Papers, Presentations & Scripts
BOOK SCRIPTS
Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Release 11.5.10+ (or, "Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - Release 11i Care and Feeding") SCRIPTS
Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle Applications 11i (or "When Old Dogs Herd Cats - Release 11i Care and Feeding") SCRIPTS
Administering Oracle Applications (or "Herding Cats Made Easy") SCRIPTS
PAPERS
Clean Up That Mess! A Mother’s Guide to Managing Your E-Business Suite Clutter 
If you’ve noticed that your Applications seem to be slowly grinding along, perhaps you need to review your overall approach to managing your Applications data. Are you purging data that ought to be purged? Is your Concurrent Manager configuration all that it could be? Have you looked at your Workflow tables lately? J oin me for a lively discussion of all the dust bunnies I’ve found in assorted E-Business Suite closets, and what I recommend you do to clean sweep your way to performance improvements.
Lessons from the Front: Upgrading to Release 12.1
We’ve spent the last nine months working on Release 12.1.3 Upgrade Readiness Assessments and First Pass Upgrades. The Assessments help determine if there are key steps — like making changes to your hardware and software — that ought to be completed before you upgrade to Release 12.1.3. The First Pass Upgrades are just what you’d expect — the first try, where you take your Release 11i environment, clone it, and then follow the many steps required to upgrade your environment to Release 12.1.3. This presentation will describe what we’ve learned from repeated upgrades with several different clients. The most important lesson we’ve learned? Anything you can do in advance to “pre-fix” your data will save you hours of time during your First Pass.
Donna Campbell, TruTek and Barbara Matthews, On Call DBA
Are you ready to upgrade, part with, or overhaul your customizations for Release 12.1? This presentation will give you the skinny on what you need to know, including how to identify your customizations, what types of changes constitute a customization, how to determine if you should keep or eliminate a customization, and what to worry about for those customizations you decide to maintain.
Upgrading to 11.0.3.Something.Something - This is a very old paper includes a detailed description of how to clone 11.0.x Applications environments
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Click Here for More Papers and Presentations by John Stouffer, available at justadba (but here are some of the most recent):
Learn about the new features, functionality and utilities available to Applications DBAs with R12. We will compare the R11i and R12 architectures and then describe tools including Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Oracle Applications Manager (OAM), the E-Business Suite Plug-in (formerly Applications Management (AMP) and Change Management Packs (ACP)), Rapid Install Wizard, Rapid Clone, AutoConfig, Patch Wizard, OPatch and napply CPU, Oracle EBS Diagnostics, and the Oracle Integration Repository (iRep). This paper also discusses considerations for whether and when you should consider upgrading to EBS Release 12 and RDBMS Version 11gR2.
While it’s still too early to make the jump to Release 12.2 (it hasn’t been released yet!), Oracle has plenty to say about what this new release will offer. Release 12.2 will replace several of the technology components with WebLogic components. Attend this session to hear about new features, what organizational impacts to consider while waiting for this release, and how to prepare for the new WebLogic software and Release 12.2!
The quantity of patches available for EBS customers can seem overwhelming. There are CPUs/PSUs, RUPs, Family Packs, Mini-Packs and one-off patches. Oracle provides patchset.sh to show customers their high level patch situation, including family packs and mini-packs. B ut there are still more patches available that customers may not see if they don’t dig deep enough. The EBS Patch Wizard helps customers decide which patches to apply and what data the patch will change. It compares the list of applied patches to available patches (by downloading the Patch Information Bundle) and makes recommendations. Learn how to take all this information and plan out which patches to test and apply next, with examples for both R11i and R12.
