Oracle EBS FINDINI 4.0.14

Release Notes

The Fall 2018 FINDINI 4.0.14 release will be available to users on Monday October 22, 2018.

Please continue to review updated release messages and outage information that will be posted in the September & October e-news articles, on the Oracle Financial splash pages, and on the sites listed below.

SHORT SUMMARY:

Due to work being accomplished on several other major ITCRB projects such as Buy-2-Pay and Revenue Management, the focus of this release is mainly focused on our collaboration, testing, and preparedness for the Data Warehouse migration to the AWS Cloud that has a production go live of 9/25. We are also rolling out several CAPs & GL enhancements, along with addressing the standard security and compliance software and database patching to keep EBS and CPATH up to date with many industry security regulations and requirements. These will include updates for PSU, ATG, CPU, JDK, JRE, & Linux & WebLogic Operating System patching.

Oracle Financials Outage - 6:00pm on Friday, October 19th until 9:00am on Monday, October 22nd to accommodate the installation of this release. CPATH (Capital Planning at Harvard), DMS Financial Data Warehouse, & OBI Reporting will also be offline during this outage window. CPATH & DMS Financial Data Warehouse are also having a release during this weekend.

Please review the Detailed Summary below for much more pertinent information regarding what this release may mean to you.

DETAILED SUMMARY:

The focus of this release is mainly focused on our collaboration, testing, and preparedness for the Data Warehouse migration to the AWS Cloud that has a production go live of 9/25. We are also rolling out several CAPs & GL enhancements to help with business process and added functionality improvements. In addition, we are addressing the standard security and compliance software and database patching to keep EBS and CPATH up to date with many industry security regulations and requirements. These will include updates for PSU, ATG, CPU, JDK, JRE, & Linux & WebLogic Operating System patching.

Other key discovery deliverables in the FINDINI 4.0.14 Release time frame that will be rolled out in future releases include:

  • Several new items to support the new Buy-2-Pay ITCRB initiative
  • Several new items to support the Revenue Management ITCRB initiative
  • Several new Fixed Assets process improvements and reporting enhancements
  • Discovery for the second and final Leg of the Citibank TS2 upgrade which will address how we will need to handle data element changes passed from Citibank in the new Global Billing File (GBF) formats that were implemented in a past FINDINI release.
  • Several new Contingent Workforce items to enhance the Chart of Accounts upload process

SYSTEM OUTAGES:

The University's financial systems will be unavailable from Friday, October 19 at 6:00pm until Monday, October 22 9:00am to complete the installation of this release. The Oracle EBS Financial systems that will be offline during this time include:

  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Payable Adjustment Form for Assets
  • Accounts Receivable
  • iReceivables & Collections
  • Bottomline
  • CAPS
  • Cash Management (CMRA)
  • Chart Security Maintenance Application (CSMA)
  • Chart of Accounts GL Validator
  • FedEx
  • General Ledger
  • Oracle Assets
  • HCOM & iProcurement
  • PCard
  • Vendor Request
  • Web ADI
  • Web Reimbursement

Also, CPATH (Capital Planning at Harvard), DMS Financial Data Warehouse, & OBI reporting will be offline during this same outage of Friday, October 19 at 6:00pm until Monday, October 22 9:00am. CPATH & DMS Financial Data Warehouse are having a release during this weekend.

ADDITIONAL RELEASE DETAILS FOR FINDINI 4.0.14:

The FINDINI 4.0.14 release will include a Java JRE update to 1.8.0_181. For Mac desktop users only, when logging in for the first time after October 22, those users will be required to download this updated Java JRE. If users receive a popup message that a more recent version is available, they should NOT act upon the request.

Windows desktop users will no longer have to install Java JRE updates for Oracle Financials due to the Java Web Start technology. At a minimum, they must have JAVA JRE 1.8.0_141 which was pushed to them in our last FINDINI release. If needed for other applications, there is no harm for those users to update to JAVA JRE 1.8.0_181.

PLEASE NOTE:

Oracle Financials desktop standards can be found on site https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp?id=sc_cat_item&sys_id=05d7a432dbacc7c083a2f3f7bf961977 under the Enterprise Application Supported Desktop Configurations section. These desktop standards will be updated for this release during our cutover. Further helpful tips & release information can be found on sites http://fss.finance.harvard.edu/popular-resources & http://oracle.fss.finance.harvard.edu/releases & https://oracle.fss.finance.harvard.edu/user-resources.

Click here for further E-news publication information regarding this release:

September Edition: https://admin-enews.eureka.harvard.edu/news/findini-4014-release-upcomin...

October Edition: https://admin-enews.eureka.harvard.edu/news/findini-4014-release-upcoming-october-system-outages-oracle-financials-systems-0

For questions please contact the HUIT Service Desk at ithelp@harvard.edu or call them at 5-7777.

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See Attachments for Summary of release changes.

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