Learn what’s new and different in Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2

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What’s New in Oracle E-Business Suite
R12.2 for Database Administrators?
Prepared by:
Vasu Balla
Principal Consultant
The Pythian Group
Learn what’s new and different in
Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2
Session ID#: 14408

2. About Me
– Oracle Apps DBA with 11+
Years of Exp
– Oracle Apps ATG Customer
Advisory Board Member
– Oracle EBS Principal
Consultant at Pythian
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4. Agenda
■Architecture
■Installation Procedures
■Online Patching
■Database Schema Layout
■Cloning

5. Architecture
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6. Dual File System
Source: Oracle

7. R12.1 vs R12.2
R12.1 | R12.2
------------------------------------------
opmn | opmn
|___ ohs | |___ ohs
|___ oacore |
|___ forms | Weblogic Admin Mgr
|___ oafm |
| Weblogic Node Mgr
CMs | |___ oacore
| |___ forms
Apps_Listener | |___ oafm
|
| CMs
|
| Apps_Listener
|

8. R12.1 File system Layout
Oracle Homes
/u01/E-BIZ/apps/tech_st/10.1.2
/u01/E-BIZ/apps/tech_st/10.1.3
Apps Code
/u01/E-BIZ/apps/apps_st/appl
/u01/E-BIZ/apps/apps_st/comn
Log/Config Files
/u01/E-BIZ/inst

9. R12.2 File system Layout
/u01/install/fsX/EBSapps/10.1.2
/u01/install/fsX/FMW_Home/oracle_common
/u01/install/fsX/FMW_Home/webtier
/u01/install/fsX/FMW_Home/Oracle_EBS-app1
/u01/install/fsX/FMW_Home/wlserver_10.3
/u01/install/fsX/EBSapps/appl
/u01/install/fsX/EBSapps/comn
/u01/install/fsX/inst
/u01/install/fs_ne
X = 1,2

10. R12.2 File system Layout
1. Two identical filesystems exist ( RUN &
PATCH )to support Online patching
feature
2. Single Non Editioned Filesystem that
holds AD executables, PATCH_TOP and CM
Log/Output files
3. Instance Top doesn’t hold Weblogic and
OHS config files
4. Cannot do Readonly shared appltop across
instances

11. Weblogic
1. Ships with both 64bit and 32bit Jrockit
Java Runtime
2. Forms Managed Server JVM, CMs & AD
utilities use 32bit jrockit
3. Rest all use 64bit jrockit
4. Known to use more memory than values set
by Xmx & Xms

12. Sample oacore JVM usage
$ which jrcmd
/u01/install/fs1/FMW_Home/jrockit32/bin/jrcmd
$ jrcmd 15637 print_memusage
15637:
Total mapped 2379480KB (reserved=1248288KB)
- Java heap 524288KB (reserved=0KB)
- GC tables 17548KB
- Thread stacks 27508KB (#threads=72)
- Compiled code 1048576KB (used=18784KB)
- Internal 1672KB
- OS 275448KB
- Other 267096KB
- Classblocks 11776KB (malloced=11744KB #31381)
- Java class data 204544KB (malloced=204440KB
#144252 in 31381 classes)
- Native memory tracking 1024KB (malloced=144KB #10)

13. Installation Procedures
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14. Installation Procedures
■ Rapidwiz now shipped with RMAN backup
instead of datafiles
■ It can now install directly onto a existing
RAC cluster
■ Can also install onto to ASM
■ Cuts down build times of new instances
■ Default startCD installs JDK & JRE6
■ Download new startCD to get JDK & JRE7

15. {Online} Patching
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16. Online Patching
■ Edition-Based-Redefinition (EBR) feature is
used by R12.2 to enable online patching
■ New edition called PATCH edition is created
during a patching cycle
■ Online users use the RUN Edition
■ Editioning Views enable new columns to be
added during a patching cycle
■ Cross-Edition Triggers enable data changed by
online users propagate to patch edition during a
patching cycle

17. Online Patching Overview
■ Prepare
▪ Synchronizes patch edition and run edition on the file system.
▪ Creates a new patch edition in the database.
■ Apply
▪ Executes patch drivers to update patch edition.
▪ Patches applied: can be one or many, including customizations.
■ Finalize
▪ Compiles invalid objects.
▪ Generates derived objects.
■ Cutover
▪ Configures patch edition file system to be the new run edition file system.
▪ Configures patch edition of database to be the new run edition.
▪ Restarts application tier services.
■ Cleanup
▪ Delete obsolete code and seed data to recover space.

18. Online Patching
■ Applied using the new utility called adop
■ Patches need to copied to PATCH_TOP before applying
( $NE_BASE/EBSapps/patch )
■ Adop can apply multiple patches in one go and has option to
merge them before apply
■ Can apply patches directly to RUN edition using hotpatch
option
■ Hotpatch option can be used to mimic old R12/11i kind of
patching style
adop phase=apply hotpatch=yes patches=xxx,yyy
■ Adop uses SID_patch service_name to connect to database

19. Online Patching contd.
■ Adop Connects to other nodes in multinodes setup via
ssh and applies the patch ( similar to RAC patchings)
■ Fs_clone option clones the PATCH fs from RUN fs.
■ Mandatory to Keep AD & TXK patchsets at same level
■ AD patches are online, don’t need downtime.
■ $APPL_TOP_NE/ad/custom/adop_sync.drv is used to
sync CUSTOM Code

20. Database Layout
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21. Logical Layout

22. Editioning Views

23. Cross Edition Trigges

24. Editioned Storage

25. Cloning
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26. Cloning in R12.2
■ For the most part did not change
■ FMW_Home cloning is handled by weblogic utilites
■ Adpreclone.pl creates a clone stage area of FMW_Home
under common top using weblogic utils
■ During clone, we don’t need to copy FMW_Home
■ adcfgClone builds FMW_Home using the stage area via
weblogic utilities

27. Misc
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28. Misc
■ Apps Password change requires manual update to WLS
Datasource with new password
■ AFPASSWD utility can be used to change passwords without
DB accounts
■ SSO integration with OAM/OID is much simple as there is no
need of webgate and accessgate installs
■ 12.2.3 VirtualBox templates for single node and multinode
versions are available now

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