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1 for Oracle E-Business Suite Insight Version: for EBS Document Version: 1.0 Last Updated: November 28, 2012

2 Contents 1. General Information 3 Upgrading Information: Repository 3 Customer Service Assistance 4 2. Upgrade Information 5 Upgrading Information: Database Script Update 5 Recommendations for All Clients 5 Dynamic Flex Field Utilization in Oracle E-Business Suite 5 3. New Module and Templates 6 New Module 6 Cash Management (CM) 6 New Templates 6 Purchasing (POP) 6 General Ledger (GL) 6 Payments (AP) 6 Templates for R12 7 Purchasing (POP) 7 Receivables (AR) 7 Fixed Assets (FA) 7 4. New Enhancements 8 Featured Enhancements 8 Administration Enhancements 9 General Enhancements 9 5. Resolved Issues 11 Administration/Technical Updates 11 General Updates 11 Module Updates 12 Scheduler Updates Further Information 14 Contacts 14 Customer Services 14 Notices and Disclaimer 14 Page 2 of 14

3 Upgrading Information: Repository If you are upgrading from an Insight version prior to v9.0.x, you will need to upgrade to the latest v upgrade build prior to upgrading to this current release. If you are upgrading from any version of Insight, please note that Insight may require a new license key. You will need to obtain a new License Key from Customer Services. Once this is received, please perform a replace in order to retain your License Assignments. For more information on upgrading, please refer to the v9 upgrade document or contact Customer Services. Prior to upgrading, please make sure your Insight Object Repository is backed up (using your current Administration Application). This backup is essential for all types of installs, whether you are installing this version in parallel with an existing previous version or, alternatively, as a new stand alone installation. Any upgrade to requires a new repository to be created. All previous repositories from V9.0.x to Summer 2011 used Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0. Insight now requires Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0. Therefore if upgrading from V9.0.x or higher you will need to backup your current production repository and then restore into a new repository created in This must be done in order to login to the version. Download Microsoft.NET 4.0 (Full Client): Page 3 of 14

4 Customer Service Assistance If you have any questions about upgrading, please contact Customer Services. InsightSoftware.com s Customer Services Department can provide consultancy services and training on all aspects of the Insight application, including installing multiple versions in parallel to help you upgrade between the Insights versions. For more information about upgrades and installs you can create a case for Customer Services at For more information about consultancy or training requirements, please contact your InsighSoftware.com account manager. Page 4 of 14

5 Upgrading Information: Database Script Update If you are upgrading your Insight version, you will need to follow a process by which a script is run over your Oracle Database. After running the script you will need to confirm all Profile Connections in Insight Administrator for are using the correct username and password. (The new database script allows a unique username to be used. Please check with your DBA to get the correct username credentials to use in the Data Connections). You will then have to run through the Profile so it can update with any new tables and views that uses. Please note: This should be done in conjunction with an InsightSoftware.com customer service representative who will provide you with the relevant script for Insight release to be run on your Oracle Database. Recommendations for All Clients It is highly recommended that clients switch to using the Built In Data Provider for their Data Connections. Issues have been reported with the Oracle Client Data Provider and ODBC Data Provider. Dynamic Flex Field Utilization in Oracle E-Business Suite If Dynamic Flex Fields are utilized in Oracle EBS, data may not display as expected within Insight Reporting. Please inform Customer Service if using Dynamic Flex Fields and inform them which tables and fields are utilized. Page 5 of 14

6 New Module Cash Management (CM) The Cash Management Module has been added to Insight Reporting and is designed to enable users to report over bank statement data to help analyze transactions and aid investigations for reconciliation. For each Oracle major version, e.g. 11i and R12, there are two templates: one covers bank statement headers to provide summary information while the second covers bank statement transactions. This brings the ease of Insight ad hoc queries and reporting to Cash Management. The new templates for this module include the following: Bank Statement Lines: Provides reporting of bank statement lines. Often used as a drill down from Bank Statements. (Available for both EBS 11i and R12.) Bank Statements: Provides reporting of bank statements and un-reconciled amounts at the statement level. Often used to drill down to Bank Statement Lines. (Available for both EBS 11i and R12.) New Templates Purchasing (POP) PO Receipts: Template provides key information for receipts alongside the originating orders. (Available for both EBS 11i and R12.) General Ledger (GL) Payroll Costing: Provides access to payroll cost data imported from Oracle Payroll. Shows employee details for each GL code. (Available for both EBS 11i and R12.) Subledger Accounting R12: Template provides reporting for the subledger accounting layer, drawing in additional information from key AP, AR, FA and PA module transactions. Common uses: complete list of subledger accounting transactions. There is a new side panel which allows you the ability to see detailed information from the subledger modules all on the same screen, eliminating the need to drill down. Payments (AP) Supplier Sites: Template provides supplier site information for linking from Suppliers Master File. (Available for both EBS 11i and R12.) Page 6 of 14

7 Templates for R12 There are many new templates that are the corresponding R12 versions of what already existed for 11i. The reason for creating version specific templates is so the R12 security features such as MOAC and Ledger set security can be applied to the R12 versions. Projects (PA) Commitments R12 Expenditure Analysis R12 Expenditure Details by GL Code R12 GL to PA Drill (Expenses) R12 GL to PA Drill (Revenues) R12 Project Profitability R12 Project Revenue by GL Code R12 Project Summary (Multi Currency) by GL Period R12 Project Summary (Multi Currency) R12 Project Summary by GL Period R12 Project Summary R12 Purchasing (POP) Matching R12 Purchase Orders R12 Requisitions R12 Receivables (AR) Activities R12 Aged Debt As Of R12 Aged Debt by GL Segment R12 Customer Accounts R12 Customer Master R12 Customer Sites R12 Invoice Distributions R12 Invoice By GL Segment R12 Notes R12 Receipt Distributions R12 Receipts And Applications R12 Fixed Assets (FA) Asset Listing R12 Asset NBV Schedule R12 Asset Retirements R12 Asset Transactions R12 Depreciation Details R12 Invoices R12 Page 7 of 14

8 Featured Enhancements Designer Express (DX) is available for Oracle EBS! DX, a tool used to create custom templates, gives your organization immense flexibility by offering features including: o Ability to access any table in your Oracle database connection (including custom tables or views in your Oracle database). The additional tables need to be mapped in Insight Administrator. Typically the tables need to be on the same database server; however, if necessary this can be achieved using linked servers and database views. o Ability to handle different join types: many: many, many: one and one: one. o Ability to use segment definitions such as the chart of account flex fields. o Organization Security is applied automatically in DX reports for those tables that Insight already maps to in our Standard Templates. o Ledger Security for DX reports must include a join to either GL_SETS_OF_BOOKS (11i) or GL_LEDGERS (R12). o Within Template Designer, there is a button for Column Definitions, where column amounts and lookups are defined. o DXD users have the ability to set column definitions as a report override or a customer default, the latter being applied to all DX reports. o Also within the Column Definitions, DXD users have the ability to manually define a table or fixed list lookup in order provide filter validation, Query Assist support, and Code & Description feature support to end users. o When joining to the same table multiple times, DXD users can relabel the tables so that the end user can easily distinguish them. o If a Table or View does not have a primary (unique) key defined, one can be defined in the CustomerPk file located in the install directory. This file includes instructions so that Insight Administrators understand how to use it. (To edit this file, we recommend opening it with an XML Editor like Microsoft Visual Studio in order to ensure the syntax is correct.) o DXD users can choose which table in DX report is the 'first' table in the query to which all other tables are joined. 64 Bit: All Insight products are now available on a 64-bit platform. o Enhanced 64-bit architecture increases memory usage. The 64-bit version allows user s access to 8 TB whereas there is a 2 GB virtual memory limit with the 32-bit version of Insight. The higher memory capacity allowance is particularly helpful with large data sets. o A single repository can accommodate both 32-bit and 64-bit Insight versions, so this means that users at one site can be using the different versions. Page 8 of 14

9 Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available with Insight. o Single sign-on authenticates Insight users without the users needing to enter in their user ID or password. If all requirements are met, Insight users are not prompted for their username or password when starting Insight. o In Insight Administrator, SSO must be turned on at the repository level as well as at the user level. Sorting for Console: Insight Console users now have the ability to sort columns ascending or descending within inquiry results. Display Options for Console: Insight Console users can now show/hide details and/or subtotals on any report. Administration Enhancements An additional option Configure Additional Tables is available on profiles in Insight Administrator, in order to add tables for templates supplied separately from the Insight release, and also tables for Designer Express reports. In a database connection, you now have the ability to configure multiple servers for load balancing or failover configuration. The below 2 Advanced Capabilities have been added so that if desired, users can be warned about updated reports and be able to convert old reports to new reports. o Don t warn where an upgraded template exists If unchecked, any report where an upgraded template exists will be given a warning that the report will be upgraded. If checked, no warning is given and the report is upgraded once you SAVE AS with a new report name. o Hide reports where an upgraded template exists If unchecked, you will be able to see all reports, old and new (upgraded) reports. If option is checked, once all reports have been upgraded appropriately you can select to not see the old reports anymore. General Enhancements Performance enhancements were made so that many reports open more quickly. Reports which return many thousands of rows display more quickly. Reports containing calculations and subtotals run more quickly. Switching between large reports is faster. Ability to consolidate calculated label columns. On the Home tab within Insight, there is now a toggle button called Community Portal, which allows users to choose whether the InsightSoftware.com Community Portal is displayed or not. AR As Of Aged Debt Template - To assist users to indicate which departments, cost centers, etc are causing debt collection problems, a filter has been added to allow users to select one GL segment code at a time to see the level of debt caused by that department. Page 9 of 14

10 Ledger Sets Security is now honored in Insight for Oracle R12 customers. The existing locked Visual Assist for Ledger in all applicable templates is now unlocked and populated with all the ledgers included in the ledger set. NB If super users wish to report across ledgers beyond those in the ledger set they should switch off the security in the profile. Users who wish to report freely across all ledgers should have their own profile assigned with the security switched off. Adoption of R12 security features including Ledger Set security and Multi Org Access Control (MOAC). o o This ensures users upgrading to Oracle EBS R12 can adopt the new security features and be sure that Insight will continue to work elegantly with them. The Multi Org Access Control has been implemented without the need for users to constantly change responsibilities as they drill through the modules. o 11i customers will also see a more consistent approach to ORG and Ledger security through the modules Ability to limit EBS responsibilities for Insight Console users o This is a facility to restrict Insight Console users to specified responsibilities through Insight rather than allowing the users to log in with any of the responsibilities they may have assigned to them in Oracle. o o To restrict the responsibilities from which an Insight Console user can select, Insight now references an additional user-defined profile option for the responsibility in Oracle. This is an additional configuration of Oracle within System Administration. This feature will only work when the profile option is set up in Oracle. If the profile option does not exist in Oracle, Insight will work in the standard way. There is no additional set up in Insight. Insight will automatically reference the new profile option for all Insight Console users if it exists in the Oracle instance. Page 10 of 14

11 In addition to the list below, also includes all fixes up to and including SP3. Administration/Technical Updates Server configuration: Allow configuration of multiple servers in an Oracle connection setup for load-balancing or failover configuration. User can run Insight Suite applications on a workstation which has Microsoft.NET Framework 4.5 installed. Additional required indexes have been added to the Insight installation via the database script. These indexes help to speed up the underlying extraction of table and column information from the ERP system, thus speeding up the initialization queries run at login time. General Updates The Default Print Location has been changed to %UserDocuments% which is the logged-in user s My Documents folder. Added Inquiry Option for EBS integrated reports to allow child values to be available in calculations. For Console Users: Now have the ability to limit the responsibilities available to select in Console by using the Profile option name "INSIGHT_CONSOLE_USER" defined in the EBS system to only those users that have Org and Segment security set up within Oracle. In the Design tab of the ribbon, the checkbox previously named 'Totals' has been renamed to 'Subtotals'. In the ribbon under the Home tab and in the Print Options section under the Report tab, the check box for 'Show Footnotes' was incorrectly displayed previously and is now no longer displaying. The column NAME - Operating Unit has been added to all relevant templates in AR, AP, FA, PA and POP. In the ribbon under the Design tab, for the Description dialog, only one radio button can be selected now as the 'Custom' and other options are mutually exclusive. Previously it was possible to select an option at the same time as 'Custom', which was incorrect. After checking 'Fixed Sized' in the Column, Sorting and Grouping dialog, the column width would change to 1 previously and now it stays as 10 ( the default value). Templates have now been modified to include SOB filter for Oracle 11i and LEDGER filter for Oracle R12 versions. The Drop Down Hierarchy filter logic was corrected in order to respect nodes that contained two values (i.e. comma separated) Page 11 of 14

12 Module Updates AP: Payment GL Date field is now available in Days between Calculation after enabling the Inquiry Option "Allow Values in Child Tables in Calculations". AP: The Template AP Invoices and Payments was corrected and no longer receives an error when adding the Approval Status field as a column. AP: The column PERIOD_NAME from the table GL_PERIOD is now available in More Columns for the Transactions AP plus Non AP R12 template. AP: Both Posted and Unposted invoices now appear in Live AP Trial Balance Template after enabling the Inquiry Option "Show All Invoices, Including Unposted". AP: PA_ADDITIONS_FLAG field is now available in the AP Invoice Distributions 11i and R12 Templates. AP & POP: The column LINE_TYPE from table PO_LINE_TYPES_TL is now available on AP and Purchasing Templates where table PO_LINE_TYPES_TL is already available. AP & POP: Contract_Num from table PO_LINES_ALL has been added to AP Invoice Distributions R12 and PO Templates. AR: Receipt Number and Receipt Date columns are available via 'More Columns' in the Invoices and Receipts Template. AR: Display order of Aging Categories now appears correct on all Aged Debt Templates. AR: Receipt Date is now available via 'More Columns' in the Aged Debt and Aged Debt As of Templates; however not available in the Aged Debt by GL Segments Template. FA: Asset Transactions Template modified to include all the Adjustment Types and also to ensure that GL Segments are available. GL: When drilling from GL Balances template to Transaction Summary the Period to Date and Year to Date is passed properly to the Effective Dates. GL: Added in column CLOSING_STATUS from GL_PERIOD_STATUSES table to both GL Balances 11i and R12 Templates. PA: PER_JOBS table is now available using 'More Columns' in the Expenditure Details by GL Code Template. PA: PA Period is now passed through to the Expenditure Item Date from Project Summary Template to Expenditure Details by GL Code Template. POP: PO Number is now available via 'More Columns' to be added on the PO Requisitions 11i and R12 Templates. POP: Requisitioner First Name column has been added to all POP Templates. POP: Contract Purchasing Agreement Number and Contract Purchasing Agreement Date is now available via "More Columns" in the Matching and Purchase Order Templates. POP: Requisition Approved Date and Requisition Creation Date from PO_REQUISITION_HEADERS_ALL Table is now available via "More Columns in the Purchasing Templates. Page 12 of 14

13 Scheduler Updates The Run As User and Distribute To user lists in the Scheduled Inquiry Task dialog are now sorted alphabetically. Scheduler now gives a validation message when you try to create a scheduled task with a scheduler user who has only 'Read permission' but not 'ReadPermissions permission' for the inquiry. Page 13 of 14

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14 Contacts For more information regarding our products, please contact us at: Web Customer Services For product support, please log a case with our Customer Services Department. Support Portal Notices and Disclaimer Insight Reporting, Insight Budgeting, Insight Console, Insight Designer Express, Insight Reconciler, Insight Administrator, Insight Scheduler and GL Inquiry are trademarks of InsightSoftware.com Limited. InsightSoftware.com is a registered trademark of InsightSoftware.com Limited. Oracle, JD Edwards, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards World and Oracle E- Business are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The information contained in this document represents the current view of InsightSoftware.com on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. InsightSoftware.com cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This document is for informational purposes only. InsightSoftware.com makes no warranties, expressed or implied, in this document InsightSoftware.com Limited. All rights reserved. Page 14 of 14

InsightSoftware.com. for Oracle E-Business Suite

InsightSoftware.com. for Oracle E-Business Suite for Oracle E-Business Suite Insight Version: 2012.2 SP4 for EBS Document Version: 1.0 Last Updated: July 10, 2013 Contents 1. General Information 3 Upgrading Information: Repository 3 Customer Service