What’s New in Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2 for Database Administrators?
- 1. REMINDER Check in on the COLLABORATE mobile app 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 – www.pythian.com/blog – linked.in/in/vasuballa – @vasuballa
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- 4. Agenda ■Architecture ■Installation Procedures ■Online Patching ■Database Schema Layout ■Cloning
- 5. Architecture This is a subtitle or bulleted list
- 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 This is a subtitle or bulleted list
- 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 This is a subtitle or bulleted list
- 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 This is a subtitle or bulleted list
- 21. Logical Layout
- 22. Editioning Views
- 25. Cloning This is a subtitle or bulleted list
- 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 This is a subtitle or bulleted list
- 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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