NEWS AND UPDATES
Webcast: Testing E-Business Suite with Flow Builder
Oracle University has a large number of free recorded webcasts that EBS sysadmins might find useful. Here’s another good webcast on our testing tools:
Mazen Arar, Senior Director EBS Quality Assurance, provides an overview of how the Quality Assurance team tests Oracle E-Business Suite. It covers main areas that you should consider during functional testing, approaches for new-feature and regression testing, how to reduce the test script generation and execution time, experiences on capturing and presenting metrics to showcase the ROI of testing investment, leveraging automation for testing Oracle E-Business Suite applications and more. This material was presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2016.
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Source:https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenchan/webcast%3a-testing-e-business-suite-with-flow-builder
Is it Possible to Run Patch Wizard Offline?
Patch Wizard helps you identify useful or critical missing patches for your EBS environment.
Many of the largest EBS customers run their environments where external network connectivity is extremely limited or non-existent. The latter architectures are sometimes “air gapped” from external networks for maximum security.
Patch Wizard identifies missing patches by comparing them to the Patch Information Bundle (a.k.a. “InfoBundle”), a master repository of the latest available patches. It is still possible to run Patch Wizard even if your environment is air-gapped. You need to download the Infobundle file or the patches you wish to analyze from Oracle’s Support Portal using a system that has network access to Oracle Support. Once you’ve downloaded those files, you can move them to your secure or isolated EBS environment manually.
For more details about running Patch Wizard in network-isolated EBS environments, see:
- How to use Patch Wizard Without Setting Up Internet Connection (Note 741129.1)
References
- Patch Tracking Utilities: EBS 12.1
- Patch Tracking Utilities EBS 12.2
- Patch Wizard FAQ (Note 976688.2)
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Source: https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenchan/is-it-possible-to-run-patch-wizard-offline
Webcast: Advanced Architectures for Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle University has a large number of free recorded webcasts for Oracle E-Business Suite. Here’s an excellent webcast for a wide range of architectural options for more-complex deployment requirements:
Elke Phelps, Senior Principal Product Manager shares how to build on the three-tier logical Oracle E-Business Suite architecture to meet your business requirements for high availability, scalability, and performance. Topics include load-balancing and clustering. Understand how to securely deploy Oracle E-Business Suite for internet access with a demilitarized zone (DMZ). Apply various topics covered in the session to assist you with planning a disaster recovery project for your environment. Learn about new tools that automate scale-out and other advanced architectures when deploying E-Business Suite to the Oracle Cloud. This material was presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2016.
Source: https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenchan/webcast%3a-advanced-architectures-for-oracle-e-business-suite
Where Can I Find the Latest Patch Wizard Updates for EBS 12.2?
Patch Wizard helps you identify useful or critical missing patches for your EBS environment.
This tool is updated as needed, with patches that are cumulative: they include new updates as well as all fixes released previously. The latest updates are always documented here:
The last updates to the EBS 12.2 Patch Wizard were released in September 2016 via this patch:
This patch fixed the following issues:
- 14504286 – PATCH WIZARD – 12.1.3 – MANY PATCHES ARE INDIRECTLY APPLIED BUT MARKED UNAPPLIED
- 16992893 – PATCH WIZARD: PATCH MERGE FAILING – UNABLE TO FIND PATCH FILES
- 17081891 – 16992893 PCC – PATCH WIZARD: PATCH MERGE FAILING – UNABLE TO FIND PATCH FILES
- 17244500 – PATCH WIZARD IS RECOMMENDING PATCHES FOR IN USE PRODUCTS = NO
- 17335985 – 17244500 PCC – PATCH WIZARD IS RECOMMENDING PATCHES FOR IN USE PRODUCTS = NO
- 17355203 – PCC 14504286 – MANY PATCHES ARE INDIRECTLY APPLIED BUT MARKED UNAPPLIED
- 18617040 – PATCH WIZARD: ORA-06512: AT “APPS.AD_PATCH_ANALYSIS_ENGINE”, LINE 519
- 18978837 – R12.2 OAM APPLIED PATCHES PROVIDES WRONG DATES, DOES NOT SHOW ALL PATCHES
- 19412224 – FLAGGED FILE IMPORTS HANG AFTER 18598941
- 20318695 – ADPAENGB.PLS 120.13.12020000.8 CAUSES ORA-06512 IN EBS R12.2.3
- 21184697 – CAN’T FIND RESOURCE FOR BUNDLE ORACLE.APPS.AD.OAM.RESOURCES.PATCHRESOURCEBUNDLE
- 21806033 – PATCH WIZARD APPLIED PATCHES ADVANCED SEARCH BY PRODUCT IS NOT WORKING
- 22490144 – FILE HISTORY NOT SHOWING CORRECT VERSIONS OF THE ACTUAL APPLIED/UPLOADED FILES.
- 9703082 – PROVIDE REPORT OR EXPORT BUTTON FOR PATCH WIZARD OUTPUT SUMMARY+IMPACT ANALYSIS
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Source:https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenchan/where-can-i-find-the-latest-patch-wizard-updates-for-ebs-122