If your Oracle E-Business Suite customizations are still making you hesitate about upgrading from Release 11i to Release 12, we have another useful tool to help you along: the brand new EBS File Comparison Report. This new report joins the related EBS Seed Data Comparison Report and the EBS Data Model Comparison Report in our collection of handy upgrade comparison reports.
You can download the new file comparison report here:
You can download its companion reports here:
The new report provides detailed information about what files were added, removed, or stubbed (made inactive) during changes between Releases 11.5.10.2 and 12.1.3 of Oracle E-Business Suite. For text-based files such as .xml files, you can drill down into the files to see the actual changes between the file versions. The File Comparison Report includes the following file types:
One example of how you might use the File Comparison Report is for assessing upgrade impacts on your personalizations. Start by getting a list of your personalizations as described in “Upgrading Form Personalizations and OA Framework Personalizations from Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i to 12.1” (Note 1292611.1).
Three categories of personalizations might be affected by upgrades. Here is how the File Comparison Report can help you with those:
Personalization assessment is just one example of how you can use the File Comparison Report. We expect you will find many ways to use it!
This new tool was produced by our hard-working EBS Release Management team, and they are actively seeking your feedback. Please feel free to share your experiences with it by posting a comment here. You can also request enhancements to this tool via the My Oracle Support Community mentioned in Note 1446430.1.
These File comparisons are doing only for the major releases, there is no way to identify on the point releases (example 12.1.1 to 12.1.3) and also for the RPC5 changes other than relying on Patch impact analysis which does not give information on what has actually changed. Is there any way to do that level of comparison.
No, I'm afraid that we do not generate these reports with every new RPC or point release.
Regards,
Steven