One of the important things I learned from customers at this year's OpenWorld conference is that you can use help in sorting out priorities for upgrade...
One of the important things I learned from customers at this year's OpenWorld conference is that you can use help in sorting out priorities for upgrade projects. I've previously published advice on the priorities for patching EBS environments. But what are your top priorities for major upgrades to EBS and its technology stack components? I'll start publishing concise upgrade recommendations for E-Business Suite environments and technology stack components on a quarterly...
One of the important things I learned from customers at this year's OpenWorld conference is that you can use help in sorting out priorities for upgrade projects. I've previously published advice on...
Oracle E-Business Suite comes with native user authentication and management capabilities out-of-the-box. If you need more-advanced features, it's also possible...
Oracle E-Business Suite comes with native user authentication and management capabilities out-of-the-box. If you need more-advanced features, it's also possible to integrate it with Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Single Sign-On or Oracle Access Manager, which allows you to link the E-Business Suite with third-party tools like Microsoft Active Directory, Windows Kerberos, and CA Netegrity SiteMinder. For details about third-party integration architectures, see...
Oracle E-Business Suite comes with native user authentication and management capabilities out-of-the-box. If you need more-advanced features, it's also possible to integrate it with Oracle...
If your E-Business Suite Release 11i or 12 environment is configured to support Daylight Saving Time (DST) or international time zones, it's important to keep...
If your E-Business Suite Release 11i or 12 environment is configured to support Daylight Saving Time (DST) or international time zones, it's important to keep your timezone definition files up-to-date. DSTv17 is now available and certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i. The DSTv17 update includes the timezone information from Olson tzdata 2011j. Is Your Apps Environment Affected? When a country or region changes DST rules or their time zone definitions, your...
If your E-Business Suite Release 11i or 12 environment is configured to support Daylight Saving Time (DST) or international time zones, it's important to keep your timezone definition...
Some questions following our last few JRE certifications indicated that there's still lingering confusion about which JRE releases are safe to use with...
Some questions following our last few JRE certifications indicated that there's still lingering confusion about which JRE releases are safe to use with E-Business Suite environments. To recap: JRE releases 1.6.0_18 through 1.6.0_22 had issues with mismanaging session cookies that affected some users in some circumstances. The fix for those issues was first included in JRE 1.6.0_23. These fixes will carry forward and continue to be fixed in all future JRE releases. In other...
Some questions following our last few JRE certifications indicated that there's still lingering confusion about which JRE releases are safe to use with E-Business Suite environments. To recap:...
The Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2011 was released on October 18, 2011. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible. The...
The Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2011 was released on October 18, 2011. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible. The Critical Patch Update Advisory is the starting point for relevant information. It includes a list of products affected, pointers to obtain the patches, a summary of the security vulnerabilities, and links to other important documents. Supported products that are not listed in the "Supported Products and Components...
The Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2011 was released on October 18, 2011. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible. The Critical Patch Update Advisory is...
If your E-Business Suite Release 11i or 12 environment is configured to support Daylight Saving Time (DST) or international time zones, it's important to keep your timezone definition files up-to-date. They were last changed in August 2011 and released as DSTv16. DSTv17 is now available and certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. The DSTv17 update includes the timezone information from Olson tzdata 2011j. DSTv17 is an interim release. Its primary purpose is to...
For those of you to whom I had the pleasure of speaking at Oracle OpenWorld last week, I promised you would likely see good news by the time you returned home...
For those of you to whom I had the pleasure of speaking at Oracle OpenWorld last week, I promised you would likely see good news by the time you returned home from the conference. Never one to miss out on making people smile, I am happy to announce that Oracle Access Manager 11g Patchset 1 (OAM 11.1.1.5) is now certified for use with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. As with our original 11g certification, there are two possible ways to integrate with Oracle Access Manager...
For those of you to whom I had the pleasure of speaking at Oracle OpenWorld last week, I promised you would likely see good news by the time you returned home from the conference. Never one to...
A customer recently reported an issue where they needed to bounce their E-Business Suite application tier (mid-tier) servers once a week to resolve stability...
A customer recently reported an issue where they needed to bounce their E-Business Suite application tier (mid-tier) servers once a week to resolve stability issues. This shouldn't be necessary. We recommend against bouncing EBS application servers regularly. We've done a lot of work with the E-Business Suite to ensure that regular bounces are not required with the latest releases. Bouncing your system can reduce performance It seems counter-intuitive, but bouncing your...
A customer recently reported an issue where they needed to bounce their E-Business Suite application tier (mid-tier) servers once a week to resolve stability issues. This shouldn't be necessary. We...
[July 30, 2012 update: Corrected Note reference to 823586.1] [Sept. 2, 2011 update: Our Maximum Availability Architecture architects have pointed out two...
[July 30, 2012 update: Corrected Note reference to 823586.1] [Sept. 2, 2011 update: Our Maximum Availability Architecture architects have pointed out two additional considerations that are documented in our existing documentation: 1) Although SCAN listener is supported with EBS 12, if scan_name resolves in DNS to IP1 and IP2, the client-side 10.1.2 network code does not use round robin on the underlyng IPs if the first IP fails. An Autoconfig solution for this is being...
[July 30, 2012 update: Corrected Note reference to 823586.1] [Sept. 2, 2011 update: Our Maximum Availability Architecture architects have pointed out two additional considerations that are documented...
