Patching is a perennially hot-topic for E-Business Suite system administrators. For those of you still running Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i, patching is...
Patching is a perennially hot-topic for E-Business Suite system administrators. For those of you still running Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i, patching is especially important as we near the transition between Premier and Extended Support at the end of November 2010. If you're new to EBS system administration, and even if you're a veteran DBA, you might find two new short training videos useful: Patch Wizard Overview Videos (Doc ID 1077813.1) These two videos were...
Patching is a perennially hot-topic for E-Business Suite system administrators. For those of you still running Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i, patching is especially important as we near the...
Our Oracle Forms team has consolidated a large number important fixes on top of Forms and Reports version 10.1.2.3.0 into a new bundle patch. This patch is...
Our Oracle Forms team has consolidated a large number important fixes on top of Forms and Reports version 10.1.2.3.0 into a new bundle patch. This patch is available for download now under the ungainly title of: MLR Tracking Bug for Forms 10.1.2.3.0 Bundle Patch (Patch 9593176) This bundle patch is now certified with EBS Release 12 for all supported platforms except Linux on IBM System z. This patch contains a total of 113 fixes. We strongly recommend that you apply this...
Our Oracle Forms team has consolidated a large number important fixes on top of Forms and Reports version 10.1.2.3.0 into a new bundle patch. This patch is available for download now under...
[June 23, 2010 Update: Our Server Technologies team has just released Note 1061366.1 that lists recommended Advanced Compression patches applicable to all...
[June 23, 2010 Update: Our Server Technologies team has just released Note 1061366.1 that lists recommended Advanced Compression patches applicable to all customers, including E-Business Suite environments] In my opinion, if there's any reason to upgrade an E-Business Suite environment to the 11gR1 or 11gR2 database, it's the Advanced Compression database option. Oracle Advanced Compression was introduced in Oracle Database 11g, and allows you to compress structured data...
[June 23, 2010 Update: Our Server Technologies team has just released Note 1061366.1 that lists recommended Advanced Compression patches applicable to all customers, including E-Business...
Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. ~ Douglas Adams Douglas Adams could have been talking about the...
Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. ~ Douglas Adams Douglas Adams could have been talking about the E-Business Suite. Depending upon whom you ask (and how you count them), there are between 200 to 240 products in Oracle E-Business Suite. The products that make up Oracle E-Business Suite are tightly integrated. Some of these products are known as shared or dependent products. Installed and registered automatically...
Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. ~ Douglas Adams Douglas Adams could have been talking about the E-Business Suite. Depending upon whom...
Yes, we have a Smörgåsbord! One of the definitions of smörgåsbord is "a set of a great number of opportunities to combine." This brief article (corresponding...
Yes, we have a Smörgåsbord! One of the definitions of smörgåsbord is "a set of a great number of opportunities to combine." This brief article (corresponding to my entrance into the world of blogging) describes the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) platform smörgåsbord. While 'platform' can mean different things to different people, here it means an "operating system and hardware architecture combination." So, think "Linux x86" (as in the operating system Linux on the x86...
Yes, we have a Smörgåsbord! One of the definitions of smörgåsbord is "a set of a great number of opportunities to combine." This brief article (corresponding to my entrance into the world...
[Editor: This the second of a five-part series from Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in our Applications Technology Integration group, on virtualization and cloud...
[Editor: This the second of a five-part series from Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in our Applications Technology Integration group, on virtualization and cloud topics] As I've mentioned in the first article of this series, I do want to delve more deeply into topics from my OOW'09 E-Business Suite Virtualization Update presentation. Before I do that, I wanted to spend some time on our latest EBS 12.1.1 Oracle VM (OVM) Templates. Rolling Your Own Apps Templates using Oracle VM In...
[Editor: This the second of a five-part series from Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in our Applications Technology Integration group, on virtualization and cloud topics] As I've mentioned in the...
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ Henry Ford Ford's now-famous words seem a little quaint today. We live...
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ Henry Ford Ford's now-famous words seem a little quaint today. We live in the Golden Age of the Consumer, where virtually everything can be customized or personalized in some way. If you can customize mass-produced consumer goods, it seems reasonable to expect that you should be able to customize something as strategic and mission-critical as an enterprise resource planning system, too. ...
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ Henry Ford Ford's now-famous words seem a little quaint today. We live in the Golden Age of the Consumer, where...
[Sept 24, 2009 Update: Removed references to the Oracle Critical Accounts program.] Some E-Business Suite implementations go smoothly. Some don't. Even...
[Sept 24, 2009 Update: Removed references to the Oracle Critical Accounts program.] Some E-Business Suite implementations go smoothly. Some don't. Even battle-scarred veteran Apps sysadmins have to call upon Oracle for help at some point. One of the most-surprising things I hear from customers is that many of you don't know what options exist for you to get help when you need it. Depending on your circumstances, there's a wide range of alternatives that may work for your...
[Sept 24, 2009 Update: Removed references to the Oracle Critical Accounts program.] Some E-Business Suite implementations go smoothly. Some don't. Even battle-scarred veteran Apps sysadmins have to...
All EBS administrators must become very familiar with the OPatch utility. OPatch is used to patch the ORACLE_HOMEs in EBS Application and Database tiers. ...
All EBS administrators must become very familiar with the OPatch utility. OPatch is used to patch the ORACLE_HOMEs in EBS Application and Database tiers. Security fixes delivered for these ORACLE_HOMEs through Critical Patch Updates are also applied using OPatch. It updates the central and per-product inventories with the details of each patch applied. Apart from the Oracle Universal Installer (which internally also uses OPatch), this is the only tool authorized to...
All EBS administrators must become very familiar with the OPatch utility. OPatch is used to patch the ORACLE_HOMEs in EBS Application and Database tiers. Security fixes delivered for these...
