The two Senior Development Managers I met this morning were Max and Gustavo. We talked about 12.1.3, 12.2, Fusion Applications and Fusion Middleware. This is my recollection of our discussion.
First, topics from 12.1.3:
OATM – TruTek suggests that OATM be run we before the upgrade to 12.1.3, but running OATM after the upgrade will remove fragmentation by running “ALTER TABLESPACE MOVE TABLE” on all the tables in each tablespace . However, in the interest of minimizing downtime during the upgrade, TruTek recommends running OATM before the upgrade and run OATM after the upgrade, to remove any fragmentation, if present.
Parallel Concurrent Processing and Dead Connection Detection using 11g – with versions of the database before 11gR1, dead connection detection was dependent on TCP Keepalive settings. Now, with 11gR1 and above the dia0 database process eliminates dead connections within 10 seconds and sometimes seems almost immediate. Special setup of TCP parameters is no longer necessary to perform PCP failover.
Edition Based Redifinition (EBR) was introduced in 11gR2. Hot Patching uses this database feature in 12.2 with the introduction of “adop” AD Online Patching, the new admin tool for patching that keeps a copy of the Apps Tier for ADOP patching.
TruTek suggested an enhancement to adpatch: to allow a different number of workers for different phases. For example, normal patch jobs run better with fewer workers, in part because of less contention for deferred jobs, while the ad parallel compile runs fastest using all available CPUs.
Topics from 12.2:
In 12.0 and 12.1 the application server is 10gAS and the configuration parameters are incorporated into AutoConfig, leaving out the AS Control management console. In 12.2 the application server is WebLogic and while some parameters, such as DBC configuration parameters for AOL/J are still managed by AutoConfig, the WebLogic Server (WLS) is managed through the WLS Console. This allows admins to configure domains, managed servers, server clusters, machines, node managers, virtual hosts, work managers and security realms.
All the AOL/J components are essentially the same, including calls to FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE. This sets the FND_GLOBAL_USER_ID, Function Security, NLS and Multi Org parameters. The call to the NLS setting is especially expensive, which is why the JDBC Connection pool will save this session info and try to reuse it if possible.
In 12.2 the OHS will connect to Weblogic with a reverse proxy using the Apache Plugin that supports the APG14 protocol.
12.2 supports EBR and needs the functionality of 11gR2 for EBR. Therefore, 10gR2 and 11gR1 will not support 12.2. Steven Chan’s blog mentions that 11.2.0.3 is on the horizon.
Fusion Applications:
Get ready for Fusion by upgrading to 12.1.3
Introduce SOA to begin to replace existing non-Fusion compatible customizations
Co-Exist with Fusion to take advantage of new functionality in Fusion and use SOA interface with EBS.
ADF does not support flexfields, but OAF still supports flexfields. These pictures are from Nadia’s presentation at Open World. You can launch ADF pages from OAF:
ADF objects can be embedded in in OAF pages.
ADF no longer supports flexfields, but OAF still supports flexfields.
Begin using ADF extensions for EBS to help protect your investment, better enable co-existence with Fusion Applications and ensure your upgrade path to Fusion in the future.
Fusion Middleware:
Prepare for Fusion by implementing Identity Management and Access Manager:
Prepare for Fusion by Implementing OBIEE:
Prepare for Fusion by implementing BI Publisher:
