New EPM Automate Version [Oracle PBCS Update - October 2018]
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This video update is part of the monthly Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) Predictive Planning from eCapital Advisors. On a monthly basis, experts at eCapital review Oracle release notes to provide a look at the latest features and changes users & administrators must know about.
Oracle’s Planning and Budgeting Cloud August Release (18.10) included:
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Oracle Cloud Customer Connect
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Role Provisioning Simplification
New EPM Automate Version
User Management REST APIs
System and Default Settings Moved
Unified User Preferences
Data Loads With Incremental File Adapter
Drilling Down From Summary Members
Push Formulas to Sub-accounts
Workforce Rule Performance Enhancements
Proposed Changes to Application Level Access Control
Classic Dimension Editor
Composite Form Sunsetting Update
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Oracle’s Planning and Budgeting Cloud October Release (18.10)
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Why Choose PBCS?
Don’t Forget About EPBCS!
Don’t Forget About EPBCS!
Smart View Excel Add-in
Today’s Webinar
New in October
Oracle Cloud Customer Connect
Documentation Feedback
Monthly Update Schedule
Substitution Variable Management Move
New EPM Automate Version
Task List Dashboard Task Type
New Calculation Manager Functions
FR Web Studio Server Setting
Master-Detail Dashboard Form Relationships
Daily Maintenance Performance
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Proposed Changes to Application Level Access Control
Classic Dimension Editor
Composite Form Sunsetting Update
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Transcription
The next update which is been fairly common in recent months as there is a new version of EPM Automate which again is that command line batch tool that allows Automation and command-line interaction with your Cloud instance. Updates in this release include a couple new commands
The first one is rename snapshot and the second one is to run daily maintenance and what these do are provide automation around be snapshotting that happens daily around the schedule it's been prescribed as far as renaming as well as the runs daily maintenance command with an enhancement for skip next is a new parameter. Skip next is a new parameter it allows you to skip the next occurrence of a daily maintenance process if there is a long-running ad-hoc process or one-off process running for a quarter or a year-end or something like that. We like to include a link on the side which is the place where Oracle provides documentation and syntax for all of these EPM automate commands which is really probably the best resource to understand through examples and and Oracle speak exactly whats available for all the EPM Automate commands and functionality.
https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas...
Here is a snippet from that document, and as you can see, there is a usage, an example, and a syntactical example which will show you exactly what these commands are doing. As you can see: USAGE -- EPM AUTOMATE -- Initialize EPM automate tool space -- rename snapshot -- your command -- and the snapshot name. It would be very easy very similar to Googling a calculation function command such as that @ relative if you were looking for documentation on the on-premise calculation functions. A very helpful tool that we would recommend you check out if you're looking at getting more in-depth. Of course, you can always reach out to us at eCapital Advisors. http://ecapitaladvisors.com