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DSTv27 is now available and certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2. The DSTv27 update includes the timezone information from the IANA tzdata 2016f. It is cumulative: it includes all previous Oracle DST updates.
Is Your Apps Environment Affected?When
a country or region changes DST rules or their time zone definitions,
your Oracle E-Business Suite environment will require patching if:
The latest DSTv27 timezone definition file is cumulative and includes all DST changes released in earlier time zone definition files. DSTv27 includes changes to the following timezones since the DSTv24 release:
What
Patches Are Required?
In case you haven't been following our
previous time zone or Daylight Saving Time (DST)-related articles,
international timezone definitions for E-Business Suite environments are
captured in a series of patches for the database and application tier
servers in your environment. The actual scope and number of patches that
need to be applied depend on whether you've applied previous DST or
timezone-related patches. Some sysadmins have remarked to me that it
generally takes more time to read the various timezone documents than it
takes to apply these patches, but your mileage may vary.
Proactive backports of DST upgrade patches to all Oracle E-Business
Suite tiers and platforms are not created and supplied by default. If
you need this DST release and an appropriate patch is not currently
available, raise a service request through support providing a business
case with your version requirements.
The following Note identifies the various components in
your E-Business Suite environment that may need DST patches:
What is the business impact of not applying these patches?
Timezone patches update the database and other libraries that manage time. They ensure that those libraries contain the correct dates and times for the changeover between Daylight Savings Time and non-Daylight Savings Time.
Time is used to record events, particularly financial transactions. Time is also used to synchronize transactions between different systems. Some organizations’ business transactions are more-sensitive to timezone changes than others.
If you do not apply a timezone patch, and do business with a region that has changed their timezone definitions, and record a transaction that occurs at the boundary between the “old” and the “new” time, then the transaction may be recorded incorrectly. That transaction's timestamp may be off by an hour.
For example:
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For many years, cloud adoption was presented as a series of choices. These included such decisions as whether to adopt public or private cloud; or to ignore both and to stick with on-premise enterprise IT systems. Businesses also had to get to grips with a wide variety of services – starting with Software as a Service (SaaS) and then moving swiftly on to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). This raised further questions: which of these services would benefit them the most? Which should they invest in immediately and for which could they afford to wait?
With the coming of age of cloud computing, it is now clear that while key decisions still need to be made, making the right choices for the business has never been easier. This is because it is now clear that the future for enterprise IT doesn’t lie in the implementation of one or two cloud services (no matter how strategic) so much as in a holistic adoption of the cloud in all its forms. This is because the value of cloud services and infrastructure increases exponentially when delivered as an orchestrated whole.
In the same way the sound of a lone saxophonist is in no
way comparable to the power of a full orchestra; likewise, businesses
that have a holistic cloud strategy are in a different league to those
that run isolated elements of the cloud. While the latter might enjoy
productivity and costs benefits in the short term, the former stand to
deliver far greater benefits from the complete transformation of their
businesses. Read the complete article here.
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Following up on our initial release of Mobile Solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite (Employee Self Service) and JD Edwards (Field Service), today we are happy to announce that the EBS Self Service Mobile Solution has been updated to include additional functionality and useability enhancements.
Employee Self Service v2 now includes:
Availability
There are two options to access to these mobile solutions (both include source code, documentation on the solution architecture,
configuration and setup as well as information on how to customize the
apps).
As before, Customers have the option of working with an Oracle partner to build additional extensions specifically tailored for their business requirements using these solutions.
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The October edition of the PaaS & Middleware Partner Update contains three key topics:
· Oracle OpenWorld 2016 summery
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A customer was in the process of upgrading their EBS 12.1.3 environment to RPC 4 when they heard about the release of RPC 5. They asked, "Which one should we apply?"
This kind of question crops up frequently since we're continually producing new EBS updates. There is no definitive right answer. For example, the answer depends upon:
What is a Recommended Patch Collection?
Recommended Patch Collections (RPC) are collections of patches that we have already released individually for EBS 12.1.3.
Customers can apply individual patches or they can apply a Recommended Patch Collection. Either approach is fine.
We periodically bundle the latest patches together to save you the trouble of applying them individually. As an added bonus, all patches in a given RPC are tested together for compatibility, which isn't always true for individual patches that are released on an emergency basis.
Recommended Patch Collections are not a “release.” We currently have no plans to make a specific RPC a minimum baseline or prerequisite for new EBS 12.1 patches.
What is our policy for releasing EBS patches?
Our official policy for releasing EBS 12.1 and 12.2 patches is published here:
What's the best strategy for applying EBS 12.1.3 Recommended Patch Collections?
We generally recommend applying the latest EBS updates to production as soon as it's convenient for your users.
If you're in the middle of testing a specific RPC and it's too late to switch to a newer one, go ahead and complete your patching project on production. You can always apply the next RPC in a subsequent project.
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OPN is pleased to announce the availability of a new Oracle Utilities Live Virtual training class, MWM Mobile Communications Platform 2.3.x Functionality for Implementers.
This Live Virtual class is an in-depth look at how to implement solutions on a mobile device. It guides you through the implementation of a new type of activity for the mobile device from start to finish, utilizing best practices as defined by the development team.
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Please join Oracle Senior Vice President of Marketing Jim Gargan on October 11 at 9 a.m. PT as he announces further expansion of the Oracle Database Appliance portfolio, designed to dramatically enhance your database and application workloads.
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The October edition of the PaaS & Middleware Partner Update contains three key topics:
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Once you're comfortable with Oracle JET, consider taking the next step: Application Builder Cloud Service (ABCS).
No, ABCS isn't simply a drag-and-drop development environment for citizen developers. Instead, it's an architecture for software developers to establish a drag-and-drop development environment for citizen developers! In other words, you can extend ABCS specifically for your business developers, with components that you define yourself... using Oracle JET. Or, more exactly, by creating Knockout components, which underpin the concepts used in Oracle JET.
Below, you see the "Hello World" scenario from the Knockout tutorials. It is part of an application created in ABCS by means of a "Custom Code" component. In the below, look on the left side in the palette, at the end, where you'll see "Custom Code":
Drag that into the canvas and then automatically the editors you see below open up, so that you can define your custom component:
Above, you can see that there's an HTML view and business logic in JavaScript, using a "define" block provided by Require.js, with data binding made available by Knockout.js. With your Oracle JET background, or with a generic Knockout background, you should immediately know what to do with the above. I.e., replace the boilerplate code with something like the above, in other words, with the view and viewModel of your custom component, as shown above for the "Hello World" scenario.
And above you see the application deployed directly from ABCS. Really neat, the concept of "developing for the Cloud, in the Cloud".
Further reading: http://likeahouseafire.com/2016/09/17/custom-code-components-in-abcs/
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been present in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack for many years now. With varied and powerful options such as Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Process Manager, Service Bus, Mediator, Business Rules, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and others all running on WebLogic Server (WLS) since version 11g, SOA Suite has established itself as the solution of choice for achieving all kinds of on-premises integrations, as well as a comprehensive toolset for enabling the adoption and implementation of Service Orientation design principles.
Furthermore, and looking beyond the tools, SOA itself has evolved into a modern and dynamic architectural style, aligned with business and industry trends and widely regarded as an enabler for technological innovation and digital disruption.
Long gone are the days when SOA adoption was perceived as an almost esoteric ultimate goal, as are the proclamations that left it for dead. After its first generation, SOA reinvented itself and took hold in the IT mainstream. In this regard, SOA Suite has maintained its relevance, despite Oracle’s transformation into a Cloud-first company; so much so that, within a single year, we witnessed first the emergence of a 12c version, an Integration Cloud Service (ICS) built on top of it, and now the delivery of a full-fledged SOA Suite Cloud Service.
In this article we discuss this new offering in detail, together with its implications, possible use cases and scenarios. Along the way, we’ll also attempt to clarify some potentially confusing elements and draw some first-hand conclusions on the present and future of the product.
First, Oracle has categorized this new offering as an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) alternative, and rightly so. Let’s look at Gartner’s definition for iPaaS:
“…a suite of cloud services enabling development, execution and governance of integration flows connecting any combination of on premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications and data within individual or across multiple organizations”
This is a very broad definition for a cloud-based solution, where Oracle has positioned a lightweight and simplified option in ICS; nevertheless, the need for integration within the cloud increases by the day, which definitely leaves room for much more.
So, this is where SOA Cloud Service comes in, as a ready-made platform for running not only the bona fide functionalities of SOA-Infra and Service Bus, but also API Manager; a recent and very valuable addition to the Fusion Middleware stack (we’ll come back to this later).
Let’s take a look at the components available in this first release: Read the complete article here.
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Its been a few weeks now since Oracle released its new and highly fanfared SOA Cloud Service.
So what does this mean to Oracle SOA practitioners?. We personally think that this is an important moment in time, because the tide has finally led us to the existence of a fully fledged SOA platform offered in the form of an iPaaS, to go with a whole set of cloud services which already include: Integration, Process Automation, Document/Content Management, Mobile, Identity, etc.
There’s little doubt that digital disruption is and will continue fostering increasingly complex and sizable hybrid architectures. Web APIs have become the toast of the town and mobile-first strategies are at a premium for organizations looking to keep competitive and generate new revenue streams.
Besides the obvious use cases such as sandbox/dev environments and occasional production workload shifting, this is where SOA CS should jump in as a powerful, attainable and ready made enabler for companies looking to invest on digital transformation.
We just wrote a fairly detailed article about all this for Oracle OTN, including an excellent contribution from Dutch stalwart Robert van Mölken. Here’s the direct link:
SOA Cloud Service in a Nutshell
So please enjoy the article and don’t hesitate to ask any questions or post your comments about it. Watch the video here.
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Customers frequently ask me, "What's the best way of handling JRE requirements when I have other Java applications in addition to Oracle E-Business Suite?"
The short answer: you should always try to use the latest JRE release, but before you do that, you need to review your enterprise JRE requirements carefully to ensure that all of your applications are compatible with it.
Why you should always deploy the latest JRE updates
JRE updates include fixes for stability, performance, and security. The most-important fixes are for security, of course. Therefore, we strongly recommend that customers stay current with the latest JRE release. This applies to all Java customers, not just E-Business Suite customers.
New JRE releases are always certified with EBS on day zero
The E-Business Suite is always certified with all new JRE releases on JRE 1.6, 1.7, and 1.8. We test all EBS releases with beta versions of JRE updates before the latter are released, so there should be no EBS compatibility issues. Customers can even turn on Auto-Update (which ensures that a new JRE update is automatically applied to a desktop whenever it’s available) with no concerns about EBS compatibility.
Which JRE codeline is recommended for Oracle E-Business Suite?
Oracle E-Business Suite does not have any dependencies on a specific JRE codeline. All three JRE releases – 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 – work the same way with EBS.
You should pick whichever JRE codeline works best with the rest of your third-party applications.
Check the compatibility of all third-party Java applications in use
Of course, Oracle cannot make any assurances about compatibility with other third-party products. I have heard from some customers who have Java-based applications whose certifications lag behind the latest JRE release.
Organizations need to maintain a comprehensive matrix that shows the latest certified JRE releases for all of their Java applications. This matrix should include the E-Business Suite.
Take the "lowest-common denominator" approach
Customers with multiple Java-based applications generally are forced to take a “lowest-common denominator” approach. Even if Oracle E-Business Suite and the majority of your Java-based applications are compatible with the latest JRE release, any lagging application's incompatibility with the latest JRE release will force you to remain on the earliest version that is common to all of them.
For example:
Contact all of your third-party vendors
Organizations whose JRE deployments are held back by a particular application's incompatibility should contact the vendor for that application and ask them test with Java Early Access downloads or to participate in the Oracle CAP Program.
If your E-Business Suite Release environment is configured to support Daylight Saving Time (DST) or
international time zones, it's important to keep your timezone
definition files up-to-date. They were last changed in November 2015 and
released as 
