This November 2017 FINDINI 4.0.12 release should be available to users on Monday November 20, 2017. Please continue to review updated messages and outage information in the next two Monthly eNews articles as we continue to finalize our details as outage information is subject to change.
The main focus of this release is to upgrade the Oracle Financials Database from version 11.2.0.4 to 12.1.0.2. This will ensure our database version is supported by Oracle for several years to come. We will also be patching the entire application suite with the latest Oracle EBS 12.1.3 RPC5 (Rollup Patch Collection Set 5) functional application patches. This RPC5 will bring our EBS application to the most current bug free state of functionality available in version 12.1.3. Not only will we get fixes to some existing bugs, but we will also get some new functionality that we can look into using to improve our business processes. Oracle can also support our application more efficiently and effectively at this current patching baseline level.
System Outage – At this time, we are anticipating that the University's financial systems will be unavailable from Friday, November 17 at 6:00pm until Monday, November 20 at 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, 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, CPATH (Capital Planning at Harvard), DMS Financial Data Warehouse, CREW reporting, & OBI environments will also be offline at times during this outage. CPATH & DMS Financial Data Warehouse are also having a release during this same window.