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Data Center Consolidation

Data center consolidation is the process of reducing the volume of physical IT assets through highly efficient and scalable technologies. Organizations leverage data center consolidation to reduce operating costs.

Analyse and Solve Serious Hardware and Sofware Problems

Listing several basic hardware and software troubleshooting steps with respect to operating systems, software programs, and computer hardware.

Mission Critical Systems

A mission critical system is a system that is essential to the survival of a business or organization. When a mission critical system fails or is interrupted, business operations are significantly impacted.

The best server hardware to maximize IT performance

Data center hardware advances target new workloads such as big data processing, as well as higher efficiency for existing apps and services. The best server hardware for your data center depends on existing and planned application architectures, data center operations staff skills and of course the IT budget.

Context Value Management Failed

Context Value Management Failed

Issue: Incorrect Custom top defied using OAM Manage Custom Parameters

Auto config throws the following error:
File system template : /u01/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/ad/12.0.0/admin/template/adxmlctx.tmp
Checking for customizations to Context template
Customizations found : Yes
Action to be taken : Customizations to be appended to the template

StackTrace:
oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLDOMException: invalid character " in name
at oracle.xml.util.XMLUtil.validateName(XMLUtil.java:447)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLDocument.createElement(XMLDocument.java:706)
at oracle.apps.ad.context.AppsContext.addTmplCust(AppsContext.java:1012)
at oracle.apps.ad.tools.configuration.FileSysDBCtxMerge.updTmplwithDBup(FileSysDBCtxMerge.java:328)
at oracle.apps.ad.tools.configuration.FileSysDBCtxMerge.updateFileSysTemplate(FileSysDBCtxMerge.java:270)
at oracle.apps.ad.tools.configuration.FileSysDBCtxMerge.updateFileSysFiles(FileSysDBCtxMerge.java:209)
at oracle.apps.ad.context.CtxValueMgt.mergeCustomInFiles(CtxValueMgt.java:1790)
at oracle.apps.ad.context.CtxValueMgt.processCtxFile(CtxValueMgt.java:1608)
at oracle.apps.ad.context.CtxValueMgt.main(CtxValueMgt.java:763)

ERROR: Context Value Management Failed.
Terminate.

Solution:
Backup FND_OAM_CONTEXT_CUSTOM and FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES tables

create table FND_OAM_CONTEXT_CUSTOM_bak as select * from FND_OAM_CONTEXT_CUSTOM


create table FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES_bak as select * from FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES

truncate table applsys.FND_OAM_CONTEXT_CUSTOM

truncate table applsys.FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES

Run autoconfig on the db tier.

Run autoconfig on the apps tier

Retest

End Date all users in EBS 11i after cloning

End Date all users in EBS 11i after cloning

select count(*) from fnd_user;

create table fnd_user_bkp as select * from fnd_user;


DECLARE
CURSOR cur1
IS
SELECT user_name
FROM fnd_user
WHERE user_name NOT IN ('SYSADMIN', 'GUEST')
AND (end_date IS NULL OR TRUNC(end_date) > TRUNC (SYSDATE));
BEGIN
FOR all_user IN cur1
LOOP
fnd_user_pkg.updateuser (x_user_name => all_user.user_name,
x_owner => 'SYSADMIN',
x_end_date => SYSDATE
);
COMMIT;
END LOOP;
END;


How to End-Date/Delete an Applications User (Doc ID 1064798.1)

Tips & Tricks for Navigating Oracle Applications

Tips & Tricks for Navigating Oracle Applications


Help : Keyboard Help or – Lists Hot Keys

Tools : Close Other Forms – check box to auto close forms when a new form is opened

Query Tips and Tricks
to enter query by example
to recall the last query parameters
to Execute Query
Query : Count Matching Records (after putting in the query parameters)
Exit Query

Query Wild Card Characters
% one or more characters
_ exactly one character

Query Operators
#between and
#is null, #is not null
> Greater Than
>= Greater Than or Equal
< Less Than <= Less Than or Equal = Equal != Not Equal View : Record : First Record or Last Record – shows first or last record returned by query

What SQL Statement did the Oracle Applications run to fill the form?
Help : Diagnostics : Examine (requires apps password)
Block = SYSTEM
Field = last_query

Other ways to determine the underlying table structure:
1) Help : Record History
2) Trace the form (requires apps password)

XML Publisher
The XML Publisher concurrent program joins the XML concurrent report data with the registered templates to generate PDF output. The following template types are supported: Portable Document Format (PDF), Rich Text Format (RTF) and XSL-FO.
- www.norcaloaug.org, Training Day 2004, Paper by Brent Mosher,
‘Oracle Tech update part 1: XML Publisher/Oracle Applications Framework’
- Metalink Note:269605.1, ‘About Oracle XML Publisher Release 4.5’
- Metalink Note:276691.1, ‘XML Publisher and Concurrent Manager Integration’
- Metalink Note:258332.1, ‘About Oracle XML Publisher Minipack XDO.H’
- Metalink B13817-01, ‘Oracle® XML Publisher User’s Guide Release 11i