FINDINI 4.0.8 Release
The University's Financial systems will be unavailable from 6:00pm on Friday, October 23rd until 6:00am on Monday, October 26th to accommodate the scheduled FINDINI 4.0.8 release. This release consists of many technical patches needed to make Oracle EBS compatible with the Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) browser & MS Office 2013. This release also consists of software and database patches in order to keep the system up to date with many industry security regulations and requirements. Financial systems that will be offline during this time include Accounts Payable, Accounts Payable Adjustment Form for Assets, Accounts Receivable, Bottomline, CAPS, Cash Management (CRMA), Chart Security Maintenance Application (CSMA), CoA Validator, Collections, FED EX, 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.
Important Note: The FINDINI 4.0.8 release will include a JRE update to version 1.8.0_51. Logging into Oracle after this release will prompt a Java JRE update to version 1.8.0_51. This approved update should be allowed. If Users see a pop-up message that a later Java version is available, they should NOT act upon the request. Users should not attempt to install anything higher than the Java 1.8.0_51 version.
Additional October Outages for Oracle Financials Systems
- October 4 - Operating System Server Patching for Oracle EBS - Oracle Financials will be unavailable 6am - 11am
- October 17/18 - Oracle Financials will be unavailable for the execution of the Workflow Notification Cleanup Initiative