing installations of the Financial Reporting Desktop Studio and command line utilities will no longer work with Financial Reporting starting with the 18.09 update.

Oracle recommends that you transition to using Financial Reporting Web Studio as soon as possible. Please send questions and concerns to Oracle using the Provide Feedback option in the service.

CLASSIC DIMENSION EDITOR

With a view to allowing customers more time to familiarize themselves with the Simplified Dimension Editor, Oracle has decided to defer the removal of support for Classic Dimension Editor to a future update. Current plan is to remove access to the Classic Dimension Editor starting with the 18.10 (October 2018) update to the service.

KEY RESOURCES

in Editing Dimensions in the Simplified Dimension Editor Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=PFUSA-GUID-9E318B0F-77EC-4ECB-9CFB-F1DB455DCF1B

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=PFUSA-GUID-969104F8-BC7C-41A7-948F-BF78E87B5603

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=PFUSU-Entering_Data_113

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=PFUSU-f_get_started_46

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=PFUSU-f_get_started_46

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/editing_dimensions_sui.html#GUID-F4374E8D-28C8-4C88-9B88-E97CCE141A4F

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COMPOSITE FORM CREATION CAPABILITY

To allow customers more time to adapt and move from composite forms to dashboards, Oracle has decided to defer the removal of the ability to create new composite forms (forms that comprise multiple simple forms) to a future release update (January 2019 - 19.01). Oracle had previously announced that this feature will be removed in the June (18.06) update.

All customers are advised to use dashboards in place of composite forms. There will be no more enhancements to the composite forms functionality.

DEFECTS FIXED

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

CONSIDERATIONS

MOVING SEEDED MEMBERS

You can move seeded members to a different location within the hierarchy, and reorder them either under the same parent or under a different parent. After you upgrade to 18.07, seeded members may be reset to their original positions and you must reorder them again. In subsequent upgrades, changes to seeded members will not be reset after upgrading.

CONSOLIDATION RULES - ERRORS IN SEEDED SYSTEM RULES

The seeded consolidation rules do not properly cater for disposals of investments in all cases, notably full disposals after acquisitions over several periods.

CALCULATION STATUS

When you change Ownership Data that uses a Consolidation rule and then consolidate, the Calculation Status is not correct for the partner and entity.

METADATA ALIASES

Ensure that no alias entries are “Equity”. The use of “Equity” as an alias will cause issues with refreshing the database.

EXCHANGE RATE TYPE FOR PLUG ACCOUNTS

The Exchange Rate Type must be the same for an Intercompany account and the plug account associated with it. For example, if the source accounts have an Exchange Rate Type of “No Rate”, then the Plug account Exchange Rate Type must be “No Rate”. If the source accounts are any of the three Historical Exchange Rate Types, then the plug account must also be one (any) of the Historical Exchange Rate Types.

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INTERCOMPANY MATCHING REPORTS

When a Power User has no access to an Entity or Partner in the report, the report displays “#noaccess”, and it also does not display the Variance.

If a Power User has access to all members in the report except an Entity or one of the Intercompany Account members, the system displays “An error occurred while processing”. The error occurs because the Power User requires security access to both the Entity and Partner, and the Intercompany Account members.

TRANSLATION RULES

When you create a translation rule and specify redirection to different members, the Source POV can be any members, including parent members, and seeded and system calculated members. You cannot select parent members only as part of the Source selection. The Redirection POV must be a base member and not a system calculated member. If you create a translation rule with no redirection, using only parent members in the Source selection is not allowed.

RECONSOLIDATING DATA AFTER UPGRADING

After you upgrade to 18.01, the first time you want to re-consolidate and re-translate any entity for a specific Scenario, Year and Period combination, you must run the Compute Rates task rule. Refresh the database and make sure that that Data Status is SC, showing that the cells are impacted. Then launch Consolidation and Translation. Subsequent re-consolidation / re-translation of the same Scenario, Year and Period combination does not require this step.

The Data Storage property has changed from Dynamic Calc to Never Share for these rate accounts in the Rates Cube:

FX Rates – AverageFX Rates – Ending

Additionally, due to a change in calculation for Opening Balance for Retained Earnings Prior, you may require reconsolidation of existing data if Opening Balance Adjustment entries have been made, but not otherwise.

Also, enabling the Ownership Management feature requires a reconsolidation of existing data in order to populate the Proportion member of amount in the Consolidation dimension.

OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT ENABLEMENT

Enabling the Ownership Management feature entails adding seeded accounts, which causes a restructuring of your application. Depending on the size of your application, the restructuring could take a considerable length of time. This can be expected to take as long as manually refreshing the database after adding accounts.

If there are conflicts with aliases of existing members, an error is displayed that the system cannot enable the feature. Resolve the member alias conflict, refresh the database and then enable the feature.

When the Ownership Management feature is enabled, you will need to reconsolidate all existing data in your application in order to re-populate the Proportion member in the Consolidation dimension.

If you enable the Ownership Management feature, you may not be able to open some existing Financial Reporting reports due to metadata changes for Ownership Management.

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KEY RESOURCES

in in Member and Alias Considerations Enabling Ownership Management in ApplicationsAdministering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

COPYING AND CLEARING DATA

Be aware of the following issues relating to copying and clearing data:

When copying override rates or amounts from one entity to another, the Calculation Status of the target entity should change from No Data to Impacted, but currently it does not. The source entity's Calculation Status is also incorrectly impacted.When copying an entity with a Calculation Status of No Data, the target should also have a Calculation Status of No Data. The Copy Data process is incorrectly setting the Calculation Status to Impacted.

CHANGE IN CALCULATION OF CTA FOR NET INCOME / RETAINED EARNINGS CURRENT ACCOUNTS

In the August, 2017 update (17.08), the seeded Net Income hierarchy included a new member named “Retained Earnings Current – Opening Balance – FX-CTA” as a sibling of Net Income. Opening Balance calculation was done for the new member, which was automatically added during the upgrade process. Due to this change, if you have not yet done so, you must reconsolidate your historical data by running the Consolidation process.

SELF SERVICE UPGRADE

It is strongly recommended that you do not use the Upgrade Application Content settings in this update. Although a new Upgrade screen is available in Daily Maintenance, this feature is not fully functional.

EDITING DATES IN A DATA COLLECTION PERIOD

In a Data Collection Period in Supplemental Data, editing Start, End, and Close Dates may result in an error that the date is outside the valid range.

ENTITY MEMBER NAMES / ALIASES WITH ICP PROPERTY

When you create an Entity with the ICP property enabled, the maximum length of the member name is 76 characters instead of 80, to allow for the ICP prefix.

WORKING WITH METADATA

When you use ad hoc grids in Smart View with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, do not add a root Period member on the grid. Make sure the root Period member is removed by either clicking or selecting periods that are in the application and selecting . If a Period member is left on the grid, then any Keep Onlychanges to data that you make will fail to properly set the impact status of the Entities.

SMART VIEW SUMMARY DIALOG DISPLAY

In Internet Explorer, you may experience issues using the dialog in Smart View. To work Open Summaryaround this issue:

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Minimize and then reopen the dialog; orUse a different browser.

JUNE 2018 UPDATE

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

24 MAY 2018 Created initial document.

ORACLE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE CLOUD, JUNE UPDATE

This document outlines announcements, upcoming changes, and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud update.


Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, June 1, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, June 15, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The provides access to updated documentation. The updates will be available in the Help Oracle Help CenterCenter on June 1, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

NOTE: You can import backup snapshots into environments with the same, the preceding or the next update versions. For example, you can import backup snapshots from release 17.08 into releases 17.07 and 17.09. For more information about migration, see Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.



KEY RESOURCES


Use the keyboard arrow keys to make your selection, then close and reopen the dialog; or


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ANNOUNCEMENTS

POWER USERS CAN LOCK AND UNLOCK DATA

Starting with this update, power user can lock and unlock data.

REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY FOR CONFIGURABLE CONSOLIDATION RULES

To prevent a referential integrity problem with configurable consolidation rules from occurring in an application, the system now verifies and prevents the deletion of any metadata member that is referenced in the rules.

KEY RESOURCES

in Duplicating and Deleting Rulesets Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

NEW VERSION OF ORACLE SMART VIEW FOR OFFICE

Oracle Smart View for Office 11.1.2.5.800 will be available by mid-June. This version includes new features such as:

Move Formatting behavior enhancement to notify you of performance impactImproved resolution on high-definition devices, such as Microsoft Surface Pro tabletsNew Health Check, where you can view information about your system, and configure Smart View options and Windows Registry settings geared toward improving performance and reducing flickering

This release also fixes a number of defects.

The Smart View 11.1.2.5.800 Readme, available on the Help Center at the time of release, contains a complete list of features and defects addressed in this version. You must install this version to ensure compatibility with the June 2018 update features and to access the new functionalities.


https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/consolidation_duplicating_and_deleting_rulesets.html

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in Downloading and Installing Clients Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Users

UPDATES TO SNAPSHOT RETENTION POLICY

The daily maintenance process has been enhanced to prevent large accumulation of snapshots (over 150 GB) in EPM Cloud environments.

By default, the snapshots that you create through the export process or upload to an environment are stored for a period not exceeding 60 days after which they are automatically removed. Starting with this update, the daily maintenance process will automatically remove snapshots prior to sixty days, oldest first, to prevent the total size of all snapshots from exceeding 150 GB, which may adversely impact your environment. The daily maintenance snapshot, irrespective of its size, is always retained in EPM Cloud environments.

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in Exporting Artifacts from Environments Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

FORMS LISTING AS A HIERARCHY IN NAVIGATION FLOWS ARTIFACT LIBRARY

Forms listed within the artifact library in Navigation Flows are now displayed in a hierarchical manner.

MORE INTUITIVE POV BAR IN DASHBOARDS

The Go arrow in the POV for dashboards (which commits changes made on the page) displays only if the user has made changes. Changes to the page display in yellow.

SPECIFY A MAXIMUM EMAIL ATTACHMENT SIZE WHEN SCHEDULING BATCHES

In Financial Reporting, you can now specify a Maximum Email Attachment Size so that you can email more books using the Batch Scheduler.

KEY RESOURCES

in Managing Server Settings Designing With Financial Reporting Web Studio for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

REMOVE TIME STAMP FROM FILE NAME WHEN BURSTING BATCH REPORTS

In Financial Reporting, you now have the option to remove the time stamp from the zip file names created by batch job outputs to external directory. This change does not apply to normal batch output in Financial Reporting.

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=CGSUS-GUID-E696D600-BF97-4D21-88A8-B316E489A8B3

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=CGSAD-GUID-9C04D9DE-0ED5-47D4-9211-A3A765B076F8

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=EPMSS-GUID-7A3C742B-84C0-4A6F-8D63-9336D7495DEC

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=FRWEB-GUID-8B7733F9-9C7F-4613-8624-192E3FD1381E

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in Managing Server Settings Designing With Financial Reporting Web Studio for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

UPCOMING CHANGES

NEW DATA EXCHANGE CARD IN ORACLE EPM CLOUD

To facilitate easier access to Data Management features, starting with the 18.07 update, EPM Cloud will feature a new Data Exchange card in the Application Cluster. This card will launch a page from which you can access these Data Management features:

Data Maps--Launches the existing Data Maps user interface so that users can manage maps between a source application and a reporting application. No functional changes will result from the Data Maps reassignment to the Data Exchange card.Data Integration--Launches the Integrations tab of the Simplified Interface. The Integrations tab consolidates all import/export tasks under a single tab. Formerly in the Standard Interface, integration tasks were accessed from the Data Management tab.


With a view to allowing customers more time to familiarize themselves with the Simplified Dimension Editor, Oracle has decided to defer the removal of support for Classic Dimension Editor to a future update. Current plan is to remove access to the Classic Dimension Editor starting with the 18.10 (October 2018) update to the service.

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COMPOSITE FORM CREATION CAPABILITY

To allow customers more time to adapt and move from composite forms to dashboards, Oracle has decided to defer the removal of the ability to create new composite forms (forms that comprise multiple simple forms) to a future release update (January 2019 - 19.01). Oracle had previously announced that this feature will be removed in the June (18.06) update.

All customers are advised to use dashboards in place of composite forms. There will be no more enhancements to the composite forms functionality.


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

https://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=cloud&id=FRWEB-GUID-8B7733F9-9C7F-4613-8624-192E3FD1381E


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Financial Reporting Desktop Studio in 2018, at which time, support for the Desktop Studio will transition to the Web Studio and distribution of the Desktop Studio will cease. This transition is tentatively planned for the 18.09 update (September 07, 2018 for test and September 21, 2018 for production environments).

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


CONSIDERATIONS



CALCULATION STATUS


METADATA ALIASES


CHANGING THE EXCHANGE RATE TYPE

When you change the Exchange Rate Type for an account from “No Rate” to “Historical Amount Override” or “Historical Rate Override” in the releases prior to patch 18.04.64, the shared member is not created under FCCS_Historical Accounts. You must set the account back to “No Rate”, and then change to “Historical Amount Override” or “Historical Rate Override” to create the Historical Amount or Rate accounts.


The Exchange Rate Type must be the same for an Intercompany account and the plug account associated with it. For example, if the source accounts have an Exchange Rate Type of “No Rate”, then the Plug account Exchange Rate Type must be “No Rate”. If the source accounts are any of the three Historical Exchange Rate Types, then the plug account must also be one (any) of the Historical Exchange Rate Types.





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IMPORTING JOURNAL ARTIFACTS

When you import Journal artifacts into Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud through Migration, errors may occur and the journals are not imported.


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To work around this issue, after the import process fails, log out and log back in as an Administrator. From the , select , and then the tab. Expand the application. Expand Relational Data, Navigator Migration Snapshot

select , and click .Journals Import

ADDING BASE MEMBERS FROM DIMENSION EDITOR

If you add a base member using the classic Dimension Editor and change the initially displayed Data Storage property on the Member Properties tab, please also check the Consol cube Data Storage option on the Member Formula tab. Ensure that the Data Storage option matches between the two settings. If it does not match, the member might not be usable. The Data Storage options can also be easily viewed and changed in the Simplified UI Dimension Editor.



Use the keyboard arrow keys to make your selection, then close and reopen the dialog; orMinimize and then reopen the dialog; orUse a different browser.










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Be aware of the following considerations:

You should not make metadata changes that results in changing a base member to which a journal has been posted into a parent member.

If there are journals or Supplemental Data posted to those members, these changes can cause problems when accessing Journals or importing existing journals.

When you use ad hoc grids in Smart View with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, do not add a root Period member on the grid. Make sure the root Period member is removed by either clicking or selecting periods that are in the application and selecting . If a Period member is left on the Keep Onlygrid, then any changes to data that you make will fail to properly set the impact status of the Entities.

MAY 2018 UPDATE

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

27 APR 2018Consolidation Rules - Errors in Seeded System Rules

Updated document. Added new consideration delivered in May 2018 update.

26 APR 2018 Created initial document.

ORACLE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE CLOUD, MAY UPDATE

This document outlines announcements, defects fixed and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud update.


Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, May 4, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, May 18, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

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The , which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The Oracle Help Centerupdates will be available on May 4, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.




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NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the Homescreen), and select . You can also access Oracle Customer Cloud Connect directly Cloud Customer Connectfrom Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud by clicking the icon.User Assistance



ANNOUNCEMENTS

SEEDED SYSTEM CONSOLIDATION RULE-SETS

This update provides nine system rule-sets for Ownership Elimination adjustments. The seeded rules are created by the application.

NOTE: Three of the rule-sets replace the previous three hard-coded rules available in prior updates. If you deployed any of the three previous rules, you will need to re-deploy them and also review the other six rules.


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The seeded system rule-sets are as follows:

Investment (replacing existing rule)Investment PPOwner's Equity (Subsidiary/Proportional) (replacing existing rule)Owner's Equity (Subsidiary/Proportional) PPOwner’s Equity (Equity)Owner’s Equity (Equity) PPOwner's Equity (Holding) (replacing existing rule)Net Income (Subsidiary)Net Income (Equity)

KEY RESOURCES

in Seeded Consolidation Rules Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud


A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the command, which enables Service Administrators to run the daily service maintenance runDailyMaintenance

process as needed. For example, Service Administrators can use this command to update their service as soon as a patch to an environment is available instead of waiting for the daily maintenance window.

KEY RESOURCES

in EPM Automate Utility Commands Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

in Setting Service Maintenance Time Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators

MICROSOFT EXCEL VERSION USAGE IN ACTIVITY REPORT

The Activity Report has been enhanced to include the Microsoft Excel Versions in use and the number of users who use them.

KEY RESOURCES

in Browser, Smart View, and Excel Usage Information Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators

RETAIN LAST ACCESSED TAB IN NAVIGATION FLOW CARDS

When working with cards in navigation flows that have multiple tabs or sub tabs, the last tab accessed by a user will be retained the next time the user accesses the card in the same session.

KEY RESOURCES

in Designing Custom Navigation Flows Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

ENHANCEMENTS TO DASHBOARDS

Dashboards have been enhanced in several ways:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/consolidation_seeded_rules.html

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CEPMA/epm_automate_command_ref_general.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CGSAD/6_house_keeping_tasks_understand_service_maintenance_time.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CGSAD/6_house_keeping_tasks_monitoring_service_activity_rep_access_logs_7.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/designing_custom_navigation_flows_100xd5fc788e.html

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Dashboards now present a more streamlined look. For example, scroll bars aren’t displayed if they aren’t needed.For many chart types, you can now opt to show or hide grid lines.You can set the horizontal alignment for values in tile chart types: Left, Center, or Right.To simplify how large currency values are displayed in tile chart types, you can now scale values. For example, select the M scaling option to display the value 123,456,789 as 123M.

KEY RESOURCES

in Designing Dashboards Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

ORACLE ACCOUNT RECONCILIATION CLOUD CLUSTERS AND CARDS AS NAVIGATION FLOWS TARGETS

EPM Cloud source subscriptions can now customize navigation flows to access Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud clusters and cards (note that Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud is only a target service when connecting subscriptions). Clusters and cards can now be directly selected from Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud using the Add Existing Card/Cluster option.

KEY RESOURCES

in Connecting Subscriptions in EPM Cloud Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

REMOVAL OF SUPPORT

CLOSE MANAGER CALENDAR VIEW

For users of Close Manager within Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, the Calendar view will not be supported effective with the August, 2018 (18.08) update.


Effective with the June 2018 (18.06) 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 June 2018 update to the service (June 1, 2018 for test and June 15, 2018 for production instances).

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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 being phased out starting the September update to the service.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/designing_dashboards_100x7ecdb35b.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/epm_connect_connecting_services_100xd981beb0.html


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If you are using file-based integration between Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud, Oracle recommends that you adopt this new integration as soon as possible.



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 2018, at which time, support for the Desktop Studio will transition to the Web Studio and distribution of the Desktop Studio will cease. This transition is currently planned for the 18.06 update (June 01, 2018 for test and June 15, 2018 for production environments).


DEFECTS FIXED


CONSIDERATIONS



CALCULATION STATUS


DASHBOARD FOLDERS

In a future update (tentatively planned for the June (18.06) update), Service Administrators will have the ability to organize dashboards in folders. These folders will enable Service Administrators to apply security and permissions to folders rather than to each dashboard.

Existing dashboards will be visible under the root folder in dashboards and infolets listing pages after this new feature is introduced. The form folders available in the environment will also be available for organizing dashboards because folders are shared across artifact types. All folders will be managed using a unified folder management screen.

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MIGRATING RULES WITH SHARED MEMBERS

When you perform a Migration extract of a rule that contains a Target Redirection to a shared member, the extract file does not include information on the shared Dimension for that rule. When you import the extracted file, the rule is not created properly.


When you change the Exchange Rate Type for an account to a Historical Override Exchange Rate Type (for example, from “No Rate” to “Historical Amount Override”), the shared member is not created under FCCS_Historical Accounts. When you change the Exchange Rate Type from “Historical Amount Override” or “Historical Rate Override” to another Exchange Rate Type, the system does not delete the shared members from FCCS_Historical Accounts.

Workaround: When you change an Exchange Rate Type, you must manually add or delete the members from the Historical Override shared hierarchies.


The Exchange Rate Type must be the same for an Intercompany account and the plug account associated with it. For example, if the source accounts have an Exchange Rate Type of “No Rate”, then the Plug account Exchange Rate Type must be “No Rate”. If the source accounts have any of the three Historical Exchange Rate Types, then the plug account must also have the Historical Exchange Rate Type. The plug account does not have to be the exact same Historical type, but it must be one of the Historical Exchange Rate Types.




MEMBER FORMULAS IN THE SIMPLIFIED DIMENSION EDITOR

In the Simplified Dimension Editor, when you add a member formula for a member that has all the Data Storage (Default/Consol/Rates) properties the same, such as Dynamic Calc, the system incorrectly changes the Consol Data Storage value to Store, and displays it as a non-compliant value.

TRANSLATION RULES


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AUTO REVERSAL JOURNALS

If an auto reversal journal has an Approved status, you cannot unpost the corresponding auto-reversing journal. If the auto reversal journal is Rejected, then you can unpost the auto-reversing journal.
















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After copying data from actual to forecast, if you select the option along with the option when Rate Dataclearing the forecast data, the system will clear the data as per the POV specified, but it also clears the Ratedata for all Scenarios and not just the rate data as per the POV specified.








EDITING DATES IN A COLLECTION PERIOD




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When you use ad hoc grids in Smart View with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, do not add a root Period member on the grid. Make sure the root Period member is removed by either clicking or selecting periods that are in the application and selecting . If a Period member is left on the Keep Onlygrid, then any changes to data that you make will fail to properly set the impact status of the Entities.

APRIL 2018 UPDATE

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

05 APR 2018 Support for InfoletsUpdated document. Revised feature description.

05 APR 2018 Changing the Exchange Rate TypeUpdated document. Added new consideration delivered in April 2018 update.

05 APR 2018 Copying and Clearing Data Updated document. Revised description.

28 MAR 2018 Created initial document.

ORACLE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE CLOUD, APRIL UPDATE

This document outlines announcements, defects fixed and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud update.


Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, April 6, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, April 20, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

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The , which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The Oracle Help Centerupdates will be available on April 6, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.


Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server


See in Backing Up and Restoring an Environment Using the Maintenance Snapshot Getting Started with Oracle for detailed procedures.Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators




NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select .Cloud Customer Connect



ANNOUNCEMENTS

ADDITIONAL CHARTS IN ACTIVITY REPORT

The Activity Report has been enhanced to include the following charts that help you understand the processing load in your environment:


http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CGSAD/5_maint_snapshot_backup_restore_heading.htm


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Number of User Interface Requests by Hour

Duration of user interface requests by hour

Duration of User Interface Requests by Hour

Number of user interface requests by hour

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Number of Essbase Operations By Hour

Duration of Essbase operations by hour

Duration of Essbase Operations By Hour

Number of Essbase operations by hour

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CPU Usage

Memory usage

Memory Usage

KEY RESOURCES

See in Using Activity Reports and Access Logs to Monitor Usage Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators

MIGRATION AND AUDIT CARDS MOVED TO TOOLS CLUSTER

Starting with the 18.04 update, the Migration card and Audit card will be moved to the Tools cluster in the Home page.

The Migration card enables Service Administrators to access and manage lifecycle management-related activities such as exporting and importing artifacts and data, working with snapshots, and viewing the Modified Since and Migration Status Report has been moved to the Tools cluster.

CPU usage

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The Audit card allows Service Administrators to activate audit trails to track changes to artifacts and data.

Previously, this card was included in the Application Cluster.

KEY RESOURCES

in Auditing Tasks and Data Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close CloudAdministering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

SUPPORT FOR INFOLETS

Infolets, a new dashboard capability to enable data visualization, are now available in Financial Consolidation and Close. Infolets enable Service Administrators to provide enhanced graphical data presentation using charts and texts. Service Administrators can create infolets for any cube.

Infolets are interactive and use progressive disclosure to display high-level, aggregated, essential information for quick consumption at a glance. Users can act upon the information in the infolets as needed. They can be flipped and resized to display up to three charts or sets of values.

Service Administrators can create an infolets page that contains one or more infolets. An Infolets page houses a container that manages the space occupied by the infolets and rearranges them depending on the size of the browser and the size of the infolets.

Service Administrators can customize the application interface to enable end users to access infolets from the Home page using the Navigation Flow Designer.

NOTE: Although you can design infolets on the 18.04 Test environment, they will not work in Production before 18.04 is applied. If you try to apply the infolets in Production 18.03, the infolet dots will be displayed, but you may not see any content upon accessing the infolet pages. When 18.04 is applied to the Production environment, you will be able to access infolets in the Navigation Flows.

KEY RESOURCES

in Designing Infolets Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud in Viewing Key Information with Infolets Working with Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

SUPPORT FOR SUBTITLES IN INFOLETS

Service Administrators can now add subtitles to infolets after the infolet header. The infolet header remains the same for all views of an infolet, but you can now add an optional subtitle which can be customized to display different text for each view of an infolet. To add subtitles to an infolet, open an infolet in the Infolets Designer and hover over the upper right corner of the infolet to view the Infolet Menu. Under Layout, select Subtitle.

KEY RESOURCES

For more information, see in Using the Infolets Designer Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

NEW FINANCIAL REPORTING EXPLORE REPOSITORY

For new subscriptions, Financial Reporting has implemented a new Explore repository, which is very similar to the existing Explore repository.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/auditing_tasks_and_data.html

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/EPMSS/toc.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/infolets_designing_infolets_100x5387ab30.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/usfcc/viewing_key_information_with_infolets.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/infolets_using_the_designer_100x5420b2de.html

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Existing subscriptions will be migrated to the new Explore repository in a near term release. The Explore repository documentation has been updated.

KEY RESOURCES

See Working with Financial Reporting for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud .

NEW ROW AND COLUMN SUPPRESSION BEHAVIOR

Service administrators can use the Smart View Suppression Behavior option to change suppression behavior when both the Smart View No Data/Missing and Zero suppression options for rows, or columns, or both are selected.

If the option in the web application is set to:Smart View Suppression Behavior

Legacy—Only suppresses rows or columns containing either all No Data/Missing or all Zeros. Does not suppress rows or columns containing a combination of No Data/Missing and Zeros. For example, in Smart View, if both the and suppression options are selected for rows, and a row contains both No Data/Missing Zerozeroes and Missing labels, then the row is displayed; it is not suppressed.

Standard—Suppresses rows or columns containing all No Data/Missing or all Zeros, or a combination of both. For example, in Smart View, if both the and suppression options are selected for No Data/Missing Zerocolumns, and a column contains both zeroes and Missing labels, then the column is suppressed; it is not displayed.


This feature was introduced with the 18.03 update.

KEY RESOURCES

See in Smart View Administrators: Specifying Smart View Settings Administering Financial .Consolidation and Close Cloud

See in Smart View Users: Data Options Working with Oracle Smart View for Office.

CONFIGURABLE CONSOLIDATIONS

You now have the ability to develop consolidation and elimination adjustment rules specific to your application. You can create rules for consolidation requirements that are not already provided by the system seeded rules. You can create one or more rule-sets, each defining a Source POV and Global conditions and representing a “consolidation adjustment journal.” Within each rule-set, you can then define individual rules, each representing the individual detail lines of the journal. Source POV members can also be re-directed within the rules to post to alternative target members based on one or more conditions. You can deploy the consolidation rules when needed.

KEY RESOURCES

For more information, see in About Configurable Consolidation Rules Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

EXPORTING OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT INFORMATION

You can now import and export Ownership Management information.

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/FRAFU/toc.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/specifying_smart_view_options.html

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/SVUUC/opt_data.htm#SVUUC-options_202

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/consolidation_configurable_rules.html

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KEY RESOURCES

For more information, see in Importing and Exporting Ownership Data Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

NEW SEEDED MEMBER IN OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME HIERARCHY

The seeded Other Comprehensive Income hierarchy in the Account dimension now includes a base member named FCCS_OR_OBFXCICTA, Other Comprehensive Income – Opening Balance – FX – CICTA. It is used to carry forward Opening Balance for all revenue and expense accounts within Other Reserves (the parent member of Total Other Comprehensive Income).

KEY RESOURCES

For more information, see FX Calculations in Other Comprehensive Income Hierarchy in the Seeded section in Dimension Members Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

SUPPORT FOR CUSTOM AUTOMATED AND EVENT MONITORING INTEGRATIONS

Close Manager now includes the ability to create Process Automated and Event Monitoring tasks for external applications. A new EPM Adapter allows you to create connections and integration flows in Integration Cloud Service using Oracle EPM Cloud and other cloud and on-premises applications.

KEY RESOURCES

For more information, see in Creating Custom Close Manager Integrations Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

SUPPORT FOR XLSX FORMAT IN CLOSE MANAGER AND SUPPLEMENTAL DATA MANAGER REPORTS

When you generate reports for Close Manager and Supplemental Data Manager, the output format options now include XLSX format, in addition to PDF, HTML, and XLS formats.

KEY RESOURCES

For more information, see in Generating Custom Reports for Close Manager and Supplemental Data ManagerAdministering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

REMOVAL OF SUPPORT



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https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/ownership_management_importing_exporting.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/seeded_members.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/seeded_members.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/cm_integration_types_create_custom.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/financial-consolidation-cloud/agfcc/cm_reports_generating_custom_reports.html


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DEFECTS FIXED


CONSIDERATIONS


When you change the Exchange Rate Type for an account to a Historical Override Exchange Rate Type (for example, from “No Rate” to “Historical Amount Override”), the shared member is not created under FCCS_Historical Accounts. When you change the Exchange Rate Type from “Historical Amount Override” or “Historical Rate Override” to another Exchange Rate Type, the system does not delete the shared members from FCCS_Historical Accounts.

Workaround: When you change an Exchange Rate Type, you must manually add or delete the members from the Historical Override shared hierarchies.


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RESTRUCTURING CUBES

After you upgrade to 18.04, you must run the Restructure Cubes job, due to a change in the position of the Entity dimension that will result in significant performance gains. First run the Restructure Cubes job for the Consol cube and then re-run it for the Rates cube.

NOTE: If you import an LCM zip file that is created from a prior release, after the LCM import process, the Entity dimension reverts to its original position. To correct the dimension order, after the import process, navigate to the Enable Features screen and click Enable, without making any other changes. Then proceed with the Restructure Cube steps.

Also, if you import an LCM zip file created in this release to a previous release, you must perform the same steps.

KEY RESOURCES

For details, see in Restructuring Cubes Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

CONFIGURABLE CONSOLIDATION RULES

If you were using 18.03 with Ownership Management enabled and the three Configurable Consolidation seeded rules deployed, after you upgrade to 18.04, the seeded rules will be displayed as Undeployed.

SETTING THE FACTOR IN CONFIGURABLE CONSOLIDATION RULESETS

If the entry is selected in the first of the Rule-Set factor drop down boxes, ensure that the second drop None down box has no selection (i.e. no entry / null and not None). If the second drop down box has a selection, then the factor cannot be saved in the individual rules.


The Exchange Rate Type must be the same for an Intercompany account and the plug account associated with it. For example, if the source accounts have an Exchange Rate Type of “No Rate”, then the Plug account Exchange Rate Type must be “No Rate”. If the source accounts have any of the three Historical Exchange Rate Types, then the plug account must also have the Historical Exchange Rate Type. The plug account does not have to be the exact same Historical type, but it must be one of the Historical Exchange Rate Types.




MEMBER FORMULAS IN THE SIMPLIFIED DIMENSION EDITOR

In the Simplified Dimension Editor, when you add a member formula for a member that has all the Data Storage (Default/Consol/Rates) properties the same, such as Dynamic Calc, the system incorrectly changes the Consol Data Storage value to Store, and displays it as a non-compliant value.

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TRANSLATION RULES
















If there are conflicts with aliases of existing members, an error is displayed that the system cannot enable the feature. To work around this issue, log off, and then log back in. Resolve the member alias conflict and refresh the database.

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NOTE: If you try to refresh the database without re-logging into the session, a server crash may occur.



KEY RESOURCES

For more information, see Member and Alias Considerations in the Enabling Ownership Management in section in Applications Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.














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When you use ad hoc grids in Smart View with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, do not add a root Period member on the grid. Make sure the root Period member is removed by either clicking or selecting periods that are in the application and selecting . If a Period member is left on the grid, then any changes to data that you make will fail to properly set the impact status of the Entities.




MARCH 2018 UPDATE

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

07 MAR 2018FX Calculations in Other Comprehensive Income Hierarchy

Updated document. Added new feature delivered in March 2018 update.

07 Mar 2018 ClearEmptyBlock Rule Updated document. Added new feature delivered in March 2018 update.

02 MAR 2018Updated EPM Cloud Application Creation Page

Updated document. Revised landing page for this feature.

23 FEB 2018 Created initial document.

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ORACLE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE CLOUD, MARCH UPDATE

This document outlines announcements, considerations and defects fixed in the upcoming Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud update.


Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (14:00 PST) on Friday, March 2, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, March 16, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The , which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on Oracle Help CenterMarch 2, 2018. Some of the links in this document may be available only after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server. See in Backing Up and Restoring an Environment Using the Maintenance Snapshot Getting Started with

for detailed procedures.Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators




NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.


We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at . In the body or title of the [email protected], state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service as well as the monthly patch cycle.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

UPDATED EPM CLOUD APPLICATION CREATION PAGE

The first time you log in, you'll see an updated screen displaying these Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud solutions from which to choose:


https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CGSAD/5_maint_snapshot_backup_restore_heading.htm


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FinanceHuman CapitalSales

To create a Financial Consolidation and Close application, select Start under Finance, then select Financial Close, and then select the type of application you want to create.

The New Application Creation Page

KEY RESOURCES

For detailed application creation information, see in Creating an Application Administering Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

SUPPLEMENTAL DATA MANAGER MULTI-CUBE SUPPORT

When you work with Supplemental Data Manager forms, you now have the option to select the cube from which to use dimension members. For example, when you are validating supplemental data, you select the cube from which the data needs to be validated.

During the Refresh Database process, metadata is copied to Supplemental Data Manager. In addition to leaf-level members, non-leaf level members are now copied, and the corresponding parent node name is displayed in Supplemental Data Manager.

KEY RESOURCES

See “ ” in Validating Supplemental Data Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

REPORTING TRANSLATION PROCESS

Translating to reporting currencies is now required for all periods. Correct presentation of translated opening balances for historical accounts requires the cumulative translation of prior periods.

If prior periods in the current year have not yet been translated, they will be translated before the selected period. If there are prior years that have not been fully translated, the user will need to translate in sequence

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/app_create.htm#AGFCC-admin_createapp_4

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/sdm_validating_supplemental_data.htm#AGFCC-admin_book_1216

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each year that has not yet been translated and then translate the current year. This requirement is the same as for the consolidation process.

KEY RESOURCES

See “ ” in Translation Process Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

PROVISIONED USERS AUDIT REPORT

A script is now available to automate the process of creating an audit report for provisioned users. This report shows the users and associated roles or groups that changed since the last time the report was generated.

KEY RESOURCES

See in Scenario 13: Creating Provisioned Users Audit Reports Working with EPM Automate for Oracle for detailed information.Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

NEW SERVER SETTING IN FINANCIAL REPORTING WEB STUDIO

A new property has been added to the Server Settings in Financial Reporting Web Studio. The "Maximum Number of Page Members For Excel Report" property allows you to specify the maximum number of page dimension members that can be exported to Microsoft Excel. The default value for this property is 100.

KEY RESOURCES

Designing with Financial Reporting Web Studio for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

SMART VIEW SUPPORT FOR INTEGRATED BUSINESS PROCESS NAVIGATION FLOWS

Smart View now supports integrated business process navigation flows.

Using integrated business process navigation flows, Service Administrators can configure shared connections that enable Smart View users to navigate across any combination of the supported EPM Cloud subscriptions.

KEY RESOURCES

Service Administrators: See “ ” in Connecting Subscriptions in EPM Cloud Administering Oracle Financial for information on setting up integrated business process navigation flows.Consolidation and Close Cloud

Smart View users: See these topics in the for information on Oracle Smart View for Office User's Guideconnecting:

“Shared Connections and Private Connections”“Connecting to Data Sources”“Creating Shared Connections”

CLEAREMPTYBLOCK RULE

A new rule, ClearEmptyBlock, is now provided by default to enable you to remove empty blocks from the database. You can launch the rule at any time from the Rules card, or from the EPM Automate process. It is recommended that you automate the rule to run periodically, for example, just before the consolidation process of every month.

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/consol_translation_process.htm#AGFCC-admin_book_1800

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CEPMA/sample_script_6_provisioning_audit.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/FRWEB/toc.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/Connecting

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FX CALCULATIONS IN OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME HIERARCHY

The seeded Other Comprehensive Income hierarchy in the Account dimension includes a base member named FCCS_OR_OBFXCICTA, Other Comprehensive Income - Opening Balance - FX - CICTA. It is a sibling of Total Other Comprehensive Income and a child of Other Reserves.

This member is populated with the sum of the Opening Balance of the Other Comprehensive Income accounts, and a single FX and single FX-to-CICTA entry is made to this account based on a calculation of the values for the Total Other Comprehensive Income statement.

REMOVAL OF SUPPORT



KEY RESOURCES

For detailed information on using the Simplified Dimension Editor, See “ Editing Dimensions in the Simplified ” in Dimension Editor Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud









https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/editing_members_sui.htm#AGFCC-GUID-3586F8FB-9E1D-446B-967A-03312C1CFE9E


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CONSIDERATIONS












Note: If you try to refresh the database without re-logging into the session, a server crash may occur.



KEY RESOURCES

For more information, see “Member and Alias Considerations” in this topic: https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/migrating_ownership_mgt.htm#AGFCC-GUID-F200B598-0A2D-4458-BA92-C2B43D3588B7

DEFECTS FIXED


https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/migrating_ownership_mgt.htm#AGFCC-GUID-F200B598-0A2D-4458-BA92-C2B43D3588B7



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COMPREHENSIVE INCOME CTA ACCOUNTS

If you configure a Comprehensive Income CTA account (CICTA) to capture CTA adjustments, the CICTA values are not correctly translated to reporting currencies other than the Entity and Parent Currency.



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When you use ad hoc grids in Smart View with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, do not add a root Period member on the grid. Make sure the root Period member is removed by either clicking or selecting periods that are in the application and selecting . If a Period member is left on the grid, then any changes to data that you make will fail to properly set the impact status of the Entities.

FEBRUARY 2018 UPDATE

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

05 FEB 2018 Defects Fixed Updated document. Added defect information.

26 JAN 2018 Created initial document.

ORACLE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE CLOUD, FEBRUARY UPDATE

This guide outlines the announcements, fixed issues and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud update.


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Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (14:00 PST) on Friday, February 2, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, February 16, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The , which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on Oracle Help CenterFebruary 2, 2018. Some of the links in this document may be available only after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

NOTE: You can import backup snapshots into environments with the same, the preceding or the next update versions. For example, you can import backup snapshots from release 17.08 into releases 17.07 and 17.09.

KEY RESOURCES

Oracle Help CenterFor more information about migration, see Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.






We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at . In the body or title of the [email protected], state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service as well as the monthly patch cycle.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

SUPPORT FOR AUTO-REVERSING JOURNALS

You can now create auto-reversing journals. A new option is available on the Create Journal screen where you can select Auto-reverse as the journal type. When an auto-reversing journal is posted, an auto reversal journal is automatically created in the next period reversing all the adjustments corresponding to the journal.

You can also create auto-reversing journal templates, and run reports on auto-reversing journals.

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/docs.htm

http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/docs.htm


http://[email protected]

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1. 2. 3. 4.

5.

KEY RESOURCES

See “ ” in Creating Autoreversing Journals Working with Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

JOURNAL ATTACHMENTS

When you perform a journal action such as Submit, Approve, Post, or Reject, you can attach additional information supporting the action performed. You can attach a document such as a text, Word or Excel file, pdf, audio, video or image file to the journal. You can view or download attached documents on the Journal History page.

KEY RESOURCES

For information, see “ ” in Working with Journals Working with Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

ENABLING THE BALANCE CALCULATION

When you create a new application, the system includes an entry for the Balance Calculation on the Consolidation Process page. The Balance Calculation ensures that the Balance Sheet is balanced (Total Assets = Total Liabilities and Equity). By default, the calculation is disabled for all Scenarios.

To enable the Balance Calculation:

On the Home page, click , and then click .Application ConsolidationSelect the tab.Consolidation ProcessFrom the tab, select the calculation.Local Currency Balance the Balance SheetFrom the right panel, under , use one of these methods:Disable by Scenario

Add the selected Scenarios to the EXCLUDE clause (for example, Budget,Actual). This means that all Scenarios are disabled EXCEPT for Budget and Actual.Modify the entry by including only the Scenarios for which you want the calculation disabled, for example, Consol,Forecast,ActBudDiff.

Click to save the rule.Save

For existing applications, the Balance Calculation is enabled by default. If you want to disable the calculation, you can add an entry to disable it for one or more specific Scenarios.

KEY RESOURCES

For information, see “ ” in System Calculations Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

EXPORTING TASKS FROM CLOSE MANAGER TASK LISTS TO EXCEL

Close Manager Users are now able to export tasks from a Task List to Microsoft Excel. From the Task List, you can export selected rows, or export all the rows in the table. The export file is formatted for Excel.

KEY RESOURCES

See “ ” in Exporting Tasks Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud.

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/USFCC/journal_creating_autoreversing.htm#USFCC-user_journals_212

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/USFCC/working_with_journals.htm#USFCC-fccs_journals_1

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/configurable_calc_system.htm#AGFCC-admin_rules_55

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/cm_tasks_imp_and_exp.htm#AGFCC-admin_tasks_369

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SELECTABLE PARAMETERS FOR EPM INTEGRATIONS

When you are using EPM Cloud Integrations through Close Manager, many parameters for automated integrations are now selectable from drop-down lists, which eliminates the need to manually enter values. For example, for the Run Business Rule pre-built integration, you can select from a list of business rules, such as ForceConsolidate or ForceTranslate.

KEY RESOURCES

See “ ” in Pre-Built EPM Cloud Integrations Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

INTEGRATION TASKS FOR UPLOADING AND DOWNLOADING FILES WITHIN EPM

In Close Manager, you can use pre-built integration tasks to upload and download files to automate data extract from one service to import into another service. For example, you can export data from Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud and import it into Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud.

KEY RESOURCES

See “ ” in Uploading and Downloading Files Within EPM Services Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud


A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the upgrade command, which automatically downloads and silently installs the newest version of the EPM Automate Utility. After you run the login command to initiate a session, the utility identifies the current installed version. If the installed version is not the newest available, you can run this command to download and install the latest version.

KEY RESOURCES

See " " in EPM Automate Utility Commands Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance for detailed information.Management Cloud

APPLICATION-LEVEL PROVISIONING FOR DATA MANAGEMENT

Application-level provisioning is now available for Data Management. This enhancement allows Service Administrators to grant the following roles to users who have the User or Viewer identity domain role. Granting these roles allow Users and Viewers to participate in the data integration process using Data Management.

Create IntegrationRun IntegrationDrill Through

KEY RESOURCES

See " " in Managing Application-Level Provisioning Administering Access Control for Oracle Enterprise for detailed information.Performance Management Cloud

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/AGFCC/appendix_integrations_automated_integ_table.htm#AGFCC-GUID-283F8D93-ACC9-4015-B7C2-99689AB2FE44

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/Importing%20and%20Exporting%20Integration%20Data%20Between%20EPM%20Services

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CEPMA/epm_automate_command_ref_general.htm#CEPMA-GUID-5400C490-264F-493A-9EAD-267AB2A320F1

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/PAPPM/app_provision_overview.htm#PAPPM-GUID-7E8E67A3-9A50-42D7-B705-0C1AC49CB3D6

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REMOVAL OF SUPPORT


With the March 2018 (18.03) update, the link in the will link to the Simplified Dimensions NavigatorDimension Editor, which was released several months ago. Consequently, the Classic Dimension Editor will not be supported starting with the March 2018 update to the service (March 2, 2018 for test and March 16, 2018 for production instances).

KEY RESOURCES

For detailed information on using the Simplified Dimension Editor, See “ Editing Dimensions in the Simplified ” in Dimension Editor Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud





DEFECTS FIXED

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

Defect Number Description

27350021 The Override rate is now used for primary and shared entities and aggregated to parent entities of both.

27129399 Power Users can generate Intercompany Reports if they have access to all the entities and partners used in the report.

27353517 In Close Manager, graphs on the Compliance dashboard are now exported correctly to Excel.

27261080 Loading data in each month will not affect consolidation performance.

27255075 Users can generate Close Manager Report Binders without selecting any tasks.

27338211 In Close Manager, switching between tasks using the Next and Previous buttons displays the information correctly.

27235098 Users are now allowed to export tasks from the Task List to Excel.

27231950 In Data Management, empty journal entries are now exported correctly to FCCS.



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Defect Number Description

27340363In Data Management, when using an FCCS application, a data load rule no longer has different target options depending on the language of the web browser.

26405218 In Data Management, the French version of the File Selection window now shows Télécharger (Download button) and Charger (Upload button).

27267369 In Data Management, the application snapshot no longer fails with the "EPMFDM-140223:EXPORT FAILED FOR SYSTEM SETTING" error.

27314175 In Data Management, the Source Value field in Data Load Mappings now has a maximum length of 80 characters instead of 75.

26955559 A provider error no longer occurs when launching business rules from Smart View.

25678319When working with user variables in Smart View, the order of the children members available for selection is now consistent with the order specified in the Planning web application.

27227923 In an ad hoc grid, all members selected for a POV are retained after changing the POV member for a dimension, and then changing the alias table to “None.”

27159164, 27239819In cases where duplicate aliases exist in a hierarchy but their parent member does not have an alias, Smart View now displays the member name as the qualified name and the friendly name as the alias.

25217541In Smart View, hierarchy member indentation and expansion are now correctly displayed when the “Suppress hierarchy” and “Start Expanded” options are enabled in Planning.

27334131 Refreshing a previously-saved Smart View ad hoc grid no longer causes an "invalid display POV" error.

27227593 Users no longer get an "error executing query" when running a book if the book has a level 0 list and descendants for the book Point of View.

26598697 Users no longer get an "error executing query" when running a book if the book has a level 0 list, descendants for the book Point of View, and level 0 members.

26921808 Financial Reporting Web Studio no longer times out.

27266649, 27271949 In Financial Reporting Web Studio, you can now successfully close the Select Members page.

27281312 Batch scheduler reports that are set up with a bursting file now successfully send emails after they are run.

CONSIDERATIONS


After you upgrade to 18.01, the first time you want to re-consolidate and re-translate any entity for a specific Scenario, Year and Period combination, you must run the Compute Rates task rule. Refresh the database and make sure that that Data Status is SC, showing that the cells are impacted. Then launch Consolidation and

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Translation. Subsequent re-consolidation / re-translation of the same Scenario, Year and Period combination does not require this step.








NOTE: If you try to refresh the database without re-logging into the session, a server crash may occur.



KEY RESOURCES

For more information, see “Member and Alias Considerations” in this topic:




To work around this issue, after the import process fails, log out and log back in as an Administrator. From the Navigator, select Migration, and then the Snapshot tab. Expand the application. Expand Relational Data, select Journals, and click Import.



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If you add a base member using the classic Dimension Editor and change the initially displayed Data Storageproperty on the tab, please also check the option on the Member Properties Consol cube Data Storage

tab. Ensure that the option matches between the two settings. If it does not Member Formula Data Storagematch, the member might not be usable. The options can also be easily viewed and changed in Data Storagethe Simplified UI Dimension Editor.


In Internet Explorer, you may experience issues using the Open Summary dialog in Smart View. To work around this issue:




CHANGE IN CALCULATION OF CTA FOR NET INCOME/RETAINED EARNINGS CURRENT ACCOUNTS








ENTITY MEMBER NAMES/ALIASES WITH ICP PROPERTY


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You should not make metadata changes that result in the following:

Changing a base member to which a journal has been posted into a parent member


When you use ad hoc grids in Smart View with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, do not add a root Period member on the grid. Make sure the root Period member is removed by either clicking

or selecting periods that are in the application and selecting . If a Period Remove Only Keep Onlymember is left on the grid, then any changes to data that you make will fail to properly set the impact status of the Entities.

JANUARY 2018 UPDATE

REVISION HISTORY


Date What's Changed Notes

22 DEC 2017 Created initial document.

ORACLE FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE CLOUD, JANUARY UPDATE

This guide outlines the announcements, fixed issues and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud update.

ANNOUNCEMENTS





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1. 2. 3. 4.

5.



Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC-8 (2:00pm Pacific Time) on Friday, January 5, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, January 19, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC-8. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The , which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on January 5, Oracle Help Center2018.

NOTE: You can import backup snapshots into environments with the same, the preceding or the next update versions. For example, you can import backup snapshots from release 17.08 into releases 17.07 and 17.09.

KEY RESOURCES

Oracle Help CenterFor more information about migration, see Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance

.Management Cloud

VALIDATING METADATA OPTION

This update includes an option to validate metadata. You can run a metadata validation report at any time to ensure that your metadata is valid. If metadata errors occur, the report displays the dimension name, the member name in [Parent].[Child] format, and the error description. You can use the Dimension Editor to fix the errors.

For example, if an error occurs that an Entity dimension member has a Consolidation Operator of other than “Ignore”, in the Dimension Editor, select the member and change the Consolidation Operator property to “Ignore”.

STEPS TO ENABLE

To validate metadata:

On the Home page, click .ApplicationClick , then from , select .Overview Actions Validate MetadataClick to validate the metadata.RunExpand a dimension to see the invalid results for the dimension. The results are displayed in [Parent].[Child] format with the error description.Navigate to the Dimension Editor to fix the metadata errors.

RESTRUCTURE CUBE JOB

You can now run a Restructure Cube job in the Jobs console. When you select this option, the system performs a restructure of a Block Storage cube (BSO) to eliminate or reduce fragmentation, rebuild indices and remove empty blocks.

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/docs.htm

http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financial-consol-cloud/docs.htm

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To run the Restructure Cube job:

From the Home page, click , and select .Application JobsClick .Schedule JobsFrom the tab, click .General Restructure CubeFrom , select the cube to restructure.Cube

RELOCATE EPM CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS FROM ONE IDENTITY DOMAIN TO ANOTHER

Oracle Cloud Account Administrators can now move an environment from its current identity domain to another. Unifying multiple EPM Cloud environments under one identity domain helps simplify user management and single sign on configuration. It also supports seamless cross-environment navigation.

Oracle Cloud Account Administrators may relocate an environment from its current identity domain to another if the target identity domain is provisioned to the same customer account and is in the same data center.

In addition to requesting the relocation of instances from My Services, additional service environment-specific tasks must be completed.

NOTE: You can relocate an environment only if it was provisioned after May 1, 2016. Environments that were provisioned prior to this date cannot be unified to use one identity domain.

KEY RESOURCES

See “Relocating an EPM Cloud Environment to a Different Identity Domain” in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators for detailed information.

NEW EPM GETTING STARTED GUIDES

Starting with the December update (17.12), Service Administrator and end-user “getting started” information for all EPM Cloud Services is available from the following new guides:

Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for AdministratorsGetting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Users

Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators contains information on the tasks that Service Administrators can perform with EPM Cloud Services. This guide, which provides common administrative information for all EPM Cloud services, is now the primary source for tasks related to EPM Cloud administration including managing users and roles, setting up single sign-on, and backing up and restoring environments. This guide replaces the following guides:

Using Oracle Planning and Budgeting CloudGetting Started with Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close CloudGetting Started with Account Reconciliation Cloud for AdministratorsGetting Started with Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud for AdministratorsGetting Started with Oracle Tax Reporting CloudGetting Started for Administrators for Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud

Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Users introduces end-users to Oracle EPM Cloud and provides information that enables them to quickly become proficient. This guide replaces the following guides:

STEPS TO ENABLE

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CGSAD/toc.htm

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/epm-common/CGSUS/toc.htm

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Getting Started for Users for Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud

Links in the Cloud Help Center and Oracle Learning Library have been modified to direct users to these guides. Please change your personal bookmarks and shortcuts so that they point to these new guides.

NOTE: Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud content is documented in several common Enterprise Performance Management Cloud guides. The service will be available in early 2018.


We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at . State that you are [email protected] or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service as well as the monthly patch cycle, in the body or title of the email.

REMOVAL OF SUPPORT


With the March 2018 (18.03) update, the link in the will link to the Simplified Dimensions NavigatorDimension Editor. Effective March 2018 (March 2, 2018 for test and March 16, 2018 for production environments), the Simplified Dimension Editor will be the only interface available to edit and manage dimensions.

For detailed information on using the Simplified Dimension Editor, See “Editing Dimensions in the Simplified ” in .Dimension Editor Administering Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud





DEFECTS FIXED

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

Getting Started with Account Reconciliation Cloud for UsersGetting Started with Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud for Users

http://[email protected]



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Defect Number

Description

27215592 The Journal History dialog now opens correctly even if users have been deleted from the system.

26587052 An administrator can unpost or reject a journal even if the Posted By User column is not valid.

26484227 You can import journals even if the journal user no longer exists in the user table.

26940836 Member formulas now correctly handle any number divided by zero in Exchange Rate calculations.

27031284 In Close Manager, an ID that is a member of both the Assignee and Approver teams can now claim a task.

27234042 In Close Manager, the viewer of an organization unit assigned to a task can now open Task Actions for the task.

25405772 The Refresh the Database option now performs correctly even if there are no shared members under the Historical Override accounts.

26791407 You can now run a metadata validation report to find member property issues and ensure that your metadata is valid.

26274809 Approvers now receive an email notification when a journal is unposted.

26796660 You can now use functions in user variable attribute dimensions.

27152908 In Data Management, an error no longer occurs when reading an import expression for a data or amount column.

27009032 In Data Management, a data load no longer fails when an import mapping encounters UTF8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) characters.

27026977 Source filters associated with data load rules are now saved correctly.

26985098 In Smart View, dimension members are no longer duplicated when zooming in, zooming out, or refreshing the parent member of a dimension.

26982965 In free-form mode, Smart View can now retrieve dynamic time series members that are shared members without using qualified names.

CONSIDERATIONS




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BALANCE CALCULATION

: By default, the system automatically processes the Balance Calculation, which can impact consolidation TIPperformance. To improve performance, you can disable the Balance Calculation so that the system does not automatically balance the Balance Sheet for you. You can select one or more scenarios to disable. If you do not want to have the calculation run for any scenarios, select all scenarios for disablement. You can then create a new balance account member and write a custom calculation to run as needed.

KEY RESOURCES

See the “Balance the Balance Sheet” and “Creating Configurable Calculations” sections in the Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Administrator’s Guide






If you add a base member using the classic Dimension Editor and change the initially displayed Data Storageproperty on the tab, please also check the option on the Member Properties Consol cube Data Storage

tab. Ensure that the option matches between the two settings. If it does not Member Formula Data Storagematch, the member might not be usable. The options can also be easily viewed and changed in Data Storagethe Simplified UI Dimension Editor.

SMART VIEW

SUMMARY DIALOG DISPLAY


Use the keyboard arrow keys to make your selection, then close and reopen the dialog; orSummaryMinimize and then reopen the dialog; orSummaryUse a different browser.

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USING FIREFOX ESR 52.4.2 WITH SMART VIEW

Mozilla Firefox has phased out support for XUL-based add-ons such as Smart View. Only add-ons and extensions built with new web extension technology will work in newer versions of Firefox. Therefore, Smart View 11.1.2.5.710 and newer 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 and newer, 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.


If you try to clear a shared entity, the base entity and all shared entities do not get cleared. To work around this issue, clear the primary entity in order to clear all shared entities.

After copying data from actual to forecast, if you select the option along with the option when clearing Rate Datathe forecast data, the system will clear the data as per the POV specified, but it also clears the data for all RateScenarios and not just the rate data as per the POV specified.

CHANGE IN CALCULATION OF CTA FOR NET INCOME/RETAINED EARNINGS CURRENT ACCOUNTS



If you assigned an account as a CICTA Redirection Account, after you upgrade, the Redirection account attribute that you selected may be missing.






ENTITY MEMBER NAMES/ALIASES WITH ICP PROPERTY


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You should not make metadata changes that result in the following:

Changing a base member to which a journal has been posted into a parent member


When you use ad hoc grids in Smart View with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud, do not add a root Period member on the grid. Make sure the root Period member is removed by either clicking

or selecting periods that are in the application and selecting . If a Period Remove Only Keep Onlymember is left on the grid, then any changes to data that you make will fail to properly set the impact status of the Entities.

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