The November updates for Oracle's Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS) have arrived. In this blog post, we’ll outline new features in ARCS, including export of adjustments and transactions as journal entries and REST APIs for Managing Users.
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The monthly update for Oracle ARCS will occur on Friday, November 16 during your normal daily maintenance window.
In Transaction Matching, you can export adjustments or transactions as dual sided journal entries that can then be imported into your ERP system. Using Jobs History, the exported journal entries are made available in a text file.
In addition, attributes for Adjustment and Support Types have now been made global so that you can reuse these attributes by choosing from a drop down list.
The process for exporting adjustments and transactions as journal entries is:
A Variance Analysis Monthly standard format has been added to the 19 other pre-delivered formats that are provided by ARCS.
You can now create a match process without an Auto Match rule present. This enables customers who want to perform manual matching only in Transaction Matching to create a match process without any auto matching rule.
Using Groups created in Access Control, EPM Cloud supports application-level access control for planning, consolidation and close, tax reporting, and Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud applications. In addition to the custom groups created in Access Control, access control screens list predefined identity domain roles (Service Administrator, Power User, User and Viewer) as groups.
With a view to simplifying security across EPM Cloud and to ensure that application-level access control can be seamlessly migrated across environments Oracle plans to remove the ability to display predefined roles as groups in access control screens. After this change, you will no longer see predefined roles listed when you search for groups in access control screens.
Note: The proposed change will not affect how you create and manage groups or use them for applicationlevel access control.
Before making this change, Oracle wants to evaluate the impact, if any, that the proposed change will have on your environments. If you are concerned that the proposed change will affect your environment, please create a service request explaining your use case.
A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the following new commands:
Additionally, this version includes enhancements to the following commands:
Note: In a future update, Oracle will make the simplified Provisioning Report as the default report that is generated from Access Control as well as using the provisionreport command. You will still be able to create the classic Provisioning Report using this command.
You can now use REST APIs to perform these user management-related operations:
This update features improved performance while processing large files using the following EPM Automate commands:
In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.
It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.