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 [...]
Tags: Oracle · Patch · Patching · RUP
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 [...]
Tags: DBA · E-Business Suite · Oracle · Patch · RUP · Release 12
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. [...]
Tags: Critical Patch Update · E-Business Suite · Oracle · Patch · RUP · Release 12
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 [...]
Tags: E-Business Suite · Oracle · Release 11i · Release 12 · Steven Chan · Training · Upgrades