Johannes Michler

Upgrading E-Business Suite 12.2 to use Analytics Publisher 12c

Upgrading E-Business Suite 12.2 to use Analytics Publisher 12c

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentFor almost a year already, it has been possible to change the document generation engine of an Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 instance from BI Publisher 10g to Analytics Publisher 12c. Since so...

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Upgrading E-Business Suite to 12.2.14 - FND_VAULT again

Upgrading E-Business Suite to 12.2.14 - FND_VAULT again

Mid of September Oracle released the latest E-Business Suite 12.2 RUP 12.2.14.

As described in the official release notes, the new release contains tons of new functionalities in almost all application modules as well as a lot of new Enterprise Command Centers. Finally, some technical issues with Analytics Publisher 12c fonts got fixed.

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Patching E-Business Suite with more comfort - part 2 notifying with PuTTY

Patching E-Business Suite with more comfort - part 2 notifying with PuTTY

Every quarter Oracle releases a bunch of Critical Patch Updates that have to be applied to (often many) E-Business Suite instances.

The first part of this blog post series covered how we can easily pass the passwords to adop; in this second part I will show how notifications can be brought to your attention quickly once the patching is completed.

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Automating Code Signing with latest E-Business Suite Signing Improvements - Part 4

Automating Code Signing with latest E-Business Suite Signing Improvements - Part 4

Last week, Oracle released a major re-work of its article on Signing JAR Files for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Doc ID 1591073.1). Taking into consideration that all major public Code Signing CAs now require Hardware Security Module (HSM) based storage of the private key this was long awaited. In previous parts of this blog series I've covered how we can workaround the limitations of jarsigning in E-Business Suite.

In this 4th part we'll cover how this procedure can be improved by using these latest patches to E-Business Suite.

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Patching E-Business Suite with more comfort - Part 1 Password Passing

Patching E-Business Suite with more comfort - Part 1 Password Passing

Every quarter Oracle releases a bunch of Critical Patch Updates that have to be applied to (often many) E-Business Suite instances.

This first part of this blog post series will cover how we can easily pass the passwords to adop; in the second part I will show how notifications can be brought to your attention quickly once the patching is completed.

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Running Oracle SOA Suite on Docker - Part 2: Installing a docker host

Running Oracle SOA Suite on Docker - Part 2: Installing a docker host

Operating – installing and maintaining – Oracle Fusion Middleware, especially Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.4 is quite some work. Not only does installation itself consist of a number of steps, but each quarterly critical patch update also requires applying a number of patches and – especially in simple, single server environments quite some downtime.

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Running Oracle SOA Suite in Docker - Overview

Running Oracle SOA Suite in Docker - Overview

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development  Operating - installing and maintaining - Oracle Fusion Middleware, especially Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.4 is quite some work. Not only does installation itself consist of a number of steps, but...

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Accessing EBS APIs from APEX - HR_SECURITY

Accessing EBS APIs from APEX - HR_SECURITY

As you're probably aware, Oracle APEX is a great tool to extend Oracle E-Business Suite. When doing so recently for a customer where I wanted to provide a way to add lines to existing orders using the OE_ORDER_PUB API I ran into a very strange situation.

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Automating Code Signing with multiple E-Business Suite instances - Part 3

Automating Code Signing with multiple E-Business Suite instances - Part 3

This third part will look how we can further automate this by installing the Certum tools onto the E-Business Suite Cloud Manager VM. First, we'll cover the latest changes from Certum, then we'll look into some scripts that can be used on multiple E-Business Suite Application servers to send the .jar files for signing to that central signing instance.

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Accessing E-Business Suite Cloud Manager APIs - IDCS Token Management

Accessing E-Business Suite Cloud Manager APIs - IDCS Token Management

In a previous post, we got hold of a "OAuth Bearer Token" that is needed to call those APIs in a very manual way "through the browser". In real life, this does not really come in handy. This blog post will describe how a bearer token (including a refresh token) can be received through the command line.

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Solving intermittent errors with adop fs_clone on OCI File Storage Service (FSS)

Solving intermittent errors with adop fs_clone on OCI File Storage Service (FSS)

Recently for multiple customers I ran into issues while running "adop phase=fs_clone".

Analyzing the error further I realized that this is around the (rather old) version of Oracle Installer trying to find the available space on the disk. With E-Business Suite running on OCI File Storage Service (FSS) this amount of available disk storage is basically "unlimited"; df reveals 8 Exabyte of free storage.

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(Fully) Automating Cloning with E-Business Suite Cloud Manager REST API

(Fully) Automating Cloning with E-Business Suite Cloud Manager REST API

As you're probably aware, Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager is a great tool to automate the operation of Oracle E-Business Suite.

This is especially true for cloning, e.g. creating Production-to-Test (P2T) copies. In the old days, for some of my customers it was a multi-week project to create such a P2T copy. Or alternatively, it resulted in a 50 days+ project to fully automate this with traditional infrastructure.

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Accessing SYS, EBS_SYSTEM, APPS and weblogic password in Cloud Manager Post-Clone scripts

Accessing SYS, EBS_SYSTEM, APPS and weblogic password in Cloud Manager Post-Clone scripts

Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager provides a powerful way to run and manage E-Business Suite environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI.
While the tooling covers many parts of the usual cloning steps, it is sometimes necessary to add some "custom stuff", e.g. modifying the ALLORACLE password, registering monitoring solutions, pausing some concurrent requests and so on.

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Increasing Database Patching Performance

Increasing Database Patching Performance

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development While applying the October 2023 Critical Patch Update (CPU) - that contains various critical fixes as can be found over there https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2023.html - I realized...

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Monitoring Free Disk Space on Oracle E-Business Suite Instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Monitoring Free Disk Space on Oracle E-Business Suite Instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is a critical application that requires careful monitoring to ensure optimal performance and prevent potential disruptions. One crucial aspect of monitoring EBS instances is keeping track of free disk space. In this guide, we will explore how to effectively monitor the free disk space on Oracle E-Business Suite instances running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

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E-Business Suite July 2023 CPU breaks OCI Load Balancer Health check

E-Business Suite July 2023 CPU breaks OCI Load Balancer Health check

On Tuesday Oracle released the quarterly security patch set, which contains a bunch of security related patches for both the Tech Stack and the Application Tier of E-Business Suite. While applying the patch for some of our customers running E-Business Suite on OCI I realized that access to the environment was no longer possible: Instead, a "502 Bad Gateway" error is shown.

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First impression on E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 23.1.1

First impression on E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 23.1.1

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentThis week, the Oracle E-Business Suite on OCI team released the latest release 23.1.1 of E-Business Suite Cloud manager: “Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud...

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wireguard into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using docker

wireguard into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using docker

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentWireguard Windows Client Connecting to OCI When setting up Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments, it is often helpful to have a lightweight VPN from your local machine to the newly...

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Migrating E-Business Suite to File Storage Service

Migrating E-Business Suite to File Storage Service

Recently, I described that starting with Release 22.2.1, the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager now supports OCI File Storage Service (FSS) besides block storage. Furthermore, the usage of FSS is mandatory for (new) multi-node environments: First Experience with E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 22.2.1

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Automating DNS Management for E-Business Suite on OCI

Automating DNS Management for E-Business Suite on OCI

When automating operations of Oracle E-Business Suite using OCI and especially Oracle Cloud Manager – which is now even easier and faster with the latest release 22.1, as described in my previous blog post –, it is often necessary to modify DNS entries.

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Creating a Read-Only APPS User

Creating a Read-Only APPS User

In Oracle E-Business Suite environments it is often necessary to query data. Typically, all data can be accessed through the APPS user. However, that user is highly privileged and, when in use, can easily “break things”. This is obviously a big compliance issue. Having a dedicated read-only user is thus a much better approach.

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Lessons learned while upgrading APEX and ORDS to 22.1

Lessons learned while upgrading APEX and ORDS to 22.1

We recently upgraded a great amount of customer instances, both on the APEX and on the ORDS layer. The general procedure for Oracle APEX is more or less unchanged in comparison to previous versions. On the ORDS layer however, the upgrade to 22.1 contains many changes. Additionally, we encountered a couple of issues, which are (along with their solutions) described below.

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Critical Patch Update – April 2022

Critical Patch Update – April 2022

Recently Oracle released the Critical Patch Update for April 2022.

We analyzed the security patches published and first of all: There is a lot of highly critical stuff in this quarter’s release, especially for E-Business Suite (incl. Cloud Manager -maximum CVSS base score of 9.8), Fusion Middleware (a whole bunch of 9.8 ratings with more Log4J as well).

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Benchmarking CPUs for Oracle E-Business Suite (Database)

Benchmarking CPUs for Oracle E-Business Suite (Database)

Together with our friends from Enginatics, we recently performed a bunch of performance benchmarks, especially of the CPU performance in the context of an Oracle E-Business Suite on various Oracle Database Releases. This blog will give an overview on the results we measured.

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E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 21.1.1 available

E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 21.1.1 available

Last week Oracle released the latest version of E-Business Suite “Cloud Manager” that can be used to conveniently create and manage E-Business Suite 12.1 or 12.2 environments running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

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Latest E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 20.2.1.1

Latest E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 20.2.1.1

Oracle released a new release of the E-Business Suite last week (on April 23, to be more exact). While so far there are no official announcements in the Oracle Blog, the My Oracle Support Note describing Cloud manager (2517025.1) gives an overview of the new features – so let’s have a closer (first) look at the new release.

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Application Performance Monitoring on OCI

Application Performance Monitoring on OCI

At the beginning of March, Oracle released the OCI “edition” of an Application Performance Monitoring Service (APM). The service is even available free of charge for smaller applications (up to 1,000 Events per hour).

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Using an AVM Fritz!Box to connect to Oracle OCI IPSEC VPN

Using an AVM Fritz!Box to connect to Oracle OCI IPSEC VPN

I recently set up a new “E-Business Suite on OCI” environment for a customer. During the initial setup, the customer was not able to set up a Site-2-Site Tunnel between their on premise Data Center and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Center in Frankfurt. To make my initial setup and testing more convenient, I decided to set up a separate VPN tunnel to my own development network.

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