Pro-active how to extract .MF files in Oracle Ebus R12.1.3

1. PRO-Active How to extract .MF
files from Business R12
Ahmed Jassat
APPS DBA
+27 76 44 11 873

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4. Issues faced with the above process
1. Payroll Users had to e-mail the apps dbas for files
2. Payroll users had to have the apps dbas available if running payroll
afterhours
3. Auditing risk as the apps dba have access to these files
4. Too many steps involved to retrieve .mf file from server, 5 steps
5. If payroll is rerun the apps dba needs to extract the files again
6. Payroll User dependent on APPS DBA
7. Overtime for both APPS DBA and Payroll User
8. APPS DBA needs to be available all the time
9. Miscommunication causes issues between Payroll and APPS DBA
10.Customers is not happy with the above process

6. New process benefits
1. Saves on resources
2. No more required to e-mail APPS DBA
3. Complies with Auditing
4. No more storing the files on PCs for APPS DBA
5. No more storing the files on PCs for HR USER
6. Adds feature to Oracle ebus
7. Saves costs on overtime for APPS DBA
8. Saves costs on overtime for HR user
9. Saves costs no need to purchasing a FTP tool
10. Customer will be happy
11. I have spoken to HR users & APPS DBAs … all of them want this
feature
12. Oracle ZA clients want this feature
13. Users will be kept working in the application
14. Single point of failure

7. Step 1 , Create bin directory under $PER_TOP

8. Step 2 Executable (Application Developer>>Concurrent>>Executable)

9. Step 3 , Concurrent Request(Application Developer>>Concurrent>>Program)

10. Step 4 , Sysadmin>>Security>>Responsibility>>Request Group

11. Step 5 , Run the concurrent request

12. Step 6 , file will be e-mailed to you

13. If you would like to have the script and
documentation please contact me
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Ahmed Jassat
APPS DBA
+27 76 44 11 873
Ahmed.jassat@yahoo.com