Sometimes you come across beautiful things in your life, you wish you had known before, because they were there all the time, waiting for that moment to be discovered – by you. Recently I discovered one of these things. Shamefully I confess, this brilliant feature of RMAN is around for […]
Arnoud Roth
Oracle Consultant at AMIS
Installing Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 update 1
Oracle recently announced certification for E-Business Suite 11i on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 So, today I gave it a try, together with a colleague. The requirements for installing E-Business Suite on OEL5 can be found in Metalink Note 316806.1 Basically this was the note I followed. We set up […]
E-Business Suite 11i Certified on OEL5, RHEL5 and SLES10
With the end of full support for RedHat’s Enterpris Linux 4 as of May 15 (2008), Oracle was just in time announcing support for Enterprise Linux 5 (both Oracle’s and Red Hat’s) for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i. Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 has been available for a while now, and the […]
IPv6 support for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i and R12
Today I stumbled on a blog post of Steven Chan, Sr. Director, Oracle Applications Technology Integration at Oracle. His blog post announces the support for IPv6 for E-Business Suite release 11i and 12. There have been numerous rumors going around about the IPv4 addresses becoming exhausted in the near future. […]
Collaborate 08 – Day 4 – The Final Day
Being the last day of the conference there was a shorter program, only until early afternoon. I must say, this has been a very valuable conference for me. I have seen great presentations, received very valuable information on current and future products of Oracle and, not the least important, I […]
Collaborate 08 – Day 3
I am supposed to be at a party tonight, but I am too exhausted, to be honest to go out and my head is too full with all kinds of new stuff… (poor me!;-) Today was another day of very interesting stuff, even though a couple of presentations covered things […]
Collaborate 08 – Day 2
This was my second day of Collaborate 08. I attended 3 sessions today: Oracle Unbreakable Linux and Oracle VM – by Monica Kumar, Oracle Building E-Business Suite Interfaces using BPEL – by Asif Hussain, Innowave Technology Using BPEL and Workflow to build integration components for the E-Business Suite – […]
Collaborate 08 – Day 1
Today I have started my very first Collaborate Experience. It was a very interesting day indeed, all of the presentations I went to were of high value. My program for today was: 10 thing you can do today to prepare for Fusion Applications – by Nadia Benjedou, Oracle Corp. […]
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part IV
The past days have been really interesting. During last Wednesday (november 24) we finished the XML topic, covering Generating XML from an Oracle Database, Managing XML data in an Oracle Database, XML type Views and executing SQL operations on XML. These were very interesting topic indeed. Especially the generation of XML from the […]
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part III
Hi there! Today we continued our journey into the XML realm, by exploring the XML Schema, XPath, XSL and XML DB. XML Schemas XML Schemas are based on XML language and define and validate the structure of an XML document. They can define simple and complex types, declare elements and […]
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part II
Today was the first day of the FM BootCamp. After a brief introduction of the program we started with our first topic of this two-week intensive hands-on Fusion Middleware Experience. Roughly, the four topics to be covered during this BootCamp are: Introduction to XML – 2.5 days WebServices – 1.5 days BPEL – 3 […]
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part I
Well,Today finally was the day. I have been looking forward a lot coming to Chicago for the Fusion Middleware Bootcamp. Getting up around 5:30am to get to the train station in time. Not a really difficult task for me, because I usually get up around 5.45am to go to work […]
EBS Custom Applications using Forms Listener Servlet
I was verifying a custom application installation in E-Business Suite for a customer lately. While looking for the documentation the installation was done with, I came across Metalink Note 70276.1, which is a Release 11.0 version of this task. Because my customer is using E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 (11i in short), […]
Sharing only the APPL_TOP in 11.5.10
In the past days I have implemented a well known architecture to many of my fellow Oracle E-Business Suite DBAs: An architecture that consists of multiple Application Servers. Until version 11.5.10, the common practice was to share the APPL_TOP between multiple Application Servers, and from 11.5.10 onwards Oracle started supporting […]
My rediscovery of vi
I am sure I am one of those humans that are using something for a long long time, and suddenly find out they have been doing things in a not so optimal way… One easily gets used to a personal style of working with (software) tools or devices. Nothing wrong […]
EBS advanced topologies: Sharing APPL_TOP, ORACLE_HOMEs, err… heck, why don’t we share it all?
Implementing a shared APPL_TOP with E-Business Suite is common practice these days. Since 11.5.10, there is also support for a shared technology stack (8.0.6 and iAS ORACLE_HOMEs). But what if you want to share the whole lot, also the ORACLE_HOME for the database, the ORACLE_HOME for Clusterware? Would you want […]
R12 AD utilities: One step forward, two steps back?
After having completed my first installation of E-Business Suite Release 12, I decided to take a look on Metalink whether there were some critical updates to EBS Release 12. My special interest was in the Applications Technology Family. I found out there was a number of patches to be applied. […]
Installing Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 with shared APPL_TOP on CFS
As soon as EBS Release 12 became available, I started with the installation, eager to find out what the differences were compared to 11i. I had had the opportunity to attend some trainings sessions and presentations about the new technology features, and, well, you know how things go when you […]
Oracle APPS 11i Technology Administrator OCP beta program extended
Oracle has “recently” launched the Oracle Applications Technology Certified Professional Administrator (OCP) certification. First, Oracle launched a beta program for this certification, to end on October 31st of this year. However, Oracle now has decided to extend the beta program to the end of January, 2007. This was officially told […]
adpatch fails- Cannot connect to RAC database
Yesterday I needed to apply a patch to my Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 environment. This environment consist of a 10G release 2 RAC database and two application tiers. I needed to apply patch 4676589 (11i.ATG_PF.H.RUP4), which is about 275MB in size, zipped. I defined 4 workers; the patch ran smoothly […]
Microsoft Cluster Server anomaly
Two weeks ago I encountered a very weird issue when using Microsoft Cluster Server. What happened? We created a MS Cluster Server environment with two servers (NodeA and NodeB, the virtual cluster node name NodeV), each of them had their own boot disk (C:) and a set of shared disks (D: […]
Oracle and resilvering on AIX
Oracle and resilvering data on Mirrored Logical Volumes on AIX How to set up your storage with regards to Mirror Write Consistency Suppose you have or plan to implement an Oracle RAC database on AIX and you are using raw logical volumes and logical volume mirroring (OK, this may sound rather […]
Implementing Virtual IP addresses with Oracle 10g/RAC for E-Business Suite 11i
Oracle 10g Cluster Ready Services enables databases to use a Virtual IP address to configure the listener on. This feature is to assure that oracle clients quickly failover when a node fails. When a client connects to a tns-alias, it uses a TCP connection to an IP address, defined in […]