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Use New Password Utility AFPASSWD in R12.1 and 11i
Originally, FNDCPASS was the password utility for Release 11i and AFPASSWD is the new password utility for R12.1 of the E-Business Suite. AFPASSWD has been backported from R12.1 and is now available for 11i. The 11i version for AFPASSWD is delivered as part of patch 13644154.
AFPASSWD only prompts for passwords required for the current operation,
allowing separation of duties between applications administrators and database administrators.
In contrast, the FNDCPASS utility currently requires specification of the APPS and the SYSTEM usernames and corresponding passwords, preventing separation of duties between applications administrators and database administrators.
When changing a password with AFPASSWD, the user is prompted to enter the new password twice to confirm.
AFPASSWD can be run from the database tier as well as the application tier, while FNDCPASS can only be run from the application tier.
Prereqs for patch 13644154:
5903765 – 11i.ATG_PF.H.RUP6
3219567 – Patch 11i.TXK.B Technology Stack Minipack B (also in 11.5.10)
3264822 – Patch 11i.CAC.B
3261254 – Patch 11i.ALR.G
5161676 – MINIPACK 11I.AD.I.5
3036401 – Mini-Pack 11i.HZ.L
3263588 – Patch 11i.XDO.H
3264818 – Patch 11i.UMX.H
3218526 – Patch 11i.BNE.D
3263645 – Patch 11i.AK.G
4206794 – Patch 11i.FRM.H
3262486 – 11i.JTA.F
3261243 – Patch 11i.EC.G
2614213 – AME PATCH :DELIVERY OF GA AND RULE PRIORITY FUNCTIONALITY
3262159 – Patch 11i.FND.H
2819091 – Patch 11i.BNE.C
3412795 – ADSPLICE PATCH FOR XDO
Find the Patches in a Merged Patch
Maintaining and patching the E-Business Suite is faster when using the AD Merge Patch utility or admrgpch as the applmgr user, to merge patches. AD Merge Patch merges separate patches together, and the Patch Name stored in the database is “merged” and the patch driver is u_merged.drv. Merging patches avoids the duplication of effort, during the application of the merged patch, if multiple patches are trying to copy and generate the same file. The biggest time savings is the ability to recompile invalid objects only once, instead of once for each patch.
The database stores information about the patch when each patch is applied. The patch name is usually the same as the patch number. However, for a merged patch, the patch name is “merged”. This makes it difficult to report the patches that have been applied to your instance. One approach is to keep the patches on the filesystem in a directory named after the patch session.
Another approach to find all patches within a merged patch is to understand the tables that contain this information and the relationships between these tables.
By joining the following APPLSYS tables, we can relate Patches to Bugs and know when the patches were applied:
ad_applied_patches -> ad_patch_drivers -> ad_comprising_patches -> ad_bugs
We can find all the bugs associated with a patch, even a merged patch.
1. Find the APPLIED_PATCH_ID for a merged patch
Query the AD_APPLIED_PATCHES table:
SELECT applied_patch_id, rapid_installed_flag, patch_name, patch_type, maint_pack_level
FROM applsys.ad_applied_patches
Figure 1
Problem: We need to find all the patches that were part of the merged patch.
2. Find the PATCH_DRIVER_ID
295501 is the applied_patch_id for the merged patch. In order to find the detail of the merged patch, we need to look in the AD_PATCH_DRIVERS table, using the APPLIED_PATCH_ID from the AD_APPLIED_PATCHES table.
From the AD_PATCH_DRIVERS table we find the APPLIED_PATCH_ID 295501 and the corresponding PATCH_DRIVER_ID (279993):
AD_PATCH_DRIVERS Table:
Figure 2
3. Find all the BUGS
Then, use the corresponding PATCH_DRIVER_ID 279993 in the following query:
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT ab.bug_number ||DECODE(ab.baseline_name,NULL,”,’.’)
|| ab.baseline_name, acp.patch_abstract
FROM ad_comprising_patches acp, ad_bugs ab
WHERE acp.bug_id = ab.bug_id AND acp.patch_driver_id =279993)
WHERE ROWNUM<201
This returns the original bugs/patches that were merged together:
Figure 3
I use bugs/patches because sometimes a bug number will also be the patch name/number. This happens when the bug is not merged with other bugs into a bigger patch and assigned a surrogate number. Patches with surrogate numbers are related to multiple bugs.
4. Join the queries together
By joining the queries together, we get a list of all patches and the patch names, even patch names that were assigned by Oracle. Oracle also uses AD Merge Patch to merge patches.
SELECT ab.bug_number, ap.patch_name, ap.patch_type, ap.maint_pack_level,
ap.last_update_date
FROM applsys.ad_comprising_patches acp,
applsys.ad_bugs ab,
applsys.ad_patch_drivers pd,
applsys.ad_applied_patches ap
WHERE acp.bug_id = ab.bug_id
AND acp.patch_driver_id = pd.patch_driver_id
AND pd.applied_patch_id = ap.applied_patch_id
ORDER BY ap.last_update_date desc
Figure 4
MOS Extended and Sustaining Support Notice MOS ID 1495337.1
“As part of Oracle’s continued commitment to our customers, we will be providing an exception for the first 13 months of Sustaining Support on Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10 (11i10), valid from December 1, 2013 – December 31, 2014. This exception support will be comprised of three components:
(1) new fixes for Severity 1 production issues,
(2) United States Form 1099 2013 year-end updates, and
(3) payroll regulatory updates for the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia for fiscal years ending in 2014.
In addition, the Extended Support period for E-Business Suite Release 12.1 has been extended through December, 2018. Customers with an active Oracle Premier Support for Software contract will automatically be entitled to Extended Support deliverables for E-Business Suite 12.1.”
Three XLA invalid objects if you don’t apply the SLA patch 5233248 to 11i before the R12.1.3 upgrade
When upgrading to 12.1.1 and then 12.1.3, if you don’t apply patch 5233248 during the application of your 11i patches to prepare your database objects for R12, after the upgrade and all the R12.1.3 patches have been applied, there are three invalid objects that can only be resolved by applying this SLA patch to the 11i instance, in advance of the upgrade to R12.1.3. This patch is recommended as a patch needed if you are using “Upgrade by Request”. There are other methods to implement “Upgrade by Request”, but this is the method we recommend. If you don’t apply this patch and set the start and end dates with the SLA pre-upgrade program shown below, then only the default number of periods will be upgraded. The number of periods that are upgraded by default are six, unless you set the periods in the SLA pre-upgrade program. We highly recommend setting the starting period to the first period in your instance and the ending period to the last period in your instance.
First, enable the SLA pre-upgrade program:
If you plan to upgrade all your data during the upgrade, and I highly recommend upgrading all your data during the upgrade downtime window, you will need to set the start and end dates for all the GL periods in your instance. Set these dates using the “SLA pre-upgrade” concurrent program as follows:
If you decide to use less than all the GL periods, the amount of time this saves has been about one to two hours during our customers production upgrades. The post upgrade concurrent request can upgrade any remaining data in a few hours, if you choose not to upgrade all your GL periods during the original production downtime window. But a downtime window for this post upgrade concurrent program should requested because of the amount of archive logging it creates. If you have a downtime window to process the remaining GL periods, archive logging can be disabled. If you do not have a downtime window during the post SLA processing, the archive log mount point can fill up and hang your database. For this reason we strongly recommend disabling archive logging during any post processing of SLA data.
This XLA patch needs to be run with 11i patches in order to avoid these three invalid objects after the 12.1.1 / 12.1.3 upgrade:
| XLA_00200_AAD_S_000013_PKG |
| XLA_00200_AAD_S_000014_PKG |
| XLA_PRE_UPGRADE_PUB_PKG |
11g Database OCA Cheat Sheet Notes
My notes for teaching the OCA 11g DBAI class, for students preparing to take the OCA exam.
Database Writer writes when:
- No free buffers
- Too many dirty buffers
- 3 second timout
- Checkpoint
Log Writer writes when:
- session COMMIT
- buffer 1/3 full
- DBWR is about to write
UNDO
UNDO is used for:
- Reversing incomplete transactions
- Read consistency (temporary)
- Transaction isolation
- Flashback (9i temporary)
UNDO errors:
Run out of space ORA-30036 “unable to extend segment in undo tablespace” Lets the query succeed
Fails on consistent read- undot for CR has been overwritten ORA-01555 “snapshot too old”. This means the transaction will succeed.
FAILURE TYPES
- Statement failure
- User process failure- Network(listener, network card, route), User error
- Media Failure
- Instance Failure
RECOVERY
- Loss of control file
- Loss of online redo log
- Loss of datafile in NOARCHIVELOG mode
- Loss of datafile in ARCHIVELOG mode
Init parameters
FAST_START_MTTR_TARGET
Views
V$INSTANCE_RECOVERY
Commands
alter system checkpoint
alter system switch logfile
FLASHBACK
db_file_recovery_dest
db_file_recovery_dest_size
V$RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
V$FLASH_RECOVERY_USAGE
How to Set Archive Log Mode
- ARCHIVE LOG LIST
- Shutdown
- ALTER DATABASE ARCHIVELOG
- ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG CURRENT, or
- ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE
- SELECT name, is_recovery_dest_file FROM v$archive_log
Commands to Perform a Hot Backup
- ALTER TABLESPACE <name> BEGIN BACKUP
- LIST BACKUP OF DATABASE
- LIST BACKUP OF ARCHIVE ALL;
- REPORT NEED BACKUP;
- REPORTOBSOLETE
RMAN commands
All the RMAN command are listed at the bottom.
- CROSSCHECK
- DELETE EXPIRED
- DELETE OBSOLETE
- CATALOG
Copy the file(s) to the new location.
RMAN> COPY DATAFILE 8 TO '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/users.dbf';
Turn the tablespace to offline. We could have turned the tablespace offline before the copy, removing the need for a recovery, but the tablespace would have been offline longer using that method.
RMAN> SQL 'ALTER TABLESPACE USERS OFFLINE';
Switch to the new datafile copy(s) and recover the tablespace.
RMAN> SWITCH DATAFILE 8 TO COPY; RMAN> RECOVER TABLESPACE users;
Turn the tablespace online again.
RMAN> SQL 'ALTER TABLESPACE users ONLINE';
Remove the old datafile(s).
RMAN> HOST 'rm /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/dbs/users.dbf';
AUDITING
DB_DBA_AUDIT_TRAIL –>
Value Based Triggers
FGA_DBMS_FGA (all rows) These two views combine to form DBA_COMMON_AUDIT_TRAIL
DBA_FGA_AUDIT_TRAIL–>
ALERTS – Threshold Alerts – MMON – stateful
DBA_SERVER_ALERT
DBA_OUTSTANDING_ALERTS
DBA_ALERT_HISTORY –> “snapshot too old is stateless”
STATISTICS
TABLEs DBA_TABLES
COLUMNS DBA_TAB_COLUMNS
INDEXES DBA_INDEXES, INDEX_STATS
STATISTICS_LEVEL = TYPICAL, ALL, BASIC
OPATCH
opatch apply
opatch rollback
To move or rename a datafile do the following.
- Shutdown the database.
- Rename the physical file on the OS.
- Start the database in mount mode.
- Issue the
ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILEcommand to rename the file within the Oracle dictionary. - Open the database.
To move or rename a controlfile do the following.
- Alter the
control_filesparameter using theALTER SYSTEMcomamnd. - Shutdown the database.
- Rename the physical file on the OS.
- Start the database.
RMAN Commands
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
| “@” | Run a command file. |
| “@@” | Run a command file in the same directory as another command file that is currently running. The @@ command differs from the @ command only when run from within a command file. |
| “ALLOCATE CHANNEL” | Establish a channel, which is a connection between RMAN and a database instance. |
| “ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE” | Allocate a channel in preparation for issuing maintenance commands such as DELETE. |
| “allocOperandList” | A subclause that specifies channel control options such as PARMS and FORMAT. |
| “ALTER DATABASE” | Mount or open a database. |
| “archivelogRecordSpecifier” | Specify a range of archived redo logs files. |
| “BACKUP” | Back up database files, copies of database files, archived logs, or backup sets. |
| “BLOCKRECOVER” | Recover an individual data block or set of data blocks within one or more datafiles. |
| “CATALOG” | Add information about a datafile copy, archived redo log, or control file copy to the repository. |
| “CHANGE” | Mark a backup piece, image copy, or archived redo log as having the status UNAVAILABLE or AVAILABLE; remove the repository record for a backup or copy; override the retention policy for a backup or copy. |
| “completedTimeSpec” | Specify a time range during which the backup or copy completed. |
| “CONFIGURE” | Configure persistent RMAN settings. These settings apply to all RMAN sessions until explicitly changed or disabled. |
| “CONNECT” | Establish a connection between RMAN and a target, auxiliary, or recovery catalog database. |
| “connectStringSpec” | Specify the username, password, and net service name for connecting to a target, recovery catalog, or auxiliary database. The connection is necessary to authenticate the user and identify the database. |
| “CONVERT” | Converts datafile formats for transporting tablespaces across platforms. |
| “CREATE CATALOG” | Create the schema for the recovery catalog. |
| “CREATE SCRIPT” | Create a stored script and store it in the recovery catalog. |
| “CROSSCHECK” | Determine whether files managed by RMAN, such as archived logs, datafile copies, and backup pieces, still exist on disk or tape. |
| “datafileSpec” | Specify a datafile by filename or absolute file number. |
| “DELETE” | Delete backups and copies, remove references to them from the recovery catalog, and update their control file records to status DELETED. |
| “DELETE SCRIPT” | Delete a stored script from the recovery catalog. |
| “deviceSpecifier” | Specify the type of storage device for a backup or copy. |
| “DROP CATALOG” | Remove the schema from the recovery catalog. |
| “DROP DATABASE” | Deletes the target database from disk and unregisters it. |
| “DUPLICATE” | Use backups of the target database to create a duplicate database that you can use for testing purposes or to create a standby database. |
| “EXECUTE SCRIPT” | Run an RMAN stored script. |
| “EXIT” | Quit the RMAN executable. |
| “fileNameConversionSpec” | Specify patterns to transform source to target filenames during BACKUP AS COPY, CONVERT and DUPLICATE. |
| “FLASHBACK” | Returns the database to its state at a previous time or SCN. |
| “formatSpec” | Specify a filename format for a backup or copy. |
| “HOST” | Invoke an operating system command-line subshell from within RMAN or run a specific operating system command. |
| “keepOption” | Specify that a backup or copy should or should not be exempt from the current retention policy. |
| “LIST” | Produce a detailed listing of backup sets or copies. |
| “listObjList” | A subclause used to specify which items will be displayed by the LIST command. |
| “maintQualifier” | A subclause used to specify additional options for maintenance commands such as DELETE and CHANGE. |
| “maintSpec” | A subclause used to specify the files operated on by maintenance commands such as CHANGE, CROSSCHECK, and DELETE. |
| “obsOperandList” | A subclause used to determine which backups and copies are obsolete. |
| “PRINT SCRIPT” | Display a stored script. |
| “QUIT” | Exit the RMAN executable. |
| “recordSpec” | A subclause used to specify which objects the maintenance commands should operate on. |
| “RECOVER” | Apply redo logs and incremental backups to datafiles restored from backup or datafile copies, in order to update them to a specified time. |
| “REGISTER” | Register the target database in the recovery catalog. |
| “RELEASE CHANNEL” | Release a channel that was allocated with an ALLOCATE CHANNEL command. |
| “releaseForMaint” | Release a channel allocated with an ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE command. |
| “REPLACE SCRIPT” | Replace an existing script stored in the recovery catalog. If the script does not exist, then REPLACE SCRIPT creates it. |
| “REPORT” | Perform detailed analyses of the content of the recovery catalog. |
| “RESET DATABASE” | Inform RMAN that the SQL statement ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS has been executed and that a new incarnation of the target database has been created, or reset the target database to a prior incarnation. |
| “RESTORE” | Restore files from backup sets or from disk copies to the default or a new location. |
| “RESYNC” | Perform a full resynchronization, which creates a snapshot control file and then copies any new or changed information from that snapshot control file to the recovery catalog. |
| “RUN” | Execute a sequence of one or more RMAN commands, which are one or more statements executed within the braces of RUN. |
| “SEND” | Send a vendor-specific quoted string to one or more specific channels. |
| “SET” | Sets the value of various attributes that affect RMAN behavior for the duration of a RUN block or a session. |
| “SHOW” | Displays the current CONFIGURE settings. |
| “SHUTDOWN” | Shut down the target database. This command is equivalent to the SQL*Plus SHUTDOWN command. |
| “SPOOL” | Write RMAN output to a log file. |
| “SQL” | Execute a SQL statement from within Recovery Manager. |
| “STARTUP” | Start up the target database. This command is equivalent to the SQL*Plus STARTUP command. |
| “SWITCH” | Specify that a datafile copy is now the current datafile, that is, the datafile pointed to by the control file. This command is equivalent to the SQL statement ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE as it applies to datafiles. |
| “UNREGISTER DATABASE” | Unregisters a database from the recovery catalog. |
| “untilClause” | A subclause specifying an upper limit by time, SCN, or log sequence number. This clause is usually used to specify the desired point in time for an incomplete recovery. |
| “UPGRADE CATALOG” | Upgrade the recovery catalog schema from an older version to the version required by the RMAN executable. |
| “VALIDATE” | Examine a backup set and report whether its data is intact. RMAN scans all of the backup pieces in the specified backup sets and looks at the checksums to verify that the contents can be successfully restored. |
adpatch restart file ‘END OF COMPLETED JOBS’ line is missing
When applying the patch from the apps tier machine and it dies in the middle of the patch, in this case the R12.1.1 patch, 6678700, it said:
Reading completed jobs from restart file (if any).
AutoPatch error:
unable to find job when restarting
Wrong number of fields in restart file when restarting at line number =
This may indicate that the “END OF COMPLETED JOBS’ line is missing.
Notice the patch lists the number of jobs from the beginning of the patch, phase A0, not the current job, in this case is 48177 jobs at phase A144, as shown in the figure at the bottom of this post.
Other OTN threads suggest restarting the patch from the beginning. This requires a restore of the database, and while this solution works, it’s not the fastest solution.
Please edit the $APPL_TOP/admin/SID/restart/adpmain.rf9 file and remove the last incomplete line. See the figure below, the last line is incomplete compared to the line above it. Make a backup of the restart directory and edit the file and remove the last line.
Remove the line that says: Done job: prod= gmd un=GMD file=GMDSTNXT.sql ……
Then, restart the patch and use adctrl to set the jobs to restart.
Thanks, Mike
Missing Responsibilites after Upgrade to R1213
From: How To Run The Workflow Directory Services Concurrent Program From The SQLplus Prompt [ID 1213304.1]
1. Sync responsibility role data into the Workflow table:
begin
fnd_user_resp_groups_api.sync_roles_all_resp_secgrps(TRUE);
end;
2. Synchronize WF LOCAL tables:
exec WF_LOCAL_SYNCH.BulkSynchronization(‘ALL’)
The Synchoronize WF LOCAL table step above give the following error:
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12801: error signaled in parallel query server P000
ORA-01452: cannot CREATE UNIQUE INDEX; duplicate keys found
ORA-06512: at “APPS.WF_LOCAL_SYNCH”, line 2726
ORA-06512: at line 1
sqlplus apps/apps $FND_TOP/patch/115/sql/affurgol.sql
The run step three from MOS Note [1213304.1]
3. Workflow Directory Services User/Role Validation:
exec wf_maintenance.ValidateUserRoles(p_BatchSize => null, p_check_dangling => TRUE, p_check_missing_ura => TRUE, p_UpdateWho => FALSE);
Run adstpall.sh to stop the apps tier and adstrtal.sh to start the apps tier.
Recent Issues with the R1213 Upgrade
Issues with the R1211 Upgrade
After applying the latest R12.1.1 preinstall=y patches, I found these new issues:
To fix the GMIG3MIB.sql issue:
Run sqlplus apps/apps …/apps/apps_st/appl/gmi/12.0.0/patch/115/sql/GMIG3MIB.sql
Enter value for 2: GMI
Enter value for 1: 1000
Enter value for 3: 1
Enter value for 4: 1
I skipped the okemd2fx.sql, with option 8, and skipped the wmsrules.sql
Download the EBS Software for R12.1.1 Install for Rapidwiz
First, go to edelivery.oracle.com and select the E-Business Suite and Linux, Solaris or whatever the appropriate OS is. Then, select the set of disks to install; For instance, I’ve selected Oracle Solaris 64-bit. You also have the choice of whether you want the NLS packs for additional languages:
Notice the next figure shows the first line is the Rapid Install RDBMS Disk2. This is the last disk of the ORACLE_HOME software disks. You will need to download this and rapidwiz will ask for these disks, even though you have selected the rapidwiz option to “Upgrade Oracle Applications”. In my case, I already have a 11.2.0.3 ORACLE_HOME, so I don’t need the 11.1.0.7 ORACLE_HOME that gets installed with these disks. However, there is no option other than install all the software. If you remove this ORACLE_HOME before rapidwiz finishes it’s post install checks, the install will fail and the oraInventory will not be updated. Therefore. wait for rapidwiz to completely finish and then delete the 11.1.0.7 ORACLE_HOME.
In the figure below. you don’t need to download the Rapid Install Databases disks. These are used if you want install the VISION database with data pre-populated.
You will need the Tools disks, the APPL_TOP disks and the startCD disks:
After you unzip these zip files, you should have the following directories:
oraApps
oraAS
oraDB
startCD
If you want to download the software for Linux, notice the part numbers are different in the figure below:
If you are using Linux, there are different disks to install for Linux:
