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Recently Stephen Chan noted that many E-Business Suite users are going to be tempted to load the new version of Internet Explorer which was release several weeks ago.  The results of installing IE8 (and replacing IE7) could be headaches for those of us who are supporting users.
For that reason he’s recommending that users continue using [...]

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For those of you on Release 12, MetaLink Doc. ID: 746824.1, “Alert! – Mandatory Patch R12.1 SCP_PF.B CU1 (12.1.01) Released” announces another mandatory patch. The SCP_PF.B CU1 patch looks like the first Critical Update patch for Release 12.1, which hasn’t been released yet. Floyd Teter tells us he thinks Release 12.1 [...]

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We received this question from a colleague:
I applied the RUP 6 patch (plus pre and post req patches)  in my Patch and DEV instance and all seemed to work just fine. So I applied RUP 6 to our Test environment and there were a few issues but it seemed I resolved them. The errors I [...]

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Special thanks go to Jeff Vold, the Apps DBA at Hazelden Foundation, who wrote this article about RUP6.

Hazelden Foundation is running Release 11.5.9 in production and is in the midst of a Release 12 upgrade. We recently applied the 12.0.6 Release Update Pack (RUP6) on top of our 12.0.4 development environment, and were asked to [...]

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If there is one question that we are asked most frequently by our clients, this is probably it. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t as cut-and-dried as they typically expect. Just like onions (and ogres), the answer has layers.
First, let’s ask the question, “Why do we patch?” or, more precisely, “Why do we want to [...]

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A short time ago, I was working on an upgrade and ran into a situation where this was needed. According to the patch readme, I needed to submit a concurrent request after applying a specific patch. So, to do this graphically, I needed to disable the maintenance mode and start up the application. Then I [...]

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By now you all know that the proper way to add a custom top directory to your E-Business Suite instance is through the ${APPL_TOP}/admin/topfile.txt (MetaLink Note: 216589.1). By adding an entry to that file, AutoConfig will:
1)  Create the environment variable for you
2)  Put it into the context file
3)  Update various commonly missed files (formservlet.ini, for [...]

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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 [...]

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I recently applied the latest RUP for Release 12 at a client that is in the midst of a new R12 installation.  I thought I’d recap my experience.
The 12.0.6 patch was released on Friday, November 7th.  We were alerted to it because we ran a fresh version of patchsets.sh during the week and it indicated [...]

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I have to admit, I was taken completely by surprise while at a client site this week working on a Release 12 Implementation Assessment when John Stouffer pointed to a News & Notes article on MetaLink called EBS: Oracle Releases R12 Financials Critical Patch Collections September 2008. “Critical Patch Collections?!! Is that a CPU?” Nope. [...]

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