The University's Financial systems will be unavailable from 6:00pm on Friday, December 18th until 6:00am on Monday, December 21st to accommodate the scheduled FINDINI 4.0.8.2 release. This minor release consists of a few technical patches, just released by Oracle, needed to make Oracle EBS compatible with SHA-2 SSL technologies. This release is needed prior to January 1st in order to comply with Security regulations and to avoid further browser issues that require SHA-2 SSL as of 1/1/2016. Financial systems that will be offline during this time include Accounts Payable, Accounts Payable Adjustment Form for Assets, Accounts Receivable, Bottomline, CAPS, Cash Management (CMRA), Chart Security Maintenance Application (CSMA), CoA Validator, Collections, FedEx, General Ledger, GL Validator, Harvard Oracle Assets, HCOM, iProcurement, iReceivables, PCard, Vendor Request, Web ADI, and Web Reimbursement. Also, the CPATH (Capital Planning at Harvard) environment will also be offline during this same time line for similar software patching needs.
This FINDINI 4.0.8.2 release will include a JRE update to version 1.8.0_66. Logging into Oracle on or after December 21, will require a Java JRE update to version 1.8.0_66. This approved update should be allowed post 12/21. If Users see a pop up message that a later Java version is available, they should NOT act upon the request. Again until December 21, all user should remain at the current JRE version of 1.8.0_51.
Oracle Financials desktop standards can be found on site http://huit.harvard.edu/pages/computer-standards under the Enterprise Application Supported Desktop Configurations section. These desktop standards will be updated for the December 18th release. Further helpful tips can be found on site http://fss.finance.harvard.edu/popular-resources.
For questions please contact the HUIT Service Desk at ithelp@harvard.edu or call them at 5-7777.