11i to R12 (12.1.

3)
Real Experiences of a DBA
Kevin Dahl
July, 2011

Presentor

DBA 25+ Years

worked in fortune 500 companies
worked as consultant for 10+ years
taught under graduate and graduate at university
level as adjunct
Oracle Apps DBA 20 Years
System Architect
Release 10.x to 12
RDBMS Version 7 to 11g
middleware / Disco / SSO

Agenda
Presentation

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

Wrap up

 Presentation

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

Audience
Audience
This presentation is for Database
Administrators

 Presentation

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

R12 Introduction

R12.1.3 RUP

E-Business Suite Release Release Update Pack (12.1 RUP3) (Patch

9239090)
This release update pack (RUP) combines error corrections,
statutory/regulatory updates, and functionality enhancements into a
consolidated, suite-wide patch set. This release is a maintenance
pack and can only be installed on top of an existing EBS 12.1
environment
http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/ebs_1213_available

R12 Introduction
R12.1.3 RUP released in August 2010
new tech stack components:
README - Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Readme
(Note 1080973.1)
what is new? See documentation
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3: Release Content
Documents (Note 561580.1)

 Presentation

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

Database Migration Required

Are you changing platforms?
database version
a current, stable release is preferable

database upgrade/migration timing

11i release will determine timing
migrate before or after R12 upgrade?

tasks in test plan will impact timing

database migration options

transportable database
export / import
transportable tablespace
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Database Migration Required

Are you changing platforms?
database version
11.2.0.2 is most recent certified version with EBusiness R12.1.3
why upgrade database version?
potential improvements that will assist in the database
migration
version current for anticipated upgrade to R12.1.3

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Database Migration Required

Are you changing platforms?
database upgrade/migration timing
11i release will determine timing
migrate before or after R12 upgrade?
11.5.9 CU2 and 11.5.10 CU2 may upgrade before or during
R12 upgrade window
11.5.9 base, 11.5.9 CU1, 11.5.10 base, and 11.5.10 CU1
upgrade during R12 upgrade window
recall that 11i release < 11.5.9 must upgrade to 11.5.10.2

tasks in test plan will impact timing

technical testing must occur
cursory functional testing must occur
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Database Migration Required

Are you changing platforms?
database migration options
transportable database
according to Steven Chan you can expect a 50% time reduction when
compared to traditional export/import (
http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/
transportable_database_11gr1_ebs)
database platforms must have same endian format. Use this query to
deterimine: select platform_name from v$db_transportable_platform;
you would follow this note for the pre R12 migration: Using Transportable
Database to migrate Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Using Oracle Database
10.2.0 or 11g (Doc ID 729309.1)
note you will only migrate the database. All other 11i components
remain on their current platform
dont for get word size considerations, which we discuss later

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Database Migration Required

Are you changing platforms?
database migration options
export / import
for those database source and target platforms that do not have the same
endian format, export / import may be your most reliable remaining option
metalink note for 11g database and 11i: Export/import notes on Applications
11i Database 11g (Doc ID 557738.1)
this can accommodate an upgrade. Metalink note 557738.1 states: The
target (import to) ORACLE_HOME directory must be Oracle Database 11g
(11.x). The source (export from) ORACLE_HOME directory must be either
Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0), or Oracle Database 11g (11.x)
dont for get word size considerations, which we discuss later

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Database Migration Required

Are you changing platforms?
database migration options
transportable tablespace
this is a relatively new approach in the context of E-Business suite. The
procedure was released in April of 2010
transportable tablespace is an alternative to export / import when endian
formats of the source and target are not the same
it is not a given that transportable tablespace method will always work.
Weve encountered situations where the target database was corrupted with
no apparent resolution and had to fall back to the export / import approach
metalink note Document TitleCross Platform Transportable Tablespaces on
11i with 10gR2 (Doc ID 454574.1) describes the procedure. It is slightly
more complex than export / import
dont for get word size considerations, which we discuss later

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 Presentation

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

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Word Size Change

32-bit to 64-bit?
change to 64-bit if necessary
The entire R12 code set can be run on a 64-bit operating system

make the change prior to R12 upgrade if criteria

discussed on prior slides is met
the word size change can be added to database
upgrade and/or platform migration tasks
refer to metalink note 352306.1
in a nutshell, you are removing OLAP and AW
components and then adding them back after the
movement from 32-bit to 64-bit
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 Presentation

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

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OATM Required
Oracle Application Tablespace Model
(OATM)
Required for R12
Save time from R12 outage by doing ahead of
time
there will be functional and technical testing (not
significant)
refer to metalink note 404954.1
the first test iteration of the OATM conversion will reveal
potential issues. There are hits on metalink for most issues
although it is possible and SR would have to be opened
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OATM Required
Oracle Application Tablespace Model
(OATM)
note that there are minimum 11i version
requirements that must be met before OATM can
be implemented
11.5.10.2 can handle the latest OATM patches
and by default has a fuller menu system
migrate CTXSYS is available
script generated to drop empty tablespaces

benefits include a reorg and use of consistently

larger tablespaces
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 Presentation

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

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High Availability Middle Tier

post R12 upgrade step
2 or application tiers would be created to support
high availability
parallel concurrent processing is configured to
accommodate this availability
shared application file system is desired from a
maintenance perspective: Sharing The
Application Tier File System in Oracle EBusiness Suite Release 12 (MN 384248.1)
shared application file system must reside on a
high availability storage device
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 Presentation

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

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Subledger Accounting (SLA)

SLA revealed
From R12 Upgrade Guide
During the upgrade, existing accounting data from the
subledgers is upgraded into the new Oracle Subledger
Accounting data model. By default, the upgrade
updates the data for the current fiscal year, as well as
the necessary periods of the previous fiscal, to ensure
that there are at least six periods included in the
upgrade (occurs when the upgrade is performed in the
first half of the fiscal year)
note the default number of periods above. You will
probably want additional periods upgraded
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Subledger Accounting (SLA)

SLA revealed
the definition of a larger range of periods to be
upgraded is very important because some of the
Oracle Subledger Accounting functionality relies
on the existence of previous accounting data
if you need to change the default number of
periods of historic data to be upgraded you must
apply patch 5233248 to your release 11i
APPL_TOP and submit the SLA pre-upgrade
program
see the upgrade guide for details
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 Presentation

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

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Database, Apps and Security Patches

R12 post upgrade patching
patch current for application products you use
patch current with regard to the security patches for the
database and E-Busines suite
refer to this url for security patches: http://http://
www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/
alerts-086861.htmlwww.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/
security/alerts-086861.html
refer to metalink note for the security patches:
Patch Set Update and Critical Patch Update April
2011 Availability Document (Doc ID 1291877.1)
(database and middleware patches)
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Database, Apps and Security Patches

April 2011
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2011-301950.html

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 Wrap Up

Audience
R12 Introduction
Database Migration Required
Word Size Change
OATM Required
High Availability Middle Tier
Subledger Accounting
Database, Application and Security patches

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Thanks!
kdahl@solutionbeacon.com