Tag: EBS

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Most of you are already aware of the recent announcement on Steven Chan’s blog  about New JRE requirements that require EBS JAR files to be signed by a Code Signing Certificate. This requirement came in as Oracle is tightening up security…

It’s here! It’s here! It’s finally here! (what, you don’t get excited when you get new toys?) Now that version 12.2 of Oracle Applications has been released, it’s time for eager Apps DBAs and non-DBA EBS geeks to get their…

Getting ready for the next big thing In the wake of last week’s announcement of the general availability of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2, I’ve started spinning up a 12.2 Vision instance, so I can start getting familiar with the…

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.2 is out! Big times ahead of us folks! My team is planning to blog about it a lot. Stay tuned. This is my prediction: Online patching a game-changer in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Oracle Press Release Steven…

This is the first article in a series about performance of concurrent processing. We’ll take a closer look at the internals of concurrent managers, the settings that affect their performance and the ways of diagnosing performance and configuration issues. Today we’ll start with an overview of the internal workflow of a concurrent manager process. Enjoy the reading!

Mother, mother Oracle. I have heard you call… Wanted to sail upon your cloud (control) since 7.3.4… You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all… (Paraphrased from Jimmy Buffett’s, “A Pirate Looks at 40”) For a while now, Oracle Enterprise…