Having Better Life With Customizations...
Whenever we implement Oracle Applications, the client often comes up with some businesses processes which cannot be completely implemented using the existing ERP processes. These are generally accommodated by customizations in the ERP. This gives rise to creation of custom objects/systems. Over a period of time when the actual use of system increases the number of customizations increases too.
During a course of time it may happen that the company needs to upgrade the environment or apply certain patches that are released by Oracle. It may happen that there is a strong impact on the customizations that are built. If the customizations are done by using ‘Customization By Modification’ approach there is a danger of the changes being completely washed off by the upgrade or patch application. So is there any way to avoid this? Or at least a way to minimize the impact?
Yes there is!!!
The way is to use ‘Register Flagged Files Tool’ in R12.
Register Flagged Files tool can be accessed through Oracle Applications Manager (OAM) responsibility in R12.
Flagged files is a concept within the Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS) release 12, where you flag a standard deployment file, let's say a Forms file, a Package or a Java class file. When you run the patch analysis, the list of flagged files will be checked and in case one of these files gets patched, the analysis report will tell you.
You can flag as many files as you want, in whatever relationship they are with your customizations. In addition to the flag itself you can add a comment. You should use this comment to point to your customization reference (here XXAR_RPT_066 or XXAP_CUST_030). It is suggested to put the flagged files data file directly into your CEMLI patch. Herewith the flagged files registration will be executed right at the same time when the patch gets applied.
Whenever we implement Oracle Applications, the client often comes up with some businesses processes which cannot be completely implemented using the existing ERP processes. These are generally accommodated by customizations in the ERP. This gives rise to creation of custom objects/systems. Over a period of time when the actual use of system increases the number of customizations increases too.
During a course of time it may happen that the company needs to upgrade the environment or apply certain patches that are released by Oracle. It may happen that there is a strong impact on the customizations that are built. If the customizations are done by using ‘Customization By Modification’ approach there is a danger of the changes being completely washed off by the upgrade or patch application. So is there any way to avoid this? Or at least a way to minimize the impact?
Yes there is!!!
The way is to use ‘Register Flagged Files Tool’ in R12.
Register Flagged Files tool can be accessed through Oracle Applications Manager (OAM) responsibility in R12.
Flagged files is a concept within the Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS) release 12, where you flag a standard deployment file, let's say a Forms file, a Package or a Java class file. When you run the patch analysis, the list of flagged files will be checked and in case one of these files gets patched, the analysis report will tell you.
You can flag as many files as you want, in whatever relationship they are with your customizations. In addition to the flag itself you can add a comment. You should use this comment to point to your customization reference (here XXAR_RPT_066 or XXAP_CUST_030). It is suggested to put the flagged files data file directly into your CEMLI patch. Herewith the flagged files registration will be executed right at the same time when the patch gets applied.
hi.
ReplyDeletewhich responsibility and version are you tolking about?
12.2 VISION
select *
from fnd_responsibility_tl
where lower(RESPONSIBILITY_NAME) like lower('%plication%anager%')
returns only:
Self Service Web Applications Manager, Vision Enterprises
Service Contracts Web Application Manager, Vision Enterprises
Mobile Applications Manager