We recently completed a few e eBS R12.2 database upgrade installations and noticed an issue with a particular SQL running as part of the AutoConfig. The query sql_id is 5da8tjzfafw6j and it looks like this (formatted): select…
Read More >Something exciting happened a few days ago. It started with a tweet and a blog post, and has evolved into an official CVE-2022-21500. I thought it would be good to publish some details beyond the official MOS note document. …
Read More >In 2018, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) for E-Business Suite. This EBS add-on provides users with discovery-oriented dashboards that bring together diverse operational data from across Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle Endeca, its predecessor, needed…
Read More >For many of us, the recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) became a severe headache this past weekend. I thought we’d publish a summary of some of our findings gathered so far. We’ll keep it updated with news and details published by…
Read More >On the surface concurrent processing (CP) looks simple; a new request is pending for a while, then it runs and is completed. However in the background it’s extremely complicated with all the statuses, schedules, permissions, incompatibilities, etc. If you’d like…
Read More >Update 11-JUN-2021: Doc ID 2353710.1 has been updated. It is recommended now to apply two patches: 10.1.3 Home Patch 30003856: MERGE REQUEST ON TOP OF 10.1.3.5.0 FOR BUGS 12965674 28470429 Apps Patch 30836299: TST1213: TXKRUN.PL EXECUTION ON 1213 IS FAILING…
Read More >Recently, I was involved in an EBS upgrade project, and also in operational support of an EBS production environment. Based on this project, here is an unsorted list of issues I’ve seen in or around the EBS core. EBS architecture…
Read More >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…
Read More >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…
Read More >Update, 7 March 2014: I don’t often suggest this, but: stop reading this post! Oracle has (finally, yay!) released VM templates for EBS 12.2.3 that can be imported to Virtualbox directly! If you want an EBS 12.2 sandbox in Virtualbox,…
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