1. Change Oracle APPS Password - FNDCPASS
With Product Family ATG version H Roll Up 3 , Oracle Introduced New Option in
FNDCPASS which is ALLORACLE to Change password of all Schema
provided by Oracle Application products. These are basically below three
category password
–These are mainly schema password for products like AP, GL, AR (These are
also termed as of mode ORACLE )
–Password for APPLSYS and APPS (Same password for both schema) . This is
also called as Apps Password (used during CM startup)
–Password for account APPLSYSPUB
How to change Oracle Applications Products/Schema Password
including APPS ?
As most of you might already be aware that you use FNDCPASS utility on
Concurrent Manager Node.
FNDCPASS logon 0 Y system/password mode username
new_password
Where MODE is SYSTEM/USER/ORACLE/ALLORACLE (Introduced with patch
4745998)
Will ALLORACLE mode change other schema passwords like
CTXSYS, MDSYS, PORTAL.., SYS, SYSTEM, SCOTT, Application
User like AtulKumar …. ??
No ALLORACLE mode will change only schemas mentioned in paragraph 1
and will not change passwords for schemas like CTXSYS, MDSYS, SYS,
SYSTEM…..
2. Is previous Mode SYSTEM/USER/ORACLE still available with
FNDCPASS ?
Yes
How to get ALLORACLE mode in FNDCPASS ?
Apply Oracle Apps patch 4745998
What files to change after changing Apps Password ?
You use FNDCPASS apps/apps 0 Y system/manager SYSTEM APPLSYS
WELCOME to change Apps Password
–Once you change apps password you need to change apps password stored in
file wdbsvr.app at $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/modplsql/cfg
–In some instances you might have to change in CGIcmd.dat at
$ORACLE_HOME/reports60/server
–You also have to change in any custom concurrent manager start up script (If
you have any)
Added on 14th August 2007
–If you have configured E-Business Suite with 10g Application Server SSO/OID
then after changing APPS password, update provisioning profile with new apps
password
oidprovtool operation=modify
ldap_host=oid_host ldap_port=oid_port
ldap_user=”cn=orcladmin” ldap_user_password=password
application_dn=”orclApplicationCommonName=app_name ,
cn=EBusiness,cn=Products,cn=OracleContext, dc=realm_name ”
interface_connect_info=db_host_name :oid_port :SID:apps:apps_password
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