E-Business Suite CPU patches now cumulative

Many Oracle Apps DBAs don’t feel pressure to apply E-Business Suite CPU until they are asked to expose an application node to the outside world; now there’s no excuse.  If you’re an established EBS shop and you’ve never applied the EBS CPU patches for your Release 11i environment, there is quite a bit of work to get caught up on should you need to implement a new module like iStore or iSupplier.

The following is the list of patches per my count:

Quarter	Patches
April 2007	5893391, 5900224, 5352601, 5720979, 5738134, 5909233, 5873313, 5904576, 5967405
July 2007	3904641, 5021981, 5973659, 6045931, 6045983, 5973898, 5973629, 6185758, 6082483, 6110945, 6111066, 6111008, 6188705, 5973651
October 2007	4897479, 4514856, 6181762, 6204551, 5889600, 6112590, 6112601
January 2008	6643087,  6142917, 6530949, 6640163
April 2008	6831988, 6858005, 6858550, 6802774, 6810748
July 2008	6520998, 6845529, 6884665, 6627387
October 2008	6823842, 6642209
January 2009	7582702 , 7327712, 7567354, 7610955
April 2009	7836886, 7582828
July 2009	7758943, 8528340, 8488738, 8225016
October 2009	8280420, 8721703, 8872433, 8674360, 8767305
January 2010	9017637, 7293090, 8995162

This is a pretty tedious assignment … that is until now.  Oracle recently made their Release 11i EBS CPU Patching cumulative. (woot!)  Now, you simply start with this single CPU patch, assuming you’re on ATG 6 or 7.  It’s probable this may drive a little additional patching depending on your patch level, but it’s certainly a lot less than before.

Per metalink note 985520.1:

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