For years, people have asked me to build a new ribbon to supplement Smart View that replicates the functionality I have in my Essbase Ribbon. Multiple people have hacked into it and made it their own. One company is selling it. For that reason, I had zero interest in doing it again. Time has passed, and here I am, building a ribbon. It will again have common functions in one place, as well as some additional ones, like
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There is a new, and often requested, option added to Smart View. If you use drill through to Data Management (PBCS) or FDMEE (On Prem), download the most recent release of Smart View. We, as users, now have the option to change where the result of our drill through queries is returned. Users can either be asked where the result should be displayed, have it displayed in your browser, or (drum roll) have another tab created that holds the results in Excel. Read more
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What’s New in Hyperion 11.1.2?
Shared Services
As you’ve no doubt noticed by now, this has turned into a series of posts involving new features in the 11.1.2 release of the Hyperion products. This post will cover some of the significant changes to Shared Services, including improvements to Security Administration, Lifecycle Management, and Taskflows.
Security Administration
It’s been well-documented at this point that there have been multiple issues with the OpenLDAP approach to the Native Directory. In 11.1.2, the OpenLDAP has been replaced with a relational database as the storage point for native accounts and provisioning. This has already proven beneficial, as it allows for the next improvement below.
There is no longer a need for Essbase synchronization for users, as it is now done automatically. This is a welcome change from most, as it was always very easy to forget to refresh security. However, group synchronization must still be done manually.
The supported SSL configurations have also seen significant improvements. These include:
- SSL Offloading
- 2-way SSL deployment
- SSL termination at the web server
Oracle Single Sign-On (OSSO) is also supported in this release. The Oracle Internet Directory (OID) is used to provide SSO access to web applications.
Lifecycle Management (LCM)
Like the rest of Shared Services, LCM has adopted Oracle Diagnostics Logging (ODL) as the standard logging mechanism.
Perhaps the biggest improvement to LCM is that it now supports the extraction of data. Essbase data now appears as a selectable artifact when performing an export, and can be updated with the outline. On this note, I should probably point out that for cross-product migrations, LCM determines the correct order based on dependencies.
Some other modifications to LCM include:
- Additional information in migration status reports, including source and destination details.
- Users must be provisioned with the Shared Services Administrator role to work with the Deployment Metadata tool.
- The Calc Manager is supported, and has its own node under Foundation. As a result, business rules can now be migrated to classic HFM and Planning applications.
Shared Services Taskflow
This release has seen the addition of two new roles in Shared Services
- Manage Taskflows – This role allows users to create and edit a taskflow
- Run Taskflows – This role permits users to view and run a taskflow, but they cannot create or edit taskflows
Follow the link below to view the complete document of changes
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