We are pleased to announce publication of a new My Oracle Support note (knowledge document) that will help you more easily identify the latest Oracle Database Release Update (RU) available for you to apply to your Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) database.

Where Can I Find the Document?

The new document, Latest Certified Oracle Database Release Updates for Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Database Cloud Services (MOS Note 2999999.1), is available to all customers with access to My Oracle Support.

What’s in the Document?

The document lists the latest Oracle Database RUs certified for use with Oracle E-Business Suite on commercial and government cloud regions supported for use with EBS in the context of lifecycle management and related activities across the following platforms where applicable:

  • Base Database Service
  • Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
  • Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer

For a list of certified regions and realms, along with the corresponding supported platforms, refer to the two Getting Started MOS notes listed in the References section below.

These lifecycle management and other activities include:

  • Business Continuity
  • Creating a Copy / Cloning an EBS environment 
  • Migrating an EBS environment 
  • Upgrading an EBS database to Oracle Database 23ai or 19c

You can find the latest database RU for your particular combination of EBS and major Oracle Database release.

EBS Release 12.2 certifications and documentation are provided for Oracle Database 23ai and 19c, whilst EBS Release 12.1.3 certifications and documentation are provided for Oracle Database 19c.

This database RU information applies to scenarios where you are either running with or upgrading to a particular combination of EBS and Oracle Database.

Why Do the Database Release Updates Need to be Certified with EBS?

To be able to support the quarterly Oracle Database Release Updates with Oracle E-Business Suite, EBS Development needs to certify them. Certification may identify additional patches needed to ensure compatibility with EBS on a particular cloud service. All such required patches are listed in MOS Note 2999999.1.

Why Must I Only Install EBS-Certified Release Updates?

The need for EBS Development to certify Oracle Database Release Updates means that you need to avoid provisioning an EBS database using a newer RU than the latest certified RU listed in the applicable table of the document. We therefore recommend bookmarking MOS Note 2999999.1 and referring to it whenever you are planning uptake of an Oracle Database Release Update.

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