[Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and last of a series of four articles on new AutoConfig features. These articles are written by members of our AutoConfig Development team. This is your opportunity to interact directly with that team with your feedback
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The AutoConfig Build Context utility (adbldxml.pl) has traditionally been used by administrators to rebuild the context file in Oracle E-Business Suite 11i. In Apps 11i, the AutoConfig Build Context utility was introduced to
allow customers to migrate to AutoConfig easily. Later on, due to numerous changes in the 11i technology stack, it became hard to keep the utility in sync for the Applications tier. So it was not recommended to customers for discretionary use, but instead only
when absolutely needed like in case of cross-platform migrations and database upgrades.

Diagram showing the process by which the AutoConfig Build Context Utility consolidates data from the EBS database environment variables and context template to generate a context file

Revived for Apps 12

The AutoConfig Build Context utility has been revived and re-introduced in Oracle E-Business Suite R12 for the database tier. It is essential for enabling AutoConfig on the database tier of an R12 E-Business Suite instance in the following scenarios:

How Does it Work?

The AutoConfig Build Context utility reads information from EBS database and environment variables and builds the context file out of the database context template ($ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/template/adxdbctx.tmp). This is
illustrated in the figure above.

Running the AutoConfig Build Context Utility

The utility can be run by issuing the following command on the database tier:

perl $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/bin/adbldxml.pl

Note: In R12, this utility is supported only on the database tier.

Downloading the Latest AutoConfig Engine

Customers on Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 can obtain this new feature by installing:

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