The on-premise Oracle EPM product suite was upgraded today to release 11.2. This long awaited release is primarily a technical upgrade for a lot of back end technology. That all said, there are two new HFM features.
First, in Task Audit, there are additional tasks that are now logged.
The data lock/unlock tasks also include the point of view being acted upon. It's not clear but I'm hoping the journal scenario/year/period is also captured.
Second, there are two new configuration settings related to calculations.
I've lived without these two features but I can understand and appreciate their usefulness. Looking forward to seeing what else is included with version 11.2.
First, in Task Audit, there are additional tasks that are now logged.
- Journal Period Opened
- Journal Period Closed
- Data Locked
- Data Unlocked
The data lock/unlock tasks also include the point of view being acted upon. It's not clear but I'm hoping the journal scenario/year/period is also captured.
Second, there are two new configuration settings related to calculations.
- MaxNumConcurrentCalculations - sets the number of concurrent calcs allowed per server per application. The default is 8.
- ConcurrentCalculationWaitTimeInSecond - If the max above is reached and someone then starts another calc, this setting controls how long they wait before the calc times out. If a calc times out, then a message is entered in the system log with the point of view details. The default is 30 seconds. By setting the value to -1, the system will wait indefinitely until another calc finishes.
I've lived without these two features but I can understand and appreciate their usefulness. Looking forward to seeing what else is included with version 11.2.
