Monday, August 8, 2016

R12 Purchasing: PO lines are validated even though they were cancelled

On R12.1.1 "Canceled PO Lines Are Getting Validated During PO Approval" in Purchasing per My Oracle Support note ID 2169842.1 when at least one line is cancelled from a PO that has already been approved!  The good news is that there is a patch, and that you can design a testing scenario to validate that this issue does not come back in the future!

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Weekend Learning: Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server versions

Have you ever asked yourself what the latest and greatest versions of Exadata components are?  So have I!  Well we are all in luck, as MOS document 888828.1 for the note "Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Supported Versions" has all of the information you would ever need about Exadata versions!!

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Weekend Learning: Oracle Key Vault - Master Note

Are you responsible for the security of your Oracle installation or the EBS application?  Do you know what Oracle Key Vault is, or how it can enhance your current security measures?  Find out more from MOS note 2120572.1 for the article "Master Note For Oracle Key Vault" so you can research!

Friday, August 5, 2016

Drastic increase in blog traffic!

As you may remember when we celebrated the blog's fourth anniversary, I reached 100,000 views and am approaching 1,000 posts, which is why last month I was SO surprised to get over 10,000 hits with 85% of those coming from Russia alone!  I wonder if other people are experiencing this type of traffic increase as well, and I also wonder if that type of pattern will be maintained going forward!

Thursday, August 4, 2016

R11i/R12 Payables: What data does the table PO_HISTORY_VENDORS hold?

If you are on R11i or R12 check out article "What is the purpose of PO_HISTORY_VENDORS?" from My Oracle Support via note ID 2169186.1 to find out what data the table holds and how it relates to purging programs!

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

R12.1: Enabling TLS in Oracle EBS

Read up on MOS article 376700.1 to learn how to start working on "Enabling TLS in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1" for your environment today so you can get away from SSL as many third party vendors are going away from SSL due to all of the issues like POODLE.

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

ZFSSA: Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backups can fail after configuration backup starts

Check out My Oracle Support note "All ZFS Storage Appliance (ZFSSA) Software Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) Backups Will Fail After a Configuration Backup Has Been Initiated" via document ID 2165712.1 where the NDMP daemon needs to be restarted in certain cases!

Monday, August 1, 2016

OOW16 Rejection!

In past years I have been rejected by the Oracle OpenWorld, and last year I was positive I would get selected, but this year I was even MORE positive I would get selected yet it was not to be!  Maybe next year, since I just gave my AppsTech presentation, which was really well received and pushed me a bit so if I add some more polish it I could get accepted for OOW17!!