R12 Patching Enhancement

Written By askMLabs on Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 11:10 PM

R12 Patching Enhancement:

Patching R12 Application Oracle Homes

Opatch is used to apply patches to the 10.1.3 and 10.1.2 Oracle Homes.

Requires access to the Oracle Homes inventory

List of patches already applied through Ex : Opatch lsinventory - detail

Application Patching Enhancements

Codelines(12.0:A, 12.1:B) and Codelevels(R12.AD.A.1, R12.AD.A.2)

Patch prereq checking: only require a codelevel as a prerequisite

Registering flagged files to understand a patch's impact on customizations

Replaces the applcust.txt file in 11i

Customized files are now maintained in database format

Display flagged files affected by a patch through impact analysis

Patch Application Assistant (admsi.pl)

PAA (Patch Application Assistant) is tool/Perl script to generate customized installation instructions for a patch in Oracle Applications R12 which helps user to track and perform manual steps during patching.

cd $AD_TOP/bin ; perl admsi.pl -patch_top=<patch-top-directory> -appspass=<apps-password>

Patch Wizard functionality improvement

Easy to identify applied patch, file history and patch timing and action summary
Screen Shots :

Code Level and CodeLine :

Codeline and codelevel

Patch Wizard :

Applied Patches :

Register Flagged Patches :

Register Flagged Files

Patch Impact Analysis Summary :

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