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December 2, 2009 by cedwards

9 reasons why the new Metalink sucks

I know I’m not alone, and I know I’m not the first to express displeasure, but let me just say: AAAARRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!! I’m going to call the new Metalink “Metaflash.”  Seems like a good name for it.  It combines “meta” and “flash” which sounds really hip and technical, yet communicates nothing.  Kind of like shoving “i” or “e” in front of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle, Oracle Applications Tagged With: customer service, Metalink, Oracle DBA, Oracle E-Business Suite

November 23, 2009 by cedwards

How to hire a really good Oracle DBA

Many of our customers have internal database administrators.  FACT:  Any remote DBA organization, and I mean ANY one of them, should be excited to work with a talented on-site person; in fact, part of good remote DBA support should be to help clients hire good DBAs when appropriate.  Without fail, collaboration between solid, focused technical … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle, Oracle Applications, Remote DBA Tagged With: Oracle DBA

November 3, 2009 by cedwards

Linux is the only choice for the E-Business Suite application tier

Some single points of failure are often unnecessary with Oracle E-Business Suite. By design, application code may easily run on multiple, inexpensive x86 (or x86_64) nodes running Linux. I often see organizations spending lots of money on commercial, internally redundant application computing nodes when they could be spending far less while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: linux, Oracle Applications DBA, Oracle E-Business Suite

May 22, 2009 by rharwood

FRM-40501: Could not reserve record [2 tries]; Oracle Apps Record-Locking

One of your end users attempts to modify a record, and the user is prompted with a dialog box asking "Could not reserve record [2 tries]. Keep trying?" The user answers "yes" and after being prompted a few more times the user gives up. Ultimately the user gets a "FRM-40501: ORACLE error: unable to reserve record for update or delete." When … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle, Oracle Applications Tagged With: FRM-40501, Oracle Applications DBA, Oracle E-Business Suite

May 5, 2009 by cedwards

Enterprise Database Security – A Practical Example

I attended this presentation without a lot of practical hands-on knowledge of using OID with either the database or E-Business Suite.  Blue Gecko has several SOX-beholden customers, and we plan to implement OID for EBS soon; centralized control for database accounts would also be a huge boon. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle, Oracle Applications Tagged With: collaborate 09, EUS, Oracle EUS, Oracle OID

May 4, 2009 by rharwood

What should I check after bouncing E-Business Suite?

As an Oracle Apps administrator, it's a good idea to have a punch list of things to check after your applications have been started, to ensure all services are working correctly. For Release 11i, the following steps are a good starting point. It will take a few extra minutes to work through this list, but it's certainly more aggravating to get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: adadmin, adpatch, Oracle E-Business Suite, patching

April 21, 2009 by cedwards

FNDCPASS doesn’t always use the SYSTEM password

FNDCPASS does not check the system password when used to change an applications user account. We can check this with a simple test. First, we’ll change the SYSTEM password to the default value “manager”: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: fndcpass, Oracle Applications DBA, Oracle E-Business Suite, passwords

March 10, 2009 by rharwood

Why should I properly close my Oracle E-Business Suite session?

We've all been there before.  It's noon, and you're co-worker is telling you to tidy up - it's time to go to lunch.  Your E-Business Suite session is idle, and in your haste you simply click the 'X' at the top of your browser.  You know it's not the proper thing to do, but you're not sure of the implications.... What happens when I close my session … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: ICX:Limit Time, ICX:Session Timeout, JServ Timeout, JTF_INACTIVE_SESSION_TIMEOUT, OC4J, Oracle Applications Framework, oracle forms

March 6, 2009 by cedwards

Seattle-area Oracle Applications Tech Group

Announcing the first meeting of the Seattle Oracle Applications Technology Group! This group will be dedicated to knowledge sharing and learning between Oracle Applications Technology professionals in the Puget Sound area.  I'm hopeful we can get a regular group of Apps DBAs, developers, Apps admins, and other people connected with E-Business … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News & Events, Oracle Applications Tagged With: Chuck Edwards, oaug, Oracle E-Business Suite, seattle oracle applications technology group, user groups

February 28, 2009 by cedwards

Firefox 3 certified against E-Business Suite

Steven Chan posted on his blog yeterday that Oracle has announced certification of E-Business Suite and Firefox 3.  There are some pre-requisites which should be carefully reviewed, but this is great news for E-Business Suite customers pining to get off of Firefox 2. The framework patch 7651759 in particular specifically targets Firefox 3 users … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: FIrefox, Oracle E-Business Suite

January 28, 2009 by skolev

ORA-04031 and ASMM

Oracle E-Business Suite customer was reporting ORA-04031 errors being returned by the database. There were a number of ORA-04031 shared pool errors generated in the alert by background processes: ORA-04031: unable to allocate 168 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","select t.ts#,t.file#,t.block...","Heap0: KGL","kglob") I checked the shared … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle, Oracle Applications Tagged With: ASMM, KGH: NO ACCESS, kglob, ORA-04031

January 28, 2009 by rharwood

Monitor the X display for E-Business Suite

Those running Oracle's E-Business Suite on Linux/UNIX environments are probably familiar with a dependency on some X display technology to render graphics.  One could use a VNC Server or Xvfb, for example, to fill this need.  XML Publisher and OPP depend on an X display to create rich reports/documents with images & graphics such as AP Checks, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS, OPP, VNC, x display, XML Publisher

January 24, 2009 by cedwards

Phase in the Sun JRE plug-in

By now you probably know error correction support ends for JInitiator for E-Business Suite on July 31, 2009 (see Metalink note 552692.1). There has been a lot of strong encouragement from Oracle to migrate to the Sun JRE Native plug-in prior to the de-support date: Note 393931.1: Deploying Sun JRE (Native Plug-in) for Windows Clients in Oracle … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: appsweb.cfg, ICX: Forms Launcher, JInitiator, Oracle E-Business Suite, Sun JRE

January 19, 2009 by cedwards

Request for simpler E-Business Suite diagnostics

A few weeks ago Steven Chan posted an open question on his blog asking how support for the E-Business Suite techstack could be improved.  Specifically, he wanted to know how interaction with Oracle Support could improve.  I sent a suggestion, but it didn't make the cut; he didn't post it.  :( Since I spent a bit of time writing and editing, it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: Metalink, OAM, Steven Chan

December 8, 2008 by cedwards

Proactive Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite

As a remote services provider, often we are often asked to provide proactive maintenance support for clients.  For the purposes of this discussion, I’m going to separate operational support form maintenance support. Operational support surrounds management of the application operations, as they exist.  For example, if I’m running 11.5.10.2 on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications, Remote DBA Tagged With: customer service, Oracle E-Business Suite, proactive service

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