The Triora Group

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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One of our clients asked if they really need to use a password entry in the listener.ora file in their production environment. They pointed out that in MetaLink Note: 260986.1, Oracle states: “In Oracle 10, the TNS Listener is secure out of the box and there should not be a need [...]

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We hit this issue when we were cloning a production RAC environment that had been backed up using RMAN and then restored to a non-RAC test environment. To get past it, we had to add a hidden parameter to the target init.ora file to allow us to open the duplicated database, and [...]

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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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These are the types of presentations that seem hot (in descending order):

Service Orient Architecture Integration/Fusion Middleware
E-Business Suite, Release 12
Functional Seminars (focusing on various E-Business Suite modules)
Hyperion
11g Database
Enterprise Performance Management

This may change as the week progresses and Oracle continues to make new announcements.  For full-disclosure there are also sessions for BEA, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel [...]

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As noted in a previous post, the current release of EBS R12 is 12.0.5 and a future 12.0.6 is expected that will include a Financials Family Pack.  Soon after that we should expect Release 12.1.
What will R12.1 include?  In one of the sessions today at OOW 2008, a glimpse was provided.
From Oracle’s perspective R12 is [...]

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This morning’s session with the OAUG Upgrade SIG was accented by the attendance of Stephen Chan, who many of you probably recognize from his well-known blog.
During the session there was a discussion on the future of R12 updates and he noted that there are plans to to release one more Financials Family Pack for Release [...]

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