Steven Chan • November 20, 2009
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 is already certified with the 10gR2 10.2.0.4 database for several platforms. Our Applications Platforms Group continues to certify additional platforms on a regular basis. They have just completed their certification of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 versions 12.0.4 and 12.1.1 with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 for x64 (64-bit) platforms.
Prerequisites
You should review the system requirements from the relevant Oracle
Database 10gR2 documentation (Installation Guide, Release Notes,
Upgrade Guide) prior to installing the database on these platforms.
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Steven Chan • November 19, 2009
Everyone gives lip service to the importance of security, but it's often relegated to the back-burner in actual practice. For example, my anecdotal experience is that when conference attendees are polled about Critical Patch Updates, usually fewer than 50% of the respondents state that they're up-to-date on the latest CPU.
One potentially complicating factor is that there are many things that one can do to secure the E-Business Suite, and it may be hard to know where to start. At minimum, all Apps DBAs should be intimately familiar with these documents:
There are many other security-related Oracle products that you can use with your E-Business Suite environment, too. Eric Bing and Robert Armstrong profiled all of the latest security-related tools and options that are relevant to E-Business Suite users in their recent OpenWorld 2009 session:
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Steven Chan • November 18, 2009
I recently wrote about the eternal dilemma of the Apps system implementer: whether it's
worth customizing the E-Business Suite or not. Customizations and extensions introduce the challenge of deploying your customizations between multiple development, QA, and production environments. Our new Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite has the potential to help to with that, and a few other notable systems management tasks, too.
The Application Change Management Pack is one of the most-interesting new lifecycle management products released recently from our Applications Technology Group. The Application Change Management Pack is an optional add-on to the Application Management Pack. The Application Management Pack is an Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control plug-in for the E-Business Suite.
The Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite (sometimes oddly referenced as "ACP" instead of "ACMP") has three noteworthy new capabilities:
- Customization Manager: Takes all files associated with a custom application, report or extension and bundles them into an Oracle patch. Standard AD utilities can then be used to apply the patch to different Apps instances.
- Patch Manager: Auomates many of the manual tasks associated with applying EBS patches, as well automates installing patches in multiple EBS instances.
- Setup Manager: Automates the migration of configuration/setup data across instances. Provides over 300 functional APIs (AOL, Financials, Manufacturing, Distribution) for setup data management.
Ken Baxter and Biju Mohan covered the new Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite in detail in their OpenWorld 2009 session:
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Steven Chan • November 17, 2009
I'm part of the Applications Technology Integration group within the
E-Business Suite Development division. One of this team's
responsibilities is to ensure that new Oracle technologies are
integrated into -- or work with -- the E-Business Suite.
Lisa
Parekh leads our team, and every year she manages to pack a survey of
the increasingly-broad EBS technology stack landscape at OpenWorld into
her session. If you're interested in getting a quick overview of
everything that we consider important about the latest EBS technology
stack capabilities, download her presentation here:
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Steven Chan • November 12, 2009
The
Exadata Database Machine Version 2 was released at OpenWorld 2009 to great fanfare. Since its unveiling, I've been getting a steady stream of questions from E-Business Suite customers who are intrigued by Exadata V2's potential.
All 11gR2 Database Applications are CompatibleThe E-Business Suite and other OLTP applications will run on the Exadata V2 system if they're certified with the 11gR2 Database on Linux.
Oracle E-Business Suite
Release 11i is certified on the 11gR2 database, so it can run on Exadata V2 today.
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Steven Chan • November 10, 2009
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.~ Henry Ford
Ford's now-famous words seem a little quaint today. We live in the Golden Age of the Consumer, where virtually everything can be customized or personalized in some way. If you can customize mass-produced consumer goods, it seems reasonable to expect that you should be able to customize something as strategic and mission-critical as an enterprise resource planning system, too. But just because you can, does this mean that you should?
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Steven Chan • October 29, 2009
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.0 originally shipped with OracleAS 10.1.3 Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) for running its Java-based content. Regular readers of this blog know that we certified
OracleAS 10.1.3.4 with Apps 12 at the end of 2008, with additional operating system platforms following shortly afterwards.
We've now certified Oracle Application Server 10g 10.1.3.5 OC4J with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. You can upgrade to OracleAS 10.1.3.5 OC4J directly from OracleAS 10.1.3, 10.1.3.3, or 10.1.3.4. This certification allows you to upgrade the OC4J components in your R12 techstack to get take advantage of the latest performance and stability improvements in this incremental patchset. To make sure that there's no misunderstanding about what can be upgraded, the full name of this patchset is:
It's important to note that either OracleAS 10.1.3.3, 10.1.3.4, or 10.1.3.5 are mandatory prerequisites if you plan to upgrade your Release 12 application tier to the latest certified version of Java 6.
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Steven Chan • October 27, 2009
At OpenWorld a few weeks ago, I got the strong impression that the majority of you have heard that Premier Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i
will end in November 2010. If the standing-room only R12 upgrade sessions were any indication, it seems that many of you are now planning your Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 upgrades or migrations.
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 was released in early May 2009. Our next upcoming release will be EBS 12.1.2. The Release Content Documents (RCD) for Apps 12.1.2 have now been published -- in advance of the actual General Availability of R12.1.2 -- here:
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Steven Chan • October 26, 2009
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 is now certified with Oracle Database Server 11gR1 version 11.1.0.7 on Microsoft Windows x64 (Windows Server 2003).
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Steven Chan • October 23, 2009
Secure Enterprise Search 10.1.8.4 was certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.0 earlier this year. Our Applications Technology Group has just released their certification of Secure Enterprise Search 10.1.8.4 with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i.
If you missed that earlier announcement, here's a recap of the basics. Secure Enterprise Search (SES) provides new search capabilities for EBS: Apps users can search for E-Business Suite data using a unified search engine, with search results displayed based upon their Applications responsibilities. Searches can be performed on structured and unstructured data. Notably, search results respect multi-level security, including:
- Role-based access control (RBAC) functional and data security
- Product-specific security policies
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Steven Chan • October 22, 2009
This
is the second of a series of regular updates on our Windows 7
certification projects for the E-Business Suite.
Microsoft Windows 7 was officially released today. Here's a recap of
our plans for certifying the Oracle E-Business Suite with Microsoft's
latest operating system. As always, the answers to these questions may
change as we move through the certification cycle. You're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this
blog for later updates.
Our Progress on Windows 7We're certifying Windows 7 with the
E-Business Suite right now. We've already tested several of the Win7
betas and release candidates, and those tests have gone very
smoothly. At this point, E-Business Suite product teams need to complete their certification tests with Windows 7 desktop clients. Once those tests are completed, we'll release our certification.
For the
usual reasons that regular
readers could have predicted, I can't share any specific schedules
or date estimates here. I can provide an interim update on the
following Win7 questions:
- Which EBS releases will be certified with Windows 7?
- Which browsers will be certified?
- Will Oracle JInitiator be certified for EBS on Windows 7?
- Which Windows 7 editions will be certified?
- What about Windows 7E?
- What about Windows XP Mode?
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Steven Chan • October 21, 2009
The Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2009 was released on October 20, 2009. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible.
The
Critical Patch Update Advisory is the starting point for relevant information. It includes a list of products affected, pointers to obtain the patches, a summary of the security vulnerabilities, and links to other important documents.
Supported Products that are not listed in the "Supported Products and Components Affected" Section of the advisory do not require new patches to be applied.
Also, it is essential to review the Critical Patch Update supporting documentation referenced in the Advisory before applying patches, as this is where you can find important pertinent information.
The Critical Patch Update Advisory is available at the following location:
The next four Critical Patch Update release dates are:
- January 12, 2010
- April 13, 2010
- July 13, 2010
- October 12, 2010
Steven Chan • October 20, 2009
Our recent article about our internal use of automated regression testing tools within E-Business Suite Development prompted many questions about the Oracle Application Testing Suite. I'm pleased to announce that the Oracle Application Testing Suite 9.0 is supported for use with the E-Business Suite.
The
Oracle Automated Testing Suite (OATS) is built on the foundation of the e-TEST suite of products
acquired from Empirix in 2008. The testing suite is comprised of:
- Oracle Load Testing for scalability, performance, and load testing
- Oracle Functional Testing for automated functional and regression testing
- Oracle Test Manager for test process management, test execution, and defect tracking
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Steven Chan • October 19, 2009
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (12.1.1) is now certified on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) running on x86/x86-64 hardware. Note that MS Windows Server 2008 x64 (64-bit) and MS Windows Server 2008 R2 are
not covered by this announcement.
The following editions of MS Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) are certified for Oracle E-Business Suite:
- Windows Server 2008 Standard (x86)
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (x86)
- Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (x86)
- Windows Web Server 2008 (x86)
- Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V (x86)
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V (x86)
- Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V (x86
Oracle E-Business Suite does not support Hyper-V or Server Core in Windows Server 2008.
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Steven Chan • October 16, 2009
[
Oct 19 2009 Update: If you registered for OpenWorld, here's a link to the OpenWorld On Demand page where you can download or listen to the live recording of this session as well as the presentation materials.]
Every year I provide an OpenWorld update on the various ways that E-Business Suite users can use different Oracle Application Server 10g components. This presentation covers many of the topics that I visit regularly on this blog, neatly summarizing them in a single package with the latest Fusion Middleware certified versions (and desupport notices) in one place:
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