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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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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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This month’s blog was supposed to be about a workflow issue that I ran into on a recent upgrade. However, that problem requires some additional research before I can post the findings here. So I decided to write about a different issue that came up during the same upgrade.
The recent upgrade was centered upon upgrading [...]

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