This is the 5th post in a series on new features in 12.1.3. Please find the previous posts here: Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – IPP Print Tab Part 3 – Email Tab Part 4 – Fax Tab Today, the final tab… FTP. Functionality This tab allows users to transfer the Concurrent Request output [...]

Listen to Jeff Robbins giving an overview of PeopleTools 8.51 through this recorded advisor webcast. According to Jeff Robbins we can expect release 8.51 in Q3 this year and 8.52 in Q3 next year, keeping in mind the Oracle safe harbor statement. Click here for the webcast Related posts:Release PeopleSoft 9.1 and PeopleTools 8.50, soon?

During the use of ARIS, the designers and architects has sometimes unexpected problems using the objects and models. When they make models, a lot of different objects were used. Not only objects in their own domain, but also objects defined by other modelers and somewhere stored in the repository on the server.

When a BPEL domain is delete from the BPELAdmin there are still records left in de dehydration database. These entries can be deleted:

Logon on the dehydration store database as ORABPEL

Check which domains are active:
select domain_ref from domain;

Delete all other domains:

delete suitcase_bin where domain_ref not in (select domain_ref from domain);
delete audit_details where domain_ref not in (select domain_ref from domain);
delete audit_trail where domain_ref not in (select domain_ref from domain);

One of Oracle's strategic acquisitions was BEA, it enabled to strengthen Oracle’s BPM suite of products by integrating BEA's ALBPMS...

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Announced early this week Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 is now available for download. R12.1.3 is a purly a maintenance patch (RUP) and can only be installed on top of an existing EBS 12.1 environment. which combines error corrections, statutory/regulatory updates, and functionality enhancements into a consolidated, suite-wide patch set. On the Finance, Procurement and HRMS [...]

This is the 4th post in a series on new features in 12.1.3. Please find the previous posts here: Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – IPP Print Tab Part 3 – Email Tab Today we’ll tackle the Fax Tab This tab allows for the delivery of the report in question via fax. Users are [...]

Sometime back my client was considering (i.e. debating and arguing) securing non-production Oracle data.They are on Oracle 11i with most of finance and manufacturing application. I’d like to receive input, recommendations, arugments for-and-against, cautions, recounts of horror-stories, ideas or anything else on this. I have concerns about scrambling data, especially in the testing instances, but [...]

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This is the 3rd post in series on new features in 12.1.3. Please find the previous posts here: Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – IPP Print Tab Let’s take a look at the Email tab next. This tab allows for the delivery of the report in question via email. Users are able to specify: [...]

Received a call this evening from Stephen Jannise, ERP Market Analyst at Software Advice. He is conducting a survey on who the community believes is next on Oracle’s M&A list. They have had 600 responses so far and would love to get to 1000. Help him out and check it out here: http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/enterprise/oracle-mergers-acquisitions-whos-next-1080310/

Have you heard about the product called “ASSURENET” , this is one of good product for reconcilation activity getting attention now a days by Accountants , Auditors ,controllers because the good capability of managing Finance accounts reconciliation and Audits trials feature. No matter its Balance sheet account or bank account, this product have great functionality [...]

As you can probably tell by the number of ‘parts’ to this series, I’m going to walk through the screens for this new functionality. Today, it’s the IPP Print tab. This tab allows users to select any number of IPP printers to print the results of the concurrent request once the data is generated. This [...]

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Problem One of my clients was complaining about error “You Have Insufficient Privileges For The Current Operation” while Line Drill down from GL Journal screen. Internet explorer version was 6.0.2900 with Java 6 update 21. Oracle suggestion in METALINK note “1106048.1“ is Uninstall all updates on Java 6 which are more than 15. What does [...]

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I got this error when I was trying to do a full import of a dump file.

$ impdp "'/ as sysdba'" full=y directory=data_pump_dir dumpfile=fullexport.dmp logfile=fullimport.log

Import: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Aug 7 01:02:52 2010

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Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

We installed the 12.1 RUP3 patches last week and there are some changes to note. The most interesting to me was the hook to the BI Publisher Delivery Manager on the Submit Request screen. Take a look at the picture below, you’ll see a new button called Delivery Opts. When pressed, the Delivery Opts button [...]

If you ever get this error in OTM/FTI Transportation Intelligence screens:

State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 17001] Oracle Error code: 28000, message: ORA-28000: the account is locked at OCI call OCISessionBegin. [nQSError: 17014] Could not connect to Oracle database. (HY000)

Your HDOWNER user is locked out at database stage. Unlock the user

Login as the unix owner of ROD database. Make sure your ORACLE_HOME and other environment variables are set correctly.

Shiva described a Zebra printer issue to me. They had configured Zebra007 printer on Dev and Test, and it printed fine. However when the same printer was configured on Production instance, it did not print anything. I worked with Puneet and Sateesh to check the windows printer queue. Whenever a print job was executed in Dev or Test (non-Production) instances, the label printed correctly. However when they tried to print from Production, it would not print anything, though a pasta*.tmp appeared in windows printer queue for 2 seconds.

On a freshly installed 11gR2 Oracle Database, I set the following environment variables:

ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID
TNS_ADMIN
TWO_TASK
LD_LIBRARY_PATH

However when I tried to connect to it:

sqlplus /nolog
conn / as sysdba
ORA-1031 Insufficient Privileges

A search on My Oracle Support showed this:

Error: ORA 1031
Text: insufficient privileges
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After the ‘ultimate collection’ of PeopleSoft and Siebel, this last post in the series is an ‘ultimate collection’ of E-Business Suite (re)sources.

We got a new project which uses OTM. Here are the high level steps for installation of OTM:

1. Go to edelivery.oracle.com, enter your information and login.
2. Select E-Business Suite in dropdown
3. Scroll Down to Oracle Transportation Management
4. Download OTM and Weblogic Server
5. Download RDBMS 11gR2 Server and Client from Oracle Technology Network
6. Install 11gR2 Database and create a blank database
7. Install Weblogic Server
8. Install OTM
9. Execute the file $OTM_HOME/install/gc3env.sh

The second in the ‘ultimate collection’ series is full of Siebel (re)sources. Note, that you might need an Metalink/Oracle Support account for some links! Links by Oracle self: The Complete CRM Blog: THE place to find out what’s new and what’s happening with the Oracle CRM product line.

It is just important to maintain the ARIS models and objects in the right way. This maintenance in the different projects and environments is simple when everybody knows the way he must work. A good explanation to the designers and control of the recommended activities by the architect or the BPM department is necessary.

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