Oracle 12.0.6 R12 RUP6 is Out now
Oracle released 12.0.6 on Nov 7, 2008. Here is quick snapshot of 12.0.6 for DBA’s & System Administrators.
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1. Patch Number for 12.0.6 is 6728000
2. Prereq. patch for 12.0.6 (6728000) is R12.AD.A.delta.6 (7305220) & optional online help patch (7109200)
3. As with other ad patches, You CAN’T merge 12.0.6 (6728000) with R12.AD.A.delta.6 (7305220)
4. You can apply 12.0.6 only on R12 instance i.e. 12.0.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2, 12.0.3, 12.0.4 or FIN & HRMS RUP5
5. If you are on 11i, first upgrade system to 12.0.4 and then apply 12.0.6
6. Oct 2008 CPU for R12 is part of RUP6 i.e. 12.0.6 (6728000)
7. To apply 12.0.6 patch (6728000), first apply prereq. patches, Source application environment file and run admsi.pl (Patch Application Assistant)
8. As part of Post 12.0.6 (6728000) patch application
a) Create appsutil.zip from middle tier using admkappsutil.pl and unzip appsutil.zip in database oracle_home. This is to bring 12.0.6 related context parameter in Autoconfig.
b) Perform product specific steps (depending on products you are using in R12)
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Changes New Features in 12.0.4 & 12.0.6
1. Run Autoconfig in Parallel mode in multi node installations with option -parallel like
perl $AD_TOP/bin/adconfig.pl -parallel
2. Autoconfig profiler – This option provide HTML report of an Autoconfig execution with details like
a) Source and target location of templates to produce configuration file
b) Time taken to execute individual scripts in Autoconfig
use -profile option like
perl $AD_TOP/bin/adconfig.pl -profile
3. Autoconfig Support for 11g database features like Access Control Lists in 11g for UTL_TCP, UTL_SMTP, UTL_MAIL, UTL_HTTP, or UTL_INADDR packages
4. New profile option “FND: Record History Enabled” is introduced to track who and when a record was updated in OA Framework Pages (similar to Forms)
5. Diagnostics features are rewritten to utilize RBAC (Role Base Access Control).
More on new variable added in Autoconfig in 12.0.6 coming soon ..
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References
- 743368.1 Oracle E-Business Suite Release Update Pack Readme, Release 12.0.6
- 736655.1 Oracle Applications DBA Software Updates, Release 12.0.6