[Additional contributors: Terri Noyes and Sharath Vishwanath]

We are very pleased to provide you with enhanced documentation designed to assist you upgrade your existing Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12.1.3 instance in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.

Whether on OCI or on-premises, an EBS upgrade consists of a series of related steps. These steps are fully described in Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Guide Release 12.0 and 12.1 to 12.2.

At a high level, these steps include (but are not limited to):

  1. Preparing the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 database for the upgrade.
  2. Preparing the Oracle E-Business Suite file system.
  3. Setting up the stage area.
  4. Running Rapid Install to create a new Release 12.2 file system.
  5. Running the upgrade driver.
  6. Enabling online patching.
  7. Upgrading to latest code.

For full instructions on upgrading your EBS Release 12.1.3 environment to Release 12.2 on OCI, refer to the documentation listed in the References section below.

What You Need to Know When Upgrading EBS on OCI

There are several points you will need to bear in mind, which will depend on your particular scenario.

For all EBS customers running on OCI:

For EBS customers running on OCI with a database service, either a VM DB System or an Exadata DB System:

For EBS customers running on OCI with multitenant database architecture, additional actions may be needed as detailed in the relevant upgrade documentation.

Using EBS Cloud Manager After Upgrading

If you use EBS Cloud Manager to manage your environments, as part of planning your upgrade to Release 12.2 you must refer to the “Upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite”  section in Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (MOS Note 2517025.1) for essential information about the use of Cloud Manager after the upgrade.

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