Category Archives: EBS

Finding debug and trace profiles in EBS

Two recent requests in rapid succession (“why is the instance running so slowly when I do X?” and “why is this mount point filling up with .dbg files?”) prompted me to dust off an old script.

“No manager available?” Say what, EBS?

Diagnosing a “No manager available” error in an EBS 11.5.10.2 RAC environment

E-Business Suite cloning: Disabling auto-start of applications

A short blurb about preventing the startup of Oracle Applications services when running adcfgclone.pl.

Oracle OpenWorld 2010 recap: Time to get ready for that Fusion Apps upgrade?

Yes, but not quite the way you might think. Here’s why.

OOW10 Day 2 mid-day update: Interesting new EBS techstack functionality

Are you on R12 or thinking about getting these soon? Here are some reasons to think about 12.1.3 and beyond.

Resolving a pesky ORA-12545 during EBS patching

Don’t you just love it when random networking errors spice up an otherwise routine large EBS patching run?

Yeah, me neither.

Weekend mumblings: Oracle and VMware

Rambling about Oracle and VMware. I don’t do “opinion pieces” very often, and after reading this, you’ll better understand why. ;-)

Small change to GL_SECURITY_PKG in EBS 12.1.2

A change to the package definition of GL_SECURITY_PKG in E-Business Suite Release 12.1.2 may result in unexpected behavior when the package is called from a non-APPS schema.

EBS R12 nugget: The difference between adopmnctl.sh and opmnctl

An illustration of the difference between running opmnctl and adopmnctl.sh in EBS R12

Old PLAN_TABLE in EBS Vision

I went digging into a problem with EXPLAIN PLAN in and R12 Vision instance, and dug deep enough to find an antique.