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What’s New Features in OEM Applications Management Pack 13.4(.2) Released 15-JUN-2020

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Per Getting Started with Oracle Application Management Pack (AMP) for Oracle E-Business Suite, Release 13.4.1.0.0 (MOS Note 2676355.1)

New Features

Certification with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4 Release Update 2

Certification with Oracle Database 19c (for Discovery, Monitoring, Approvals, Patch Manager, and Customization Manager, only)

Support for Oracle Real User Experience Insight 13.3.1.0.2

References

Angelo Rosado’s Oracle Blog on OEM AMS/AMP Announcements:

https://blogs.oracle.com/ebstech/oracle-application-management-pack-release-134100-is-now-available

New EBS AMS Plugin Homepage Screenshot 13c 13.1.1.1.0

Key Features (very similar to 13.1.1.1.0):

System Management

Oracle Application Management Pack provides monitoring alerts and notifications for Oracle Application Framework, Concurrent Processing, Forms services, concurrent managers and requests, Oracle Workflow services, Oracle Database, and middle tier/web servers.

Standardize monitoring settings across your Oracle E-Business Suite environments by utilizing templates to initially specify the monitoring settings and apply those to your monitored targets. You can save, edit, and apply these templates across one or more targets. A monitoring template is specified for a particular target type and can only be applied to targets of the same type.

Use the Concurrent Processing dashboard for a complete picture of concurrent processing on your Oracle E-Business Suite system of both current activities as well as usage statistics. Add concurrent programs and managers as user-defined targets and the system will collect metrics on activity and usage for them.

Configuration Management

Oracle Application Management Pack collects and stores the technology configurations of Oracle E-Business Suite to help centralize monitoring and tracking of changes to Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack configurations including host configuration, database configuration, middleware configuration, patches applied, key profile option changes, versions of technology components, and custom object changes.

Compare configurations between two or more Oracle E-Business Suite systems directly or by comparing configuration snapshots taken at different time intervals.

Configuration templates help to standardize the configuration standards across the company and reduce the configuration drift between various Oracle E-Business Suite instances.

Administrators can track changes by setting up notifications when any unauthorized changes occur to technology stack configurations.

Compliance Management

Compliance framework integration allows you to ensure your Oracle E-Business Suite is compliant with your IT audit requirements, as well as industry and regulatory requirements. Compliance Management dashboards show trends and compliance violations. Proactive, real-time compliance monitoring can significantly reduce the operational risk to business.

Change Management

Change Approval Framework

All changes made with Oracle-delivered patches or customizations in Change Management are processed through a change approval mechanism. A multi-level, hierarchical list of approvers can be set up for each Oracle E-Business Suite target. Auditors can review the change requests as welll as the approvals.

Patch Management

Patch recommendations for Oracle E-Business Suite application products and the technology stack components are made for specific Oracle E-Business target instances to help reduce or eliminate the research work by administrators. These patch recommendations help to ensure all Oracle E-Business Suite systems are current with Oracle-recommended patches. You can deploy database and WLS patches by creating Oracle Enterprise Manager patch plans directly from the patch recommendations user interface.

Using the Patch Management dashboard, you can manage all patching activities of your Oracle E-Business Suite instances and view patch worker logs. Patch Manager simplifies the online patching process and reduces human intervention to a great extent, eliminating the need for continuous monitoring of the patching process.

Patch Manager makes it easier for administrators to check for prerequisite patches and to download the patches in offline mode or directly from My Oracle Support.

Customization Management

Create and deploy custom packages across Oracle E-Business Suite instances similar to Oracle-delivered patches. Customization Manager can help ensure all customizations follow Oracle development standards and/or user-defined customization standards specific to your IT organization. Easily integrate Customization Manager with any third-party source code version control software. This feature also supports the creation of National Language Support (NLS) patches.
Customization Manager can discover customizations within your Oracle E-Business Suite systems and provide detailed reports online or in a spreadsheet format. This helps your organization keep track of the inventory of customizations and use the data for further analysis.

Cloning


Automated Cloning allows you to clone your Oracle E-Business Suite applications for testing, training, or development purposes, leveraging the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Provisioning Framework. A step-by-step interview guides an administrator through the cloning process and facilitates scheduling of Oracle E-Business Suite instance. Administrators can modify the standard cloning procedure to include pre- or post-custom steps, seamlessly automating their cloning process from beginning to end.

Instance Administration

Administrators can use the Instance Administration user interface when adding and removing (scale in and scale out) application services, application nodes, and managed servers.

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R12.1 R12.2 Oracle eBusiness Suite – Moving FNDLOAD files by script

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Most administrators become familiar with the FNDLOAD utility ($FND_TOP/bin/FNDLOAD) which is used to move various objects between instances that have been defined and set up using the front-end (Menus, FlexField setups, Users, Alerts, Concurrent Programs, et.al.)

Yes, you can manually re-enter all that information using the front-end forms and OAF pages, but you do have a utility to do that for you: FNDLOAD.

Typing FNDLOAD by itself with no parameters gives you a general idea of what kinds of parameters it takes:

You have not provided the required arguments for this program.
Usage: FNDLOAD logon 0 Y mode configfile datafile [ entity [ param ... ] ]

where
logon is username/password[@connect]
mode is either UPLOAD or DOWNLOAD
configfile is the configuration file
datafile is the data file
entity is an entity name, or - to specify all values in an upload
param is a NAME=VALUE string used for parameter substitution

But you can, like most of these utilities, create a script wrapper which makes the process more driven to support repetitive change migrations.

Here’s an example using many of the various parameters in a format that simply downloads the object from the source instance and uploads the resulting *.ldt file into the target instance.  Just comment out things you don’t want (or isn’t supported by your particular EBS version) and add new objects as they become supported by FNDLOAD in the future.

# $1 FRSID From Instance sample: apps/apps@DEV1.world
# $2 TYPE: CONC Concurrent Program
# RGRP Request Group
# FORM Form Function
# FDFF Descriptive FlexField
# VSET FND Value Set
# MENU Menu
# ALRT Oracle Alert
# FLDR Folder
# MESG Oracle Message
# LKUP Lookup Values
# USER FND User
# RPROF Responsibility Profile Level
# PROF Profile with no Level specific
# RSET RequestSet
# RSLK RequestSet Links
# RESP Responsibility
# FPER Form Personalization
# XMLT XML Template
# XLAD XLA Definitions
# WADIINTG Web ADI Integrator
# WADILAYO Web ADI Layout
# WADIMAPC Web ADI Mapping Code
# WADISTYL Web ADI Style
# PJSTAT Project Statuses
# ATTCAT Attachment Categories
# $3 OBJECT Object Short Name, Function Name, Responsibility Key, Etc.
# $4 APPL_SN Application ShortName
# $5 TOSID Destination Instance sample: apps/apps@DEV2.world
#
FRSID=$1
ATYP=$2
AOBJ="$3"
AASN=$4
TOSID=$5

fpwd=`echo $FRSID|awk '{FS="/"} {print $2}'|awk '{FS="@"} {print $1}'`
fsid=`echo $FRSID|awk '{FS="@"} {print toupper($2)}'`

tpwd=`echo $TOSID|awk '{FS="/"} {print $2}'|awk '{FS="@"} {print $1}'`
tsid=`echo $TOSID|awk '{FS="@"} {print toupper($2)}'`


fdbline=`tnsping $fsid|awk '/Attempting/ {print $0}'`
ffullhname=`echo $fdbline|awk '{print $5}'|awk '{FS="="} {print $4}'|awk '{FS=")"} {print $1}'`
fhport=`echo $fdbline|awk '{print $5}'|awk '{FS="="} {print $5}'|awk '{FS=")"} {print $1}'`
fhname=`echo $ffullhname|awk '{print $1}'|awk '{FS="."} {print $1}'`

tdbline=`tnsping $tsid|awk '/Attempting/ {print $0}'`
tfullhname=`echo $tdbline|awk '{print $5}'|awk '{FS="="} {print $4}'|awk '{FS=")"} {print $1}'`
thport=`echo $tdbline|awk '{print $5}'|awk '{FS="="} {print $5}'|awk '{FS=")"} {print $1}'`
thname=`echo $tfullhname|awk '{print $1}'|awk '{FS="."} {print $1}'`


tdbline=`tnsping $tsid|awk '/Attempting/ {print $0}'`
tfullhname=`echo $tdbline|awk '{print $5}'|awk '{FS="="} {print $4}'|awk '{FS=")"} {print $1}'`
thport=`echo $tdbline|awk '{print $5}'|awk '{FS="="} {print $5}'|awk '{FS=")"} {print $1}'`
thname=`echo $tfullhname|awk '{print $1}'|awk '{FS="."} {print $1}'`

sqlsmt=""
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" select 'XMLT:'||DS_APP_SHORT_NAME||':'||DATA_SOURCE_CODE||': '"
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" from xdo.xdo_templates_b "
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" where template_code = '"$AOBJ"' "
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" and application_short_name = '"$AASN"';"
sqlout=`echo $sqlsmt | sqlplus -s $FRSID`

DSASN=`echo $sqlout|awk '{FS=":"} {print $5}'`
DSCODE=`echo $sqlout|awk '{FS=":"} {print $6}'`

rtime=`date +%m%d%H%M%S`

if (test $ATYP = "CONC") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcpprog.lct "$AOBJ".ldt PROGRAM APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=$AASN CONCURRENT_PROGRAM_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcpprog.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "FORM") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afsload.lct "$AOBJ".ldt FUNCTION FUNCTION_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afsload.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "ATTCAT") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afattach.lct "$AOBJ".ldt FND_DOCUMENT_CATEGORIES CATEGORY_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afattach.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "RGRP") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcpreqg.lct "$AOBJ".ldt REQUEST_GROUP APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=$AASN REQUEST_GROUP_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcpreqg.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "FDFF") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID O Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afffload.lct "$AOBJ".ldt DESC_FLEX APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=$AASN DESCRIPTIVE_FLEXFIELD_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afffload.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "VSET") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID O Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afffload.lct "$AOBJ".ldt VALUE_SET FLEX_VALUE_SET_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afffload.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "MENU") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afsload.lct "$AOBJ".ldt MENU MENU_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afsload.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=REPLACE
elif (test $ATYP = "ALRT") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $ALR_TOP/patch/115/import/alr.lct "$AOBJ".ldt ALR_ALERTS APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=$AASN ALERT_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $ALR_TOP/patch/115/import/alr.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "FLDR") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/fndfold.lct "$AOBJ".ldt FND_FOLDERS NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/fndfold.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "MESG") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afmdmsg.lct "$AOBJ".ldt FND_NEW_MESSAGES APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=$AASN MESSAGE_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afmdmsg.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "LKUP") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/aflvmlu.lct "$AOBJ".ldt FND_LOOKUP_TYPE APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=$AASN LOOKUP_TYPE="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/aflvmlu.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "USER") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afscursp.lct "$AOBJ".ldt FND_USER USER_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afscursp.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "PROF") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afscprof.lct "$AOBJ".ldt PROFILE APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=$AASN PROFILE_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afscprof.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "RPROF") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD afscprofr.lct "$AOBJ".ldt PROFILE APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=$AASN PROFILE_NAME="$AOBJ" FND_PROFILE_OPTION_VALUES LEV="10003"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afscprof.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "RSET") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcprset.lct "$AOBJ".ldt REQ_SET REQUEST_SET_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcprset.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcprset.lct "$AOBJ"_LINK.ldt REQ_SET_LINKS REQUEST_SET_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcprset.lct "$AOBJ"_LINK.ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "RELK") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcprset.lct "$AOBJ".ldt REQ_SET_LINKS REQUEST_SET_NAME="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afcprset.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "RESP") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afscursp.lct "$AOBJ".ldt FND_RESPONSIBILITY RESP_KEY="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afscursp.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "FPER") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/affrmcus.lct "$AOBJ".ldt FND_FORM_CUSTOM_RULES function_name="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/affrmcus.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "XMLT") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $XDO_TOP/patch/115/import/xdotmpl.lct "$AOBJ".ldt XDO_DS_DEFINITIONS APPLICATION_SHORT_NAME=$AASN DATA_SOURCE_CODE="$DSCODE" TMPL_APP_SHORT_NAME=$DSASN TEMPLATE_CODE="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $XDO_TOP/patch/115/import/xdotmpl.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE

sqlsmt=""
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt"select distinct 'XMLTYPE:'||xdo_file_type||':'||file_content_type||':'||"'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" decode(file_content_type,'application/rtf','rtf', "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" 'text/xml', 'xml', "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" lower(xdo_file_type))||':'||territory||':'||replace(file_name,' ','_')||':' xtype"'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" from xdo.xdo_lobs "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" where application_short_name = '"$AASN"' "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" and lob_type = 'TEMPLATE_SOURCE' "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" and lob_code = '"$AOBJ"'; "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt"exit "'\n'
echo $sqlsmt > $rtime.sql
sqlplus -s $FRSID @$rtime.sql > $rtime.out

for i in `awk '/XMLTYPE/ {print $0}' $rtime.out`
do
ftype=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $2}'`
ctype=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $3}'`
fext=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $4}'`
terr=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $5}'`
filename=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $6}'|awk '{FS="."} {print $1}'`
sname=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $6}'`
if (test $terr = "00") then
fname="TEMPLATE_SOURCE_"$AASN"_"$AOBJ"_en".$fext
else
fname="TEMPLATE_SOURCE_"$AASN"_"$AOBJ"_en_"$terr.$fext
fi
java oracle.apps.xdo.oa.util.XDOLoader DOWNLOAD -DB_USERNAME apps -DB_PASSWORD $fpwd -JDBC_CONNECTION "$fhname:$fhport:$fsid" -APPS_SHORT_NAME $AASN -LOB_TYPE TEMPLATE_SOURCE -LOB_CODE "$AOBJ" -XDO_FILE_TYPE $ftype -FILE_NAME $sname -LANGUAGE en -TERRITORY $terr -LCT_FILE $XDO_TOP/patch/115/import/xdotmpl.lct -LOG_FILE "$filename".log
mv "$fname" "$sname"
java oracle.apps.xdo.oa.util.XDOLoader UPLOAD -DB_USERNAME apps -DB_PASSWORD $tpwd -JDBC_CONNECTION "$thname:$thport:$tsid" -APPS_SHORT_NAME $AASN -LOB_TYPE TEMPLATE_SOURCE -LOB_CODE "$AOBJ" -XDO_FILE_TYPE $ftype -FILE_CONTENT_TYPE "$ctype" -FILE_NAME "$sname" -LANGUAGE en -TERRITORY $terr -LCT_FILE $XDO_TOP/patch/115/import/xdotmpl.lct -LDT_FILE "$AOBJ".ldt -DRVX_FILE "$AOBJ".drvx -LOG_FILE "$filename".log -CUSTOM_MODE FORCE
done
elif (test $ATYP = "XMLD") then
sqlsmt=""
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt"select distinct 'XMLTYPE:'||xdo_file_type||':'||file_content_type||':'||"'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" decode(file_content_type,'application/rtf','rtf', "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" 'text/xml', 'xml', "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" lower(xdo_file_type))||':'||territory||':'||replace(file_name,' ','_')||':' xtype"'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" from xdo.xdo_lobs "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" where application_short_name = '"$AASN"' "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" and lob_type = 'DATA_TEMPLATE' "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" and lob_code = '"$AOBJ"'; "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt"exit "'\n'
echo $sqlsmt > $rtime.sql
sqlplus -s $FRSID @$rtime.sql > $rtime.out

for i in `awk '/XMLTYPE/ {print $0}' $rtime.out`
do
ftype=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $2}'`
ctype=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $3}'`
fext=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $4}'`
terr=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $5}'`
filename=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $6}'|awk '{FS="."} {print $1}'`
sname=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $6}'`
fname="DATA_TEMPLATE_"$AASN"_$AOBJ"
java oracle.apps.xdo.oa.util.XDOLoader DOWNLOAD -DB_USERNAME apps -DB_PASSWORD $fpwd -JDBC_CONNECTION "$fhname:$fhport:$fsid" -APPS_SHORT_NAME $AASN -LOB_TYPE DATA_TEMPLATE -LOB_CODE "$AOBJ" -XDO_FILE_TYPE $ftype -FILE_NAME $sname -LANGUAGE en -TERRITORY $terr -LCT_FILE $XDO_TOP/patch/115/import/xdotmpl.lct -LDT_FILE "$AOBJ".ldt -DRVX_FILE "$AOBJ".drvx -LOG_FILE "$filename".log
mv "$fname".xml "$sname"
java oracle.apps.xdo.oa.util.XDOLoader UPLOAD -DB_USERNAME apps -DB_PASSWORD $tpwd -JDBC_CONNECTION "$thname:$thport:$tsid" -LOB_TYPE DATA_TEMPLATE -LOB_CODE "$AOBJ" -XDO_FILE_TYPE $ftype -FILE_NAME "$sname" -APPS_SHORT_NAME $AASN -LANGUAGE en -TERRITORY US -LCT_FILE $XDO_TOP/patch/115/import/xdotmpl.lct -LDT_FILE "$AOBJ".ldt -DRVX_FILE "$AOBJ".drvx -LOG_FILE "$filename".log -CUSTOM_MODE FORCE
done
# WADIINTG Web ADI Integrator
# WADILAYO Web ADI Layout
# WADIMAPC Web ADI Mapping Code
# WADISTYL Web ADI Style
elif (test $ATYP = "WADIINTG") then
# FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bneint.lct "$AOBJ".ldt BNE_INTEGRATORS INTEGRATOR_ASN=$AASN INTEGRATOR_CODE="$AOBJ"
# FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bneint.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bneintegrator.lct "$AOBJ".ldt BNE_INTEGRATORS INTEGRATOR_ASN=$AASN INTEGRATOR_CODE="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bneintegrator.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "WADILAYO") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bnelay.lct "$AOBJ".ldt BNE_LAYOUTS LAYOUT_ASN=$AASN LAYOUT_CODE="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bnelay.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "WADIMAPC") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bnemap.lct "$AOBJ".ldt BNE_MAPPINGS MAPPING_ASN=$AASN MAPPING_CODE="$AOBJ"
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bnemap.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "WADISTYL") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bness.lct "$AOBJ".ldt BNE_STYLESHEETS CONTENT_ASN=$AASN STYLESHEET_CODE="$AOBJ" STYLESHEET_ASN=$AASN
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bness.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "XLAD") then
sqlsmt=""
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt"select distinct 'APPLID:'||application_id"'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" from applsys.fnd_application "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt" where application_short_name = '"$AASN"'; "'\n'
sqlsmt=$sqlsmt"exit "'\n'
echo $sqlsmt > $rtime.sql
sqlplus -s $FRSID @$rtime.sql > $rtime.out
for i in `awk '/APPLID/ {print $0}' $rtime.out`
do
APPLID=`echo $i|awk '{FS=":"} {print $2}'`
done

FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $MWD_TOP/admin/ldt/xlaaadrule.lct "$AOBJ".ldt XLA_AAD APPLICATION_ID=$APPLID AMB_CONTEXT_CODE=DEFAULT FEDERAL=N
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $MWD_TOP/admin/ldt/xlaaadrule.lct "$AOBJ".ldt XLA_AAD APPLICATION_ID=$APPLID AMB_CONTEXT_CODE=DEFAULT UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
elif (test $ATYP = "PJSTAT") then
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $PA_TOP/patch/115/import/paprjsta.lct "$AOBJ".ldt PA_PROJECT_STATUSES
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $PA_TOP/patch/115/import/paprjsta.lct "$AOBJ".ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $PA_TOP/patch/115/import/paprjsta.lct "$AOBJ"_CONTROLS.ldt PA_PROJECT_STATUS_CONTROLS
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $PA_TOP/patch/115/import/paprjsta.lct "$AOBJ"_CONTROLS.ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
FNDLOAD $FRSID 0 Y DOWNLOAD $PA_TOP/patch/115/import/pacinest.lct "$AOBJ"_ALLOW.ldt PA_NEXT_ALLOW_STATUSES
FNDLOAD $TOSID 0 Y UPLOAD $PA_TOP/patch/115/import/pacinest.lct "$AOBJ"_ALLOW.ldt UPLOAD_MODE=REPLACE CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE
fi
rm $rtime.sql
rm $rtime.out
#chmod 777 *.log
#chmod 777 *.rtf
#chmod 777 *.ldt
#chmod 777 *.xml
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How To Get Those Customizations to Work Correctly with Oracle EBS R12.2 Editioning (EBR)

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Oracle e-Business Suite R12.2 Overview of Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR) in 11gR2 databases.
Oracle e-Business Suite R12.2 Overview of Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR) in 11gR2 databases.

Scenario:
Creating a new view based upon the AP.AP_SUPPLIERS table to reside in a new XXCUSTOMSCHEMA.

If you attempt the simple:

create or replace force view XXCUSTOMSCHEMA.AP_SUPPLIER_NEW_V
as
SELECT *
FROM ap.ap_suppliers ;

It works, but your data and table definition may change whenever patching editions are in-play.

If you attempt to just reference the editioned object instead:

create or replace force view XXCUSTOMSCHEMA.AP_SUPPLIER_NEW_V
as
SELECT *
FROM ap.ap_suppliers# /* or the preferred apps.ap_suppliers synonym */

You will receive the ominous ORA-38818: illegal reference to editioned object error message.

What’s missing? The XXCUSTOMSCHEMA isn’t recognized as an edition-friendly schema by Oracle’s e-Business Suite (nor the database), yet.

Create your XXCUSTOMSCHEMA in the usual way:

create user XXCUSTOMSCHEMA
identified by (password)
default tablespace USERS
temporary tablepace TEMP
profile DEFAULT
account UNLOCK;

/* as APPS user */

exec FND_ORACLE_USER_PKG.LOAD_ROW(‘XXCUSTOMSCHEMA’, ‘CUSTOM’, ‘INVALID’, NULL, ‘N’, ‘B’);

/* as SYSTEM user */

alter session set current_schema=APPS;
exec AD_ZD_PREP.ENABLE_CUSTOM_USER(‘XXCUSTOMSCHEMA’);

/* Create your SELECT grants to the editioned objects as APPS user */

grant select on ap.ap_suppliers#  to XXCUSTOMSCHEMA;

/* OR if you’re running newer than 12.2.5…the editioning security will cause hundreds of invalid editioned object stubs that need re-compilation unless you instead use */

exec AD_ZD.grant_privs(‘SELECT’, ‘AP_SUPPLIERS’, ‘XXCUSTOMSCHEMA’,X_GRANT_TO_TABLE=>TRUE)

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> exec AD_ZD.revoke_privs(‘SELECT’,’AP_SUPPLIERS’,’XXCUSTOMSCHEMA’);

/* Create your custom view referencing the APPS synonym – which points to the editioned object */

create or replace force view XXCUSTOMSCHEMA.AP_SUPPLIER_NEW_V
as
SELECT *
FROM apps.ap_suppliers ;

This is the same process when creating procedures and functions with the usual caveat that unless it’s a 12c database, you cannot create materialized views on the editioned objects.

For the 11gR2 EBS users, you would stick with the existing non-editioned table object reference:

CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW APPS.XXAP_SUPPLIER_NEW_MV
(
vendor_id,
vendor_name
)
AS
SELECT aps.vendor_id, aps.vendor_name
FROM ap.ap_suppliers aps;

/* The owning schema for the materialized view must have CREATE TABLE, VIEW AND INDEX privileges on the destination tablespace */

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R12.2 adop phase fs_clone fails because it can’t copy a file.

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Complexity leading to fragility
Complex Systems Integration (Courtesy of: https://www.mulesoft.com/resources/esb/business-process-integration)

Oracle…sometimes blinding in complexity, and a foreshadowing of what happens when a system becomes so complex that it becomes fragile.

This is what the screen session looks like:

adnodemgrctl.sh: check the logfile /u01/oradev/fs1/inst/apps/DEV2_itsrv33m/logs/appl/admin/log/adnodemgrctl.txt for more information …
[UNEXPECTED]fs_clone has failed.
[STATEMENT] Please run adopscanlog utility, using the command
“adopscanlog -latest=yes”
to get the list of the log files along with snippet of the error message corresponding to each log file.
adop exiting with status = 2 (Fail)

Here is what it looks like in the adop.log

[EVENT]     Performing CLONE steps.
[PROCEDURE] [START 2016/11/08 08:20:19] CLONE Patch File System from Run File System
[PROCEDURE] Calling: /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/ad/12.0.0/patch/115/bin/txkADOPPreparePhaseSynchronize.pl
[EVENT]     Log: /u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m
[UNEXPECTED]Error occurred running “perl /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/ad/12.0.0/patch/115/bin/txkADOPPreparePhaseSynchronize.pl -contextfile=/u01/oradev/fs2/inst/apps/DEV2_itsrv33m/appl/admin/DEV2_itsrv33m.xml -patchcontextfile=/u01/oradev/fs1/inst/apps/DEV2_itsrv33m/appl/admin/DEV2_itsrv33m.xml -promptmsg=hide -console=off -mode=create -sync_mode=copy -sessionid=25 -timestamp=20161108_081645 -outdir=/u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m”
[UNEXPECTED]occurred during CLONE Patch File System from Run File System, running command: “perl /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/ad/12.0.0/patch/115/bin/txkADOPPreparePhaseSynchronize.pl -contextfile=/u01/oradev/fs2/inst/apps/DEV2_itsrv33m/appl/admin/DEV2_itsrv33m.xml -patchcontextfile=/u01/oradev/fs1/inst/apps/DEV2_itsrv33m/appl/admin/DEV2_itsrv33m.xml -promptmsg=hide -console=off -mode=create -sync_mode=copy -sessionid=25 -timestamp=20161108_081645 -outdir=/u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m”.
[EVENT]     Releasing managed server ports.
[PROCEDURE] [START 2016/11/08 08:30:55] Releasing ports
[STATEMENT] Calling task: “Releasing ports on itsrv33m”; script: “/u01/oradev/fs2/inst/apps/DEV2_itsrv33m/admin/install/txkCloneAcquirePort.pl”; args: ” -option=close -server=itsrv33m.mwd.h2o -ports=5570,7015,7615,7415,7215,7216,7217,7815,6114,6214,10013 -log=/u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m/txkCloneAcquirePort.log”
[PROCEDURE] [START 2016/11/08 08:30:56] Releasing ports on itsrv33m
[PROCEDURE] Calling: /u01/oradev/fs2/inst/apps/DEV2_itsrv33m/admin/install/txkCloneAcquirePort.pl
[EVENT]     Log: /u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m/txkCloneAcquirePort.log
[PROCEDURE] [END   2016/11/08 08:30:57] Releasing ports on itsrv33m
[PROCEDURE] [END   2016/11/08 08:30:57] Releasing ports

How cryptic!  Looks complicated.  This system happens to have AD/TXK.Delta.8, so the logs related to adop are all being centralized under the session # (in this case “25”.)

Diving deep into the log subdirectories:

/u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m/TXK_SYNC_create/txkADOPPreparePhaseSynchronize.log

================================
Inside copyComnUtil()…
================================

Directory /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/comn already exists.
Removing the directory: /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/comn/util

Copying the directory
———————
SOURCE : /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/comn/util
TARGET : /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/comn/util

Execute SYSTEM command : cp -rH  /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/comn/util /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/comn/util
EXIT STATUS: 1
Copied /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/comn/util into /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/comn/utilLOG FILE: /u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m/TXK_SYNC_create/cp_rH.out

<snip>
======================================
Inside copyCloneLogsToFSNE()…
======================================

Creating the directory: /u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m/TXK_SYNC_create/fsclone_apply

Copying the directory
———————
SOURCE : /u01/oradev/fs2/inst/apps/DEV2_itsrv33m/admin/log/clone
TARGET : /u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m/TXK_SYNC_create/fsclone_apply

/u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/comn/adopclone_itsrv33m/bin/adclone.pl did not go through successfully.
LOG DIRECTORY: /u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m/TXK_SYNC_create/fsclone_apply.
*******FATAL ERROR*******
PROGRAM : (/u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/ad/12.0.0/patch/115/bin/txkADOPPreparePhaseSynchronize.pl)
TIME    : Tue Nov  8 08:30:55 2016
FUNCTION: main::runFSCloneApply [ Level 1 ]
ERRORMSG: /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/comn/adopclone_itsrv33m/bin/adclone.pl did not go through successfully.

/u01/oradev/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/25/20161108_081645/fs_clone/itsrv33m/TXK_SYNC_create/fsclone_apply/FSCloneApplyAppsTier_11080821.log

(One innocuous, but annoying file, owned by someone other than applmgr, and happened to be 600 (user read/write only):)

Done copying /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/wms to /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/appl/wms/
Copying /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/gmf to /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/appl/gmf/
WARNING:
.end std out.
cp: cannot open /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/mwd/12.0.0/sql/MWDPOLPO.xsl: Permission denied

.end err out.
WARNING: Copying of /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/mwd failed
ERROR: Copying failed, so stopping all the parallel threads
Done copying /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/okc to /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/appl/okc/
WARNING: Copying of /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/okc failed
Done copying /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/comn/java/classes/oracle/apps/pqh to /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/comn/java/classes/oracle/apps/pqh/
WARNING: Copying of /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/comn/java/classes/oracle/apps/pqh failed
Done copying /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/gmf to /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/appl/gmf/
WARNING: Copying of /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/gmf failed
Done copying /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/comn/java/classes/oracle/apps/ies to /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/comn/java/classes/oracle/apps/ies/
WARNING: Copying of /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/comn/java/classes/oracle/apps/ies failed
Done copying /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/msc to /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/appl/msc/
WARNING: Copying of /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/msc failed
Done copying /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/ams to /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/appl/ams/
WARNING: Copying of /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/ams failed
Done copying /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/cs to /u01/oradev/fs1/EBSapps/appl/cs/
WARNING: Copying of /u01/oradev/fs2/EBSapps/appl/cs failed
START: Inside exitClone….
Updating status INCOMPLETE for ApplyApplTop
START: Updating status INCOMPLETE for action ApplyApplTop
END: Updated status INCOMPLETE for action ApplyApplTop

One file.  A single file.  Could have been a hidden file. Could have been anywhere in the entire AppsTier filesystem.  This one file stopped ADOP cold from performing.  This happened to be phase=fs_clone, but could have been a patching session, or a post-clone config (adcfgclone.pl) session.

Remove the file, and:

The fs_clone phase completed successfully.
adop exiting with status = 0 (Success)

Complexity leads to unintentional fragility.

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Monitoring Oracle e-Business Suite (R12.2)

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People ask what do I look for when monitoring an EBS instance for availability? Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) with the Applications Management Pack (AMS) gives a good starting point, but here is a condensed list of my general health check items for my production instance. It’s not everything possible, but it’s what I generally would check during a shake-down of a disaster-recovery exercise.

Warning Critical
Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle Applications Infrastructure Service
Database Instance select SYSDATE from dual; Up/Down
Tablespace Freespace Available >80% >90%
Temporary Tablespace Used >80% >90%
Undo Tablespace Used >80% >90%
Fast Recovery Area Utilization >80% >90%
Redo Log Switch Rate > 10/hr. >20/hr
Blocking Sessions >1 >5
Database Listener tnsping <ORACLE_SID> Up/Down
TNSPing Response Time > 25ms > 100ms
Applications Listener tnsping <FNDFS_ORACLE_SID> Up/Down
Host Monitoring
CPU Utilization > 80% > 95%
RAM Utilization > 90% > 99%
Mountpoint Free Space Available <10% <5%
Concurrent Processing Services
Internal Manager Up/Down
Standard Manager < 10
Output Post Processor < 3
Receiving Transactions Manager < 1
Document Approval Manager < 1
Forms Applications Service
Forms Listener Service Up/Down
Forms Runtime Processes <1
Forms Response Time >5 secs >30 secs
Active Forms Sessions > 100 > 200
Self-Service Applications Service
HTTP Listener Service Up/Down
OPMN Processor Up/Down
OC4J Service Up/Down
WebLogic Deployed Services Up/Down
WebLogic AdminServer Up/Down
OA Framework Page Response Time > 5 secs > 10 secs
Oracle Applications JVM Usage >80% >90%
Workflow Serivce OAM Dashboard Up/Down
Workflow Agent Listener Up/Down
Workflow Background Engine Up/Down
Workflow Notification Mailer Services Up/Down
Oracle E-Business Suite Custom Objects
Invalid Object Count > 482 > 500
Oracle E-Business Suite Patch Information
Patch Inventory
ADOP Session Status >1 Pending >1 Failed
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Investigating an OEM 12c E-Business Suite Alert (AMS 12.1.0.x)

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OEM 12 Home Page
OEM 12 Home Page

The Applications Management Suite plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager simplifies discovery of the myriad of subtargets that make up an Oracle E-Business Suite instance.  Correspondingly, the number of alerts sent out can rise dramatically because of the inter-relationships between the components.

For example, the outage of a single Apache process triggers all of the following associated targets also to flag as a service Down status:

INSTANCE-Oracle E-Business Suite
INSTANCE-Infrastructure INSTANCE_host-APPL_TOP Context
HTTP_Server

The number of downed targets increases if a subcomponent of a primary component (such as a single JVM thread under the OACore process) experiences an outage.

This is a simple walk-through of navigating one of the e-mail alerts to start figuring out what happened.

The e-mail alert looks like this:

From: OEM12 Burbank
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 8:30 AM
To: DBAs
Subject: EM Event: Fatal:INSTANCE-Oracle E-Business Suite – Target is down; 1 member is down: INSTANCE_EBS Availability System

Host=hostname
Target type=Oracle E-Business Suite
Target name=INSTANCE-Oracle E-Business Suite
Categories=Availability
Message=Target is down; 1 member is down: INSTANCE_EBS Availability System
Severity=Fatal
Event reported time=Dec 7, 2015 8:29:14 AM PST
Target Lifecycle Status=Production
Operating System=Linux
Platform=x86_64
Associated Incident Id=390885
Associated Incident Status=New
Associated Incident Owner=
Associated Incident Acknowledged By Owner=No
Associated Incident Priority=None
Associated Incident Escalation Level=0
Event Type=Target Availability
Event name=Status
Availability status=Down
Root Cause Analysis Status=Symptom
Rule Name=EBS Notifications,Rule_EBS_Notifications
(to get notified, you set up Rule Sets that tell OEM when and what to notify you about)
Rule Owner=DBA
Update Details:
Target is down; 1 member is down: INSTANCE_EBS Availability System
Incident created by rule (Name = Incident management rule set for all targets, Incident creation rule for a Target Down availability status [System generated rule]).

To investigate an event alert, click on the Associated Incident ID (e.g. the 390885 which on your system will be a URL taking you into OEM) which will take you to the associated Incident Summary page.

Click on Related Events to investigate what raised the event alert (there may be more than one cause):

ss1
OEM 12c AMS 12.1.0.4 – Incident Details

From the screen, it shows the red mark on PRODARMK-Infrastructure PRODARMK_ascopofinm01-APPL_TOP Context (Oracle E-Business Suite Node).

Click on that link in the list of Targets.

Navigate to Monitoring -> Status History:

ss2
OEM 12c AMS 12.1.0.4 – Navigation Target: Monitoring -> Status History

Change the Availability History view to All History (the related underlying event caused is displayed.)

ss3
OEM 12c AMS 12.1.0.4 – Target: Status History Details

If you click on the related Message (e.g. Target is down; 1 member is down: INSTANCE_hostname.auca.corp_oacore_JVM_…); you will then be shown the related Event page for that target:

ss4
OEM 12c AMS 12.1.0.4 – Target: Event Details

Click on the Related Events tab for this target, to confirm the service alert recorded:

ss5
OEM 12c AMS 12.1.0.4 – Target: Event Details -> Related Events Timeline

If this is a recurring issue, by sliding the timeline back and forth (and adjusting the period view to a larger sample) you can see if there are any associated time-related occurrences that can be used to identify root cause.

For the specific issue, login to the associated host, and view the output and error logs for the process itself to determine what triggered the alert (in this case, the JVM automatically restarted the OACore process that had run out of memory.)

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R12 e-Business Suite and OEM Monitoring – Oracle Spins Freezes

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Every so often, system load on an e-Business Suite instance ramps up and response time to users starts climbing, often resulting in user observed errors such as:

  • FRM-92100 Your connect to the server has been interrupted
  • FRM-92102 A network error has occurred

    FRM-92102 Forms Error R12 EBS
    That dreaded FRM-91201 / FRM-91200 error causing you to restart your session.

Or sometimes, the screen just freezes (aka spins, stops, is broken, stuck, motionless, looks like a screen saver,can’t do anything, won’t work, froze-up, etc.) and the person has to close their browser, or even shut-down their workstation and restart.

It's simply not doing anything - Nothing to see here, just move your cursor around. And wait... and wait.
It’s simply not doing anything – Nothing to see here, just move your cursor around. And wait… and wait.

Old technology often barks with unrelated error messages to the actual cause.  If there’s a lot going on with concurrent requests, or interfaces, or analytic extracts running, the front-end response-time slows down, sometimes sufficiently to trigger these kinds of Form errors, even though technically there was no interruption to the network connectivity, either between the hosts, nor the workstation and the middle-tier application server.

However, on the database, the user-experience can be seen, although not necessarily in the place you might expect.  OEM  had introduced it’s Adaptive Metric Thresholds technology back in OEM 11g (in a slightly different place than in 12c (in Oracle Management Server/OMS 12.1.0.4.0).  In OEM 11g, they were a link under the AWR Baseline Reports page.

OEM 11g AWR Baselines Page
See the Baseline Metric Thresholds link at the bottom.

In OEM 12c, you’ll find them under

Targets -> Database -> Peformance -> Adaptive Thresholds -> Baseline Metric Thresholds -> Edit Thresholds:

OEM 12c Baseline Metric Thresholds
Where those adaptive metric thresholds moved in 12c.

 

 

On this page and in the list of Baseline Metrics, when you click into them, you can access the trending statistics being gathered for each metric.  Many times this will provide direct insight into what a user experiences as the “the system is frozen” translates into “the back-end database response time is incredibly bad.”

OEM 12c Baseline Metric Response Time per Transaction vs. Baseline
See the spikes around 7AM and 11:30AM? Those are being associated with “System Froze” reports.

 

In the example here, the database experienced a dramatic slow-down in response almost 5 to 10 times slower than usual, which only lasted a few seconds. But that can be enough to show up in many users’ sessions who might have just kicked off a query, or were trying to save something.  Based upon the information gathered, we set the Warning and Critical thresholds to 1500ms and 2000ms respectively to start sending e-mail alert notifications upon breach of the levels. If the settings are left at “None”, no incident would be raised, and thus, no notification would be sent.

If you’re experiencing odd transient outages or sluggish behavior that defies the normal AWR and ADDM snapshot analysis, go take a look at what OEM has been gathering in the background over time and see if the statistics correlate to any of your issues.  There’s value in that data. Just mine it.

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Using Demo Data for Oracle Data Mining Tools

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With the forthcoming (but already available) SQLDeveloper 4.1 edition, an improved version of the Oracle Data Miner tools is incorporated into the SQLDeveloper console.  However, I found that there were a number of steps needed to actually use this new data modeling product other than just responding ‘Yes’ to the “Do you wish to enable the Data Miner Repository on this database?” prompt.

Here’s what I ended up doing to get things up and running (so that I could play with data modeling and visualization using Excel and the new SQLDeveloper DM extensions.)

#In this case, I’m adding back the demonstration data (i.e. EMP, DEPTNO type tables; the SH, OE, HR, et.al. schemas) into an existing R12 e-Business Suite (12.1.3) instance.

# Installing the Oracle Demo data in an R12 instance.

# Use the runInstaller from the R12 $ORACLE_HOME
cd $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin
export DISPLAY=<workstation IP>:0.0
./runInstaller

# Choose the source products.xml from the staging area – Download and stage the DB Examples CD from OTN
/mnt/nfs/database/11203/examples/stage/products.xml

# Complete the OUI installation through [Finish]

cd $ORACLE_HOME/demo/schema
mkdir -p $ORACLE_HOME/demo/schema/log
echo $ORACLE_HOME/demo/schema/log/     ## used to respond to the Log Directory prompt during mksample.sql

sqlplus “/ as sysdba”
— will need passwords for: SYS/SYSTEM and APPS (used for all of the demo schemas, some of which pre-exist such as, HR, OE (PM, IX, SH and BI were okay for 12.1.3).

— ## Be sure to comment out any DROP USER <HR, OE, etc.) commands in this script (or you will be restoring your EBS instance from a backup because it just dropped your Module schema tables…) ##
— They look like this:
/*
mksample.sql:– DROP USER hr CASCADE;
mksample.sql:– DROP USER oe CASCADE;
mksample.sql:DROP USER pm CASCADE;
mksample.sql:DROP USER ix CASCADE;
mksample.sql:DROP USER sh CASCADE;
mksample.sql:DROP USER bi CASCADE;
*/

–Similarly – if/when you decide you no longer need the data – do NOT just use the $ORACLE_HOME/demo/schema/drop_sch.sql script
–or you just dropped your HR/OE/BI EBS schemas; don’t do that.
/*
drop_sch.sql:PROMPT Dropping Sample Schemas
drop_sch.sql:– DROP USER hr CASCADE;
drop_sch.sql:– DROP USER oe CASCADE;
drop_sch.sql:DROP USER pm CASCADE;
drop_sch.sql:DROP USER ix CASCADE;
drop_sch.sql:DROP USER sh CASCADE;
drop_sch.sql:DROP USER bi CASCADE;

order_entry/oe_main.sql:– Dropping the user with all its objects
order_entry/oe_main.sql:– DROP USER oe CASCADE;
order_entry/oe_main.sql:– ALTER USER oe DEFAULT TABLESPACE &tbs QUOTA UNLIMITED ON &tbs;

*/
— in this instance the $APPS_PW is synchronized to all application module schemas (i.e. AR, HR, GL, etc.)
— log directory would be the actual path from echo $ORACLE_HOME/demo/schema/log/ (including the trailing slash)
SQL> @mksample.sql

# to additionally create the Data Mining user (DM in this case)

create user &&dmuser identified by &&dmuserpwd
default tablespace &&usertblspc
temporary tablespace &&temptblspc
quota unlimited on &&usertblspc;

GRANT CREATE JOB TO &&dmuser;
GRANT CREATE MINING MODEL TO &&dmuser;       — required for creating models
GRANT CREATE PROCEDURE TO &&dmuser;
GRANT CREATE SEQUENCE TO &&dmuser;
GRANT CREATE SESSION TO &&dmuser;
GRANT CREATE SYNONYM TO &&dmuser;
GRANT CREATE TABLE TO &&dmuser;
GRANT CREATE TYPE TO &&dmuser;
GRANT CREATE VIEW TO &&dmuser;
GRANT EXECUTE ON ctxsys.ctx_ddl TO &&dmuser;
GRANT CREATE ANY DIRECTORY TO &&dmuser;
— Grant the SH Demo table and package objects to the DM user
@?/rdbms/demo/dmshgrants.sql &&dmuser

connect &&dmuser/&&dmuserpwd
— Create the Data Mining Views against the  SH Demo table and package objects
@?/rdbms/demo/dmsh.sql

@?/rdbms/demo/dmabdemo.sql — Builds the Adaptive Baynes Model demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmaidemo.sql — Builds the Attribute Importance demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmardemo.sql — Builds the Association Rules demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmdtdemo.sql — Builds the Decision Tree demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmdtxvlddemo.sql — Builds the Cross Validation demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmglcdem.sql — Builds the Generalized Linear model demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmglrdem.sql — Builds the General Linear Regression model demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmhpdemo.sql — not a Data Mining program – Hierarchical Profiler
@?/rdbms/demo/dmkmdemo.sql — Builds the K-Means Clustering model demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmnbdemo.sql — Builds the Naive Baynes Model data
@?/rdbms/demo/dmnmdemo.sql — Builds the Non-negative Matrix Factorization model
@?/rdbms/demo/dmocdemo.sql — Builds the O-Cluster model Demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmsvcdem.sql — Builds the Support Vector Machine model demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmsvodem.sql — Builds the One-Class Support Vector Machine model demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmsvrdem.sql — Builds the Support Vector Regression model demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmtxtfe.sql — Builds the Oracle Text Term Feature Extractor demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmtxtnmf.sql — Builds the Text Mining Non-Negative Matrix Factorization model demo
@?/rdbms/demo/dmtxtsvm.sql — Builds the Text Mining Support Vector Machine model demo

## End of Data Mining Demo user (DM) setup and configuration for use of Oracle Demo Data

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Java 7 (1.7.0_) and Java 6 on the Same Workstation for R12 e-Business Suite EBS and other Apps

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The challenge: We have a number of 3rd party Cloud applications that are still on Java 6, so we have that version (1.6.0_26 specifically) deployed to our workstations. We configured R12 to use 1.6.0_26 on the server side to minimize impact to the users. We are now implementing Informatica Information Lifecycle Management (an archive and purge technology), which has a component (the Enterprise Data Manager – EDM) which is a Java 7-based application used by certain administrative and analyst users. We needed to have those users support both Java 7 and Java 6 on the same workstation for the browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome).

Starting with a Windows 7 (32-bit) workstation with a working Java 1.6.0_26 installed (and 1.6.0_7 disabled).

Used the Java SE 7 SDK from the Oracle Java Archive (staged to the DBA Share /Software/Java because the 7 downloadables will be pulled from the site as of April-2015):

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/archive-139210.html

Chose: Java SE Development Kit 7u25 (includes the JRE runtime edition) – newer versions (post- and including update 40) contain an non-bypassable Security Warning message for using Java 6 applications.

Installed Java 7 using default parameters and completed successfully.

Open the Java Control Panel (available in the Toolbar, as the Java coffee cup icon, if a Java application is already running – e.g. EBS; or via Control Panel -> Java)

Preferred Enabled settings under the [Java] tab -> View…

06a_java_cpanel

06_java_7_and_6_versions_cpanel

De-select the Java Plug-in (next-generation) features (due to co-existence with Java 6) – we also turn off Automatic Java Updates, and default the automatic JNLP MIME/execution association setting to make it easier for users:

07_java_7_adv_tab_disable_next_gen_cpanel

Launch Informatica EDM:

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Java Update Needed – Check (Do not ask again) -> Select -> Later

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Choose default launcher for EDM’s JNLP (also can be defaulted in the Java Control Panel -> Advanced settings)

05_java_launch_ilm_edm_pick_app_ss

EDM Launches:

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Launching R12 e-Business Suite under Java 6:

Launch Forms Session (Profile -> System used as an example)

Security Warning – due to Java having incomplete Certificate Authority trust to the Aramark Hosts (can be addressed also via Control Panel -> Java -> [Security] -> Manage Certificates -> Import Certificate -> add certificates provided by AUS Server Team (password required).

The Java 7 update 25 warning looks like this (click the Activate Java link; then on the next pop-up click Allow and Remember – to suppress future warning messages):

01b_java_upd_needed_pre40_ss

The post-Java 7 update 40 warning looks like this (select – I accept the risk; click [Run]):

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Ref: http://java.com/en/download/faq/signed_code.xml

Why don’t I see the option to select Do not show this again for this app in the security dialog for an unsigned application?

Starting with Java 7 Update 40, the option to select Do not show this again for this app is no longer available. Unlike previous versions a user cannot suppress the security dialog for an unsigned application and will have to select the option, I accept the risk and want to run this app, each time to run the unsigned application.

Security Warning – these will come up twice in a row – once when the R12 forms servlet is instantiating and a second time when the actual Forms launch. Once Allow this application to run with the requested version (1.6.0_26) is selected, these warnings should be suppressed in future sessions.

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R12 and EDM simultaneously launched successfully.

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R12.2.3 / R12.2.x Oracle e-Business Suite – Resetting the WebLogic Password

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…because occasionally you either forget it (or in my case, a technology patch reset it to something I wasn’t sure about.)wls_denied_ss

There are 2 basic routes:

The “short” process – re-run the post-clone config (adcfgclone.pl):

# Have to remove the existing FMW home because it will re-unzip a new one from the clone staging archive
applptch@aburpaofinm01 $> cd /u01/fs2
applptch@aburpaofinm01 $> ls
EBSapps  FMW_Home  inst
applptch@aburpaofinm01 $> ls -latr
total 24
drwxrwxr-x  8 applptch oinstall 4096 May  8 21:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x  5 applptch oinstall 4096 May  9 12:33 EBSapps
drwxr-xr-x  3 applptch oinstall 4096 Jul 16 15:30 inst
drwxr-xr-x  6 applptch oinstall 4096 Jul 16 15:41 .
drwxr-x— 13 applptch oinstall 4096 Jul 16 16:16 FMW_Home
applptch@aburpaofinm01 $> rm -rf FMW_HOME_BAK
# Check that the Oracle Homes are not in the OraInventory
# Or you will receive the error:
# Below Oracle Homes are already registered in the global inventory:
#/u01/fs2/FMW_Home/Oracle_EBS-app1
#/u01/fs2/FMW_Home/webtier
#/u01/fs2/FMW_Home/oracle_common
#
# Exiting Cloning…
#
# Ensure that the above Oracle Homes are unregistered from the global inventory “/u01/oraInventory/ContentsXML/inventory.xml” and re-run adcfgclone.pl script
vi /u01/oraInventory/ContentsXML/inventory.xml
# and remove the <HOME> through </HOME> entries for the 3 listed entries
# Begin the clone – needs the APPS password
applptch@aburpaofinm01 $> cd $COMMON_TOP/clone/bin
applptch@aburpaofinm01 $> perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier

The “long” process – by manually manipulating the admin account in the /u01/<fs#>/FMW_Home:

# Verify your Weblogic Environment home
applptch@aburpaofinm01 $> set | grep EBS

EBS_DOMAIN_HOME=/u01/fs2/FMW_Home/user_projects/domains/EBS_domain_PTCHARMK

# Stop Weblogic
$ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME/adstpall.sh apps/$APPS_PW
Weblogic Password: [anything because you don’t know it]

# Set your environment
cd $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/bin
. setDomainEnv.sh

# Remove the existing LDIFT’s, boot.properties and LDAP directory
rm -rf $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/security/DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift ; \
rm -rf $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/security/boot.properties ; \
rm -rf $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/oacore_server?/security/boot.properties ; \
rm -rf $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/forms_server?/security/boot.properties ; \
rm -rf $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/oafm_server?/security/boot.properties ; \
rm -rf $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/forms-c4ws_server?/security/boot.properties ; \
rm -rf $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/oaea_server?/security/boot.properties ; \
rm -rf $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/data/nodemanager/boot.properties ; \
rm -rf $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/data/ldap

# Start AdminServer from command line manually
cd $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME ;\
startWebLogic.sh

# Enter new credentials as above
<Sep 16, 2014 4:58:09 PM PDT> <Info> <Security> <BEA-090065> <Getting boot identity from user.>
Enter username to boot WebLogic server:weblogic
Enter password to boot WebLogic server:

Change NodeManager password

Log in to the WebLogic Administration console.
Click the Lock & Edit button.
In the left panel, click on the EBS Domain link.
Select the Security tab.
Click on the ‘Advanced’ link.
Edit the ‘Node Manager password’ field and set it to the new WebLogic Server password. The password should be same as set in Step 3.
Edit the ‘Confirm NodeManager Password’ field and set it to the new WebLogic Server password. The password should be same as set in Step 3.
Save and activate the changes.

Shut down AdminServer from the console. For the first time, AdminServer has to be stopped from the Admin console. Follow these steps:

Log in to the WebLogic Administration console.
Shut down AdminServer.

Shut down NodeManager using the normal AD script.

$ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME/adnodemgrctl.sh stop

Copy the boot.properties file for all managed servers.

cp $EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/data/nodemanager/boot.properties \
$EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/oacore_server?/security/boot.properties  \
$EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/forms_server?/security/boot.properties  \
$EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/oafm_server?/security/boot.properties  \
$EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/forms-c4ws_server?/security/boot.properties  \
$EBS_DOMAIN_HOME/servers/oaea_server?/security/boot.properties

The EBS WebLogic Server domain password has now been changed, and all servers can now be started using the normal AD scripts.

To start AdminServer:

$ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME/adadminsrvctl.sh start

# Start it all back up again
$ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME/adstrtal.sh apps/$APPS_PW
Weblogic Password: [weblogic pwd]

Now your password change is complete (or at least you can get back into your Admin Console).

# Clone the working result from the run filesystem to the patch filesystem
$ adop phase=fs_clone

** Based upon a regular WebLogic post by:

http://shivabizint.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/how-to-reset-the-lost-weblogic-admin-user-password/

**And an R12.2 version by:

http://nagendrachillale.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/if-the-admin-password-of-an-ebs-weblogic-domain-is-lost-or-forgotten/

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R12.2 Upgrade – Registering New Application Modules – r122_new_custsch.ksh

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Note: This script is based upon an OEL 5.9 environment with a completed first-stage R12.2 e-Business Suite upgrade from 12.1.3. Using a pre-existing registered module (ZFA – Oracle Financial Analyzer in our case), this clones the settings required to fulfill the R12.2 upgrade pre-requisite check for additonal applications, which had been added since the 12.1.3 release.) It is referenced in the primary 12.2.3 Upgrade Post and fully listed herein.

cat /mnt/nfs/config/r122_new_custsch.ksh

#!/bin/ksh
# Create new Custom Schema registration files
# Use r122_new_custsch.ksh <APP> <APPID> <APPL_NAME>
# e.g. r122_new_custsch.ksh ABC 123 My_New_App
if ! [[ ${#} = 3 ]]; then
echo -e “\n Use ${0} <APP> <APPID> <APPL_NAME>\n”
echo -e “e.g. r122_new_custsch.ksh ABC 123 My_New_App\n”
exit
fi
if [[ $RUN_BASE = ” ]]; then
echo -e “\n RUN_BASE not set! Cannot continue. Exiting…\n”
exit
fi
echo -e “\n RUN_BASE: ” $RUN_BASE
cd $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/admin/
OLDAPPL_TOP=/ptcharmk/apps/apps_st/appl
NEWAPPL=${1}
NEWAPPL_LC=`echo ${NEWAPPL} | tr ‘[A-Z]’ ‘[a-z]’`
NEWAPPLID=${2}
NEWAPPL_NAME=${3}
echo -e “\nCreating new ${NEWAPPL_LC}prod.txt and ${NEWAPPL_LC}terr.txt”
echo -e “for Application ${NEWAPPL} which is APPLICATION_ID = ${NEWAPPLID}\n”
cp zfaprod.txt ${NEWAPPL_LC}prod.txt
cp zfaterr.txt ${NEWAPPL_LC}terr.txt
echo -e “Creating driver directories…\n”
mkdir -p $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/${NEWAPPL_LC}/12.0.0/admin/driver
mkdir -p $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/${NEWAPPL_LC}/12.0.0/admin/sql
mkdir -p $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/${NEWAPPL_LC}/12.0.0/sql
echo -e “Copying dummy driver files…\n”
cp $OLDAPPL_TOP/xxad/12.0.0/admin/driver/xxadfile.drv \
$RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/${NEWAPPL_LC}/12.0.0/admin/driver/${NEWAPPL_LC}file.drv
cp $OLDAPPL_TOP/xxad/12.0.0/sql/XXADNLINS.sql \
$RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/${NEWAPPL_LC}/12.0.0/sql/${NEWAPPL}NLINS.sql
cp $OLDAPPL_TOP/xxad/12.0.0/admin/sql/XXADNLADD.sql \
$RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/${NEWAPPL_LC}/12.0.0/admin/sql/${NEWAPPL}NLADD.sql
echo -e “Replacing key values…\n”
perl -p -i.bak -e “s:zfa:${NEWAPPL_LC}:g” $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/admin/${NEWAPPL_LC}prod.txt
perl -p -i.bak -e “s:ZFA:${NEWAPPL}:g” $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/admin/${NEWAPPL_LC}prod.txt
perl -p -i.bak -e “s:505:${NEWAPPLID}:g” $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/admin/${NEWAPPL_LC}prod.txt
perl -p -i.bak -e “s:zfa:${NEWAPPL_LC}:g” $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/admin/${NEWAPPL_LC}terr.txt
perl -p -i.bak -e “s:ZFA:${NEWAPPL}:g” $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/admin/${NEWAPPL_LC}terr.txt
perl -p -i.bak -e “s:505:${NEWAPPLID}:g” $RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/admin/${NEWAPPL_LC}terr.txt
perl -p -i.bak -e “s:Oracle_Financial_Analyzer:${NEWAPPL_NAME}:g” \
$RUN_BASE/EBSapps/appl/admin/${NEWAPPL_LC}terr.txt
echo -e “\nFinished creating new ${NEWAPPL_LC}prod.txt and ${NEWAPPL_LC}terr.txt\n”
# echo -e “Contents ${NEWAPPL_LC}prod.txt:\n”
# cat ${NEWAPPL_LC}prod.txt
# echo -e “Contents ${NEWAPPL_LC}terr.txt:\n”
# cat ${NEWAPPL_LC}terr.txt