[Note: This article was updated on February 20, 2025]

We are pleased to announce that Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12.2 is now certified for Commercial Cloud with Oracle Database 23ai (DB 23ai) on the following database cloud services:

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

As an EBS 12.2 customer running on one of these database cloud services in a commercial cloud region, once your system meets all of the necessary prerequisites you may upgrade to Oracle Database 23ai, specifically Release Update 23.5.

For information about recent or upcoming certifications when running EBS on-premises, including announcements regarding DB 23ai, visit our sister blog Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Blog.

What’s the Latest Information Regarding Support for EBS Databases?

Most EBS customers have by now completed upgrades to Oracle Database 19c (DB 19c). If you are still running an older Oracle Database release, you should make plans to upgrade to DB 19c as soon as possible.

DB 19c is the only database release with a direct upgrade path to DB 23ai and provides you Error Correction Support. For the latest support information, see the following:

What Can You Do Now to Get Your EBS Environment Ready for Oracle Database 23ai?

You can act now to get your EBS environment ready for DB 23ai. See the blog article Updated: EBS 12.2 Planned Certification with DB 23ai – Summary Part 7 of 7 for more information.

Note: The referenced summary blog article includes links to all seven articles in the series.

What’s New with Oracle Database 23ai?

With the certification of Oracle Database 23ai, a new utility called Oracle E-Business Suite Database Parameter Checker (EDBPC) is now available. EDPBC can be run to confirm that you have correctly set your EBS DB 23ai or 19c database initialization parameters according to recommendations in Database Initialization Parameters for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (MOS Note 396009.1).

For more information about EDBPC, refer to Using the Oracle E-Business Suite Database Parameter Checker (EDBPC) (MOS Note 3015099.1).

What’s Included with this Certification Announcement?

This announcement applies to the certification of EBS 12.2 with DB 23ai for key OCI database services, namely Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer, and Base Database Service.

Certified Database Features and Options

The Certified Database Features and Options list includes items that have been explicitly certified by EBS Development.

  • Active Data Guard
  • Data Guard Using Physical Server Names
  • Data Masking using the EM 13cR5 Data Masking and Subsetting Pack and the EBS 12.2 Data Masking Template
  • Database Network Access Control Lists
  • In Place Standby Upgrade
  • Multitenant architecture (CDB architecture) with a single Pluggable Database (PDB) (single tenant)
  • Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)
  • Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Online Tablespace Encryption Conversion
  • Unified Auditing

Supported Database Features and Options

The Supported Database Features and Options list includes items that are supported but not explicitly certified by EBS. Our general policy is that the Oracle Database generic documentation applies to these features and options, even if we haven’t certified them specifically.

  • Advanced Compression
  • Database In-Memory
  • Database Partitioning
  • Database Vault using EBS_SYSTEM
  • Native PL/SQL Compilation
  • Oracle Label Security (OLS)
  • SecureFile
  • Virtual Private Database (VPD)*

Note: There are special considerations for EBS 12.2 and the required edition-based redefinition database feature. For VPD, refer to Developing and Deploying Customizations in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (MOS Note 1577661.1).

Certified Integrations

The Certified Integrations list includes items that have been explicitly certified by EBS Development. 

  • Oracle APEX
  • Oracle Application Management Pack Release 13.5.1.0.0
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway (ISG)
  • Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 with Database 23ai integrated with Oracle Access Manager 12c for single sign-on

What Remains to be Certified?

This section includes items that are pending certification. You may subscribe to this blog for the latest in certification announcements. 

Pending Certifications – Database Features and Options

The Pending Certifications – Database Features and Options list includes items that require explicit certification and that we currently plan to certify in the future.

  • Transportable Database for data migration processes
  • Transportable Tablespaces for data migration processes

Pending Certifications – Integrations

This list includes items that require explicit certification and that we currently plan to certify in the future.

  • Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 with Database 23ai integrated with GoldenGate 23ai (on-premises or OCI Compute) for reporting

Note: If you are using GoldenGate to replicate your EBS database, you will need to upgrade to GoldenGate 23ai using the microservices architecture as part of your upgrade to DB 23ai.

Upgrading from Oracle Database 19c to 23ai on a Database Service

How you upgrade will depend on the cloud service you use to run your database as well as whether you have implemented Oracle Data Guard.

To upgrade your EBS database on Oracle Base Database Service, follow the instructions in the appropriate My Oracle Support (MOS) document:

To upgrade your EBS database on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure or Cloud@Customer, follow the instructions in the appropriate MOS document:

Migrating to a Database Service from Exadata On-Premises

Your migration procedure will depend on the cloud service you use to run your database.

To migrate your EBS 12.2 environment with DB 23ai on Exadata on-premises to OCI with Exadata Database Service, follow the instructions in:

To migrate your DB 23ai EBS database from Exadata on-premises to Exadata Database Service of Cloud@Customer, follow the instructions in:

Automation Availability

Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Release 24.2.1 is now available and supports DB 23ai for database cloud services on Commercial Cloud. For more information, see the blog article Major New EBS Cloud Manager Release (24.2.1) Now Available.

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