by Doug Correa | 10 23, 2015 | EPM, FDM, FDMEE
Tip 4 – Using Lifecycle Management Want to save a file back up of FDMEE for disaster recovery purposes? Need to synchronize your FDMEE apps across environments? FDMEE makes this easy with Lifecycle Management. Lifecycle Management – commonly referred to as “LCM” – provides a mechanism for migrating application content across environments and even operating systems. You can access Lifecycle Management via Shared Services. In Shared Services, navigate to your FDMEE application. Select your FDMEE application to display a list of migration artifacts. Choose your artifacts and click the Export button to name and generate your LCM package. When the export is complete, your LCM package (a collection of XML files) will appear in the File System group in Shared Services. From there, you can download the LCM zip file to a network share. ...
by Doug Correa | 10 23, 2015 | EPM, FDM, FDMEE
Tip 3 – Downloading Metadata Using the Excel Interface Let’s face it. Analyzing data in an application interface can sometimes be cumbersome. Sometimes it’s just easier to do it in Excel. FDMEE comes with a rich reporting framework that allows you to export data to PDF and Excel. But occasionally you’d rather dispense with all of the reporting formatting and just have the data. Or, maybe there isn’t a report for the exact thing you want to review. Enter the Excel Interface component. Using the Excel Interface component you can download just about any metadata item in FDMEE. The Entity Type drop down list (yes, it’s a weird name) gives you a pre-defined list of objects you can download to Excel. Go to Setup > Integration Setup > Excel Interface and try it out. ...
by Doug Correa | 10 04, 2015 | EPM, FDM, FDMEE
Over the past month, Oracle has released a couple of key patch set exceptions (PSEs) for FDMEE 11.1.2.4, PSE 21444040 and PSE 21819491. What are Patches? A patch is a small collection of files copied over an existing software installation. There are 4 types of patches – Patch Set Exception (PSE), Patch Bundle, Critical Patch Update (CPU), and Patch Set Update (PSU). Oracle provides infrastructure resources with the “OPatch Utility for applying interim patches. For more information about how patch types differ and how they are applied, see Fusion Middleware Patching Guide. The attached screenshot below shows a breakdown of the defects fixed in FDMEE 11.1.2.4 PSEs 21444040 and 21819491. Right away, you can see that 9 out of the 10 fixed defects address issues with HFM. No surprise there. HFM Release 11.1.2.4 was re-written from the ground up to achieve independence from the Microsoft platform. (For details on the new HFM, see Henri Vilminko’s post, Say Hello to HFM 11.1.2.4.) So, if you’re using FDMEE with HFM Release 11.1.2.4 you almost certainly want to apply these patches. Additionally, if you’re in this camp you absolutely want to install two patch set updates to HFM 11.1.2.4, PSU 100 and PSU 101. Both patch set updates fix a major number of defects in HFM. If you’re implementing FDMEE 11.1.2.4 or your company is already live on 11.1.2.4, please pass along feedback. The Oracle development team relies heavily on user feedback to improve the...
by Doug Correa | 08 07, 2015 | EPM, FDM, FDM Classic, FDMEE
This past June saw the annual gathering of Oracle EPM folk for KScope15. For those not in the know, KScope is the premiere conference for all things Oracle Hyperion put on by the esteemed ODTUG (Oracle Development Tools User Group) community. Thought leaders, product experts, and end users meet to share tips, implementation success stories, and to get details on upcoming product releases from the Oracle product management team. Enter FDMEE. If you couldn’t make it to KScope15, or you attended the conference but had too many commitments to make it to FDMEE sessions and the EPM Symposium (read: you were sitting poolside with a mojito in hand), here are the highlights of the near-term roadmap for FDMEE – 11.1.2.4.100. Note: It’s always important to bring attention to Oracle’s Safe Harbor statement, which simply says, Yeah, this stuff is on the way, but no guarantees as to when. PBCS Integration and the Universal Data Adapter If you’ve ever attended one of Oracle’s presentations over the past couple of years, you know that data integration goal for FDMEE is any source/any target. FDMEE delivers several pre-built source adapters for major ERP systems, like EBS Financials and PeopleSoft. Earlier this year, the 11.1.2.4 Release also introduced the EPM Data Synchronization component. With FDMEE EPM Data Sync we can map and move data between two EPM applications, such as HFM and Essbase. In the next 11.1.2.4 patch set update (PSU), we can expect Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) to the be part of the EPM Data Synchronization family for quick and easy EPM to EPM integrations. To achieve the objective of any source/any...
by Doug Correa | 07 10, 2015 | EPM, FDM, FDM Classic, FDMEE
Good news for you FDM Classic users out there looking to extend the life of legacy FDM just a little longer. Oracle has provided a solution for using FDM Classic with IE11. See My Oracle Support Knowledge Base article Doc ID 2028236.1 for details. Keep in mind, if you plan an upgrade to Oracle EPM Release 11.1.2.4, you will still need to migrate to FDMEE. There’s no sticking around with FDM Classic beyond Release 11.1.2.3. And with 11.1.2.4 being the second major release of FDMEE, there are a lot of reasons to make the leap to FDM Enterprise Edition. Want to know a few of those reasons? Click here....
by Doug Correa | 05 28, 2015 | EPM, FDM, FDMEE
Tip 2 – Viewing an Execution Log In FDMEE, you use data load rules to extract data from a source system (e.g. Oracle EBS or SAP) or to load data from a flat file. When you click any Workflow step (Import, Validate, Export, or Check) in Data Load Workbench, the data load rule associated with the point of view is executed. Now, suppose you want to see the status of an import? Or you want to view additional details associated with a failure. Where do you look? That’s easy. Just go to the Process Details component of FDMEE. With the Data Management tab open in Workspace, go to Workflow > Monitor > Process Details. The Process Details grid will appear with an entry for each submitted task. For any task in the grid, click the corresponding Show link to view the log. ...
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