Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Readme [ID 1080973.

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Purpose Scope and Application Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Readme Applying the Release Update Pack Post-Update Steps List of Included Patches Change Record Documentation Accessibility

Applies to:
Oracle Application Install - Version: 12.1.3 to 12.1.3 - Release: 12.1 to 12.1 Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 combines patches that are created across the E-Business Suite after the release of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 into a thoroughly tested, high-quality release update pack.

Attention: Apply Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 to an existing Release 12.1 environment.

Scope and Application

Several product family RUPs included in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 are available individually and might contain conditions and prerequisites that apply to its application. The List of Included Applications section of this document contains links for each product fam RUP. These links connect you to ily a Readme document, containing specific instructions for that product family. Read each of these individual Readme documents to determine the steps for applying the associated RUP, if you are applying the product family RUP separately.

Note: Read and follow the instructions in the latest Oracle Applications Release Installation and Upgrade Notes, Release 12 notes for your platform. These notes contain the most recent requirements for a successful application of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3. You can find these notes, along with other Release 12.1 documentation, in the Oracle E-Business Suite Documentation Resources, Release 12.1 Document 790942.1.

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Readme

Attention: Database desupport schedules have important operational and planning implications for Oracle E-Business Suite environments. Oracle recommends that you review the following documents that detail the latest database support policies and desupport schedules:
Database, FMW , EM Grid Control, and OCS Software Error Correction Support Policy Document 209768.1 Release Schedule of Current Database Patch Sets Document 742060.1

Note : If you are upgrading from Release 11i to Release 12.1, complete the upgrade, including the postupgrade steps, before you apply Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.

Note: For information about known issues associated with specific products in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3, and possible workarounds for those issues, please reference the Known Issues section of your specific product Release Note documents.

Applying the Release Update Pack

Note : Oracle recommends that you use the AutoPatch utility with the default options.

Note : All customers using 11gR1 and 11.2.0.1 must refer to Document 761570.1 for information about making additions to their database initialization file, such as disabling fast validation for PL/SQL recompilations. This should be completed as a mandatory pre-install step, before upgrading to Oracle EBusiness Suite Release 12.1.3. Note : Refer to Document 761570.1 to ensure that all patches for your specific database release are applied on the environment, before upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3.

Note : As OracleAS 10g Patchset 10.1.3.x for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 document is updated regularly, verify the latest copy of Document 454811.1 (for 10.1.3.5 ) or Document 728531.1 (for 10.1.3.4 ) and apply all required patches mentioned in the document, before upgrading to Oracle EBusiness Suite Release 12.1.3. If you are currently on OracleAS 10g Patchset 10.1.3.4, you do not need to upgrade to 10.1.3.5before upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3. You can remain on 10.1.3.4 while upgrading Oracle E -Business Suite, and choose to upgrade to 10.1.3.5 at a later time.
In Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3, Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway is available only with Oracle 10g Application Server Release 3 (10.1.3) Patchset 5 (10.1.3.5.0). Consequently, when enabling Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Release 12.1.3 upgraded from Oracle E Business Suite Release 12.1.1 or Release 12.1.2, you need to upgrade Oracle10g Application Server to Oracle10g Application Server Release 3 (10.1.3) Patchset 5 (10.1.3.5.0). See My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 556540.1 for more information on installing Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway. As the OracleAS 10g Patchset 10.1.2.3 for Forms and Reports for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Document 437878.1 document is updated regularly, verify the latest copy of Document 437878.1 and apply all required patches that are mentioned in this document before upgrading to Oracle EBusiness Suite Release 12.1.3. To apply Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3, follow these steps:

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Use AutoPatch to apply R12.AD.B.DELTA.3 Patch 9239089, before you complete any of the other steps in this section. Do not merge this patch with any other patch. R12.AD.B.Delta.3 must be applied separately. Refer to Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA Readme, Release 12.1.3 Document 1077769.1 for more information about R12.AD.B.Delta.3. Use AutoPatch to apply Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Patch 9239090 and follow the instructions in the patch readme file. Use AutoPatch to apply the latest consolidated online help Patch 9239095 and follow the instructions in the patch readme file.

Attention: JDBC connections may time out during the upgrade process when random number generation is slow on machines with inadequate entropy.
On some machines, under certain circumstances, the entropy pool associated to random number generation may not be sufficient. This could cause the JDBC connections to enter a wait state until timeout. Due to the timeout, AutoPatch will fail with an error of (SQLException( exception:Connection reset")). "Io To work around the issue, use the following procedure to add urandom as the non-blocking random number generator: 1. 2. 3. 4. Confirm /dev/urandom is installed. Update s_adjreopts in $CONTEXT_FILE with the system value: -Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom or -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom Execute AutoConfig to populate the associated environment files. Restart and continue the upgrade process.

Note that this workaround should be removed after the upgrade process is complete. It should not be used in prod uction runtime environments because it can result in less entropy being used in the random numbers.

Post-Update Steps
1. Apply post-install Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Technology patches. (Required) Apply mandatory Patch 9966055 (9966055:R12.FND.B [TRANSLATED VERSION OF FNDSCSGN NOT LAUNCHED].) Update database tier nodes with the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 code level.

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Apply mandatory Patch 9817770 (9817770:R12.ATG_PF.B [POST-R12.ATG_PF.B.DELTA.3 CONSOLIDATED PATCH].)

After you have upgraded to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3, perform the following post update steps to update all database tier nodes with the code level, provided by Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3:

Application tier:

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As the APPLMGR user, run the environment (UNIX) or the command (W INDOW S) file for the current APPL_TOP.

. ./<APPL_TOP>/APPS<CONTEXT_NAME>.env

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Run AutoConfig on the APPL_TOP. Run the admkappsutil.pl utility to create the file appsutil.zip in the <INST_TOP>/admin/out directory.

perl <AD_TOP>/bin/admkappsutil.pl

Note : For details on how to run AutoConfig and create appsutil.zip, refer toUsing AutoConfig to Manage System Configurations in Oracle Applications Release 12 Document 387859.1 Database tier:

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As the ORACLE user, run the environment (UNIX) or the command (W INDOW S) file for the current ORACLE_HOME.

cd <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME> . ./<RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/<CONTEXT_NAME>.env

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Copy or FTP the appsutil.zip file to the <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>. Uncompress appsutil.zip under the <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>.

cd <ORACLE_HOME> unzip -o appsutil.zip

Run AutoConfig on the <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>.

Note : For details on how to run AutoConfig on the database tierand how to transfer the AutoConfig updates from the APPL_TOP to the RDBMS ORACLE_HOME, refer to Using AutoConfig to Manage System Configurations in Oracle Applications Release 12Document 387859.1, Section 2, Step 3, Patching AutoConfig.

Database tier and application tier:

Re-run adpreclone.pl on the database tier and the application tier. Since updates included in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 were applied to the system, adpreclone must be run again to apply the updates to the clone directory structures that were used during cloning.

perl adpreclone.pl dbTier perl adpreclone.pl appsTier

Note: For details on how to run adpreclone.pl, refer to Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone Document 406982.1.

3. Perform NLS-related Step (conditional)

If you have languages other than American English already installed in your Release 12.1 system , apply the translated version of Oracle E-Business Suite (s) Release 12.1.3 Patch 9239090 for each active language immediately after applying the American English version of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Patch 9239090.

Note : If you plan to install new languages after you apply Release 12.1.3 Patch 9239090, refer to Oracle Applications NLS Release Notes Document 788053.1. See the Installing Translations section and follow the instructions for adding a new language to a Release 12.1 system. It not necessary to apply is the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Patch 9239090 for the new language(s).

4. Perform Product-specific Steps (conditional) After you have completed the steps to update all database tier nodes with the code level, perform the following post update steps only if you have licensed one of these products:

Oracle Complex Maintenance Repair and Overhaul, Oracle Price Protection, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Shipping Execution, and Oracle Warehouse Management

Customers who use these products should complete the installation, configuration, and deployment steps to use Oracle BPEL Pro cess Manager 11g with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3, according to My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 1070257.1.

Oracle Complex Maintenance Repair and Overhaul

CMRO customers should perform the steps in Deployment Guide: Complex MRO BPEL Processes, Release 12.1.3 Document 1077188.1 .

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway

Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway requires post manual installation steps. If yo want to use the Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA u Gateway feature for W eb service generation, deployment, and invocation, perform the steps documented in the Installing OracleE-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway, Release 12 Document 556540.1. If you are planning to use the SCM W eb services published in the Oracle Integration Repository that encapsulate Oracle Formslogic, please refer to Troubleshooting Oracle Supply Chain Management Web Services Document 966982.1 for the latest troubleshooting information related to SCM W eb services.

Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center

If you have licensed Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center, perform the steps mentioned within the Oracle Manufacturing Opera tions Center Installation Notes, Release 12.1.3 Document 1129366.1, for enabling this application.

Oracle Product Information Management

PIM publication web services require manual post installation steps. If you willuse the Publication feature in Oracle Product Hub for Communications, perform the steps documented in Document 888696.1.

Oracle Purchasing with Oracle Transportation Management

Oracle Purchasing is integrated with Oracle Transportation Management. If you have licensed both Oracle Transportation Manage ment and Oracle Purchasing and will use Oracle Transportation Management with Oracle Purchasing, perform the post-update steps listed in Oracle Transportation Management Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite Post-Update Steps, Release 12.1.3 Document 1077428.1.

Oracle Shipping Execution with Oracle Transportation Management

Oracle Shipping Execution (available as part of Oracle Order Management) is integrated with Oracle Transportation Management. If you have licensed both Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Order Management and will use Oracle Transportation Management with Oracle Shipping Execution, perform the post-update steps listed in Oracle Transportation Management Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite Post-Update Steps, Release 12.1.3 Document 1077428.1.

Oracle Value Chain Planning

Oracle Value Chain Planning includes Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Demand Planning, Inventory Optimization, Global Orde Promising, Collaborative r Planning, Production Scheduling, Strategic Network Optimization, Service Parts Planning, Advanced Planning Command Center andDemand Signal Repository. If you have licensed any of these products, perform the steps in the relevant section of Oracle Value Chain Planning Installation Notes Release 12.1.3 Document 1157809.1, to enable these applications

Oracle Warehouse Management with Oracle Transportation Management

Oracle W arehouse Management is integrated with Oracle Transportation Management. If you have licensed both Oracle Transportati on Management and Oracle W arehouse Management, and you plan to use Oracle Transportation Management with Oracle W arehouse Management, then perform the postupdate steps listed in Oracle Transportation Management Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite Post-Update Steps, Release 12.1.3 Document 1077428.1 .

List of Included Patches

The table in this section lists product families that have patches included in the Release 12.1.3 and provides links to detai about those patches. If you have ls questions about the products associated with each product family, refer toOracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Maintenance Strategy Document 433461.1.

The July 2010 Oracle E-Business Suite Critical Patch Update (CPUJul2010) for Release 12.1 Patch 9578148 (Patch 9578148:12.1.0) is also included in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3. You can find details about the contents o this CPU and directions for applying it on My Oracle Support Knowledge f Document Document 986534.1. Oracle provides extensive information, such as user guides, courseware, and new release details, for each Oracle EBusiness Suite product. To view the documentation resources that are available for a specific product, refer to the links inthe following table:

Patch Oracle Applications Technology Release 12.1.3 (R12.ATG_PF.B.DELTA.3)Patch 8919491 Oracle Customer Releationship Management Release 12.1.3 (R12.CC_PF.B.DELTA.3) Patch 9249345 Oracle Financials Release 12.1.3 (R12.FIN_PF.B.DELTA.3) Patch 9147733 Oracle Human Resource Management System Release 12.1.3 (R12.HR_PF.B.DELTA.3) Patch 9114911 Oracle E-Business Suite Diagnostics Release 12.1.3 (R12.IZU.B.DELTA.3)Patch 9239092 Oracle Procurement Release 12.1.3 (R12.PRC_PF.B.DELTA.3) Patch 9249354 Oracle Projects Release12.1.3 (R12.PJ_PF.B.DELTA.3) Patch 9147711 Oracle Supply Chain Management Release 12.1.3 (R12.SCM_PF.B.DELTA.3)Patch 9245674 Oracle Value Chain Planning Release 12.1.3 (R12.SCP_PF.B.DELTA.3) Patch 9245525

Product Family Applications Technology (ATG_PF) Customer Relationship Management (CC_PF) Financials (FIN_PF) Human Resources (HR_PF) E-Business Suite Diagnostics (IZU) Procurement (PRC_PF) Projects (PJ_PF) Supply Chain Management (SCM_PF) Oracle Value Chain Planning (SCP_PF)

Product Family Readme Documents Document 1066312.1 Document 1081433.1 Document 1081425.1 Document 1081427.1 Document 1081428.1 Document 1081431.1 Document 1081434.1 Document 1081459.1 Document 1081461.1

Change Record

Date 20-August-2010

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