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Getting Started
What's new? | For a list of new features and enhancements in PPM, see What's New in PPM 10.0.4. |
Install PPM 10.0.4 |
For details, see the Installation and Upgrade Guide. |
Upgrade PPM to 10.0.4 |
You must upgrade PPM to 10.0.4 from 10.0 or later versions. For details, see the Upgrade Guide. |
System requirements and supported environments | For system requirements and supported environments information, see System Requirements and Compatibility Matrix. |
Integrations | For details about the supported integrations with PPM, see PPM Integrations. |
APM Release Notes | For details, see the APM Release Notes. |
Fixes | For defect fixes included in PPM 10.0.4, see Fixes. |
Known issues | For known issues in PPM 10.0.4, see Known Issues. |
Fixes
OCTCL44A | Symptom | Resolution |
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305011 |
If a resource logs time against a work plan task as a contributor (the resource is not assigned to the task), in the work plan Quick view, PPM incorrectly sets the resource as an assigned resource of the task. |
Fixed |
443042 | Time submitters should not be able to add milestone tasks to their time sheets if the ALLOW_LOG_TIME_ON_MILESTONES parameter is set to false. | Fixed |
446011 |
When a task already has actual effort, the activities associated with the task should not be editable. |
Fixed |
461008 |
The execution log for commands that are executed by event rules are not recorded. |
Fixed |
467001 | If you edit list validation values from web UI, the order of the validation values should be the same as in the Excel file. | Fixed |
470005 |
For a milestone whose duration is zero and that already has a Actual Start date, if you set the Actual Finish date to a date earlier than the Actual Start date in the work plan Quick view, the Actual Start date should be updated to the actual finish date. |
Fixed |
489001 |
It takes long to modify the dynamic security for a workflow step. |
Fixed |
496015 |
If you change the actual finish date for a milestone whose duration is zero in the work plan Quick view or the task details page, the Actual Start and Actual Finish fields should both be filled with the actual finish date. |
Fixed |
496043 |
If you modify the user data and sequence of list validation values in Excel, and then import the changes to PPM from web UI, the modifications to the validation values are not updated in PPM. |
Fixed |
498007 | The page filter added to a shared dashboard page is not migrated from one instance to another. | Fixed |
498010 |
Fail to load the tooltip for the Program field. |
Fixed |
500019 | The portletNoPreview error occurs when you approve a workflow step from email. | Fixed |
501002 |
Fail to create projects using a project type that is configured to calculate the project health by a custom method. |
Fixed |
515005 |
When you download a project work plan as an MPP file under the PPM-control mode, the complete percentages are all set to 0. |
Fixed |
Fixes in 10.0.3
OCTCL44A | Symptom | Resolution |
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407040 |
Incorrect project title in the exported PDF. |
Fixed |
408040 | The GenericJDBCException error occurs when running the financial summary web services. | Fixed |
419002 | Notifications are delayed. | Fixed |
420001 | Fail to load the program overview page. | Fixed |
426014 |
If you export a table component to an Excel file, not all validations used in the table component are exported. |
Fixed |
427016 |
The preference settings set for the Request List Portlet does not correctly show the request list portlet data if some specific display columns are selected. |
Fixed |
428034 | Unable to save or submit new package lines. | Fixed |
428045 |
The Search box in the work plan Quick view should also be available in the Spanish instance. |
Fixed |
428115 | The "Not modified within last XX days" filter for the Request List Portlet does not work. | Fixed |
430001 | When PPM is started, an extra log folder is created under the disk root folder. | Fixed |
433005 |
The functionality of resizing staffing profile columns in the New UI does not work properly. |
Fixed |
435014 | Unable to search GUID exceptions. | Fixed |
436007 | Unable to view the notifications in the Workflow Detail report. | Fixed |
437009 |
The work plan user data fields are cut off in the Schedule view. This issue occurs in the Chrome and Edge browsers. |
Fixed |
439007 | The Expand and Collapse buttons in the Workbench do not function correctly. | Fixed |
443003 | The cell formatting applied to the Excel Report template is lost after the upgrade. | Fixed |
447013 |
The error message when you enter invalid values in the Project Scope Change request fields persistently displays even when you click OK to dismiss it. This issue occurs only in the Chrome browser. |
Fixed |
444001 |
The "This Request has been updated by another user. Please refresh the Request and then continue with your changes." error persistently occurs even when there's no other user edits the request simultaneously. This causes the failure in editing a request. This error occurs only to one specific request. |
Fixed |
445001 |
For a PPM server that is running in the Development mode, after it is restarted from the Administration Console, the Development mode is disabled. |
Fixed |
447010 | Unable to set the URL preference of the Web Frame Portlet. | Fixed |
450015 | Running cURL commands in an AWS EC2 instance does not return any data. | To run cURL commands in an AWS EC2 instance, you need to add the HTTP token. |
455006 | Unable to update request field status dependencies. | Fixed |
Fixes in 10.0.2
OCTCL44A | Symptom | Resolution |
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166972 |
Fail to export a project to PDF after you configure an external web server. |
Fixed |
243018 | If you edit a task's Scheduled Start or Scheduled Finish date in the work plan, the first day of a week should be the same in the work plan Quick view and Schedule view. | Fixed |
341003 |
If a request field uses the "PPM - User Names - Enabled" system validation, when you export the request to PDF, this field should display the user name instead of the user ID. |
Fixed |
360029 |
If a financial cost user data field has a semicolon in it, upon saving, PPM treats this field as a multiselect field and stores only the data before the semicolon. |
Fixed |
360040 |
Fail to save a request when the HIDE_SECTION_WHEN_ITS_FIELDS_ARE_HIDDEN_BY_UI_RULES parameter is set to true. |
Fixed |
361023 |
The same drill-down portlet with the same preferences should display the same data when opened from a private dashboard page and from the portfolio overview page. |
Fixed |
361028 | The Advanced search does not work after the upgrade to PPM 10.0. | Fixed |
361032 |
When linking a PPM task to an ALM Octane project, the Shared Space field fails to load the values. |
Fixed |
370006 |
Portlets are not displayed correctly after the upgrade to PPM 10.0 with the LogConfigurationException. This issue occurs in the Chrome and Edge browsers. It does not occur in the IE browser. |
Fixed |
375016 |
When you export request search results to Excel, the hyperlinks should not be displayed as text strings with the metatag "<!--HTML-->". |
Fixed |
375017 |
A drill-to portlet should correctly display the data in both the normal and maximized view. |
Fixed |
375034 |
If you edit the filter settings for a drill-to portlet, the portlet does not display the filtered results correctly. |
Fixed |
376007 |
PPM does not correctly derive the time approver from an override rule. This causes an error when you submit a time sheet. |
Fixed |
376011 |
If you update a user's scheduled effort from the Resources section in the request details page, and then click any action button, the user's actual effort becomes zero. |
Fixed |
376016 |
An error occurs when you create a summary report for a theme backlog that was created from within an existing objective by using the objective workflow step. |
Fixed |
376040 | Unable to create a new notification for a workflow step. | Fixed |
377007 |
The Project Number column takes too much horizontal space in the Quick Edit page that it is difficult to edit other columns. |
Fixed |
377012 |
The hyperlinks should not be displayed as plain text in the Search Request Results page. |
Fixed |
394015 |
The value changes in JIRA request fields are not synced to the mapped fields in PPM request after the External Request Info Sync Service background service runs. |
Fixed |
394055 | The ksc_create_agile_requirement special command in a PPM request workflow step fails to create a request in JIRA. | Fixed |
394061 |
When selecting request types from the Request Type auto complete, the default value for the Show All Request Types filter field should be the same in all language locales. |
Fixed |
396013 |
The "Contains" selection mode for a validation does not work properly. |
Fixed |
402007 |
A stack overflow error occurs when exporting to Excel a Request List Portlet that contains a lot of data in fields whose token name ends with “_ID”. |
Fixed |
408017 | An error occurs when you unlink a JIRA project from a PPM work plan task. | Fixed |
365001 |
The color of the health indicator on the Analyze Current Portfolio portlet is inaccurate. |
Fixed |
Fixed in PPM 10.0.1
OCTCL44A | Symptom | Resolution |
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319008 |
A user with the Project Mgmt: Edit Project and Resource Mgmt: View Staffing Profiles access grants can view the project overview page, but cannot view the staffing profile from the Staffing tab of the project overview page. |
Fixed |
324036 |
The Current Rate column on the Search Cost Rules page should be sorted in numeric order, not in alphabetical order. | Fixed |
329026 |
In the work plan Scheduled View or Actuals View, the text strings and the autocomplete button in the Resources and Activity columns are not fully displayed. This issue only occurs in the Chrome or Edge browser. |
Fixed |
334013 |
Fail to send notifications to valid email addresses. The "Invalid email addresses" error occurs. |
Fixed |
334021 |
If you have two resources with the same full name, but different user IDs and email addresses, when running the Actual Time Summary and Time Sheet Summary reports, the hours and costs of these two resources are combined into one line. |
Fixed |
335011 |
When exporting the Request List portlet to Excel, if the portlet has hyperlinks in the columns, headers of these columns are overlapped or missing in the exported Excel. |
Fixed |
336010 |
If you display a date field column in the request search results page, and if a security restriction is applied to this date field, when the request search results are exported to Excel, the date format is incorrect. |
Fixed |
336023 |
The RM-Resource Assignable to Task validation does not return all the valid results if you search for resources by username. |
Fixed |
278017 |
An error occurs when you send an email or initiate a chat from the tooltip of a request field. |
Fixed |
340027 |
A validation that uses the Contains selection mode does not work correctly. |
Fixed |
344005 |
When saving a request, the "The P_294 parameter is malformed" error occurs. |
Fixed |
344012 | Portlets on the Portfolio Overview tab cannot be exported to Excel. | Fixed |
340005 |
If you manually update a resource's scheduled effort in the Resources tab of a request details page, and click Save for Later, this resource's actual effort becomes zero. | Fixed |
349001 | The Resource Audit Trail should correctly record who made the modifications to a resource. | Fixed |
350003 |
The columns in the Notes section of a request details page should display the correct header. |
Fixed |
352004 |
When using LDAP authentication, if there is more than one LDAP server, when PPM fails to authenticate a user against one LDAP server, it stops and does not continue to authenticate against other LDAP servers. |
Fixed |
353001 |
Fail to export a pivot portlet to Excel when there's a lot of data in the portlet. |
Fixed |
354002 |
If you run reports by running the shell script from ksc_local_exec, an incorrect log "sh: SHELLOPTS: readonly variable" is saved in variable as command output. This causes the report to fail. |
Fixed |
354013 | The Field Security Denormalization service takes too long to complete. | Fixed |
358002 |
The environment check hangs for too long without displaying any error messages. |
Fixed |
335024 | Fail to call the SOAP service to set the resource participation. | Fixed |
Fixes in PPM 10.0
OCTCL44A | Symptom | Resolution |
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166484 |
If you add a file to a request's References section, then reopen the file using the Action button after checking it out, the strings on the screen were overlapped. |
Fixed |
270042 |
If a project's Planned Start Period or Planned Finish Period is not changed, the message should not pop up to inform you that the staffing profile dates will be synchronized with the project dates. |
Fixed |
287026 | Typo in the Sri Lanka currency name. | Fixed |
289018 |
After you integrate a PPM project with an ALM release using the View Project Quality integration solution, the Project Summary tab in the Project Overview page does not display all the four project quality related portlets. |
Fixed |
291011 |
The newly added list validation cannot be edited from the Edit List Validation Values page. |
Fixed |
291028 | Error in the My Time Sheets portlet after the upgrade to PPM 9.64. | Fixed |
291031 | If you edit list validation values from web UI, the user data field values that contain a space can be downloaded to Excel, but cannot be uploaded to PPM. | Fixed |
289044 |
When exporting portlet data to Excel, an apostrophe is added in the columns that have negative values. | Fixed |
292027 | Unable to open the PPM Workbench after the Java upgrade. | Fixed |
292036 |
When editing list validation values form web UI, if you upload a Excel file that has duplicate code to PPM, a message should be provided to pinpoint the duplicate code. |
Fixed |
292037 | When editing list validation values from web UI, if the Excel file contains a blank line, the modified Excel file cannot be uploaded to PPM. In this case, there should be a message to inform users that the file cannot be uploaded because there's a blank row. | Fixed |
292039 | If you download list validation values to Excel from the Edit List Validation Values page, the multi-select user data fields in the Excel are blank. | Fixed |
292043 | It takes long time to load a team's Roadmap tab. | Fixed |
289010 |
If you edit list validation values from the Edit List Validation Values page, after you upload the modified values, PPM does not display the status, nor the change details. | Fixed |
293033 | When using the kMigratorExtract and kMigratorImport commands to migrate PPM modules, the settings for the Show Total Number of Records and Export to HTML Excel check boxes are not migrated. | Fixed |
294008 | An database error occurs when configuring the Hybrid Project tab. | Fixed |
298004 |
If a workflow uses a request type, when you add a new security token to or modify an existing token of the workflow step, the new (or modified) token should dynamically resolve to users or security groups that are authorized to act on the workflow step in the requests that use the request type. |
A new parameter: RESOLVE_DYNAMIC_SECURITY_TOKENS_REQUEST_TYPES was introduced to dynamically resolve the security token of a workflow step. For details, see Server parameters. |
309011 |
If you add or edit effort for an unnamed headcount in the FTE unit, the following problems occur:
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Fixed |
303088 | The nosniff header should be added to all the PPM pages. | Fixed |
304001 | Cannot open New Package Group from the PPM Workbench. | Fixed |
304002 | The text in the request header field should be center aligned. | Fixed |
304003 | The field tooltip should disappear when you navigate away from that field. | Fixed |
304005 | An error occurs when updating a staffing profile header using Web services. | Fixed |
304014 | When searching a project by the project number in the My Time Sheets app, the app does not function. | Fixed |
305015 | Fail to download work plan as MPP file in work plan Schedule View. | Fixed |
305016 |
If PPM is integrated with OICD SSO, it does not support custom parameters in the authentication code URI and headers for end points. |
Fixed |
310017 |
The Export to Excel function on the Search Resource Pools result page does not work. |
Fixed |
310030 | If Oracle JDBC is upgraded to 12.2.0.1, the JAR file should also be upgraded to 12.2.0.1. | Fixed |
310061 | Unable to migrate workflows. | Fixed |
311052 | If a user made some changes in a financial summary and click Cancel or refresh the page to discard the changes, another user should not be blocked from editing the financial summary. | Fixed |
312013 |
Packages that have required user data field unfilled should not be submitted successfully. |
Fixed |
315002 | When hovering over a Stacked Area Line Chart portlet on a drilldown page, the legend label should appear over the chart, not at the top of the page. | Fixed |
318006 |
The TM and DM synchronization takes too long during the PPM upgrade. |
Fixed |
318009 |
Unable to add items that are managed in JIRA to a time sheet in PPM. |
Fixed |
318011 | The layout of the project details page is not correct. | Fixed |
319040 |
When importing effort from JIRA to PPM, the effort values on the Import External Data page are overlapped. |
Fixed |
320008 | Removing a request from a time sheet is not recorded in the time sheet audit trail. | Fixed |
323020 | The PPM menu is not correctly displayed. | Fixed |
323035 |
Incorrect error message in the server log when migrating portlet definitions. |
Fixed |
324005 |
When updating financial summaries by calling SOAP, PPM frequently searches the fiscal period information from the database. This results in the failure to update the financial summaries. |
Fixed |
324013 |
If you open the Staffing tab in the project details page, you are unable to open other tabs in the project details page. |
Fixed |
324028 | A report rule that makes a text area field required and editable does not work. | Fixed |
320511 | The notification to notify resources when they are committed to a staffing profile position is not sent out. | Fixed |
325020 | A user should not be allowed to create two time sheets for the same time period. | Fixed |
Known issues
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As Internet Explorer 11 is end of life on June 15, 2022, the new features introduced in 10.0.4 and later versions are not support in IE 11. For issues that occur in IE11, PPM will only fix the blocking ones. For any non-blocking issues on IE11, PPM will not provide any fixes or workarounds. We recommend you use other browsers instead.
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An error occurs when saving My Tasks portlet. This issue occurs only in IE version 11. Use another browser or contact support for a hotfix.
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If the HIDE_SECTION_WHEN_ITS_FIELDS_ARE_HIDDEN_BY_UI_RULES parameter is set to true, when a UI rule is triggered for a request, this request cannot be proceeded. If this issue occurs, contact support for a hotfix.
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The Scenario Comparison page does not display any scenario comparison content when you select to display any columns in the Portfolio's Proposals/Projects/Assets and Scenario Comparisons section in the Configure Portfolio and Scenario Comparison Options page. If this issue occurs, contact support for a hotfix.
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When overriding program health, after you click the Select date button in the Until field of the Override Health window, the Select date dialog box is displayed beyond the screen. You can move this dialog box to the desired place on the screen so that you can select the dates.
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The error "Unknownjava.lang.NullPointerException" may occur when starting PPM. However, when this error occurs, you can continue to start and run PPM properly. If you cannot start PPM, contact support for a hotfix.
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The exception error "java.lang.NullPointerException" may occur if you install PPM with the install.sh command and set all the configuration parameters to the default values. However, when this error occurs, you can continue to install and run PPM properly.
- If you export Analyze Assignment Load portlet data to Excel and select the following two options: display Total Assignment Values for Actual Effort, and include detailed data, the details from packages, programs, and miscellaneous are not exported to Excel, while their actual efforts are included in Actual Total Assignment. PPM plans to fix this issue in a future version.
- Fail to import effort that is submitted in JIRA Cloud to PPM time sheets.
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An error occurs in the portfolio Backlog tab if you select Project No. as the displayed column for Portfolio's Proposals/Projects/Assets and Scenario Comparisons section in the Configure Portfolio and Scenario Comparison Options page.
Workaround: Do not select Project No. as the displayed column in the Configure Portfolio and Scenario Comparison Options page.
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An error will occur in portfolio backlog Board view in the following cases:
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If you set the column or swim lane of a portfolio backlog's Board view to fields that are configured as selected columns in the Configure Portfolio and Scenario Comparison Options page, and if such fields are then removed from the selected columns, an error will occur if you open the Board view using the same browser.
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If, in Global Portfolio Settings, you set the column or swim lane of portfolio backlog's Board view to fields that are configured as selected columns in the Configure Portfolio and Scenario Comparison Options page, and if such fields are then removed from the selected columns, an error will occur when you open a portfolio backlog and switch to the Board view's system default layout.
Workaround: Add the removed fields back to the selected columns in the Configure Portfolio and Scenario Comparison Options page. And then set the board's column or swim lane to other fields if the previous fields still need to be removed.
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- If you click the product icon to go to the Dashboard landing page, and before you export the page to PDF, your landing page has already been changed, the PDF will display the contents of the new landing page instead of the page you want to export.
- Fail to install PPM on the operating systems with the Turkish locale.
- Fail to open the License Usage page from PPM Workbench in Arabic sessions.