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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Johannes Techblog Dockering Oracle SOA Suite
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...
Migrating to Exchange Online - Overview for Oracle SOA Suite
In this article we'll show you how to create an OAuth-Sign-In Flow after migrating from MS Exchange on Premise to Exchange online.
Migrating to Exchange Online - Overview for Oracle E-Business Suite Workflow Mailer
In this blog post we will give you an overview for Oracle E-Business Suite Workflow Mailer when migrating to Exchange Online.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
Solving issues with Weblogic-Password change of Cloud Manager 23.3.1
This week, Oracle released the version 23.3.1 of Cloud Manager.
The new release finally provides the possibility to change the apps, ebs_system and weblogic password during cloning. This is great, and for most of my customers it works "out-of-the box".
New E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Release 23.3.1
I've just realized, that Oracle today released Cloud Manager release 23.3.1. I'll give you a first overview of new features I've discovered at first glance.
First Experience with E-Business Suite 12.2.13 / ECC V11 Upgrade
Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development Last week, I've upgraded the E-Business Suite of a first customer to the latest E-Business Suite RUP 12.2.13, Enterprise Command Centers V11 as well as Database 19.21. A comprehensive list of...
Signing E-Business Suite / Forms Java Applets using a Cloud based Code Signing Certificate - Part 1
Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentAs you're probably aware by now, since June 1st 2023 all well-known / public Certificate Authorities (CA) no longer provide Code Signing Certificates using pure software based private keys (see...
First Hand-On Experience with Cloud Manager 20.2.1
Last week, Oracle released the latest version of E-Business Suite’s Cloud Manager tool. I took a quick look at the features and upgraded two Cloud Manager instances to the latest release. Let’s have a look at how this went.
OCI I/O-Performance with E-Business Suite (Part 3/3) - LVM
While moving a customer from On-Premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we recently conducted some performance testing before the final cutover. For the E-Business Suite database server, a physical box with 16 CPU cores was migrated to a VMStandard E3.Flex VM with 12 OCPU. From a CPU performance perspective, the new VM was much faster than the old box. Unfortunately, this was not the case on the I/O performance side.
OCI I/O-Performance with E-Business Suite (Part 2/3)
While moving a customer from On-Premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we recently conducted some performance testing before the final cutover. For the E-Business Suite database server, a physical box with 16 CPU cores was migrated to a VMStandard E3.Flex VM with 12 OCPU. From a CPU performance perspective, the new VM was much faster than the old box. Unfortunately, this was not the case on the I/O performance side.
OCI I/O-Performance with E-Business Suite (Part 1/3)
While moving a customer from On-Premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we recently conducted some performance testing before the final cutover. For the E-Business Suite database server, a physical box with 16 CPU cores was migrated to a VMStandard E3.Flex VM with 12 OCPU.
Private DNS
Last week when reading through the latest Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Release Notes I ran into a new Feature named “Private DNS”.
SOA Suite 12.2.1.4 on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Recently we have seen a lot of our customers implementing Oracle SOA Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - some upgrading from earlier releases of the SOA Suite, others doing a new implementation of an integration platform based on SOA Suite. This blog will have a look at typical customer situations and how we brought them onto a new SOA integration platform on OCI from a high level perspective.
Checking for E-Business Suite 12.2 Online Patching Readiness in BI Publisher Data Templates
Johannes MichlerSenior Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentWhen upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite from Release 12.1 (or earlier) to 12.2.X one of the first steps to perform is to make sure that all custom development does not violate Online Patching...
Latest E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 20.1.1.1 Improvements
Recently Oracle released version 20.1.1.1 of E-Business Suite Cloud Manager. What seems to be a very small step in the version number brings a lot of improvements based on Enhancement Requests I've created in the past years.
Backing up E-Business Suite instances on OCI
Johannes MichlerSenior Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is used by many of our customers to run their Oracle E-Business Suite workload. Especially when not just running development and testing systems on OCI obviously...
Quickstart to running E-Business Suite on OCI with Terraform
When recently bringing one of our customers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with their Oracle E-Business Suite Environment I quickly scrolled through the latest My Oracle Support Note 2434500.1, describing the procedure – mainly looking for changes.
Using latest flexible OCI E3 shape with E-Business Suite on OCI
Recently Oracle announced the availability of a new CPU shape E3. Flex in its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - see here. The announcement promises an increase in performance of around 50% compared to the current Intel CPU (e.g. in VMStandard2.x) at the same cost. Reason enough for me to take a closer look at this in the area of operating the E-Business Suite on such instances.
Moving Oracle Configurator Development Environment to a new P2T-Copy (on OCI)
When using the Oracle Configurator of Oracle E-Business Suite usually a dedicated “development” environment is used to create and update the configuration models. From this Configurator Development environment the configuration projects (called models) can be published to different E-Business Suite instances – usually first to a testing and then to the production environment.
E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 20.1.1 available
Johannes MichlerSenior Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentOracle recently released version 20.1.1 of the E-Business Suite Cloud Manager – see their blog https://blogs.oracle.com. The main new feature of this release is support for the Oracle Database 19c....
Horus Business Modeler and Horus 3.0 are now certified on Oracle Autonomous Cloud
The business process management tool Horus Business Modeler as well as the new Tool Horus 3.0, which is currently in development by our friends and partners @Horus, are now both certified to run on an Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud instance. This comes in handy if you do not have a spare database instance or if you do not want to perform the management of an ordinary (Oracle) Database.
Some notes on licensing EBS@OCI
When doing my OCI Architect Associate certification it came to my mind that I never wrote anything on licensing on my blog - probably since this is a technical blog and I don’t want to deal with legal topics. Nevertheless I think it makes sense to write some basics on licensing E-Business Suite on OCI and cover two aspects a bit more in detail. Note: I'm not a lawyer, so please take this post just as a overview and refer to your license contracts for binding information!
Monitoring and Managing EBS@OCI environments with Cloud Control
The Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager provides only very basic management and no monitoring functions for E-Business Suite environments: essentially for creating, restoring, deleting and backing up the environment. The underlying hosts (including storage and network) can also be conveniently monitored with the OCI console. However, when it comes to the application (and especially database) itself, these tools do not really help. This is where Oracle Cloud Control comes into play - as it was on premise as well. This article describes how easy it is to setup a Cloud Control environment on OCI and to connect all E-Business Suite Apps- and DB-Tiers to it.
RMAN: Manually cataloging a file from OCI object storage
Have you ever tried to "inject" another archivelog into a backup residing on OCI? See here how we managed to solve this.
Building a minimal Progressive Web App (PWA) on Autonomous APEX
Recently my colleague Yves Chassein and myself setup a small Proof of Concept on how to implement a Progressive Web App (PWA) on top of the Autonomous Database (ATP) and APEX.
HTTP PATCH using Oracle SOA Suite
Have you ever wondered how to provide or call a REST service with the HTTP "PATCH" verb? Here we go...
Experiences while Upgrading to E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 19.3.1(.1)
Oracle recently made the release 19.3.1 available. For one of our customer using E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) I just upgraded to this latest release. This post gives an overview on the experiences seen.