Actualización mensual de Planning & Budgeting Cloud, mayo de 2019

Oracle updates all Planning & Budgeting Cloud environments ( PBCS /EPBCS) monthly to address defects and introduce new features. These updates are delivered automatically on specific dates scheduled by Oracle , during the mandatory daily maintenance window. Keep in mind that while you can configure your daily maintenance window time, you can’t change the dates these updates are applied. Oracle announces next month’s update dates via newsletter at the end of each month.

May 2019 updates are currently scheduled to be deployed in test environments on Friday, May 3, 2019, and to production environments on Friday, May 17, 2019, starting at 22:00 p.m. UTC. Any schedule changes are also announced via the newsletter, which is automatically sent to all cloud administrators (keep an eye out for Oracle emails with Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Services in the subject).

• The new version of the EPM automate utility which will include enhancements for:
  • 
    Ability to run utility on Mac OS computer
    
    – this has been a long time coming and should be a nice addition for those client administrators that are using Mac computers
  • 
    Ability to run multiple instances of the utility from the same directory
    
    – each command acts separately from the other – This is a great addition to the utility. Previously, when trying to run multiple scripts independent of each other, the commands would conflict with each
    other. For instance, in the script you typically have a log in and log out command – while one script was logging in, the other could be logging you out. This new enhancement will eliminate those conflicts
    and allow for an increase in efficiency
  • 
    New “ApplicationAdminMode” command
    
    – places application in administrator making the application only accessible to server administrators. As a consultant working with systems that are already in production, I find this command to be very
    useful. If at any time you need to migrate/make changes to the production environment, the admin can simply place the application into admin mode instead of having to mess around with any security

• 
  Cell based POV
  
  – this will be interesting to test to see what this means, does this mean that individual cells will be able to pick up a POV when using functions only (ex: HsSetValue)? Will runtime prompt business rules
  now be able to identify the POV for these function-built cell? Stay tuned.
• 
  Submit without refresh
  
  – This should increase performance on webforms if you only need to submit the data. Maybe people will use this more often – but I like to see the results after submitting data
• 
  The new alert dialog to notify users of Smart View updates upon login
  
  – I think this is an interesting concept and something that Oracle can build upon. It would be nice if Oracle gave the administrators some control to place information in these dialog boxes. For example,
  the last time actuals were loaded into the system, if metadata has been changed in the cube, notes on updates that should be pushed to all users, etc.
• Ability to support Microsoft Office 2019

More details and analysis on the above enhancements to PBCS and EPBCS can be found in the release notes posted on Oracles Website .