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Oracle® Hyperion Financial Management – System 9

Release 9.3.3.0.00

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About This Maintenance Release ........................................................................................... 1

Release Type ....................................................................................................................... 1

Supported Installation Paths ............................................................................................... 1

Supported Platforms ........................................................................................................... 2

Supported Languages .......................................................................................................... 2

Release Compatibility .......................................................................................................... 2

Defects Fixed in Release 9.3.3.0.00 ....................................................................................... 2

Defects Fixed in Release 9.3.1.4 ............................................................................................ 5




Known Issues in Release 9.3.3.0.00 .................................................................................... 10

Installing Release 9.3.3.0.00 ............................................................................................... 11

Working with Financial Close Management ....................................................................... 13

About This Release

This Readme file describes the defects fixed in Hyperion® Financial Management 9.3.3.0.00 as well as

the necessary instructions for installing this release.

Release Type

This maintenance release is cumulative and incorporates all service fixes to the 9.3.1 release.

This maintenance release replaces files in the existing installation, and does not require a full

installation.

Supported Installation Paths

The supported installation path for Release 9.3.3 is from Release 9.3.1 and subsequent service fixes

and packs only.

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Supported Platforms

Information about system requirements for Release 9.3.3 products is available in the Hyperion

Installation Start Here. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/epm.html.

Supported Languages

Release 9.3.3 is English only.

Release Compatibility

For most deployment scenarios, Release 9.3.3 is interoperable only with other Release 9.3.3 products.

This means that you must upgrade all products in your environment to Release 9.3.3.

However, note these exceptions: If you are using Performance Management Architect 9.3.1.x, you

must upgrade Performance Management Architect to Release 11.1.1.3. In addition, if you are

upgrading to Release 9.3.3 in order to integrate with EPM System Financial Close Management Release

11.1.2 and/or EPM System Disclosure Management Release 11.1.2, some additional releases are

compatible. For more information, see the Hyperion Installation Start Here chapter, "Using Release

9.3.3 Product With Components From Later Releases" and "Release Compatibility". See

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/performance-

management/documentation/index.html.

Hyperion Application Link (HAL) Adapter

The Hyperion® Application Link (HAL) adapter is included in this release. If you use HAL, you must re-

install the adapter according to the HAL instructions, using the new HAL adapter executable provided.

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Defects Fixed in Release 9.3.3.0.00

10035607 – Multi-server installation issue

9837191 – Validation Accounts 2 – 9 are not checked when locking entity

9726802 – Wrong German translation for word “submit” on Web Data Entry Forms

9725137 – Performance optimization in Task Automation

9725117 – Performance optimization for running Intercompany reports

9724702 – Selecting help in Equity Pick up Module returns blank screen

9720703 – Performance optimization for running Intercompany reports

9673017 – Under certain circumstances a journal with an invalid parent child relationship can be

posted

9659881 – Under certain circumstances erroneous data may be included in Data Audit

9654094 – Performance Optimization

9638039 – Invalid pointer error caused by expired CSS token

9591435 – Database performance optimization

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9577011 – Under certain circumstances changing a validation account can cause process control

issues for some users

9576309 – Under certain metadata changes the manage ownership module may be displaying

incorrect data

9556341 – Error when opening exported Web Form in Excel

9556248 – User selection field and calendar is not working in Task and Data Audit

9556239 – Extraction of Data Audit results in question marks in user field

9556221 – Phantom rows appearing in Data Audit extracts

9536134 – Under certain circumstances data is not shown for phases 2 – 9 in process control

module

9501454 – Process Management sends out multiple emails

9453878 – European standard for decimal and thousands separator not accepted when

importing and exporting web forms

9446344 – Not possible to view details of system messages

9446322 – Not able to save a web grid when option to overwrite file is selected

9430963 – When loading metadata some parent entities are changing status

9403483 – Memory optimization



9383710 – Extracting the hierarchy with Extended Analytics may not complete with dimensions

with a large number of members

9375390 – Creating new context in Apache to a second HFM webserver is not successful

9368034 – Starting a second hierarchy in process control with shared members may not

complete successfully

9356902 – Schema upgrade changes the Dtimestamp property in Data_Audit table

9342753 – Error occurs when loading data in mode of “replace by security”

9328150 – Task Audit is not capturing failed logon user ids

9327993 – Memory optimization for data copy

9327744 – Not all partner information being included in the Intercompany Transactions report

9282641 – Erroneous warning message displayed when exporting WDEF to Excel

9282597 – Optimization of the rules cache to improve consolidation performance

9239743 – Greek characters in journal label prevent journal from being displayed

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9180114 – SSL error message appears when sending email alerts in Process Control

9171090 – Memory optimization for consolidation process

9163050 – Security Class access screen is not displayed properly in Firefox

9149381 – Performance optimization for user logon when user belongs to multiple groups

9124141 – Optimize translation process in multi-server environment

9109719 – Under certain circumstances a manual match in Intercompany Transaction Module is

not completing successfully

9086108 – Optimize caching of translated data for generating Intercompany Matching Reports

9082019 – Performance optimization for data submission through Web Data Entry Form

9077476 – Office 2007 documents may not load successfully into Custom Documents

9064063 – Process Control module also displays parent member when [Base] member list is

selected

9035545 – Entity can be locked before all submission phases are published

9032625 - User selection field and calendar is not working in Task and Data Audit

8983698 – Phased submission updates may not completely sync with other application servers

in the sync timeframe

8965289 – Running tasks displays data audit query when user selects task audit

8817391 – Data with more than 15 places is being displayed in scientific notation format

8772118 – Web Data Entry Form not working correctly in Firefox

8771940 – Preview button in Web Data Entry Form module is not working in Firefox 3.5

8768360 – Return button for POV is not operating in Task Automation in Firefox 3.0/3.5

8737577 – Ownership information is not copied via Database Management for inactive entities

8733265 - Extracting the hierarchy with Extended Analytics may not complete with dimensions

with a large number of members

8704562 – Performance optimization for user logon

8693820 – Opening a data load error log in a multi-server environment may result in a “class

not registered” error

8660866 – Data is getting truncated when exporting a web data entry form into Excel

8650520 – Extended Analytics may not successfully complete when it is pointing to a VIP in an

Oracle Database

8650376 – Performance optimization when executing a large number of translations via 3rd party

utility

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8539227 – Help files missing in Win32 client

8535333 – Erroneous error generated when running a consolidation

9296870 – An error may occur when extracting journals in IE6 after upgrading to 9.3.1.4

9231353 - Under certain circumstances there may be multiple copies of HSVDATASOURCE.EXE

Running for the same application

9080049 – There are ASP.NET unhandled exception errors appearing in the Windows System

Event Log

9044580 – Memory optimization for auto-matching in Intercompany Transaction Module

9001872 – Under certain circumstances reason codes may disappear when posting transactions

in the Intercompany Transactions Module

8974185 – After upgrading to HFM 9.3.1.4 the version is still displaying as number 9.3.1.3 in

Workspace

8818113 – When logging into Workspace, HFM does not remember the last page the users were

active in.

8741939 – There are some formatting issues when exporting WDEFs using Excel 2003

8593204 - The user preference “Save all Files in Unicode Format” cannot be changed

8509589 – Under certain circumstances Exporting an Intercompany Report to Excel may not

complete successfully.

8236739 – Performing a lock on a parent with inactive entities also locks the inactive entities

7692636 – Under certain circumstances a user may get Error “Error 1A8 Object Required” when

opening Process Control

7355812 - Installing .Net2 SP1 may cause compatibility issues with HFM

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Defects Fixed in Release 9.3.1.4

8334753 - Optimized Data Load performance

8397281 - Improved WDEF Export to Excel 2007

8231099 - Metadata Load fails when loading one dimension

8345776 - Background colors are lost when exporting WDEF to Excel

8541923 - Unable to fix WDEF with incomplete override statement after trying to save

8363029 - Performance optimization for consolidations

8417749 - Unable to export WDEF when using a space as a thousand separator

8431676 - Performance optimization for Intercompany Transactions matching by Transaction ID

8454025 - In WDEF audit intersections did not work for cells that were input via HS.Input rule

7652916 - Unable to view all periods in process control when navigating away from and back to

process control task

8243160 - Modify how status on inactive children are handled during a metadata load in an org by

period application

8464660 - Schema Upgrade Utility puts invalid characters in the FdmAppName field

8624966 - After a log file full error a user can unpost a journal when review status does not allow it

8357472 - A metadata scan is logged as a metadata load in HSVEVENTLOG

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8270687 - Exporting Task Audit information with extremely large number of records may cause

application instability

7702808 - A rules scan is logged as a metadata load in HSVEVENTLOG

8594500 - Export of WDEF to Excel fails when three or more metadata columns included

8486639 - NoInput Cells in Export of Web Forms appear as input cells

8437654 - A non-Advanced user may be able to see Browser View when navigating away from and

back to an application

8279523 - Process Control History may not display correctly in multiple period view

8279426 - Correct Phase my not display correctly in multiple period view

8576700 - WDEF Export may not open when a user has “NOACCESS” to some cells

8561128 - WDEF Export not keeping decimal formatting

8361034 - Extended Analytics fails when specifying an index table for Oracle DB

8509257 - Intercompany Transaction Report may not always show both ways when running

matching by account

8468136 - The flag “show active only” in process control is not working in tree view

8267299 - The user which initializes the steps of a task flow is not logged off once the task flow is

completed

8585031 - Under certain circumstances a posted journal may not show header

7274936 - A separate user session is launched for a user running multiple Intercompany reports

7715830 - Multiple HSVDatasources running for same application

8549006 - WDEF export may not work when using fixed length column width

8449288 - WDEF export not successful when using a period as a thousand separator

8294821 - The first time a user selects an application after recycling IIS an error is produced

8509860 - An invalid parameter message is logged in HSVEventlog after deletion of invalid records

7715822 - Consolidation optimization for applications using Oracle DB

8476361 - Under certain circumstances the sticky server is not working

8404719 - Referential integrity does not check for journals using a deleted entity as ICP

8296484-Add user name and task name to error “You do not have the proper access rights to

perform this task”

8296472-Type mismatch error

7571854-Metadata referential integrity check error shows table name instead of journal label

8518863-Under certain circumstances the servers may stall when applications are started

8339405-Audit intersections is not available for locked cells

8234910-When non-changeable dimensions are changed in EPMA, unable to redeploy application

with changeable dimensions

8456947-Unable to open exported WDEF using Excel 2000

8414277-Under certain circumstances the “apply action to” button is greyed out in process control

8320580-Copy data action in database management fails when there are inactive entities in the list

of entities selected

7460227-A separate user session is launched for a user running multiple Intercompany reports

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7627614 - Modified registration routine for environments with multiple clusters

7622244 - Modified server validation to prevent duplicate folder names

7622089 - Technical messages not suppressed to end users

7622288 - Modified server validation to ensure that folder name is required

7493139 - Modified logging of posting and unposting of journals for multi-users

7705532 - In HSVEventlog a rule scan is logged as rule load

7599539 - Modified pass/fail status for validation account to include decimal places

7463231 - Modified ownership calculation when no entity has ownership greater than 26%

7714703 - Further restricted what type of user can register applications via workspace

7564707 - Modified use of “INUSE” bit for impacting status during metadata load

7413683 - Cannot promote an entity in process management that has had a default entity change

7589383 - Modified locking routine to allow for selection of single period to lock previous periods

7499369 - On org-by-period applications, an invalid entity cannot be locked when its contribution

has been calculated.

7603964 - Modified locking and unlocking routine for use with Value dimension members

7527438 - A user must have admin rights to modify Extended Analytics routines

7558323 - Cannot add new line item if any period in current year is published

7613105 - Modified how user preference routine works during cluster selection

7552780 - Improving use of multiple cluster selection in user preference

7673859 - Could not access documents that are named with allowed special characters and spaces

from workspace favorites menu

7422078 - Switching between applications via File>Open Application does not refresh the member

lists for the new application

7503995 - Renaming a parent member in a custom dimension causes children to become orphaned

in an EPMA deployed application

7461026 - A buildup of the ASP Request Queue can cause an application to hang

7457910 - Modified mutex handling in Smartview provider to prevent deadlock

7408767 - Exporting of web forms to Excel does not work with Excel 2007

7476317 - Opening of Custom Documents does not open in sub frame

7483160 - Hal 9.2.1 Adapter not disconnecting appropriately

7409682 - With German selection the preference pane for consolidation is not showing up

7622273 - There is a delay from when an admin logs a user out and when the user is actually

removed from the system

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7366520 – Authentication for Smartview can result in 2 LDAP BINDs occurring

7377139 – Inability to change an entity’s active status via the ownership management screen

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7363045 – Entity locks during may be removed earlier than required for overlapping

consolidations in applications using consolidation rules

7363040 – A journal load that is started while a metadata load is taking place may remove

entity locks and halt both processes

7384470 – Modified the way BLOBs are handled for applications using a DB2 database

7371654 – Running tasks in a multi-server environment is not always showing the correct

information for a different server than the one the user is logged into.

7362391 – In certain circumstances suppression may not work correctly in intercompany

matching report

7361556 – Manage Application button in Classic Application Administration section of Workspace

may result in java error and log the user off

7374118 – In certain circumstances cell text may not display correctly in Web Data Entry Forms

7374050 – Email alerting for Intercompany Matching Reports does not include values

7390347 – Preference pane is not available when Internet Explorer language setting is German

7332052 – With certain mail servers the subject line in email alerts for Intercompany Matching

Reports may be blank

7380745 – Unable to use Extended Analytics when MSXML 4.0 is installed

7323304 – Using a favorites link with certain special characters may not launch HFM

7387879 – Unable to perform eight data loads and a consolidation concurrently

7320439 – Encoding URLs with special characters results in extra characters in URL

7393823 – The Entity Curr Adj value member was not included in a consolidation if only

impacted by an HS.ImpactStatus rule.

7390439 – A Web Data Entry Form which has incomplete details for add member function will

cause the application to hang

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7109471 - Optimize password settings in Win32 Client

7037907, 7115159, 7115866 - Data Load log files stored in c:/temp directory of application

server. In multi-server environment this could result in incorrect log display when user access

data load logs from Running Tasks screen

7127350 - Deleting Data through entering “NODATA” or the delete key is not captured in Data

Audit

6937339 - Performance optimization for journal reporting

6610061 - Performance optimization for data copy and data clear processes in database

management

6893248 - Task Audit is not able to sort by User ID

6893230 - POV for the calculate function is not captured in Task Audit

7005630 - Performance optimization for viewing process management status in web grids

6758839, 7010764 - Unable to lock entities in more than one period in web grids

6847704 - Process Status may be incorrect for some entities after using Schema Upgrade from

Financial Management 3.5.1 with a DB2 Database

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6820530, 6785642 - Cannot open a document if it is stored in a folder that has a space in it’s

name

6820507 - Member selector in Web Grids is not finding all members that start with the same

characters

6581343 - Cell Text Indicators in Web Grids and Web Forms may stay after cell text has been

deleted

7243417 - Account Selections are not stored when saving an Intercompany Transaction Report

7006516 - FDM drill through not available on locked cells in web grids and web forms

7175883 - User with security class access to partner but not to entity is not receiving email

alerting for Intercompany Matching Report

7253536 - During a consolidation a hung connection is not always being released

6908643 - Process Management Status Flags on summary periods were not consistent between

administrator and non-administrator users

7015818 - Performance optimization for grid refresh for process management status

7005197 - Memberlist selector not active in Database Management

7232902 - Extended Analytics extract in Essbase format does not support account labels greater

than 30 characters

7238161, 7238090 - Performance Enhancements for Extended Analytics

6937339 - Memory optimization for running of large journal system reports

6775184 - Performance optimization for applications with large sub-cubes

6767828 - Performance optimization for application with large no input rules

6804884 - Load security time stamp not included in Task Audit

8-640773425 - Memory optimization for process management

7010263 - Performance optimization for viewing running tasks, task audit and system messages

during heavy usage

6959394 - Add capturing of all journal tasks in task audit

8-6513514 - Memory optimization for metadata loads with organizational changes

8-6135811 - Unable to add/subtract constants for POV functions CUR, FIRST and LAST in Sub

Dynamic rules

7130372 - Unable to lock from the top of the hierarchy

8-6418567 - Saved journals and journal templates with invalid intersections will fail integrity

check on metadata load

6903217 - User can post journal with data access to only first line of journal

6582418 - Unable to use a delimiter in a data load file that is the same as either the decimal or

thousands separator

6587875 - Unable to use apostrophe as a thousand separator in user preferences

7274940 - The following error message “The signed-on token is no longer valid” is received

when specifying an alternate web server

7019170 - On multi-CPU servers the system is creating an excess number of database

connections.

7274936 - When a single user is running multiple system (for example, Intercompany) reports

at one time the system will create a new user session for each report. This will distort the user

reporting in Users on System report.

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7202877 - The split function in the HFMErrorLogView incorrectly splits the HSVEventLog file.

7195476 - Process Control screen does not always update when changing between different

views of entity structure (for example, Hierarchy, Base, etc)

7195446 - Process Control screen does not correctly update when switching between different

entity member lists.

7041170 - Error “An Unsupported Operation was Attempted” is thrown when navigating to

Tools\Extract Database Entries in HFMErrorLogViewer.

7019355 - Suppression is not working correctly with Web Forms.

6993316 - When trying to promote data to a higher level than is possible (for example

promoting to Review Level 1 from a NotStarted level) – the warning message that is thrown is

not able to be cleared.

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Known Issues in Release 9.3.3.0.00

The following issues are the noteworthy known issues of this release:

Installation

If you use the Manage Equity Pickup feature of Financial Management, before you install Financial

Management 9.3.3, you must install the Financial Management 9.3.1.3 patch.

After you install the 9.3.1.3 patch, check that the following files are installed in the Ownership

Management folder to enable you to use the Manage Equity Pickup feature:

Drive

If you have previously installed Hyperion Essbase Server 9.3.3 on the same machine on which you are

installing Financial Management 9.3.3, you may receive a “Permission denied” error due to some of the

common files installed by both products being set to read-only mode. Before you apply the patch,

execute the following steps to ensure that these files are not in read-only mode. (9477273)

Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder and right click to bring up

the properties for that folder:

1. Uncheck the Read Only checkbox.

2. Click on the Apply button.

3. Select the option to “Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files”.

Intercompany Reports

When you run several Intercompany reports, the process may be slow and you may receive a white

screen. If this occurs, you can add a Windows registry setting to increase the number of concurrent

threads allowed, which increases the number of reports that you can run simultaneously.

To increase the number of concurrent threads:

1. Select Start, then Run, then in the Open box, type regedt32 and click OK.

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2. Navigate to .

3. Create the DWORD NumAsyncThreads and set a value which is the number of concurrent

threads that you want to support.

The recommended value is two times the number of CPUs on the Web server.

Microsoft SQL Server Databases

Financial Management does not support case-sensitive collation on the database instance (Defect

10401373)

Restricted Characters

For Financial Management text boxes in which you enter text, it is recommended that you avoid using

text strings such as vbscript, vbx, javascript, jscript, <script> <textarea> and <pre>, and strings

such as <X on X=X> where X=anystring.

Security

If you encounter an issue related to “IIS Chunked Encoding Overflow”, you need to verify the version

of the Web Server for Financial Management and apply the corresponding security patch that Microsoft

has provided to address those issues. (9278929)

Financial Management Utilities

The latest release of HFMUtilities Utility can be accessed via Oracle Technology Network at:

Documentation

When opening HTML documentation or HTML Help in Firefox 3.5.9 or later, or in Internet Explorer 8.0

or later, you may experience some display or navigational anomalies, including images not loading.

This does not affect the integrity of the application content.

The Financial Management 9.3.1 Administrator’s Guide, Managing Data Forms section, contains

examples of styles that do not display correctly in Firefox browsers. If you experience issues using

these style examples, modify the shorthand font property to include the font-size and font-family.

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Installing Release 9.3.3.0.00

The section includes important information about installing this release.

Note: HFM 9.3.1.0, HFM 9.3.1.1, HFM 9.3.1.2, HFM 9.3.1.3, or HFM 9.3.1.4 should already be

installed on all HFM Application Servers and all HFM Web Servers.

To install the 9.3.3.0.00 patch:

1. Make sure all HFM Services are stopped.

2. Stop Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).

3. Copy to your local drive. This zip file contains these files:

HFM_9_3_3_0_0.exe (installation file for this release)

HFM_9_3_1_3_HAL.exe (installation file for Hyperion Application Link)

hfm_93300_readme.html

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hfm_epu.pdf (Financial Management Equity Pickup Addendum)

4. Double-click .

Register the AsyncCallback.dll running the following from a command prompt:

6. Start IIS.

7. Restart HFM Services.

Note: You also need to install the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Workspace 9.3.3.0.00

patch. For instructions, see the Oracle Hyperion Reporting and Analysis 9.3.3 Readme.

Optional: If you are using SSL, complete this step after installation:

Complete the SSL procedures. See Oracle’s Hyperion SSL Configuration Guide at:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10530_01/doc/epm.931/hyp_ssl.pdf.

Optional: If you are implementing a custom authentication module, complete this step after

installation:

Complete the procedures to implement the Custom Authentication Module. See the Custom

Authentication Module white paper at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/resource-

library.html:

1. Copy the custom authentication module .jar file into a local directory on the FM server.

2. Add the custom authentication module .jar file to the classpath by creating a Windows registry

entry that is similar to the entry for css-9_3_0.jar file.

Setting Up Email Alerting with the SMTP Server

If you want to use the SMTP email alerting capability, and you are using an SMTP server that requires

authentication, use this procedure:

1. Ensure all HFM Services are stopped.

2. Stop IIS.

3. Register the Mailer.dll using the following command:

Note: Double quotes around the file path are required.

4. Create the following registry variables, under

:

Note: If you are not using an SMTP server that requires authentication, do not create these

variables.

AlertSMTPUserName = user name for SMTP authentication (create a String value)

AlertSMTPPassword = password for SMTP authentication (create a String value)

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AlertSMTPPort = port for SMTP server. Default is 25. (create a DWORD value, and enter the

value as Decimal)

5. Restart IIS.

6. Restart Financial Management.

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Working with Financial Close Management

This release integrates with Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management. Financial Close Management

helps companies define, execute, and report on the interdependent activities of a financial close

period.

Financial Management provides Integration Types for use with Financial Close Management. The XML

file, contains all of the Integration Types and definitions associated with

Financial Management. The file is provided with Financial Management 9.3.3 and is located in the

following directory: It is also available for

download from My Oracle Support.

For instructions on working with Financial Close Management, see the Hyperion Release 9.3.3

Installation Start Here.

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