Published at: 03:03 pm - Wednesday March 19 2014
Interfaces are mostly assumed being a technical exercise however been on the receiving end of that there is several shortcomings to this approach. When interfacing two systems the transactional flow can become quite complex in terms of functional interaction – an interaction, which is beyond what most technical people can contemplate. Just imagine how to […]
Published at: 11:03 am - Wednesday March 05 2014
Trying to collect the major non-technical R12.2.x issues and bugs in a single note… UPDATE 2014-03-26: R12.3 seems to be on the way; its referred to in many notes on Metalink so bugs below might not get fixed until then. Topics covered in this note: Flexfield Value Set Security: Enabled by Default Report Manager Excel […]
Published at: 10:11 am - Friday November 08 2013
After upgrading to Windows 8.1 you will find it impossible to use Java with internet explorer. This is particularly bad for Oracle E-Business Suite that depends of the use of Java for its professional applications. Problem Identification You may get the warning: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper’ from ‘Sun Microsystems, Inc.’ isn’t compatible with Internet […]
Published at: 07:11 pm - Tuesday November 05 2013
Being a non-DBA and non-developer it is not easy to install Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2. I did have to try a few times before succeeding but it is possible and hopefully now a bit easier with the guide. On the surface is looks straight forward but I would recommend to set aside a full week […]
Published at: 07:11 pm - Tuesday November 05 2013
This is a sub-post to Installing Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2. In general the patching process takes longer time than to install R12.2.0 so be sure to do plenty of cold-backups. Patch Directory For all patches; you need to download and unzip the patches in $PATCH_TOP: # . vis.sh # mv {zipfile} $PATCH_TOP # cd $PATCH_TOP […]
Published at: 07:11 pm - Tuesday November 05 2013
This is a sub-post to Installing Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2. After installing R12.2.0 you can start to manage the installation. There are a few things you need to be aware of and that will also come in handy for your R12.2.2 upgrade. Login Use the following URL: http://hpserver.kentw:8000 Or if you use localhost: http://localhost.localdomain:8000 Login: […]
Published at: 07:11 pm - Tuesday November 05 2013
This is a sub-post to Installing Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2. There are two steps to this: R12.2 Staging R12.2.0 Installation R12.2 Staging Login as: oracle Download the following files from http://edelivery.oracle.com into directory /stage122: # mkdir /oracle/Stage122 # cd /oracle/Stage122 Use Firefox or similar to download: Name ZIP File Size Oracle Fusion Middleware Web Tier […]
Published at: 03:11 pm - Tuesday November 05 2013
This is a sub-post to Installing Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2. These are instructions for non-DBA’s. I’m sure that there are smarter ways of doing this, but at least this is fairly simple and it works… Installing OEL 6.4 Name Part Number Size Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 4 for x86_64 (64 Bit) V37084-01 3.5G Burn […]
Published at: 02:11 pm - Tuesday November 05 2013
This is an example of a reasonable priced Oracle server. The configuration below was around £700. From R12.2 an Oracle Weblogic Server is included so you will need a lot more power to install R12.2 in a reasonable time. You could install and run R12.1 on a 4Gb Atom CPU based server but for R12.2 […]
Published at: 09:10 am - Sunday October 06 2013
R12.2.2 enhancements compared to R12.1.3… This is an excerpt with highlights from Metalink document id: 1302189.1 For: Financials Projects Flexfields E-Business Tax Customer Tax Information Import: Customer interface program now supports the following: Party Tax Profile Tax Registrations Exemptions Reporting Code Association New condition set operators: Used to be available in R12.1.3 as a patch […]