Category Archives: EBS

Resolving an EBS login problem

A look at a resolution of the dreaded, generic “You have encountered an unexpected error. Please contact the System Administrator for assistance” error. These are different or everyone, of course, but maybe someone else will see this someday.

Compiling JSPs in EBS? Try being selective first.

If you’re in a position where you need to compile some of the JSPs in your EBS system, consider whether you need to compile them all, or can get away with compiling just a few.

Installing EBS on Linux Part 3, companion

This is a companion piece to my third guest post on the ORACLENERD blog about installing Oracle E-Business Suite. I’ll try to address questions and errata from that post here, rather than repeatedly asking Chet to tweak his blog just because I was unclear or incorrect.

What is it with you Linux nerds [...]

Installing EBS on Linux Part 2, companion

This is a companion piece to my second guest post on the ORACLENERD blog about installing Oracle E-Business Suite. I’ll try to address questions and errata from that post here, rather than repeatedly asking Chet to tweak his blog just because I was unclear or incorrect.

What’s this “port pool” business all about?
The [...]

Installing EBS on Linux part 1, companion

This is a companion piece to my first guest post on the ORACLENERD blog about installing Oracle E-Business Suite. I’ll try to address questions and errata from that post here, rather than repeatedly asking Chet to tweak his blog just because I was unclear or incorrect.

Why Release 12.1.1, and why Linux? Why [...]

ASO_ORDER_FEEDBACK_T runs amok, devours database!

A quick walkthrough of a problem I encountered with the ASO_ORDER_FEEDBACK_T table growing out of control.

Quick tip: Moving an SSO-integrated E-Business Suite database

It seemed simple enough. We were moving our E-Business Suite database to a new server. References to the old database server had to be replaced in a variety of places: Oracle Internet Directory, a handful of tnsnames.ora files, and of course, the context files on the application tier servers. After that, everyone could connect to the database just as they always had. No problems, right?

Well, okay, maybe one small problem.

Things I learned this weekend (5/16-17/2009)

The excitement of solving mysteries makes me bad at math
In my last post, I failed to notice that a HugePages_Total of 4645, while satisfyingly greater than zero, is definitely not 8196, the desired and expected value I had configured. Upon reflection, the reason was pretty obvious: the OS will only allocate contiguous blocks of memory [...]

EBS 12.1 now generally available

E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is now available. I’ve started collecting reference links that could be relevant to an upgrade, and am making them available here.

How old is that E-Business Suite clone, really?

In this post, I explore some methods to determine when the data in an E-Business Suite database was copied from its source.