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GoldenGate 12c Certified with E-Business Suite 12.2
Oracle GoldenGate provides real-time capture, transformation, routing, and delivery of database transactions across heterogeneous systems. The GoldenGate Administrator's Guide shows six supported topologies for generic databases. Oracle GoldenGate 12c is now certified for a subset of three of those methods in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 environments:
- Unidirectional (Reporting Instance): From the E-Business Suite to a reporting instance
- Broadcast (Data Distribution): From the E-Business Suite to multiple external databases
- Consolidation (Data Warehouse/Mart/Store): From multiple sources, including the E-Business Suite, into a single external database
Procedures for replicating information from E-Business Suite 12.2 using GoldenGate to a secondary system are documented in:
Certified Combinations
- EBS 12.2.5 and later 12.2.x releases
- Database 12.1.0.2 or 11.2.0.4
- GoldenGate 12.1.2 and later 12.x releases
Replication to a Non-Editioned Target Database
EBS 12.2's Online Patching architecture has significant implications for data replication solutions implemented using Oracle GoldenGate. The Note above describes how to set up a unidirectional configuration of Oracle GoldenGate replication from an Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 source database to a non-editioned target database.
Using GoldenGate with EBS 12.2 environments is significantly different from previous EBS releases. If you are upgrading your GoldenGate + EBS 12.1 environment to EBS 12.2, and you must plan carefully for the new integration steps detailed in the documentation above.
GoldenGate is an extremely powerful solution, and one of its most-interesting features is the ability to provide data replication in both directions. In some generic scenarios, you can choose to make alterations to replicated data on the external instance and have those changes updated back in the source database.
Bidirectional replication is not permitted for E-Business Suite environments. You can use
GoldenGate to replicate EBS data to an external database, but you cannot
move that altered data back into the EBS database. GoldenGate's
ability to read data in EBS databases is certified, but it must not be
used to write to EBS databases.
"How" But Not "What"
GoldenGate is akin to a scalpel. You're free to use it, but you must learn how to perform open heart surgery yourself.
The document above describes how to use GoldenGate to replicate data from the E-Business Suite to another system. It doesn't provide any guidance about which database objects to replicate.
The E-Business Suite data model is vast, as you'd expect of
something that has supports the integrated functioning of over 200
functional product modules. GoldenGate is a development tool, and like
all development tools, requires an expert-level understanding of the
E-Business Suite data model for successful use. Here's a good EBS data
model resource:
Not Certified for EBS Migrations and Upgrades
GoldenGate is not certified for:
- Upgrading E-Business Suite databases from one version to another
- Migrating E-Business Suite databases from one operating system platform to another
Why not? Oracle GoldenGate does not currently support the replication
of all of the datatypes that are used by the E-Business Suite. In addition, GoldenGate relies upon tables with primary keys for replication. EBS has over 10,000 tables without primary keys. That
means that attempting to use GoldenGate to migrate or upgrade an entire
E-Business Suite database requires a combination of GoldenGate and
other manual steps to preserve referential integrity.
Oracle does not currently have any plans to produce a certified or automated method of using GoldenGate for E-Business Suite upgrades or platform migrations.
EBS 12.2 customers should use our documented procedures for upgrades and migrations.
Will EBS Work with Windows 10 Creators Update?
Microsoft is releasing a major update to Windows 10 called the Windows 10 Creators Update:
This new update includes a number of features specifically aimed at enterprise and business users. These include:
- Windows Security Center
- Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection
- In-place UEFI conversion
Differential downloads for Windows 10
Microsoft is also changing their packaging of major Windows 10 updates from full operating system downloads to smaller, incremental downloads. This new delivery method is called the Unified Update Platform (UUP).
The new UUP delivery method will provide only the Windows 10 patches that have been released since the last time a desktop was updated.
Will this work with EBS?
Yes. Windows 10 is certified with all current EBS releases, including EBS 12.1 and 12.2. This existing certification is expected to apply to the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update release.
The Unified Update Platform is not expected to require an additional certification. Microsoft emphasizes that nothing changes with Windows 10 itself -- this only modifies the way that Win10 patches are delivered:
It’s important to note that with UUP, nothing will look or behave differently on the surface, UUP is all underlying platform and service optimization that happens behind the scenes.
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EMO Trans “Quantum Leap Over the Competition” with Oracle Cloud
EMO Trans is a global shipping and logistics company in business for more than 50 years, with offices in 17 countries on 5 continents. As established as they are, you have to stay on your toes. As Andy Grove famously said in his book, “Only the Paranoid Survive” EMO Trans knew they faced potential disruptions from small startups in this new digital age. As a strong Oracle customer, EMO Trans has been able to stay ahead with the Oracle Cloud, IaaS and PaaS solutions and infrastructure. That includes Oracle Docs, WebCenter, and Mobile Cloud Service.
Marco Rohrer, EMO Trans President and CEO notes “Five years from now most of our business will be done through mobility tools. We are preparing for that now.” Adding to this, Andy Richardson, EMO’s executive director of IT: “It’s mobile out of the gate. We can easily bring the information we need into mobile apps with Oracle Mobile Cloud Service. We can push technology to clients’ mobile devices. We can say, ‘There’s a typhoon in the East China Sea. Your shipment’s going to be four days late’ well in advance of the problem, and we can service our customers much more efficiently because of it.”
I’ve highlighted a few of the mobile quotes but you should read the full detailed Forbes story here, detailing how an established brand, can take on new digital disrupters with a cloud & mobile strategy and Oracle as their key technology partners. As Rohrer said: "EMO Trans doesn’t just want to keep up. It is using the cloud to be a leader in customer experience and “take a quantum leap over the competition”
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The Evolution and Future of Analytics
We live in a world where things around us are ever changing.
Measurement metrics are just in time, predictive and need a lot of augmented intelligence; however, we're developing more complex mind analytics when it comes to buying patterns.
This new type of analytics can give us insight into how the customer feels and what he or she experiences.
Thus, the availability of smart information will emerge.
b) Natural language or human analytics that can automatically read your mood to ultimately improve customer satisfaction.
f) IN product or things analytics to provide information about the product that makes things intelligent through RFID, intelligent tagging, sensors etc.
g) Discounts/coupons based on mixing historical buying patterns; post purchase analytics.
Based on the above, let's dive into different types of analytics available on the market. We'll look at how they will blend and intersect to develop more augmented applications for the future.
1) Historical Analytics
Here the objective is to focus on projections/what-if analysis with the current data and make projections for the future. An example would be a Hyperion or an EPM based solution which could help derive and plan reporting as projections. EPM today is also available as a cloud service.
4) Predictive Analytics
With the Big Data market growing, and with unstructured data adding parameters of velocity, variety and volume, the data world is moving on to more predictive analytics, with a blended mix of data. There is one world of data in the hadoop world and another in the classical data warehouse world. We can mix and match and do Big Data analytics.
Predictive analytics is more of a compass-like decision making with data analysis patterns. Oracle has an end-to-end Big Data solution from DW, Hadoop and analytics that can help develop predictive solutions.
7) AI Based Analytics
AI or deep learning is the next gen analytics pattern where we can train the systems or any entity to think and then embed the analytics pattern in the solution.
Oracle has solution at different levels; most of them are also available as a cloud service (Software as a Service, Platform as a Service).
It's imperative to build the right mix of solutions for the right problem and integrate these solutions.
- Historical perspective you would use --> Business Intelligence
- Current processing --> Streaming (event processing) and Business Activity Monitoring
- Enterprise performance management --> Hyperion
- Heterogeneous source of data and also large analysis of data --> Big Data Solution
- Predictive and Prescriptive analytics --> R language and Advanced Analytics
- Machine related --> IOT Solutions and Cloud Service
About the Author
Sudhir Menon is a seasoned and experienced techno-management professional with 22+ years of diverse experience across consulting, industry solutions, architecture, and technology management. He is very passionate about architecture and has diverse experience managing customers and building solutions specific to industry mapping to the business needs.
He has strong consulting experience in building IOT, Analytics, Cloud and Middleware Solutions for large customers. He is currently doing research around IOT and Analytics and building next generation solutions. He works as principal consultant at Oracle University.
You can reach him @sudhir.g.menon@oracle.com.
SOA Messaging Reliability through JMS and Oracle Service Bus by Sebastian Lik-Keung Ma
This article describes the design of a reliable messaging solution for SOA integration projects. It uses concepts like canonical schemas, durable POJO (Plain Old Java Object) messages, publish-subscribe and error handling within the Oracle SOA, Oracle Service Bus and WebLogic JMS infrastructure.
The JMS Message
For consistency, the type of message we are publishing will be based on a canonical schema. Typically, you would have a JDeveloper project that stores the canonical schemas used by all your custom applications. These schemas could be version-controlled, e.g. by Subversion, as well as deployed to MDS as a SOA bundle. Sample JDeveloper project containing canonical schemas shown below.
In this article, we will use the employeeWorkSchedule schema as our message type.
Publishing JMS message from ADF Java application
We publish our message to JMS from ADF applications. To simplify the process of using Java to construct message objects based on our XSD canonical schema, we use the JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding) tool from JDeveloper.
As shown in Figure 2a below, select the XSD file, right-click and select “Generate JAXB 2.0 Content Model”. Read the complete article here.
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My private Corner – Happy New Year!
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What those extra Healthcare flags on Oracle SOA 12.1.3.0.5 and 12.2.1 update are for? by Bruno Neves Alves
Whilst upgrading to 12.1.3.05 I came across the following Post Installation actions at the READ.ME doc of the 22524811 patch:
"4 Post-Installation Instructions"
2. Add em property : hc.jmsAndDBSameTxn with 'true' value.
3. Following Healthcare Server properties are needed:
- hc.sequencedEndpoints
+ ALL,, - comman separate value
+ Any endpoints after ALL will not be sequenced.
+ In this example, will have sequcing turned off. will have sequencing turned off.
Note for Bug 20029769:
hc.HCMode (true/false, default false) - need to set to true
At
the customer, we intended to promote the upgrade to the actual
production environment and, because of this, it required further
validation of the impacts of such upgrade could bring.
Since the
description was not clear enough and I could not find information
anywhere else, I raised a service request at Oracle Support for further
clarification.
First, I would like to thanks Silviu from Oracle
Support for his help and support he have been providing me for the last
few years :)
And here are the conclusions of the service request and clarification of the new flags usage:
hc.jmsAndDBSameTxn
- if true, committing to the JMS for customer JMS will be on the same
transaction as database. If database is rolled back, then the message
will not be committed to JMS as well. (I'm waiting additional
clarification for this point and will add it here once I have it). Read the complete article here.
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Which Oracle Web Tier Utilities Patchsets Can Be Used with EBS 12.2?
- Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6 (this is the "$FMW_HOME")
- Oracle WebTier Utilities 11.1.1.6
- Oracle Common Home (Part of Oracle WebTier Utilities 11.1.1.6)
For example, we have certified EBS 12.2 with Web Tier Utilities 11.1.1.9. All of the following Web Tier Utilities patchsets will work with EBS 12.2:
- Oracle Web Tier Utilities 11.1.1.9.0 (documented certification)
- Oracle Web Tier Utilities 11.1.1.9.161225 (Fictitious future Bundle Patch for example purposes only-- this has not been released
This is sometimes shown in our documentation in either of the following ways:
- Oracle Web Tier Utilities 11.1.1.9
- Oracle Web Tier Utilities 11.1.1.9.x
The absence of a fifth-digit or the presence of an 'X' in the fifth digit's place means any fifth-digit level updates may be applied to an EBS 12.2 environment without requiring a new certification. This applies to all environments, including test and production environments.
What is NOT certified
The Oracle Web Tier Downloads page has several listings for other things, including:
- Oracle Web Tier 12cR2
- Oracle HTTP Server 12.2.1.2
- Oracle HTTP Server 12.2.1.1
- Oracle HTTP Server 12.2.1
These have not been certified with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2. You should not apply these to your EBS 12.2 environment.
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This release of Oracle Integration Cloud Service includes two new adapters (DB2 Adapter and Oracle Logistics Adapter) and enhancements to the REST Adapter, SOAP Adapter, FTP Adapter, and Salesforce Adapter. Enhancements are also provided for orchestrated integrations, scheduled integrations, orchestrated integration creation options, custom adapter uploads, Expression Builder functions, XPath extension functions, exported/imported integrations, diagnostic logs, and REST APIs. See below for details.
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Released for US and Canadian Payroll Customers, End of Year 2016 Phase 3 Statutory Update patches
Oracle US and Canadian Payroll Customers, The End of Year 2016 Phase 3 Statutory Update patches have been released!
Patch Numbers:
- 12.1 - Patch 25250004:R12.PAY.B
- 12.2 - Patch 25250004:R12.PAY.C
Important Notes:
- The End of Year 2016 Phase 3 patch includes the End of Year 2016 Phase 1, Phase 2 as well as the Year Begin 2017 statutory updates. Please also note that the End of Year 2016 Phase 3 patch requires the post install steps of running the data installer and hrglobal.drv.
- As a reminder, the Mexico Payroll End of Year 2016 Phase 1 and Year Begin 2017 patches were released separately on December 22nd, 2016 and the release was announced in a separately.
Please be sure to carefully read ALL the readme's before beginning to install these patches to ensure successful processing.
US Highlights:
* RITA (Ohio) Magnetic Media updates
* State minimum wage rate increase added for New York
* TDI wage base increase for Rhode Island
* Local minimum wage rates added for California localities
* Miscellaneous bug fixes
Please see the following readme's on My Oracle Support for full details***:
- Document 2222806.1 - Release 12.1 - US Payroll Readme for End of Year 2016 Phase 3 Statutory Updates
- Document 2222807.1 - Release 12.2 - US Payroll Readme for End of Year 2016 Phase 3 Statutory Updates
*** Note: The functional readme's listed above do not contain detailed patch installation instructions. Please refer to the applicable patch readme available in the patch download area on My Oracle Support for the patch installation instructions
Canada Highlights:
* Authorization numbers for RL1 and RL2 PDFs
* Certification numbers for RL1 and RL2 Electronic Interfaces
* Miscellaneous bug fixes
Please see the following readme's on My Oracle Support for full details***:
- Document 2222846.1 - Release 12.1.x - 2016 Canadian Payroll Year End Phase 3 Readme
- Document 2222847.1 - Release 12.2.x - 2016 Canadian Payroll Year End Phase 3 Readme
*** Note: The functional readme's listed above do not contain detailed patch installation instructions. Please refer to the applicable patch readme available in the patch download area on My Oracle Support for the patch installation instructions.
For more information see:
- Community Announcement: US and CA Legislation: End of Year 2016 Phase 3 Statutory Update patches have been released!
- For the latest Oracle HRMS Product Family - Release 11i and 12 Information, please see My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 135266.1
- For the complete R12.1.x Payroll Mandatory Patch List, see My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 858794.1
- For the complete R12.2.x Payroll Mandatory Patch List, see My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 1669527.1
Critical Patch Update for January 2017 Now Available
The Critical Patch Update Advisory is the starting point for relevant information. It includes a list of products affected, pointers to obtain the patches, a summary of the security vulnerabilities, and links to other important documents.
Supported products that are not listed in the "Supported Products and Components Affected" Section of the advisory do not require new patches to be applied.
The Critical Patch Update Advisory is available at the following location:
It is essential to review the Critical Patch Update supporting documentation referenced in the Advisory before applying patches.
The next four Critical Patch Update release dates are:
- April 18, 2017
- July 18, 2017
- October 17, 2017
- January 16, 2018
References
- Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Critical Patch Update (January 2017) (Doc ID 2212223.1)
- Oracle E-Business Suite Security Guide, Release 12.2 - Secure Configuration
- Secure Configuration Guide for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Doc ID 403537.1)
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Documents and Conversations | On the Workspace Tracking page, administrators can now click the Conversations icon in addition to the Documents icon and view conversations associated with a selected instance. On the Configure UI Customizations page, an option that lets you hide comments displayed on the Tasks page and Tracking page has been added. This option is valid only if you integrated Oracle Documents Cloud Service with Oracle Process Cloud Service, and you enabled conversations. |
QuickStart Master | On the Personalize page, the options for the Item field have been improved. · You can now customize the activities in a subprocess. · The list is now organized by swimlane followed by all the activities for that lane. If there is a subprocess, then the list expands to show all activities for the subprocess as well. An option to search the list has also been added. These new features make it easier to find the element you want to customize. See Decide What Settings Users Can Customize in Using Oracle Process Cloud Service. |
Embeddable Process UI Components | The embeddable UI components feature includes several enhancements: · Reorganized the toolbar and grouped UI components into cookbook. · Added support for web forms in task details. · Added support for conversations. · Added the DevTool option, which lets you bring up the REST API in an interactive format so you can enter and test your code. Read the complete article here. |
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India Consolidated Patch IN.15 has been released for HR and Payroll Legislative Clients
The following patches have been released for India Consolidated Patch IN.15
- Release 12.1 : Patch 25322509:R12.PER.B
- Release 12.2 : Patch 25322509:R12.PER.C
Please note that R12.1.HRMS RUP 8 and R12.2.HRMS RUP 6 are the respective pre-requisites for this patch.
Post Install steps need to be run for this patch.
README of the patch is available in the following document:
India Consolidated Patch IN.15 (Doc ID 2219364.1)
This Consolidated Patch delivers the following:
A. Statutory Updates
01. SBI interest rates for perquisite valuation effective April 1, 2016.
02. Change in Income Tax computation on Superannuation
03. Form 12BB statutory report
04. Gratuity Payment not considered as a part of Professional Tax salary
05. Amendment in Gujarat LWF effective December 1, 2016
06. Change in the Form24Q output file format for Q1, Q2 and Q3
07. Amendment of ESI for a new implementation
08. Amendment of ESI slab rates
09. Amendment of EPS calculation for employees over 58 years of age
10. Senior Citizen tax slab for employees reaching 59 years with a birth date of April 1.
B. Bug Fixes
C. Minor Enhancements
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Oracle Business Process Management Bootcamp 12c 30 Jan – 24 Feb 2017– free on-demand training and certification
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- This Boot Camp is now open for registration to all partners taking specialist certification exams in the next 90 days. Please DO NOT REGISTER, if you are not taking a certification exam.
- All registrations must be done using a company email. Personal emails will be rejected
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