Author: Vasu Balla

This blog post is a continuation to an earlier post about my musings on Oracle EBS support for virtual host names. Actually, most parts of Oracle E-Business Suite work with virtual host names with out any problem. The only component…

  Oracle OpenWorld is always an exciting and energizing experience. This year was no different! There are always a big laundry lists of new service offerings and upcoming release information during OpenWorld. This year, the major buzz is Oracle Cloud. Oracle…

The ability to use virtual host names with Oracle E-Business Suite is one of the features that I have been waiting for a long time. When I finally saw a post on Steven Chan’s blog about it, I was very excited….

If you are in process of upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.4, you would have went though this critical phase in the upgrade which is to apply the Online Patching Enablement patch: 13543062:R12.AD.C. It’s very common to run into errors…

All seasoned Oracle Apps DBAs know that Autoconfig is the master utility that can configure the whole E-Business Suite Instance. In E-Business Suite releases 11i, 12.0 and 12.1 running Autoconfig recreated all the relevant configurations files used by Apache server….

When reading through the release notes of the latest Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2 AD.C.Delta.6 patch in note 1983782.1, I wondered what they meant by “Simplification and enhancement of adop console messages”. I realized what I was missing after I applied…

When you try to rollback a weblogic patch in Oracle EBS R12.2, you might run into issues similar to below: $ ./bsu.sh -remove -patchlist=YIJF -prod_dir=/u01/install/VISION/fs2/FMW_Home/wlserver_10.3 -verbose Checking for conflicts.. No conflict(s) detected Starting removal of Patch ID: YIJF Restoring /d1/V1223B5B/fs1/FMW_Home/modules/com.bea.core.datasource6.binding_1.10.0.0.jar…

It’s public knowledge that the traditional patching tool in Oracle EBS “adpatch” is replaced with “adop” utility. It’s also known that adop utility automatically merges patches when more than one patch is specified in the command line arguments. So whats…

Oracle OpenWorld has always been my most exciting conference to attend. I always see high energy levels everywhere, and it kind of revs me up to tackle new upcoming technologies. This year I concentrated on attending mostly Oracle E-Business Suite…

Apps password change routine in Release 12.2 E-Business Suite changed a little bit. We have now extra options to change password, as well as some manual steps after changing the password using FNDCPASS. There is a new utility introduced called…