Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Outage

The Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Outage will occur from Tuesday, 04/18/23 at 5:00pm through Monday, 04/24/23 at 8:00am.  Full details on the outage and impact to system availability are included on the Oracle EBS 12.2 Project website along with the Cutover Outage FAQs. 

Specific details that impact sponsored accounts during the outage are summarized below and additional details are noted on the related screens in GMAS. 

Impact of Outage to Harvard Systems

  • GMAS – will be available, but financial data will not be updated and will only reflect transactions posted through 04/17/23. Other areas in GMAS that are impacted by the outage include:
    • Financial Deliverables: will be minimally impacted by the outage and can continue to be processed by OSP Research Finance.
    • GL budgets: can be entered during the outage, but they will not send to the GL until Monday, 04/24/23 at 11:15am and will not reconcile in GMAS until Monday, 04/24/23 at 12:47pm. 
    • Accounts: Action Memos may still be issued; however, no new or modified accounts in GMAS will be sent to the GL during the outage. These accounts will not be reconciled until 04/24/23.
  • HART – will be available, but financial data will not be updated and will only reflect transactions posted through 04/17/23. 
  • Buy2Pay – will be unavailable.
  • Chart of Account Validation – will be unavailable. 
  • Concur - Concur users will still be able to create, submit, and approve Expense and P-Card Statement Reports in Concur. However, resulting payments will not be processed during the outage. 
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