2. Speaker’s Background
Over 16 years of experience with Oracle database, applications,
development and administration tools
Director, OAUG Database SIG Board
Director, OAUG SysAdmin SIG and Committee Chair, Oracle
Tools and Utilities
Director, OAUG E-Business Applications Technology SIG Board
Director, SROAUG Board
Member, OAUG GEO/SIG Committee
NCOAUG Distinguished Service Award for 2007
OAUG Member of the Year for 2008
Oracle ACE
Presented at OAUG, NCOAUG, CSOAUG, OVOAUG,
SROAUG, Apps World and Open World conferences (70+
sessions)
Founded VLAD Group, Inc. in March, 2001
3. Agenda
R12 Architecture – Components
New features and enhancements in:
Applications Object Library
Oracle Applications Manager
OA Framework
AD Utilities
Workflow
11g Database
Tasks to complete to ease R12 upgrade
4. R12 Architecture –
Components
Release 12
Client
Tier
Native Sun JRE
Web HTTP Servers Application Technology Stack
Middle
Tier
Instance
Concurrent
Home
Processing Server
Apache
Forms Reports
Server
Server 10g Server 10g
10.1.3.4 ORACLE_HOME
10.1.2.3 ORACLE_HOME
Database
10.2.0.4
Tier 10.2.0.4 ORACLE_HOME
Database
or 11g R1 (optional)
5. R12.1.1 Architecture –
Components
Release 12.1.1
Client
Tier
Native Sun JRE
Web HTTP Servers Application Technology Stack
Middle
Tier
Instance
Concurrent
Home
Processing Server
Apache
Forms Reports
Server
Server 10g Server 10g
10.1.3.4 ORACLE_HOME
10.1.2.3 ORACLE_HOME
Database
11.1.0.7
Tier 11g R1 ORACLE_HOME
Database
or 10.2.0.4 (optional)
6. R12 Architecture –
Components
New versions of middle tier technology:
Applications server (J2EE) version 10.1.3.4
Forms and Reports version 10.1.2.3
Discoverer Server version 10.1.2.3
Servlet Container – (OC4J, no longer JServ)
JDK version - 1.5.0_13 – 1.6_03 certified
Oracle SOA Suite version 10.1.3
Oracle Business Intelligence version 10.1.3.4
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control
Release 3
7. R12 Architecture –
Components
New versions of middle tier technology:
Technologies External to EBS R12
SSO and OID version 10.1.4.3
Portal version 10.1.4.2
Instance Home (INST_TOP) file system:
$INST_TOP = $HOME/inst/apps/<context_name>
JInitiator is not certified or supported in R12
New version of database - 10g R2 available with
Rapid Install and 11g R1 certified
Tablespace model in R12 - OATM
8. Applications Object Library
features and enhancements
Identity Management Integration
User Name Enhancements
User name changes in EBS are automatically
synchronized to Oracle ID
On Demand User Creation
AOL now supports a mode in which EBS user
account is automatically created for SSO users
when they first visit a page in EBS
Mixed Case Passwords
EBS now supports case-sensitive passwords
Automatic Linking Of User Accounts
EBS accounts are automatically linked to
existing accounts with the same user name in
OID
9. Applications Object Library
features and enhancements
Security
New File System Layout
EBS code tree is free of configuration, log and
output files and can be mounted in a read-only
mode at runtime (when not patching)
Schema Passwords
The base product schemas are locked
except during patching
10. Applications Object Library
features and enhancements
User Management
Proxy User
Allows a user to specify a proxy who can act of
their behalf
Integration with Oracle Internal Controls
Manager
Facilitates enforcement of constraints used for
preventive separation on duties
11. Applications Object Library
features and enhancements
Concurrent Processing
Multi-Org Support
Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC) allows a user to
access data for a different operating units without
switching responsibilities
Concurrent Program Definition window is now
MOAC enabled. A new field “Operating Unit Mode”
allows user to specify the category for a
concurrent program
Standard Request Submission window allows users
to execute single-org or a multi-org concurrent
programs
12. Applications Object Library
features and enhancements
Concurrent Processing
Restarting a Request Set
If concurrent request set fails, once fixed user can
restart the request set from the failure point
Failover Sensitive Workshift
Can specify how many processes for each
workshift should run when instance fails over to
another PCP node
13. Applications Object Library
features and enhancements
Oracle Applications Tablespace Model
(OATM)
New “Tools” tablespace includes the
database schema objects for products such as
Oracle Portal (repository), Oracle Discoverer
(EUL), Oracle Internet Directory (repository),
Oracle Application Sever Single Sign-On
Configurable Default Extent Size - allows DBA
to specify the default extent size a part of
migration process
14. Oracle Applications
Manager
Patch Impact Analysis Enhancements
The ability to identify and to merge multiple
language patches that are applicable to the
environment
The ability for users to crate a list of
patches for analysis as a single set
Analysis of patch changes to customized
files that are registered with system
15. Oracle Applications
Manager
Diagnostics
Allows to schedule and run diagnostics test
as batch programs
Grid Control Plug-in for Oracle EBS
Seamless integration with OAM (concurrent
manager administration, workflow
administration, forms monitoring,
configuration and patch management)
Clone Automation
16. OA Framework
features and enhancements
Service Interface
Java interface designed to support both Web services and
local Java APIs. Includes support for Service Data Object
standard.
Service Tester
User interface used to create unit and integration tests. The
tests are recorded in documents as structured XML data.
“Swan” User Interface
EBS will use only “Swan” look and feel for Release 12.
Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3 (10.1.3)
R12 leverages Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 2 (10.1.3).
17. OA Framework
features and enhancements
BI Publisher integration
Extensive personalization capability
Allows integration of content from
multiple vendors into portal pages
Record history
Allows EBS content to be exposed in
third party Portal server
18. AD Utilities features and
enhancements
AutoConfig: Parallel Run Option
The “Parallel Run” feature enables AutoConfig
to be executed simultaneously across multiple
nodes EBS instance
AutoConfig: Profiler
Consolidated HTML report of an AutoConfig
run
Source and target location of each template
Time consumed to instantiate/execute individual
template scripts
Execution report for each template script
19. AD Utilities features and
enhancements
AutoConfig: Enhanced Check Config Tool
The Check Config tool (adchkcfg) is used to identify the
potential changes that would take effect on an EBS
customer instance during the next AutoConfig run. The tool
has been enhanced to report important database updates,
generate a text report for database changes, and offer
improved readability of reports.
AutoConfig: Support for Oracle Database
11g Features
AutoConfig has been enhanced to support the use of
Access Control Lists and other Oracle Database 11g
features.
20. AD Utilities features and
enhancements
Rapid Install
Ability to store base environment configuration in Oracle
EBS database
Multiple Domain Support for database and middle tier
Read-Only Shared File System Support – appl_top,
common_top, tech stack homes can be deployed on a
read-only shared file system
Rapid Clone
Added RAC support for ASM and features to expand RAC
system by adding a node to existing RAC cluster
21. Workflow R12 Features
Digital Signatures
Ability to digitally sign the entire notification contents
Ability to verify the signed documents through an
evidence store user interface after the signing process
Can exclude purging of a signature-enabled
notifications
Worklist Flexfields a new pages are added:
Worklist Flexfield Rules a setup page for creating rules
to populate worklist flexfield columns
Worklist Flexfield Rules Simulation test page used to
show the effect of multiple worklist flexfield rules on
the worklist
22. Workflow R12 Features
Workflow Notification Mailer
System Alerts integration
Sends a system alert as to the status of mailer
server
SSL Support
Mailer service can connect to IMAP and SMTP mail
servers using SSL authentication
Enhanced error handling for mass failures
In cases where many users have been setup with
invalid email addresses, the workflow directory
service is updated to no longer send emails to those
users
23. EBS Release 12 database
support
10g R2 database is part of EBS R12 technology stack
10g R2 database is certified to run with EBS R12.1.1
The latest certified 10g R2 database release - 10.2.0.4
with EBS R12
Premier Support ends for database version 10g R2 on
7/31/2010
Extended support fees waived until 7/31/2011
10g R2 Terminal Patch Set is 10.2.0.5 (Projected to be
released in 2009)
Oracle Metalink Note 454616.1 - Export/Import Process
for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Database
Instances Using Oracle Database 10g Release 2
24. 11g Database
Oracle Database 11g Release 1
(11.1.0.7.0) is certified, on all Certified
E-Business Suite Platforms, on R12
(12.0.4).
Oracle Database 11g Release 1
(11.1.0.7.0) is part of EBS R12.1.1
technology stack
Premier support for 11.1.0.6 database
ends in October 2009
25. 11g Database
Oracle Metalink Note 735276.1 -
Interoperability Notes E-Business Suite
R12 with Oracle Database 11gR1
(11.1.0)
Oracle Metalink Note 466649.1 - Using
Oracle 11g Release 1 Real Application
Clusters and Automatic Storage
Management with Oracle E-Business
Suite Release 12
Oracle Metalink Note: 741818.1 -
Export/Import Process for Oracle E-
Business Suite Release 12 Database
Instances Using Oracle Database 11g
26. 11g Database – New
Features
Access Control List (ACL) : Introduced support for ACL
which is a new feature in 11g database
Oracle Advanced Compression
Comprehensive set of compression capabilities to help
organizations reduce costs, while maintaining or
improving performance.
Reduces the storage footprint of databases through
compression of structured data (numbers, characters)
as well as unstructured data (documents,
spreadsheets, XML and other files).
Provides enhanced compression for database backups
and also includes network compression capabilities for
faster synchronization of standby databases.
27. Tasks to complete to ease R12
upgrade
Upgrade database to 10g R2 or 11g R1
Convert tablespaces to OATM model
Evaluate impact of R12 on customizations and
extensions
Introduce BI Publisher and JDeveloper
Integrate Discoverer Server Release 10g with EBS 11i
Configure Oracle iAS Release 10g for external apps
(SSO, OID, Portal) and integrate with EBS 11i
Position for high availability and scalability
Evaluate and complete platform change based on ROI
