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Essbase Essbase provides URL-based drill-through access from Essbase client reporting interfaces (such as Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office, Fusion Edition, or 11.1.1.3
Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting, Fusion Edition) to information located on Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications and Enterprise
Performance Management (EPM) applications.
Essbase When running Essbase in EPM System security mode, Essbase obtains user and group details from Shared Services. Essbase does not store all users and groups 11.1.2.0
in the Essbase security file (essbase.sec); therefore, an Essbase Administrator need not explicitly synchronize security between Essbase and Shared Services.
Essbase Allocations are used in budgeting to distribute revenues or costs. The allocations feature allows you to allocate a given source amount to a target range of cells in 11.1.2.0
an aggregate storage database. The source amount can be allocated to the target proportionately, based on a given basis, or the source amount can be spread
evenly to the target.
Essbase Custom calculations extend the analytical capabilities of Essbase by enabling the execution of recurring calculations on aggregate storage databases. You can 11.1.2.0
write custom calculations for aggregate storage databases that update target level-0 cells.
Essbase Using the @XWRITE calculation function, Essbase can write to blocks other than those being calculated. The write can occur in the same database or on a 11.1.2.0
remote database. @XWRITE, like @XREF, uses a location alias.
Essbase Applications developed to work with Essbase send numerous requests to Essbase upon startup or in response to a user action. To improve response times when 11.1.2.0
users query member information, you can have the application send multiple similar queries as one, using the following new API functions:
EssOtlGetMemberInfoArray (an array version of GetMemberInfo), EssOtlQueryMembersExArray (an array version of QueryMembersEx).
Essbase Essbase now supports 32 alias tables for block storage and aggregate storage databases. 11.1.2.0
Essbase Using the Essbase API, you can specify multiple language codes for an alias table. You can get the set of language codes and clear the language codes associated 11.1.2.0
with an alias table.
Essbase Essbase supports these limits for user, group, and filter names: Non-Unicode application limit: 256 bytes; Unicode-mode application limit: 256 characters 11.1.2.0
Essbase In addition to supporting the conversion of non-Unicode block storage outlines to non-Unicode aggregate storage outlines, Essbase supports these conversion 11.1.2.0
scenarios: Non-Unicode block storage outline to Unicode aggregate storage outline. Unicode block storage outline to Unicode aggregate storage outline.
Essbase Essbase supports the IPv6 Internet protocol on Microsoft Windows 2008 and all UNIX platforms. 11.1.2.0
Essbase Oracle Essbase supports connecting to Oracle databases using the Oracle Call Interface (OCI). You can load data from Oracle databases using Data Prep 11.1.2.0
Editor in Administration Services Console by specifying an OCI connect identifier. Additionally, you can specify an OCI connect identifier when deploying a
cube using the MaxL deploy statement.
Essbase If you use asynchronous data loads and dimension builds, you can query increased information during the process. 11.1.2.0
Essbase Essbase offers improved data load error messages for debugging purposes and records causing errors are included in the log files. 11.1.2.0
Essbase Essbase now supports MDX queries that exceed the 2 to the order of 32 query limit. Essbase sends 64-bit values representing cell offsets to the client. The Java 11.1.2.0
MDX API now handles 64-bit offsets.
Essbase User names can contain any characters defined within the code page referenced by the ESSLANG variable. 11.1.2.0
Essbase The MaxL Shell IfError command can detect syntactical errors, nested script errors, and lack-of-permission errors. The MaxL Shell Exit command can accept 11.1.2.0
a nonzero argument to return an exit status to the parent shell.
Essbase Essbase can exit calculations immediately under specified logical conditions. You can use the IF... ELSEIF calculation command block to specify the logical 11.1.2.0
error conditions, and you can use the new @RETURN function to exit the calculation with customized error messages and levels.
Essbase You can extract metadata, either from the active database outline or an input outline file, to an XML file. Comparing versions of XML files enables you to view 11.1.2.0
and track changes made to the outline over time.
Essbase Essbase supports clustering of Essbase servers to provide active-passive failover with write-back capability. Active-passive Essbase failover clusters use the 11.1.2.0
service failover functionality of the Oracle Process Manager and Notification (OPMN) Server.
Essbase Essbase, when in EPM System security mode, now enables user and group names to be nonunique, if you specify the user or group's provider directory or 11.1.2.0
unique identity attribute. In MaxL, user and group names can be specified as name@provider or as a unique identity attribute.
Essbase If you migrate Essbase Server and any existing users and groups to Oracle Hyperion EPM System security mode, you can change the name of the global 11.1.2.0
application and application project in Oracle Hyperion Shared Services by using the alter system MaxL statement with the rename global registration name
grammar.
Essbase Essbase clients developed in Java can execute MaxL statements to facilitate Oracle Essbase administrative tasks. 11.1.2.0
Essbase The following calculation functions and commands are added to improve calculation of databases that use varying attributes: @ISMBRWITHATT, 11.1.2.0
@ISATTRIBUTE, SET SCAPERSPECTIVE. @WITHATTR is enhanced to allow varying attributes to be specified in the function argument.
Essbase New calculation functions: @BETWEEN, @EQUAL, @EXPAND, @LIKE, @MBRCOMPARE, @MBRPARENT, @NOTEQUAL, @RETURN, @XWRITE, 11.1.2.0
@ISMBRWITHATTR, @ISATTRIBUTE. @WITHATTR is enhanced to allow varying attributes to be specified in the function argument.
Essbase New calculation command: SET SCAPERSPECTIVE 11.1.2.0
Essbase Essbase added several new configuration settings. 11.1.2.0
Essbase Essbase made several grammar changes in MaxL statements. 11.1.2.0
Planning Support for Calculation Manager: Administrators can manage launch access permissions to Calculation Manager business rules and business rule folders 11.1.1.3
within Planning.
Planning Support for Calculation Manager: Enhanced runtime prompt functionality for business rules 11.1.1.3
Planning Support for Calculation Manager: Option to automatically generate files containing runtime prompt values, which can be used when launching the 11.1.1.3
CalcMgrCmdLineLauncher utility.
Planning Support for Calculation Manager: Administrators can launch business rules and rulesets created with Calculation Manager from the command line using the 11.1.1.3
CalcMgrCmdLineLauncher utility
Planning Support for Calculation Manager: The HBRMigrateSecurity utility to migrate access permissions on business rules and projects after upgrading applications 11.1.1.3
to Oracle Hyperion EPM Architect, Fusion Edition, and migrating business rules from Oracle's Hyperion Business Rules to Hyperion Calculation Manager.
Planning Lifecycle Management provides a consistent way for Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System products to migrate an application, a 11.1.1.3
repository, or individual artifacts across product environments and operating systems.
Planning The Oracle Data Integrator provides a set of Knowledge Modules (KMs) to load metadata and data into Oracle Hyperion Planning, Fusion Edition applications 11.1.1.3
from various sources.
Planning For Classic applications, administrators can select which calculation module to use: Hyperion Calculation Manager or Oracle Hyperion Business Rules. The 11.1.1.3
new option is available in the Application Creation Wizard and on the System Settings page.
Planning After data or metadata is loaded using Financial Data Quality Management, planners can drill through to the FDM source details of cell data from within the 11.1.1.3
Planning data form.
Planning Financial Data Quality Management ERP Integration Adapter for Oracle Applications is a module of FDM that enables you to: Integrate metadata and data 11.1.1.3
from an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) source system into an EPM target application; drill through from the EPM application (Financial Management or
Planning through web forms, Smart View, or Financial Reporting) and view details in the ERP source system.
Planning ERP Integrator supports General Ledger data for: PeopleSoft 9.0, Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 CU2, Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.6, Oracle E-Business Suite 11.1.1.3
12.1.1.
Planning Calculation Manager may be used by: Financial Management and Planning users working with EPM Architect applications, Financial Management and 11.1.1.3
Planning users working with Classic applications, Oracle Essbase users working with Essbase block storage applications.
Planning Wizard designer enables you to define wizard steps to guide template users through creating and editing a template and its design run time prompts. 11.1.1.3
Planning Upper POV system design time prompt displays in the design time prompt list of each template. This is a member range design time prompt that retrieves the 11.1.1.3
member ranges used in the rule.
Planning New properties are available for design time prompts. Design time prompts can be displayed as read-only in the wizard, which is useful when you want to 11.1.1.3
display a member selection made in a previous step but do not want to enable users to edit it.

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Planning You can assign a value to a design time prompt using the new component, DTP Assignment, available for custom-defined templates. 11.1.1.3
Planning You can define the number of pages you that want the flow chart to print across and down. Then you can specify whether the components in the flow chart 11.1.1.3
should print down (vertically, like a column) and then across (horizontally, like a row) or print across and then down.
Planning You can print components in the order in which they display in the Rule Designer or Template Designer flow chart. 11.1.1.3
Planning You can insert a page break before a new section (that is, the summary section that includes information about when the rule was created, who owns it, and so 11.1.1.3
on; the variable section that includes information about the variables used in the rule; and the detail section that includes detailed information about the
components in the rule).
Planning Use Save As to save variables with different names in the same application. 11.1.1.3
Planning When you are in any zoom mode within a flow chart, you can select a component and view and edit its properties. You can also drag a component and drop it 11.1.1.3
into another location in the flow chart in zoom mode.
Planning In the formula grid of a component, you can double-click in a formula's cell to display a larger text box in which to view and edit long formulas. 11.1.1.3
Planning Performance Management Architect Enhancements, Interface Tables: Database administrators can now populate the i_Load_ID column in the IM_Load_Info 11.1.1.3
interface table to enable filtering on dimensions and members imported into Performance Management Architect.
Planning Performance Management Architect Transaction History Purge Utility: Performance Management Architect creates transactions in the Performance 11.1.1.3
Management Architect database.
Planning Performance Management Architect Batch Client provides a command-line interface that enables Oracle Hyperion EPM Architect tasks to be scripted and run 11.1.1.3
in a lights-out fashion.
Planning If you are connected to Planning through Smart View, you can use Smart View for Office drill-through capabilities to drill through your Planning application to 11.1.2.0
detailed data in Financial Data Quality Management ERP Integration Adapter for Oracle Applications or Financial Data Quality Management data sources.
Planning Use data validation rules to maintain data integrity; for example, to ensure that entered values are between minimum and maximum values. Errors or warning 11.1.2.0
messages are generated if entered data violates validation rules.
Planning You can use Planning with a Web browser or through a Microsoft Office interface using Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office. 11.1.2.0
Planning Process Management Promote planning units based on entity and secondary dimensions. For example, the owner of a department that includes HR and revenue 11.1.2.0
accounts can promote the HR accounts first, and continue working with revenue accounts until they are ready to promote.
Planning Process Management New actions and status: Delegate, Take Ownership, Originate, Reopen, Freeze, Unfreeze, Frozen. 11.1.2.0
Planning Process Management Distributed Budgeting: Budget data is entered at the leaf level of the organization, and ownership starts at the top level of the 11.1.2.0
organization. Ownership is then distributed down the organization hierarchy.
Planning Process Management, New actions and status for this mode: Distribute, Distribute Children, Distribute Owner; Submit, Submit to Top; Reopen; Distributed. 11.1.2.0
You can still use the free-form budgeting mode, in which planners select the next owner from a drop-down list.
Planning Process Management, Data Validation Rules: Validation rules can prevent the planning unit from being promoted, or they can change the promotional path. 11.1.2.0
Planning Process Management, Planning Unit Validation: Validate planning units by running data validation rules associated with the planning unit. Conditions in data 11.1.2.0
validation rules must be met before the planning unit is promoted.
Planning Process Management, Validation Reports: The validation process returns the status of the planning unit. When planning unit validation indicates a problem, 11.1.2.0
such as invalid data or additional approval required, review a validation report to correct data errors and take any necessary actions.
Planning Process Management, URLs in Planning Unit Annotations: Document budget assumptions by including clickable URLs in planning unit annotations that link to 11.1.2.0
an external source.
Planning Validation Rules for Data Entry: Use data validation rules to maintain data integrity, for example, to ensure that entered values are between minimum and 11.1.2.0
maximum values. Errors or warning messages are generated if entered data violates validation rules.
Planning Data forms can display data validation messages, tooltips, and cell colors when data validation errors occur. For example, a tooltip can instruct you to enter data 11.1.2.0
that meets certain criteria or that fits within a specific range.
Planning If data forms contain data validation messages, a Data Validation Messages pane displays on the right side of the data form. View messages specified by the 11.1.2.0
administrator, and click links to set the focus on the cell associated with the message.
Planning Sorting and Filtering: Sort rows and columns within the hierarchy or across data to view data in ascending or descending order. Filter rows and columns to 11.1.2.0
customize the display in the data form; keep or exclude members using simple functions that compare against a specified value.
Planning New Context Menus: Use shortcut menus in data cells for regular planning actions: Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Delete, Edit, Adjust Data, Grid Spread, Mass 11.1.2.0
Allocate, Insert Comment, Supporting Detail, Add/Edit Document, and Lock/Unlock Cells.
Planning Use context menus that are displayed in the POV, page, row, column, members, and cells; for example, a menu may be available when you right-click Account 11.1.2.0
members or when you right-click a data cell.
Planning New menu item to return to the previous data form. 11.1.2.0
Planning Use ad-hoc analysis features in data forms to analyze data and save personalized views of data. For example: Pivot, move left or right from a row, page, or POV; 11.1.2.0
move up or down in a column move a dimension to another area, such as moving a row to the POV, page, or column; move to the left or right from a row, page,
or POV; move up or down in a column.
Planning Ad hoc analysis features: Zoom in to a hierarchy and show descendants that are not displayed by default in the data form definition; zoom out a level, based on 11.1.2.0
your access permissions; remove only the selected member from the data form definition.
Planning Ad hoc analysis features: Keep only the selected member, and remove all other members from the dimension; select members using a member selector, based on 11.1.2.0
your access permissions; selections can go beyond the current form definition; after making ad-hoc changes, save and rename a personal version of the data
form to access it again later.
Planning Ability to show the consolidation operator associated with a member with the member name; set preferences to control the display of consolidation operators in 11.1.2.0
data forms; separate notifications for task lists and process management; new user settings for process management display; improved navigation with
restructured menus; improved look and feel with new colors and icon-based indicators for data forms and task lists.
Planning With this release, users can perform their planning activities completely in a Microsoft Office environment without having to go to the Web. All of the new user 11.1.2.0
features mentioned previously are available through Smart View for Office. Key features added to Smart View in this release to support a fully functional user
experience.
Planning Planning Using Smart View for Outlook, key features and components: Smart View Task panel, planning tasks displayed as Outlook categories, Outlook 11.1.2.0
reminders, task-based launch actions enabled from Outlook, launch data form-based task actions into Excel. Can be used with native Outlook task capabilities
such as mobile support, task printing, and to display tasks in Outlook Calendar with options to synchronize mobile devices.
Planning Key features for Planning users when using Smart View for Excel: Planning task lists in Excel; process management 11.1.2.0
Planning Key features for Planning users when using Smart View for Excel: Data validation and messaging, Mass Allocate and Grid Spread, support for dynamic user 11.1.2.0
variables
Planning Planning Using Smart View for Excel: Member formula display on row, column, page, and POV; copy versions; Planning Job Console; option to suppress Excel 11.1.2.0
right-click menus and use Planning right-click menu actions, for data cells and metadata.
Planning Smart View options: Planning user preference settings; Planning-specific Smart View Options; new default cell styles for Planning with an Office look and feel 11.1.2.0
Planning Planning Ad Hoc: Launch a data form into Ad Hoc mode on the fly; save an Ad Hoc slice as a Smart Slice definition; cascade an Ad Hoc slice across a selected 11.1.2.0
dimension
Planning Smart View connection manager: Home page; easy entry point for connections, icon-based recently used items; unified display of connections; products filtered 11.1.2.0
for display, servers, and applications in tree view; separate subtrees for data forms and tasks; icons to easily identify tasks and all types of data forms (single,
composite, and Ad Hoc).
Planning Planning Using Smart View for Excel: Shared connections; private connections; easy navigation across connections; newly designed Office ribbons; data cell 11.1.2.0
level context menus for drill-through, document attachment, and cell comments; application level shortcut access to application-level access.
Planning Core Planning Administrative Enhancements, Process Management: To implement business policies and practices, administrators can build data validation 11.1.2.0

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rules that are checked when conditions are met in data forms. Rules can generate validation messages, enforce limits on submitted planning unit data, and
designate a specific reviewer or owner to review data that meets some condition.
Planning Set up the planning unit promotional path based on the review process for owners and reviewers in the planning unit hierarchy. The review process follows the 11.1.2.0
promotional path unless an event triggers a change in the path, for example, exceeding expense boundaries for budget items.
Planning Planning Unit Hierarchies: Use planning unit hierarchies to adapt the budgeting process to all types of organizational requirements. Planning units are now a 11.1.2.0
combination of the entity and other dimensions.
Planning Data Form Creation: Drag dimensions; use live preview to view dimensions assigned to the POV; add data validation rules to provide color coding or special 11.1.2.0
messages to be displayed to end users in data forms; add formula rows and columns, including blank rows and columns.
Planning Composite Layout Manager: Easily create data forms by dragging and dropping within the Layout manager; share dimensions across all data forms within the 11.1.2.0
composite, or only for data forms in a section; divide the layout into multiple tabs so that data forms in each section of the composite are displayed as tabs;
customize section labels; customize data form display names.
Planning Many member selector enhancements, most available to both administrators and end users, have been made. 11.1.2.0
Planning After a task list is completed, clear the completion status, due dates, and alerts for all tasks in a task list; this allows tasks to be reused for a future planning 11.1.2.0
period. Select default page members for data form type tasks
Planning With reporting application integration, you can map dimensions between Planning applications and reporting applications. 11.1.2.0
Planning Load incremental dimension members based on unique driver identifiers. New Outline Load utility features: Load Smart Lists and Smart List dimension 11.1.2.0
members using DX:HSP_SMARTLISTS; export planning unit hierarchies, including owners, reviewers, and users to be notified, to a file using
/E:outputFileName. The hierarchy can include subhierarchies.
Planning Oracle Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting is a Web-based integrated budgeting and planning solution in the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise 11.1.2.0
Performance Management System suite. It helps public sector and higher-education organizations manage existing and projected budgets that are based on
reliable information from Human Resource Management Systems and General Ledgers.
Shared Services Lifecycle Management provides a consistent way for EPM System products to migrate an application, a repository, or individual artifacts across product 11.1.1.3
environments and operating systems. Generally, the Lifecycle Management interface is consistent for all EPM System products that support Lifecycle
Management. However, EPM System products display different artifact listings and export and import options in the Lifecycle Management interface.
Shared Services Lifecycle Management Utility supports a runtime independent migration definition file. New diagnostic logs enable Lifecycle Management users to analyze 11.1.1.4
Lifecycle Management activity during a problematic migration.
Shared Services New Migration Properties Affecting Financial Management Migrations: New migration properties were added to fix a known JDK issue and to assist with 11.1.2.0
migration troubleshooting. These new properties affect Financial Management migrations only.
Shared Services In this load-balanced configuration, Oracle recommends using Oracle Internet Directory to replace OpenLDAP for high availability. OpenLDAP cannot be load 11.1.2.0
balanced. Information about enabling the Shared Services Web application for load balancing is included in Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance
Management System Hyperion Shared Services Active-Active Clusters white paper. The Oracle EPM white paper library:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/resource-library-090986.html.
Shared Services All product and application registration details are now stored in the Shared Services Registry. 11.1.2.0
Shared Services Shared Services supports LDAP load balancing; for instance when the LDAP server is fronted with a hardware device. 11.1.2.0
Shared Services Shared Services has adopted Oracle Diagnostic Logging (ODL) as the logging mechanism. The ODL framework provides uniform support for managing log 11.1.2.0
files, including log file rotation, maximum log file size, and the maximum log directory size.
Shared Services Shared Services is deployed, by default, with EPM Workspace in the same WebLogic managed server, which can be clustered. 11.1.2.0
Shared Services Shared Services supports the newest Essbase native cluster. Essbase now supports active-passive failover without Oracle Clusterware. You can use EPM System 11.1.2.0
Configurator to configure Essbase in an active-passive failover configuration with write-back capability.
Shared Services The EPM System directory structure has changed. Default directories are Middleware Home and EPM Oracle Home. 11.1.2.0
Shared Services A relational database is the central storage for native EPM System user accounts and provisioning information. Unlike previous releases, this release supports 11.1.2.0
using only a relational database as Native Directory. Native Directory is created in the database that you configure as the Shared Services database while
deploying EPM System components.
Shared Services Essbase synchronizes changes related to users in Shared Services by itself. Group synchronization, however, still must be done explicitly. 11.1.2.0
Shared Services Shared Services supports the following types of SSL configurations: Full SSL deployment; SSL termination at the Web Server; SSL deployment with an 11.1.2.0
offloader; Client Certificate Authentication (two-way SSL) deployment
Shared Services OracleAS Single Sign-on (OSSO) Support with WebLogic: The OSSO solution provides SSO access to Web applications using Oracle Internet Directory (OID) 11.1.2.0
as the user directory.
Shared Services Lifecycle Management Product Type Ordering: During cross-product artifact migrations, Lifecycle Management determines the correct order for importing 11.1.2.0
product types, based on required dependencies.
Shared Services Lifecycle Management uses the Oracle Diagnostics Logging (ODL) standard for all internal logging. Log files are in text format which can be viewed from OEM 11.1.2.0
or Log Viewer.
Shared Services Essbase cube data is now an artifact in Lifecycle Management. Data can be extracted per database and the destination application data will be replaced along 11.1.2.0
with the outline.