Steven Chan

This article describes the techniques available for migrating an Oracle Applications environment to a new platform and discusses some of the common questions that arise during migration. Nick Quarmby

Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2) for Linux OCFS2 1.4 and higher is now certified and supported for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 application tier file systems. System administrators may deploy both the APPL_TOP and INST_TOP on Linux-based OCFS2 shared-disk cluster file systems. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

At least once a week I get the question, "How do I train my self or my people in X?" Over the my next few blog articles, I will address this very question. I will give you a roadmap to... Bill Sawyer http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/applications/ebs/index.html

I'm pleased to welcome Bill Sawyer to our ever-growing panel of guest bloggers. Bill Sawyer is a Senior Manager in the Applications Technology Group for the E-Business Suite. Specifically, Bill's team covers the curriculum that supports E-Business Suite tools and technologies. Curriculum products cover three main areas: training courses available from Oracle University (under the category of E-Business Suite Technology), prepackaged content developed for Oracle's User Productivity Kit, and training materials publicly available through Oracle's documentation and other related materials. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 Consolidated Upgrade Patch (CUP1) is now available in My Oracle Support. This patch is now mandatory for customers who are upgrading to Release 12.1.1 from the following releases: * Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i version 11.5.9 (base, CU1, CU2) * Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i version 11.5.10 (base, CU1, CU2) Sharath Vishwanath

I'm pleased to welcome Sharath Viswanath to this blog's panel of guest authors. Sharath Vishwanath is a Manager in Oracle E-Business Suite's Quality and Release Management team. This team owns the release process for the E-Business Suite. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 version 11.2.0.1 is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (12.0, 12.1) on the HP-UX Itanium platform. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 version 11.2.0.1 is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i (11.5.10.2) and Release 12 (12.0, 12.1) on the IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 on Power Systems (64-bit) platform. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

The Client Applications Desktop Integrator (ADI) is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i running on the 11gR2 Database. Customers may continue using the client-installed ADI after upgrading their E-Business Suite Release 11i environment to the 11gR2 Database. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

Yes, we have a Smörgåsbord!One of the definitions of smörgåsbord is "a set of a great number of opportunities to combine."  This brief article (corresponding to my entrance into the world of blogging) describes the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) platform... Terri Noyes

I am very pleased to welcome Terri Noyes to this blog's panel of guest authors.  Terri leads the Oracle E-Business Suite Platforms Engineering team, which handles EBS porting and related documentation, and database and technology certifications on non-base operating systems... Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

At some point, you have to climb back into the saddle.  This blog is coming off hiatus; I'm back.  We're getting back to our regular publication cycle now.Your countless emails and posted comments have been a source of comfort and... Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

This blog is going on hiatus for an undetermined period.  My wife of 22 years has just announced that she's leaving me.  It's going to be very hard for me to focus on work for a while, so rather than... Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

Oracle Web Application Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) is Oracle E-Business Suite's solution for integrating E-Business Suite applications with desktop applications such as Microsoft Excel, Word and Projects. "Integrators" encapsulate the metadata and other information needed to integrate a particular Oracle E-Business Suite task with a desktop application. I'm pleased to announce the availability of Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Integration Framework (DIF), a design time framework that you can use to create custom integrators for Oracle Web ADI in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.2. Rekha Ayothi http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

Premier Support for Oracle Application Server 10g versions 10gR2 10.1.2 and 10gR3 versions 10.1.3 ends in December 2010. It's important to understand how this will affect support for your E-Business Suite environments. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 version 11.2.0.1 is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i (11.5.10.2) and Release 12 (12.0, 12.1) on Solaris 10 on SPARC (64-bit). This announcement includes: * Oracle Database 11gR2 version 11.2.0.1 * Oracle Database 11gR2 version 11.2.0.1 Real Application Clusters (RAC) * Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Column Encryption with EBS 11i and R12 * Advanced Security Option (ASO) / Advanced Networking Option (ANO) with Oracle Database 11gR2 version 11.2.0.1 * Export/Import Process for E-Business Suite 11i Database Instances Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released in 2001. Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch has indicated that IE6 will continue to receive Extended Support for the lifetime of Windows XP, which is currently planned to continue until August 4, 2014. As a nine-year old technology, it's not surprising to hear that cyber-attacks may be targetted at potentially-serious security issues with this browser. Microsoft has recently issued Security Advisory 979352 to address certain browser security issues. France's Computer Emergency Response Team and Germany's Federal Office for Security in Information Technology have recently issued official bulletins that advise users to switch from Internet Explorer to an alternative browser. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

If your E-Business Suite environment is hitting the ceiling for performance, you should first tune and optimize it to squeeze the most of your existing hardware. At some point, you may decide to scale up your application tier with multiple nodes behind a load-balancer. As part of that process, you might begin considering replacing large SMP servers on your application tier with a pool of servers running Linux on commodity hardware. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

It's been a wild and crazy week here in EBS Development. In a desperate attempt to protect my inbox, here's a quick article that answers some common questions around the use of smartphones and other mobile devices with the E-Business Suite. Steven Chan http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/about.html

Breaking news: you can now achieve live migration of E-Business Suite instances on Oracle VM (OVM). This is the High Availability and Fault Tolerance Holy Grail. In an environment configured to support live migration, end-user sessions running on one node in a virtual machine server can be migrated transparently to a different node on a different virtual machine server. You have asked for this functionality for more than a dozen years and many Oracle partners offer solutions to achieve this. After all these years, Oracle can provide you a solution for E-Business Suite environments using Oracle VM. Ivo Dujmovic