sandra vucinic - oracle e-business suite release 12 architecture and tools
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Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 - Architecture and
Tools OverviewTools Overview
Presenter:
Sandra Vucinic
VLAD Group, Inc.
Speaker’s Background
� Over 16 years of experience with Oracle database, applications, development and administration tools
� Director, OAUG Database SIG Board � Director, OAUG SysAdmin SIG and Committee Chair, Oracle
Tools and Utilities Tools and Utilities � Director, OAUG E-Business Applications Technology SIG Board� Director, SROAUG Board � Member, OAUG GEO/SIG Committee� NCOAUG Distinguished Service Award for 2007� OAUG Member of the Year for 2008� Oracle ACE� Presented at OAUG, NCOAUG, CSOAUG, OVOAUG,
SROAUG, Apps World and Open World conferences (70+ sessions)
� Founded VLAD Group, Inc. in March, 2001
Agenda
� R12 Architecture – Components
� New features and enhancements in:
� Applications Object Library� Applications Object Library
� Oracle Applications Manager
� OA Framework
� AD Utilities
� Workflow
� 11g Database
� Tasks to complete to ease R12 upgrade
R12 Architecture –Components
Release 12Client Tier
Web HTTP Servers Application Technology StackMiddle
Native Sun JRE
Middle Tier
10.1.3.4 ORACLE_HOME 10.1.2.3 ORACLE_HOME
Database Tier 10.2.0.4 ORACLE_HOME
or 11g R1 (optional)
Instance
Home
Apache
ServerForms
Server 10g
Concurrent
Processing Server
Reports
Server 10g
10.2.0.4Database
R12.1.1 Architecture –Components
Release 12.1.1Client Tier
Web HTTP Servers Application Technology StackMiddle
Native Sun JRE
Middle Tier
10.1.3.4 ORACLE_HOME 10.1.2.3 ORACLE_HOME
Database Tier 11g R1 ORACLE_HOME
or 10.2.0.4 (optional)
Instance
Home
Apache
ServerForms
Server 10g
Concurrent
Processing Server
Reports
Server 10g
11.1.0.7Database
R12 Architecture –Components
� New versions of middle tier technology:
� Applications server (J2EE) version 10.1.3.4
� Forms and Reports version 10.1.2.3
Discoverer Server version 10.1.2.3� Discoverer Server version 10.1.2.3
� Servlet Container – (OC4J, no longer JServ)
� JDK version - 1.5.0_13 – 1.6_03 certified
� Oracle SOA Suite version 10.1.3
� Oracle Business Intelligence version 10.1.3.4
� Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 3
R12 Architecture –Components
� New versions of middle tier technology:� Technologies External to EBS R12
� SSO and OID version 10.1.4.3
� Portal version 10.1.4.2� Portal version 10.1.4.2
� Instance Home (INST_TOP) file system:� $INST_TOP = $HOME/inst/apps/<context_name>
� JInitiator is not certified or supported in R12
� New version of database - 10g R2 available with Rapid Install and 11g R1 certified � Tablespace model in R12 - OATM
Applications Object Library features and enhancements
� Identity Management Integration
� User Name Enhancements
� User name changes in EBS are automatically synchronized to Oracle ID
� On Demand User Creation� On Demand User Creation
� AOL now supports a mode in which EBS user account is automatically created for SSO users when they first visit a page in EBS
� Mixed Case Passwords
� EBS now supports case-sensitive passwords
� Automatic Linking Of User Accounts
� EBS accounts are automatically linked to existing accounts with the same user name in OID
Applications Object Library features and enhancements
� Security� New File System Layout
� EBS code tree is free of configuration, log and output files and can be mounted in a read-only output files and can be mounted in a read-only mode at runtime (when not patching)
� Schema Passwords
� The base product schemas are locked except during patching
Applications Object Library features and enhancements
� User Management� Proxy User
� Allows a user to specify a proxy who can act of � Allows a user to specify a proxy who can act of their behalf
� Integration with Oracle Internal Controls Manager
� Facilitates enforcement of constraints used for preventive separation on duties
Applications Object Library features and enhancements
� Concurrent Processing
� Multi-Org Support
� Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC) allows a user to access data for a different operating units without access data for a different operating units without switching responsibilities
� Concurrent Program Definition window is now MOAC enabled. A new field “Operating Unit Mode” allows user to specify the category for a concurrent program
� Standard Request Submission window allows users to execute single-org or a multi-org concurrent programs
Applications Object Library features and enhancements
� Concurrent Processing
� Restarting a Request Set� Restarting a Request Set� If concurrent request set fails, once fixed user can restart the request set from the failure point
� Failover Sensitive Workshift� Can specify how many processes for each workshift should run when instance fails over to another PCP node
Applications Object Library features and enhancements
� Oracle Applications Tablespace Model (OATM)
� New “Tools” tablespace includes the � New “Tools” tablespace includes the database schema objects for products such as Oracle Portal (repository), Oracle Discoverer (EUL), Oracle Internet Directory (repository), Oracle Application Sever Single Sign-On
� Configurable Default Extent Size - allows DBA to specify the default extent size a part of migration process
Oracle Applications Manager
� Patch Impact Analysis Enhancements
� The ability to identify and to merge multiple language patches that are applicable to the language patches that are applicable to the environment
� The ability for users to crate a list of patches for analysis as a single set
� Analysis of patch changes to customized files that are registered with system
Oracle Applications Manager
� Diagnostics
� Allows to schedule and run diagnostics test as batch programsas batch programs
� Grid Control Plug-in for Oracle EBS
� Seamless integration with OAM (concurrent manager administration, workflow administration, forms monitoring, configuration and patch management)
� Clone Automation
OA Frameworkfeatures and enhancements
� Service Interface
� Java interface designed to support both Web services and local Java APIs. Includes support for Service Data Object standard.
� Service Tester
� User interface used to create unit and integration tests. The tests are recorded in documents as structured XML data.
� “Swan” User Interface
� EBS will use only “Swan” look and feel for Release 12.
� Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3 (10.1.3)
� R12 leverages Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 2 (10.1.3).
OA Frameworkfeatures and enhancements
� BI Publisher integration
� Extensive personalization capability
� Allows integration of content from � Allows integration of content from multiple vendors into portal pages
� Record history
� Allows EBS content to be exposed in third party Portal server
AD Utilities features and enhancements
� AutoConfig: Parallel Run Option� The “Parallel Run” feature enables AutoConfig to be executed simultaneously across multiple nodes EBS instance nodes EBS instance
� AutoConfig: Profiler� Consolidated HTML report of an AutoConfig run
� Source and target location of each template
� Time consumed to instantiate/execute individual template scripts
� Execution report for each template script
AD Utilities features and enhancements
� AutoConfig: Enhanced Check Config Tool� The Check Config tool (adchkcfg) is used to identify the potential changes that would take effect on an EBS customer instance during the next AutoConfig run. The tool customer instance during the next AutoConfig run. The tool has been enhanced to report important database updates, generate a text report for database changes, and offer improved readability of reports.
� AutoConfig: Support for Oracle Database 11g Features � AutoConfig has been enhanced to support the use of Access Control Lists and other Oracle Database 11g features.
� Rapid Install� Ability to store base environment configuration in Oracle EBS database
Multiple Domain Support for database and middle tier
AD Utilities features and enhancements
� Multiple Domain Support for database and middle tier
� Read-Only Shared File System Support – appl_top, common_top, tech stack homes can be deployed on a read-only shared file system
� Rapid Clone� Added RAC support for ASM and features to expand RAC system by adding a node to existing RAC cluster
Workflow R12 Features
� Digital Signatures
� Ability to digitally sign the entire notification contents
� Ability to verify the signed documents through an evidence store user interface after the signing processevidence store user interface after the signing process
� Can exclude purging of a signature-enabled notifications
� Worklist Flexfields a new pages are added:
� Worklist Flexfield Rules a setup page for creating rules to populate worklist flexfield columns
� Worklist Flexfield Rules Simulation test page used to show the effect of multiple worklist flexfield rules on the worklist
Workflow R12 Features
� Workflow Notification Mailer
� System Alerts integration
� Sends a system alert as to the status of mailer server server
� SSL Support
� Mailer service can connect to IMAP and SMTP mail servers using SSL authentication
� Enhanced error handling for mass failures
� In cases where many users have been setup with invalid email addresses, the workflow directory service is updated to no longer send emails to those users
EBS Release 12 database support
� 10g R2 database is part of EBS R12 technology stack
� 10g R2 database is certified to run with EBS R12.1.1
� The latest certified 10g R2 database release - 10.2.0.4 with EBS R12with EBS R12
� Premier Support ends for database version 10g R2 on 7/31/2010
� Extended support fees waived until 7/31/2011
� 10g R2 Terminal Patch Set is 10.2.0.5 (Projected to be released in 2009)
� Oracle Metalink Note 454616.1 - Export/Import Process for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Database Instances Using Oracle Database 10g Release 2
11g Database
� Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.7.0) is certified, on all Certified E-Business Suite Platforms, on R12 (12.0.4). (12.0.4).
� Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.7.0) is part of EBS R12.1.1 technology stack
� Premier support for 11.1.0.6 database ends in October 2009
11g Database
� Oracle Metalink Note 735276.1 -Interoperability Notes E-Business Suite R12 with Oracle Database 11gR1 (11.1.0)(11.1.0)
� Oracle Metalink Note 466649.1 - Using Oracle 11g Release 1 Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
� Oracle Metalink Note: 741818.1 -Export/Import Process for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Database Instances Using Oracle Database 11g
11g Database – New Features
� Access Control List (ACL) : Introduced support for ACL which is a new feature in 11g database
� Oracle Advanced Compression
� Comprehensive set of compression capabilities to help organizations reduce costs, while maintaining or organizations reduce costs, while maintaining or improving performance.
� Reduces the storage footprint of databases through compression of structured data (numbers, characters) as well as unstructured data (documents, spreadsheets, XML and other files).
� Provides enhanced compression for database backups and also includes network compression capabilities for faster synchronization of standby databases.
Tasks to complete to ease R12 upgrade
� Upgrade database to 10g R2 or 11g R1
� Convert tablespaces to OATM model
� Evaluate impact of R12 on customizations and extensions extensions
� Introduce BI Publisher and JDeveloper
� Integrate Discoverer Server Release 10g with EBS 11i
� Configure Oracle iAS Release 10g for external apps (SSO, OID, Portal) and integrate with EBS 11i
� Position for high availability and scalability
� Evaluate and complete platform change based on ROI
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