Oracle EBS R12.2.5 Upgrade

In Part I of my Oracle R12.2.5 Fresh Install walkthrough I described the prepatory steps for the install.

In Part II we shared details on how to install Oracle EBS using the latest R12.2.5 media including Oracle 12cR1.

In this Blog post I walk provide details of how to upgrade your EBS environment from R12.2.0 to R12.2.5.

Current Configuration

SQL> select banner from v$version;
BANNER
——————————————————————————–
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 – 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 12.1.0.2.0 – Production
CORE 12.1.0.2.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 12.1.0.2.0 – Production
NLSRTL Version 12.1.0.2.0 – Production

SQL> select release_name from apps.fnd_product_groups;
RELEASE_NAME
————————————————–
12.2.0

R12.2.5 Upgrade Process

If you have access to http://support.oracle.com refer to Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.2.5 Readme (Doc ID 1983050.1)

Apply Consolidated Seed Table Patch

Stop all Application services other than the WebLogic AdminServer on the run file system.

$ cd $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME
$ ./adstpall.sh apps/apps

$ ./adadminsrvctl.sh start

Apply the patch using the new adop tool, adpatch no longer required.

$ cd ../VIS/fs_ne/EBSapps/patch
$ unzip p17204589.zip
$ unzip p21900871
$ adop phase=apply patches=17204589,21900871 merge=yes hotpatch=yes

Start all AppsTier services

$ cd $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME
$ ./adstral.sh apps/apps

Enter Weblogic password when prompted.

Apply R12.2.5 Release Update Pack

Source the run edition environment variables

$. <INSTALL_BASE>EBSapps.env. run

Stop the Weblogic AdminServer and Node Manager services

$ cd $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME
$ ./adadminsrvctl.sh stop
$ ./adnodemgrctl.sh stop

Set the 12c database parameter optimizer_adaptive_features to false

optimizer_adaptive_features=false

Apply previously downloaded patch 19676458

$ cd ../VIS/fs_ne/EBSapps/patch
$ unzip p19676458.zip
$ adop phase=apply apply_mode=downtime patches=19676458

Reset the 12c database parameter optimizer_adaptive_features back to true

optimizer_adaptive_features=true

Re-Start all AppsTier services

$ cd $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME
$ ./adstral.sh apps/apps

Perform adop clean-up
$ adop phase=cleanup

Synchronise the file systems using atop as below, this will copy the new run edition code and configuration to the other file system.
$ adop phase=fs_clone

Updated Configuration

As you can see from below we have now a running Oracle EBS R12.2.5 environment on a 12c database.

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