The September updates for Oracle's Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) are here. This blog post outlines several new features, enhancements, fixed defects, and considerations.
The monthly update for FCCS will occur on Friday, September 15 during your normal daily maintenance window.
NOTE: You can migrate maintenance snapshots from the current version of the service instance to the preceding version or to the next version. For example, snapshots from 17.08 can be imported into 17.07 and 17.09 service instances. Migration between the same versions is always supported.
Service Administrators can set up connections that enable users to navigate across Oracle EPM Cloud subscriptions to create unified business process flows across multiple subscriptions, which can belong to any combination of EPM subscriptions. The following subscriptions are supported within this feature:
Considerations
Connections can be created using any of the following services as a source for the connection:
All EPM service subscriptions can be connected from these source connections. Connections can also be created between subscriptions of the same service type. Following connections are supported with this feature:
Connection across multiple subscriptions when services are in different domains within the same data center will be supported in a future update.
Navigation flows give application designers control over how various roles, or groups, interact with the application. The Navigation Flow Designer enables you to customize the application interface. For example, you can change the names of the cards and clusters that display on the Home page and the order in which they are displayed. You can hide cards, create new cards, and group cards into clusters. You can also customize the vertical and horizontal tabs that display on a card.
To work with navigation flows, click Tools, and then click Navigation Flow.
While submitting feedback, Service Administrators can consent to submit the last maintenance snapshot of the instance to Oracle to expeditiously troubleshoot the issue and test fixes.
Oracle uses the submitted application snapshot for testing purposes only; no changes will be made to the application or data. If you consent to submit the maintenance snapshot, Oracle automatically encrypts and copies the log files and maintenance snapshot to Oracle Support.
You can configure single sign-on (SSO) access to Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud using Oracle Identity Cloud Services (IDCS), which provides a comprehensive cloud-based identity management and security platform that supports a universal set of access controls, permissions, and password security constraints.
Configuring SSO requires you to configure a SAML 2.0 link between Oracle Identity Cloud Service and Oracle EPM Cloud.
This release includes a simplified Provisioning Report that provides a concise view of the roles assigned to each user. In addition to providing the number of provisioned users, the enhanced report presents information on each provisioned user in one row to provide a comprehensive view of all assigned roles.
To help you understand the processes that may impact the service performance, Oracle has updated the Activity Report, which now contains information on the top 15 user interface requests that took the most time to execute.
You can now use a REST API to copy an application snapshot.
The sign in process no longer requires you to select an identity domain while accessing the service. To simplify the sign in process, the name of your identity domain is now derived from the URL that you specify.
Note: This is an Oracle Cloud enhancement, which may already have been rolled out through Oracle Cloud data centers
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 EPM Cloud on par with the current, out-of-the-box, file-based integration. As a result, the file-based integration will be phased out starting the September update to the service.
Defect Number |
Description |
26649736 |
From the Notifications menu under Tools, users can select whether to receive Close Manager email notifications immediately, every few hours, or daily. |
26522684 |
Action menus now work consistently in simple forms that are included in a composite form. |
26309094 |
Shared members that are set to include their descendents with IDescendants now correctly include all members in rows and columns, even if the Suppress Missing Blocks option is enabled. |
26531423 |
You can now delete children of the member OFS_Adjustment to Revenue. |
26445428 |
Forms now display correctly if an attribute name contains “BR”. |
25464144 |
Intermittent display issues (for example, flickering) when navigating in forms are resolved. |
26357870 |
The browser freezing intermittently when navigating task lists is resolved. |
25780133 |
When building reports in Financial Reporting Web Studio, custom text in column headers is now displayed correctly in the report output. |
26583972 |
When importing a Financial Reporting report in Smart View as Fully-Formatted, the values for cells which have replacement text that contains both numeric and non-numeric characters are no longer stripped of the non-numeric characters. |
26550754 |
Composite forms now properly load when you change the Page selection, and you no longer receive a Java error. |
26421993 |
In Financial Reporting Web Studio, when a default member for a prompt is left blank, you no longer receive an "unable to process request" error. |
26614891 |
In Financial Reporting, the vertical scroll bar is now displayed correctly in the "Respond to Prompts" popups. |
26540610 |
In Financial Reporting Web Studio, if you have a grid with more than 20 columns and you click Save after making a change, you are no longer returned to the far left of the report. |
25963632 |
Export step executes even when no data has been imported. |
26583972 |
When importing a Financial Reporting report in Smart View as Fully-Formatted, the values for cells which have replacement text that contains both numeric and non-numeric characters are no longer stripped of the non-numeric characters. |
26520503 |
After refreshing an aggregate storage (ASO) cube in Smart View, members display as expected. |
If you assigned an account as a CICTA Redirection Account, after you upgrade to 17.08, the Redirection account attribute that you selected is missing.
When you run the Copy Data process and select Managed Data as the Data Source, the data may not display correctly.
To work around this issue, enter data for the Data Input member of the Data Source dimension. Copy data by selecting Data Input as the Data Source. Make sure that data is copied successfully, and then copy data by selecting Managed Data as the Data Source.
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.
If your application does not have any historical accounts defined, there will be no shared members under the seeded FCCS_Amount Override and FCCS_Rate_Override Accounts, which results in errors when refreshing the database.
A workaround is to add placeholder accounts. Under FCCS_Balance Sheet add FCCS_AmountOverride_Placeholder_Account and/or add FCCS_RateOverride_Placeholder_Account. Assign the exchange rate of Historical Amount Override for FCCS_AmountOverride Placeholder Account and Historical Rate Override for FCCS_RateOverride Placeholder Account.
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.
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 suffix.
Be aware of the following considerations:
If there are journals or Supplemental Data posted to those members, these changes can cause problems when accessing Journals or importing existing journals.