EBS

Collection of EBS upgrade information for Oracle Database 19c

This was the question I received the most often during the Virtual Classroom web seminars last week: “Can you say something about EBS upgrades with 19c?”. And I promised to publish a blog post about it. But as I’m not an EBS expert, I can only share a Collection of EBS upgrade information for Oracle Database 19c. For all further inquiries, please open an SR or get in touch with your Oracle contact.

Recap – EBS and Oracle 19c

In September 2019, right before Oracle Open World, we announced the certification of EBS …

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Can you connect as SYSDBA without password into a PDB directly?

I’m happy when I learn something new every day. And today, right before I wanted to turn my computer into “sleep”, I learned something which surprises me a lot. Have you ever asked the question: Can you connect as SYSDBA without password into a PDB directly? Of course with the usual way of “sqlplus / as sysdba”.

Can you connect as SYSDBA without password into a PDB directly?

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Can you?

Our answer always was: No. You can’t. There is no bequeath connection available.

Today somebody asked a similar question internally. And the answer caught Roy, Daniel, Bill and myself by surprise. There is an …

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Oracle EBS 12.2 on-prem is now certified with Oracle 19c – and will become a PDB

Great news – and I’m just putting the pieces together. Oracle EBS 12.2 on-prem is now certified with Oracle 19c.

Oracle EBS 12.2 on-prem is now certified with Oracle 19c - and will become a PDB

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Plan your upgrade(s)

You can plan your EBS and database upgrades now. I know from discussions at conferences and workshops, that customers felt locked in on older databases releases. As a result, we waived the Extended Support for the database for those who still are on Oracle 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2 as database for an EBS installation.

Please be aware that the certification as of now includes only Linux and SPARC Solaris platforms. …

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Extended Support Fee waived for EBS customers for Oracle 12.1 and 11.2

Extended Support Fee waived for EBS customers for Oracle 12.1 and 11.2

The responsible team announced it at Collaborate Conference in San Antonio, TX, a few days ago: If you are an Oracle E-Business Suite customer with Oracle Database 12.1 or 11.2 in use for your EBS environment, then you will like this announcement. As of now the Extended Support Fee has been waived for EBS customers for Oracle 12.1 and 11.2 until December 2020.

Where do you find more information?

Please see the blog post of the EBS team here:

And of course, the official MOS Note:

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Oracle 12.1.0.2 is now certified with Oracle EBS 12.2

Just copying this information from Steven Chang’s blog:

Please note that Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 is already certified with EBS 12.1. 

–Mike…

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Too many heap subpools might break the upgrade

Recently one of our new upcoming Oracle Database 11.2 reference customers did upgrade their production database – a huge EBS system from Oracle 9.2.0.8 to Oracle Database 11.2.0.2. They’ve tested very well, we’ve optimized the upgrade process, the recompilation timings etc.

But once the live upgrade was done it did fail in the JAVA component piece with this error:

begin if
initjvmaux.startstep(‘CREATE_JAVA_SYSTEM’) then
*
ORA-29553:
classw in use: SYS.javax/mail/folder
ORA-06512: at “SYS.INITJVMAUX”, line 23
ORA-06512: at line 5

Support diagnosis was pretty quick – and refered to:
Bug 10165223 – ORA-29553: class in
use: sys.javax/mail/folder during database

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