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!

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.

Assets: How can you reverse an already amortized adjustment?

Look no further than My Oracle Support note "How To Reverse An Amortized Adjustment?" via document ID 1251976.1 for the short steps on how to do this for 11.5.10.2 and after (which I will assume applies for R12 as well)!

Presenting again!! OAUG Connection Point - AppsTech 2016

Hi everybody!!  Have you been wondering what I have been up to lately?  Well, the cat is out of the bag now with the presenter list for the OAUG Connection Point - AppsTech 2016 conference now online and my brand new presentation "R12: Reducing the data footprint of Oracle E-Business Suite" is listed!!  This is a great honor as this was by invite only, and this project is the one I alluded too earlier in the year in my Happy New Years post which I have been doing work on for quite some time but now I feel confident that I have enough material for a new presentation!  Do not miss this opportunity to learn from a lot of experts in application technology by registering today!!

Weekend Learning: Configuring the Workflow Mailer for a Proxy Server

On Oracle EBS R12.1.3 you can follow the MOS document "How To Configure the Mailer to Connect To a Proxy Server" via article ID 2139133.1 and even if you do not plan on changing your configuration you may want to see what is required.  This article even has reference to the additional step required if you have moved on to R12.2 and want to do this!

Windows Vista: Support ends in April 2017

You should be aware that product lifecycles which Oracle does not directly control CAN impact support for Oracle products.  In this case, Microsoft has set the end of life for Windows Vista to be April 2017 and that means that Oracle will be supporting the EBS product from a historical perspective so you need to get off that product and onto newer Windows platforms which are currently slated to be supported past April 2017.

R12 Payables: Invoice Mass Additions Diagnostics

Make sure you have installed the diagnostic from My Oracle Support document 1162973.1 "R12.1 Mass Additions Diagnostics" so you can find out why something did not transfer from the Payables module in EBS over to the Assets module!

R12.1 RPCs Superseded Again

Back in 2014 I posted a short post about Recommended Patch Collections being superseded for many modules and starting with My Oracle Support note 2102716.1 for "EBS: R12.1: Receivables Recommended Patch Collection (RPC), Feb 2016" you can find other RPCs but an even better idea is to add the document "EBS: R12.1 Latest Oracle Financials Recommended Patch Collections (RPCs)" from article ID 954704.1 to your favorites list in MOS.  This way when there are future updates, you can always stay up to date!

R12 EBS: Output Post Processor not working due to JVM error

The article "EBS: OPP does not work After Platform Migration ; Conflicting Collector Combinations ; Could not Create the Java Virtual Machine" can be found on My Oracle Support via note ID 2103349.1 which tells us why this happened AND also more details that could be useful in your toolbox about "developer parameters" or environmental files being used!

R12.1.3 OAF: Menu disappears after login for Oracle EBS

The article on My Oracle Support "Main Menu Getting Disappeared In Oracle EBS After Login" via document ID 2078117.1 apparently has come up so many times that it is "Customer Recommended"!  If you are planning on going to R12.1.3 because you are not on it yet, make sure you check this out and verify what patches are applied so you can avoid this problem!

R12 Purchasing: Approval of PO with AME ends in ORA-00060 error

If you are on R12.1.3 or R12.2 make sure that you bone up on MOS article "When approving a Purchase Order using AME, the Approval Workflow completes with ORA-00060 and "ECX_PROGRAM_EXIT_EMBD" errors" from note ID 1585839.1 as a certain Transmission Method can cause an ORA-00060 error to happen in the AME Workflow.

R12: How to configure Workflow Notification Mailer to use Cloud servers

If you are on EBS R12 you probably need to look at the "Configuring an Oracle Workflow Notification Mailer with Cloud E-Mail Servers" document 2077434.1 on MOS to find out how you take your application to the next level!

Weekend Learning: FREE Online R12.1 and R12.2 EBS training from Oracle

The other night I said you needed to bookmark a My Oracle Support article, but tonight I REALLY mean it as you NEED to add "Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 and 12.2 Transfer of Information (TOI) Online Training" from note 807319.1 to your bookmarks because there is an incredible list of free training from Oracle on several versions of R12 including the brand new R12.2.5!!

Weekend Learning: iProcurement Catalog Enhancement Requests

An item you will definitely want to bookmark in My Oracle Support is "iProcurement Enhancement Request - Catalog Shopping" in note ID 1452878.1 for 11.5.7 to 12.1.3 versions of EBS which you can refer back to when a problem crops up so you can see if there are workarounds or patches that can be applied!

Oracle EBS R12.2.5 has been released!

From Steven Chan's blog comes news about the release of EBS 12.2.5 which is a cumulative release update pack so can be applied to any R12.2 release without needing to go to any other releases.  There are multiple resources for you available on this article, but just as important are some questions asked and answered as well so make sure you click on the comments link!

Weekend Learning: Problem with granting privileges due to EBS R12.2 Edition Based-Redefinition

Even though the MOS article "Granting Privileges On An Object May Cause Invalidations" from note ID 1987947.1 sounds innocent enough, if you read the details it appears there is a potentially critical issue if you need to immediately change privileges on the current running version of code in R12.2!

R12.2.3 Procurement: No backend server available for connection error message due to performance issue

If you are on EBS R12.2.3 or planning on going to it, make sure you add into your testing suite the issue detailed in article "Performance When Searching Items To Receive In iProcurement: No Backend Server Available For Connection" which note ID 2054046.1 tells us is due to an incorrect index and what patches are available to resolve the issue.

Purging: How do you reduce the size of GL_IMPORT_REFERENCES?

Tonight we focus on purging and reducing the size of your EBS footprint by helping to find out "Can You Purge GL_IMPORT_REFERENCES ?" from MOS document 96204.1 with information about the table GL_ARCHIVE_REFERENCES included as well with reference to the General Ledger User's Guide if you needed to find it too!

Weekend Learning: How to use logical hostnames to configure Oracle EBS R12

Want to add a lot to your toolbox this weekend?  Look no further than document "Configuring Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.x Using Logical Host Names" on My Oracle Support from note ID 1968231.1 for a lot of installation and configuration details which you may have never had an opportunity to see before!

Weekend Learning: Profile options for EBS Concurrent Manager

Ever wonder if there are profile options which may impact the Concurrent Manager in the EBS application, that you might not know about?  Then check out this article "Report Manager Profile Options" from My Oracle Support note 1521253.1 to learn more about profile options that impact modules like BNE, GL, and more!