A Ton Of Updates For EPM 11.1.2.2

I just noticed that the long awaited Patch Set Update for HFM has been released yesterday. And Financial Management is not the only product to get the PSU .300 treatment - read below for a full list of recently released updates for EPM 11.1.2.2.0:

• Patch Set Update: 11.1.2.2.300 for Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (patch ID 14036837)
• The Equity Pickup, Intercompany Transactions, and Taskflow features are fully enabled (and further enhanced) in this release.
• Custom dimensions can be added to existing applications
• CopyApp Utility database connection doesn't require UDL files anymore
• Several other enhancements and bugfixes
• Workspace and HSS need to be updated at the same time (see below). Two Oracle ADF patches also required!
• Separate PSUs for Workspace and Shared Services fixing issues encountered when using Internet Explorer 9 or Firefox 10 to browse the web interfaces. The readme files state that both PSUs should be applied on all servers where Foundation Services are installed. 
• Patch Set Update: 11.1.2.2.300 for Oracle Hyperion Reporting and Analysis for Workspace (patch nr 13936087)
• Patch Set Update: 11.1.2.2.300 for Oracle Hyperion Shared Services (patch nr 14020629)
• Patch Set Update: 11.1.2.2.300 for Hyperion Smart View (patch ID 14362638)
• A pile of new features: Smart View Progress view (status bar shown for running operations), HFM data grid support, Essbase POV enhancements, improved function builder and more.
• Smart View performance enhancements
• Dozens of bugs fixed
• Patch Set Update: 11.1.2.2.300 for Financial Close Management (patch ID 14244112)
• Several integration enhancements
• User interface look and feel enhancements
• Accounts Reconciliation Manager artifacts now accessible via LCM
• Possibility to create parameterized links to OBIEE reports and other external resources using Global Integration Tokens feature
• Patch Set Update: 11.1.2.2.300 for Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (patch ID 14173894)
• HFM Intercompany target adapter fixed
• Database link enhancements
• Patch Set Update: 11.1.2.2.300 for ERP Integrator adapter (patch ID 13967787)
• Several bugfixes to ERPI

Quite a set of update packages indeed! I ask everybody to come back and share any experiences you have after applying any of these updates.

Update (September 7th):

Thanks to Nick for pointing out that additional PSU 300 updates have been later released for the following products:

• Hyperion Reporting and Analysis for Financial Reporting (patch ID 13997553)
• Large number of defects fixed
• Reporting and Analysis for Interactive Reporting (patch ID 14200932)
• Mainly browser related fixes (IE9 and Firefox 10)
• Hyperion Planning (patch ID 13905088)
• Multiple Planning issues fixed and several new features introduced (see readme)
• Enterprise Performance Management Architect (patch ID 14031912)
• Multiple fixes
• Hyperion Calculation Manager 11.1.2.2.300 Patch Set Update (patch ID 13925741)
• New feature: HFM Script to Graphical Conversion, multiple fixes

The following patches are also required by the HFM and Planning updates:

• Oracle ADF patch 13952743
• Oracle ADF patch 14339256

I have applied most of these patches to a couple of customer environments and didn't encounter any issues so far. One thing worth mentioning is that the ADF patches need to be applied using OPatch installed to a different Oracle home as they update files under the <MIDDLEWARE_HOME>\oracle_common directory. There are clear instructions for applying the ADF stuff in the HFM PSU 300 readme though so the difference is not a big deal.

The Planning PSU feels a bit "old school" because it involves copying the good old HSPJS.jar and some other miscellaneous files across servers if you're applying the update in a distributed environment. I had hoped these manual tasks would have been a thing of the past with EPM 11.1.2.x but it seems that it's not easy for Planning to shake off this old habit.