Oracle E-Business Suite Technology

Steven,
This is great news! Just to confirm, you must convert from JIniiator to Sun JRE in order to use IE8 ?

Thanks,
Chris

Hi, Chris,

Yes, we're pretty pleased to have completed this certification.

JInitiator and IE 8 actually unrelated to each other. Oracle JInitiator 1.3 is no longer eligible for Premier Support as of July 2009. See this article:

Roundup: Oracle JInitiator 1.3 Desupported for EBS Customers in July 2009 - http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2009/06/roundup_oracle_jinitiator_13_desupported_in_july_2.html

Therefore, the native Sun JRE plugin is the only Java client certified for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i users as of today, for all currently certified versions of Firefox or IE browsers.

Regards,
Steven

This is great news. Just a quick question that I can't seem to find an answer to on Metalink. In our situation the only thing that we need to do is apply the devloper patch 8888184. What we need to know is can this patch be applied ahead of IE8 and still support older IE vesrions? We are currently still on IE6 and just want to make sure that it is safe to apply the patch ahead of our company rolling out IE8. Thanks!

Hi, Jody,

Thanks -- we're pretty pleased that we've completed this certification, too.

Yes, you can safely apply Patch 8888184 to your E-Business Suite environment in advance of your IE 8 rollout. That patch updates Forms6i to handle IE 8 Forms-based requests properly, and has no other effects on existing Forms functionality or users of other browsers.

Regards,
Steven

Steve,

Recently tried to apply the Technology Rollup 7, since the Rollup 6(5903765) was superceded by this 6241631. When applying the patch I am getting a Cannot open patch file error, error occurred in version checking:

/home/oradevc/patches/6241631/fnd/media/PSBBRAND.gifCannot open patch file:
/home/oradevc/patches/6241631/fnd/media/psbbrand.gif

Have you ever seen that before?

Hi, Chris,

Haven't heard about any packaging issues with RUP 7. It's been downloaded over a thousand times so far, so I suspect that your patch download might have gotten bitten by sunspots or something similar. I'd recommend downloading the patch again, or at minimum, running an MD5 checksum against your current copy to see whether it's okay.

If you still have problems, your best bet would be to log a formal Service Request via My Oracle Support (formerly Metalink) to get one of our specialists engaged.

Please feel free to forward your Service Request number to me if it gets stuck in the support process for some reason.

Regards,
Steven

Steve,

Thank you very much for the reply. I have figured out the issue is that I unzipped the patch in a windows environment and then transfered the patch to Linux. I am new to Oracle in a sense, and didn't realize the case sensitivity of the platform.

Chris

Hi, Chris,

Glad to hear that you managed to work that out. Sometimes it's the little things that bite us. Come to think of it, it's nearly always the little things, like typos on the command line. ;-)

Good luck with the rest of your implementation.

Regards,
Steven

Hi Steven,

In general when browser comes supported by e-business suite does it mean that all modules which can be installed can be used then with that browser and support will work on resolving issues in them?

br,
Simo

Hi, Simo,

Yes, that's right. When we say "IE 8 is certified with EBS 11i" that means all EBS 11i product modules.

There are rare times when a specific EBS product module might have a quirk or compatibility issue with a given browser release. In those cases, the issues are documented as Known Issues in the respective EBS+browser documentation.

Regards,
Steven

Hi Steven,

thanks for info - was just wondering since we recently did our jre migration from jinit and had issues with one of the modules and to our surprise heard that firefox isn't supported with that particular module.

Seems we just need to stick with IE for that module, luckily not really wide module for us.

br,
SImo

Hi, Simo,

Which module are you having JRE issues with? Is it already documented as a Known Issue in our 11i JRE conversion Note?

Regards,
Steven

Hi Steven,

Demand Planning - I at least couldn't see anywhere info about it being not supported with firefox in the known issues section. Might be good to add there, if you want I can email you the reference tar.

br,
Simo

Hi, Simo,

Yes, please email me your Service Request number. I'm not currently aware of any Demand Planning exceptions and would like to have my team investigate further.

Regards,
Steven

Hi Steven,

We're testing Windows 7 on ebs 11.5.10.2 with Sun java 1.6.0_17, and after logging in, it's giving us the error, 'java.lang.ClassFormatError:Incompatible magic value 1011373133 in class file oracle/apps/fnd/formsClient/FormsLauncher'. I've checked on Metalink but did not see any hits. Have you seen this error?

Thanks
Thu

Hi, Thu,

I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble with this combination, but Windows 7 isn't certified with the E-Business Suite yet. Our last update on this pending certification is published here:

Interim Update #2: Certifying Windows 7 with Oracle E-Business Suite
http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2009/10/interim_update_2_certifying_windows_7_ebs.html

I don't have firm schedules for this certification yet, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.

Regards,
Steven

Steven,

We just applied the forms patch in order to be IE8 compatible and was wondering if you could provide us some direction on how to best test it out. Can you provide some forms that were known to have issues with IE8 before the forms patch that we can use to test? We run financials and hr/payroll. Thanks!

Jody,

I would recommend running through your major Forms-based Financials, HR, and Payroll business flows, since those are the products that you've implemented. Good luck with your rollout.

Regards,
Steven

Hi

We are on 11.5.9 and would like whether IE 8 is compatible with the same. Is there a need to install specific patches / plugins. Please advise.

Thanks and Regards
Chetan

Hi, Chetan,

IE 8 was released in Mar 2009. Premier Support for Apps 11.5.9 ended in June 2008. We didn't perform any certification tests of IE 8 with Apps 11.5.9, so we don't have any informed opinions about whether this particular combination would work for all products, languages, JRE releases, and other configurations. Gut feel, I suspect that there might be issues, based upon our testing of IE 8 with 11.5.10.2.

My primary recommendation would be for you to upgrade to Apps 11.5.10.2, which has the added (and not insignificant) benefit of getting your environment to a level covered by Premier Support.

If you're unable to do that for some reason, and really have no option but to roll out IE 8 across your firm's desktops against 11.5.9, I would strongly recommend that you conduct thorough and in-depth testing of all of your E-Business Suite products in use with IE 8 prior to a widescale deployment.

We would not be able to provide new patches for any issues that you encounter with that configuration, but at least you will be forewarned and forearmed with information about the issues that your end-users will face with that browser.

Regards,
Steven

Is IE8 certified with Agile and Demantra?

Hi, Tom,

I'm afraid that I don't know. I'm part of the E-Business Suite division and don't have much visibility into those two products' certifications.

Your best bet would be to log a formal Service Request via My Oracle Support (formerly Metalink) to get one of our specialists engaged.

Regards,
Steven