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Oracle EBS Patching Guide

This document provides an overview of Oracle EBS patching. It discusses the purpose of patching which includes applying enhancements, maintaining certified versions, and fixing bugs. It also describes different patching components, tools used like opatch and bsu, downloading patches, and what adop/adpatch do to apply patches. Finally, it introduces the concepts of dual file systems used for patching in R12.2 to reduce downtime, and the 5 phases of the ADOP utility used to apply application tier patches.

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Oracle EBS Patching Guide

This document provides an overview of Oracle EBS patching. It discusses the purpose of patching which includes applying enhancements, maintaining certified versions, and fixing bugs. It also describes different patching components, tools used like opatch and bsu, downloading patches, and what adop/adpatch do to apply patches. Finally, it introduces the concepts of dual file systems used for patching in R12.2 to reduce downtime, and the 5 phases of the ADOP utility used to apply application tier patches.

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Patching Introduction

Purpose of ORACLE EBS Patching


1. To apply the latest product enhancements
2. To maintain oracle certified/supported product version
3. Security and critical updates
4. Bug Fixes
5. Upgrades
6. For interoperability and integration with other products such as Database, Fusion Middleware etc.

Patching Components (component wise tools)

Fusion MiddleWear Components like WebTier, Forms and Reports, Oracle_Common and WebLogic are patched using
opatch or bsu. (Particularly for WebLogic).

Patching Tools

Patch Contents
Downloading Patch
Patch needs to be downloaded from support.oracle.com and naming convention for a patch is p<patch no>.zip

What does adop/adpatch do


 Copies files from patch directory to EBS File System
 Executes database actions such as .sql
 Generates files such as Generate Forms, Reports, JAR files etc.

Patch file structure

Patch Types, Codelines and Codelevels


Types of Patches
ADOP Basics
Understanding dual file system
• Introduced from R12.2 to reduce patching down time

• Application Tier File System Consists of fs1 and fs2 in base directory

• At a given time, one is designated as run and the other as patch

• “run” file system is used for running Oracle E-Business Suite i.e., users access “run” File System

• “patch” file system is used for Patching

• “adop” Utility is used to apply patches on the Patch File System

Introduction to ADOP
• Introduced from R12.2

• Stands for AD Online Patching

• Replaces “adpatch” in previous versions

• Can apply all Application Tier Patches except FMW or iAS patches

• Consists of 5 phases: Prepare, Apply, Finalize, Cutover and Cleanup


ADOP Phases

Important tables

Queries

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