My Oracle Support and Patches

0 Comments Published November 27th, 2009 in E-Business Suite

Since the switch to My Oracle Support, I have been unable to download patches from E-Business Suite 12.0 via the My Oracle Support pages (both flash – it seems to only give me the R12 that points to 12.1, and html – it doesn’t give an EBS patches). Fortunately, the html version of updates.oracle.com still works. An easy way to connect is with http://bit.ly/OraclePatches.   You will still need to be logged in to the Oracle SSO account that is linked to My Oracle Support.

Using Oracle VM with the E-Business Suite

0 Comments Published October 24th, 2009 in Conferences, E-Business Suite, Presentations

My presentation on using Oracle VM to support test and development environments is now available on the downloads page.

Upgrading the E-Business Suite to Use 11.1.0.7

0 Comments Published October 24th, 2009 in Conferences, Database, E-Business Suite, Presentations

My presentation on upgrading the database to 11.1.0.7 with either 11.5.10.2 or R12 is now available on the downloads page.

Printer setup for the E-Business Suite in Oracle Enterprise Linux Part 2 Migrating

0 Comments Published August 15th, 2009 in E-Business Suite, Linux

Now that we have the printers all added, the last thing we want to do is have to rekey them all on every server.  Every time you do a manual migration, you increase the chance for errors.

We can use system-config-printer to migrate our queues at the linux level and FNDLOAD to migrate the queues in the E-Business Suite.  However, there is one manual step you must go through if you added any PPD files.

The first step in our process is to download the printers.

For linux (as root), enter the command:

system-config-printer-tui –Xexport > printers.xml

For the E-Business Suite (as oracle with the environment set for your apps tier), enter the command:

FNDLOAD apps/$APPS 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcppinf.lct source_printer_def.ldt FND_PRINTER

FNDLOAD apps/apps_password 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcppinf.lct source_printer_def.ldt FND_PRINTER

If you read the first part of this post on adding custom printers, you will recall that I said to keep track of the order that you added the PPD files.  You need to repeat the load of the PPD files in the same order on every system to which you are migrating the printers.  If you did not record the order, look in printers.xml for the printer_id tags, the custom ppd entries will be ppd#, e.g. ppd2.  The surrounding tag will be the name of the queue, so you should be able to reconstruct the order to add the PPD files.
On each system to which you wish to migrate these queues,

copy printers.xml and source_printer_def.ldt

For linux (as root):

system-config-printer-tui ==Xexport > backup-printers.xml
system-config-printer-tui –Ximport < printers.xml
service cups restart

Note: You are interrupting print services, make sure that you are doing it an appropriate time.
After you have completed this step, the queues will be the same on both systems.

For the E-Business Suite (as oracle with the environment set for the apps tier):

FNDLOAD apps/apps_password 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcppinf.lct ${TWO_TASK}_printer_def.ldt FND_PRINTER

FNDLOAD apps/apps_password 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcppinf.lct source_printer_def.ldt FND_PRINTER

This will merge the printers from the source to the new system.  Any printers that already exist on the new system should still be there, but you may have wiped out the linux queue in the previous step.

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