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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 2
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...
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...
Increasing Database Patching Performance
Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development While applying the October 2023 Critical Patch Update (CPU) - that contains various critical fixes as can be found over there https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2023.html - I realized...
Monitoring Free Disk Space on Oracle E-Business Suite Instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is a critical application that requires careful monitoring to ensure optimal performance and prevent potential disruptions. One crucial aspect of monitoring EBS instances is keeping track of free disk space. In this guide, we will explore how to effectively monitor the free disk space on Oracle E-Business Suite instances running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Update on July 2023 EBS Issues with OCI Load Balancer
Maybe you've read my recent blog post on issues with using OCI Load Balancers in combination with E-Business Suite July 2023 security patches.
Together with Oracle we found a better workaround than the one mentioned in my previous post.
Securing Mobile Web Application access with OCI Load Balancer and Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Application Apps (MSCA) / Mobile Web Applications (MWA) rely on a telnet-style protocol to connect from the client - be it an Android or iOS device or be it a dedicated scanning hardware - to the application server.
E-Business Suite July 2023 CPU breaks OCI Load Balancer Health check
On Tuesday Oracle released the quarterly security patch set, which contains a bunch of security related patches for both the Tech Stack and the Application Tier of E-Business Suite. While applying the patch for some of our customers running E-Business Suite on OCI I realized that access to the environment was no longer possible: Instead, a "502 Bad Gateway" error is shown.
Oracle OCI Load Balancer with Lets Encrypt (free) SSL certificates
Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentE-Business Suite Umgebung mit LetsEncrypt Zertifikat Nowadays, all web traffic through the internet should be encrypted. For this to work, SSL certificates are required. These can be bought from...
Turn off all the lights at night - Reducing costs by automatically pausing EBS@OCI instances
Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development Costs Analysis dashboard in OCI Running services on a public cloud platform, even when running the service 24/7, is often cheaper than running these services on premise regarding Total Cost of...
First impression on E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 23.1.1
Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentThis week, the Oracle E-Business Suite on OCI team released the latest release 23.1.1 of E-Business Suite Cloud manager: “Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud...
wireguard into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using docker
Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentWireguard Windows Client Connecting to OCI When setting up Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments, it is often helpful to have a lightweight VPN from your local machine to the newly...
Exposing NULL values and Booleans in JSON/REST with Oracle SOA Suite
Recently we had a couple of projects where we needed to expose data extracted from an Oracle Database through a simple SQL query as a REST service producing JSON. Let’s have a look at how it is possible to control the JSON produced in such a scenario.
Migrating E-Business Suite to File Storage Service
Recently, I described that starting with Release 22.2.1, the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager now supports OCI File Storage Service (FSS) besides block storage. Furthermore, the usage of FSS is mandatory for (new) multi-node environments: First Experience with E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 22.2.1
Oracle Integration Cloud Hybrid integrations with Oracle Connectivity Agent
In integration projects, it is often needed to integrate cloud applications with on-prem systems running in the clients network. In most cases, the client network is not accessible from the internet. This situation makes the task of integrating this system for a cloud integration platform, such as the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), almost impossible.
Automating DNS Management for E-Business Suite on OCI
When automating operations of Oracle E-Business Suite using OCI and especially Oracle Cloud Manager – which is now even easier and faster with the latest release 22.1, as described in my previous blog post –, it is often necessary to modify DNS entries.
First Experience with E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 22.2.1
Oracle recently released E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Release 22.2.1. There is an official blog post on the new features, but let’s have a look at my experience while migrating to this latest version for one of our customers.
Initializing E-Business Suite Context for a Read-Only-User
Recently I described how a read-only user can be created for Oracle E-Business Suite. This works great, however, when trying to access the pre-built views of E-Business Suite, many of them do not show any data. Let’s see how we can remedy this.
Creating a Read-Only APPS User
In Oracle E-Business Suite environments it is often necessary to query data. Typically, all data can be accessed through the APPS user. However, that user is highly privileged and, when in use, can easily “break things”. This is obviously a big compliance issue. Having a dedicated read-only user is thus a much better approach.
Lessons learned while upgrading APEX and ORDS to 22.1
We recently upgraded a great amount of customer instances, both on the APEX and on the ORDS layer. The general procedure for Oracle APEX is more or less unchanged in comparison to previous versions. On the ORDS layer however, the upgrade to 22.1 contains many changes. Additionally, we encountered a couple of issues, which are (along with their solutions) described below.
Critical Patch Update – April 2022
Recently Oracle released the Critical Patch Update for April 2022.
We analyzed the security patches published and first of all: There is a lot of highly critical stuff in this quarter’s release, especially for E-Business Suite (incl. Cloud Manager -maximum CVSS base score of 9.8), Fusion Middleware (a whole bunch of 9.8 ratings with more Log4J as well).
Benchmarking CPUs for Oracle E-Business Suite (Database)
Together with our friends from Enginatics, we recently performed a bunch of performance benchmarks, especially of the CPU performance in the context of an Oracle E-Business Suite on various Oracle Database Releases. This blog will give an overview on the results we measured.
E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 21.1.1.1 can finally discover environments
As described in many of my previous posts, Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager tooling allows for a convenient management of your Oracle E-Business Suite environments on OCI.
E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 21.1.1 available
Last week Oracle released the latest version of E-Business Suite “Cloud Manager” that can be used to conveniently create and manage E-Business Suite 12.1 or 12.2 environments running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
New Compute Shape E4.Flex available on OCI in Frankfurt
While upgrading one of our customers from 12.1.3 to 12.2.10 I realized (by chance) that Oracle made available the latest E4.Flex (AMD EPYC) shapes in the Frankfurt OCI data center last week.
Latest E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 20.2.1.1
Oracle released a new release of the E-Business Suite last week (on April 23, to be more exact). While so far there are no official announcements in the Oracle Blog, the My Oracle Support Note describing Cloud manager (2517025.1) gives an overview of the new features – so let’s have a closer (first) look at the new release.
Application Performance Monitoring on OCI
At the beginning of March, Oracle released the OCI “edition” of an Application Performance Monitoring Service (APM). The service is even available free of charge for smaller applications (up to 1,000 Events per hour).
Oracle APEX vs. Oracle VBCS: Comparison of the two front-end technologies / Part 1
Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS) are two low-code platforms by Oracle that can both be used for creating web applications. But what are the differences and similarities between the two front-end technologies?
ORACLE APEX Cloud Service – inexpensively available in the Oracle Cloud
Oracle Application Express (APEX) is a popular low code platform for developing database-driven web applications. When previously wanting to operate such applications in the Oracle Cloud, there were two real alternatives.
Using an AVM Fritz!Box to connect to Oracle OCI IPSEC VPN
I recently set up a new “E-Business Suite on OCI” environment for a customer. During the initial setup, the customer was not able to set up a Site-2-Site Tunnel between their on premise Data Center and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Center in Frankfurt. To make my initial setup and testing more convenient, I decided to set up a separate VPN tunnel to my own development network.
Using a Raspberry Pi to connect to Oracle OCI IPSEC VPN
I recently set up a new “E-Business Suite on OCI” environment for a customer. During the initial setup, the customer was not able to set up a Site-2-Site Tunnel between their on-premise Data Center and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Center in Frankfurt. To make my initial setup and testing more convenient, I decided to set up a separate VPN tunnel to my own development network. I first tried libreswan on a Raspberry Pi.
Get away with that paper using SOA Suite and E-Post/Docuguide
A customer recently told me they would like to get away from having to print, envelope and post mark thousands of invoices manually every month. Even though we have changed their invoicing process to an electronic one for most of their customers years ago by sending out emails through Oracle SOA Suite, they still had a considerable amount of customers insisting on printed invoices delivered by post.
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.