Patch Wizard compares your EBS environment against a list of all recommended EBS patches. It creates a list of high-priority patches that your environment is missing.

You can use Patch Wizard to assess the impact of a specific patch on your environment.  Patch Wizard can report on a variety of areas, including:

• The applications patched
• File types installed
• New files introduced
• Existing files that are changed
• Flagged files that are changed
• Menu navigation trees affected — responsibilities that lead to patched functionality

Patch Wizard doesn’t have the ability to analyze business logic in the affected files, so it cannot report on functionality that is affected by new files delivered by a given patch.  You can review a patch’s README to see if there are functional changes introduced by a patch.

References

• Patch Tracking Utilities: EBS 12.1
• Patch Tracking Utilities EBS 12.2
• Patch Wizard FAQ (Note 976688.2)

Related Articles

• Providing Limited Patch Wizard Access to EBS End-Users
• Is it Possible to Run Patch Wizard Offline?

Source:https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenchan/using-patch-wizard-to-identity-files-affected-by-specific-patches