Installation of 12.1.1 in Windows XP (Vision Demo instance)Guidance or Training for Oracle Apps, OBIEE 11g, .NET and JavaI have installed Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 VISION demo instance on Windows XP Professional successfully. .

I have done a single node installation as follows:Hardware & Software Specifications:- Intel Core2, CPU 2.13 GHz- 2.93 GB of RAM- 300 GB Hard Drive- Windows XP Professional with Sevice Pack 3Installation Steps:Install Windows XP Professional with SP3Set 'Computer Name' as well as 'Domain Name'.

- Right click on 'My Computer' > Properties > 'Computer Name' > Change- Set 'Computer Name' to- Click on More- Set a 'Primary DNS Suffix of this Computer' to

Install Microsoft Loopback adapter and define an IP address(10.10.10.10)

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For more information on how to do this, please refer to "How to install the Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP":

Add a new entry in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hostsas follows:

10.10.10.10 hostname.domainname.com

From the command prompt, make sure you can do the following:

C:\> ping 10.10.10.10C:\> ping hostnameC:\> ping hostname.domainname.com

Create a new user visr12and make this user a member of:- Administrators (local user)

Install Visual C++ 8.0 (Which is included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005)in 'C:\VCPlus' -- Make sure not to install VC++ in a directory that contains spaces.

Install cygwin Software:Log in as the Admin UserLog in as a local administrative user (the user who runs the Rapid Install.).Create a Cygwin directoryCreate the directory where you plan to install Cygwin (called the Root Directory). This directory cannot be under Program Files, or any other directory with blank spaces in its name. In addition, it cannot be under the APPL_TOP.Download the Cygwin SoftwarePerform the following to download the Cygwin software:Navigate to http://www.cygwin.com and click on "Install or Update Now!" to download setup.exe to your machine.Run setup.exe and click Next, which will bring up the Choose Installation Type screen.

Choose Option 2, Download without Installing.Click on Next to go through the next few screens, where you will be asked to choose the directory to store the packages (called the Local Package Directory), your Internet connection type, and a download site.Click on Next again to get to the Select Packages screen, and select the following packages under the indicated sub-categories* (click on to toggle):

All DefaultArchive Default, plus manually select the zip packageBase Default, plus manually select the following extra packages: ash, coreutils, diffutils, findutils, gawk, grep, sed, tar and whichDevel Default, plus manually select binutils, gcc, gcc-core, gcc-g++, make and mktempDoc Default, plus manually select cygwin-doc and manEditors Default, plus manually select vimInterpreters Default, plus manually select gawkShells Default, plus manually select ash and tcshUtils Default, plus manually select cygutils and fileUpdate Compatibility with Shell Scripts

Type these commands to maintain compatibility with existing shell scripts:C:\> copy gawk.exe awk.exe (answer yes to copy over existing file)C:\> copy grep.exe egrep.exeC:\> copy make.exe gnumake.exeC:\> copy gcc.exe cc.exe

Very ImportantCygwin following packages only supported versions for Windows XPmake 3.79.1-7, 3.80-1,bash 3.0-11, 3.1-9, 3.2.9-11, 3.2.25-16grep 2.5.1

According to Note: 414992.1, "Make versions 3.79.1-7 and 3.80-1 from Cygwin are supported for use with Oracle E-Business Suite R12. Other versions are currently not supported". When you will face errors using Relink Applications programs

You can download make (Displayed as "make" at the cygwin site/setup) version 3.80 from this link:

download mirrors for make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz2 (1.20 MB):2002-05-22 ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/gatekeeper/pub/cygwin/release/make/make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz22002-05-20 ftp://ftp.nnov.net/pub/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/make/make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz22002-05-21 ftp://ftp.ps.pl/dsk0/cygwin/release/make/make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz22002-05-20 ftp://ftp.es.ele.tue.nl/pub/edu/ogo12/release/make/make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz22002-05-20 ftp://ftp.kr.freebsd.org/pub/cygwin/release/make/make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz22002-05-21 ftp://ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/ftp/cygwin/release/make/make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz22003-05-20 ftp://ftp.holywar.net/pub/mirrors/cygwin/release/make/make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz22003-05-19 ftp://ftp.ncku.edu.tw/.snapshot/nightly.9/Unix/Cygwin/release/make/make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz22003-05-19 ftp://ftp.ncku.edu.tw/Unix/Cygwin/release/make/make-3.80-1-src.tar.bz2

Add Cygwin Bin Directory to PathAdd the cygwin bin directory to the system path. For instance:

C:\> set path = %path%;C:\cygwin\binNote: When using Cygwin with Oracle E-Business Suite, use the make utility installed with Cygwin. The system path must contain only the gnumake.exe in the Cygwin bin directory.

No JDK installation is required, JDK is bundled with Oracle Applications R12 installation.

Set Up the Stage Area:

Stage Area (D:\Stage12.1) requires 38 GB hard disk space.

Extract the zip files (25 files) which have been downloaded from (http://edelivery.oracle.com). Nothing special to do since the extracted files will create the stage area directory structure by itself. You should see the following structure under 'D:\Stage12.1.' once you are done with the files extraction:

- startCD > Disk1- oraAppDB > (Disk 1 to Disk 49)- oraApps > (Disk 1 to Disk 11)- oraAS > (Disk 1 to Disk 3)- oraDB > (Disk 1 to Disk 5)

Start the installation:

D:\> cd Stage12.1\startCD\Disk1\rapidwizD:\Stage12.1\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz> RapidWiz.cmd

The installation wizard is similar to 11.5.10 RapidWiz. For 'VC++' and 'Cygwin' I have provided the following paths:

UNIX toolkit directory=C:\VCPlus\VCVisual Studio Directory=C:\cygwin\bin

- It took almost 4 hours to install the Vision instance- Total space required to install almost 220 GB for Vision instance

After successful installation, login to Application without having any problem, but when tried to run a concurrent request there is no concurrent manager is active.So, I have changed the concurrent request services properties..Log-On -> Allow service to Interact with desktop

And decided to autoconfig both dbtier and application tierFirst, source the environment using the following command (start -> run -> cmd and press OK)C:\oracle\VIS\inst\apps\apps_st\appl\APPSVIS_visr12.cmdThe change to Instance script directory usingcd %ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME%Adautocfg.cmdAfter completed successfully, stop the application serviceAdstpall.cmdThen did the autoconfig for DB Tier ( start -> run -> cmd and press OK)soure the environment usingc:\oracle\VIS\db\tech_st\11.1.0\VIS_visr12.cmdcd %ORACLE_HOME\appsutils\scripts\VIS_visr12\Adautocfg.cmdAfter successful completion stop both database and listenerAddbctl.cmd stopAddblstl.cmd stop VISRestarted the machine.Now everything back to normal, concurrent managers are up and running.