New enhancement way to clone the EPM Application: Starting from EPM Monthly Patch 26.05

Prior to EPM monthly patch 26.05, cloning of any EPM application was limited to using backup snapshots or the Artifact snapshot as the source. There was not much flexibility provided by Oracle. From EPM Monthly patch 26.05, administration has got flexibility to specify an Environment Backup as the source when cloning an environment, providing a more efficient and reliable way to replicate the environments for disaster recovery or production-to-test migration.

EPM Automate command :  cloneEnvironment 

Clones the current environment and, optionally, identity domain artifacts (users and application role assignments), Data Management records, audit records, Job Console records, application properties, contents of the inbox and outbox, and stored snapshots. 

This command is an alternative to using the Clone Environment feature.

Syntax -

epmAutomate cloneEnvironment TARGET_USERNAME TARGET_PASSWORD TARGET_URL [SnapshotName=NAME] [environmentBackup=NAME] [UsersAndPredefinedRoles=true|false] [DataManagement=true|false] [appAudit=true|false] [jobConsole=true|false] [storedSnapshotsAndFiles=true|false] [DailyMaintenanceStartTime=true|false] [ApplicationProperties=true|false]

Examples:

• Clone the environment, users and application role assignments, audit data, job console records, and Data Management records using an environment backup. Also change the maintenance start time of the target environment to that of the source environment:

  epmAutomate cloneEnvironment serviceAdmin Password.epw https://test-cloudpln.pbcs.us1.oraclecloud.com environmentBackup=2026-03-11T16:30:37/Environment_Backup UsersAndPredefinedRoles=true

• Clone the environment, users and application role assignments, audit data, job console records, and Data Management records using a specific backup snapshot. Also change the maintenance start time of the target environment to that of the source environment:

  epmAutomate cloneEnvironment serviceAdmin Password.epw https://test-cloudpln.pbcs.us1.oraclecloud.com SnapshotName=2026-03-11T16:34:52/Artifact_Snapshot UsersAndPreDefinedRoles=true

• Clone the environment including the contents of inbox and outbox, stored snapshots, but not the users and application role assignments, Data Management records, audit data, and Job Console records using the last artifact snapshot, without changing the maintenance start time of the target environment:

  epmAutomate cloneEnvironment serviceAdmin Password.epw https://test-cloudpln.pbcs.us1.oraclecloud.com DataManagement=false appAudit=false jobConsole=false storedSnapshotsAndFiles=true DailyMaintenanceStartTime=false

Applies to:   

ARCS, EDM, FCCS, Freeform, NRCS ,TRCS, Planning applications and Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management,

Business Benefit: 

This new option provides a more efficient and reliable way to replicate the environments for disaster recovery or production-to-test migration.

Thank you!