The Triora Group

In a previous post we discussed the new patching bundle, the Critical Patch Collection (CPC) that Oracle began issuing in October.  As a recap, this is what Oracle says about CPC’s.

R12 Financials Critical Patch Collections (CPC) are consolidated critical patches that all R12 Financials customers must apply to ensure proper operation of their systems. Advantages of applying CPCs over one-off fixes and RUPs are as follows:

• CPCs are fully quality assured against current RUP levels. Individual one-off patches are not.
• CPCs are consolidated and only contain critical patches that apply to broad customer usages. They are smaller in footprint and therefore much easier to apply and uptake than RUPs.
• CPC Readmes have detailed business and functional information about the fixes included. Customers can leverage the Readmes to determine impact and testing required for specific process flows and software components involved.

The header entry for CPC’s is found in Doc 557869.1 which describes all released CPC’s.

Be aware that there is a new CPC for November, release November 12th.  This second CPC applies to just Payables and Receivables.

You can find out more about it in the following documents:

EBS: R12 Payables Critical Patch Collection November 2008, (Doc 745767.1, Patch 7456652, 23Mb)

This first patch requires a minimum of R12.AD.A.delta.2,R12.ATG_PF.A.delta.2 and R12.PJ_PF.A.delta.2

Also there is a pre-requisite for Latin American users you should check in the README.

EBS: R12 Receivables Critical Patch Collection November 2008, (Doc 745769.1, Patch 7387254, 26Mb)

This second patch requires a post-install step of running the “Import Application Accounting Definitions” concurrent request.

We haven’t applied this yet in our environments but will be doing so soon so I’ll update this post when complete.

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