MANAGE CUSTOMIZATIONS USING APPLICATION CHANGE MANAGEMENT PACK FOR ORACLE EBUSINESS SUITE

Milton Estrada, Rolta-TUSC

Introduction Oracle Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite provides a centralized view to monitor and orchestrate changes (both functional and technical) across multiple Oracle E-Business Suite systems. Oracle Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite offers the capabilities to manage changes introduced by customizations, patches and functional setups during implementation or maintenance activities. Oracle Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite contains three main components: Patch Manager allows you to deploy patches across Oracle E-Business Suite instances from a single console. Patch Manager integrates with My Oracle Support and automatically downloads and deploys patches across multiple (single or multi-node) Oracle E-Business Suite instances. Oracle E-Business Suite patches and patchsets, as well as patches created with Customization Manager, are supported. Customization Manager automates the process of packaging, releasing, deploying, and migrating customizations for a single Oracle E-Business Suite instance or multiple Oracle E-Business Suite instances. It provides capabilities to integrate with third-party source control repositories to access customizations that need to be packaged. Setup Manager helps define implementation projects in terms of functional setups that need to be migrated across Oracle EBusiness Suite instances. Setup Manager extends the capabilities of Oracle iSetup by providing functional configuration change management capabilities across multiple Oracle E-Business Suite instances. This paper will provided a quick overview on how to use this product to successfully manage customizations.

How it Works
You will first check in customizations into a file version control system for example SVN. Then you will use Customization Manager to package your customizations. Finally you will use Patch Manager to deploy your packages (patches). You will also use Setup Manager to deploy any functional configurations associated with packages you are moving.

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ACP Dashboard
Applications Change Management Pack (ACP) provides a dashboard were you can review and control all your different tasks between ACP. It is organized in three sections, Patch Manager, Customization Manager and Setup Manager.

Preferred Credentials
The first task you will have to complete before you can start using ACP is to setup your Preferred Credentials. To do so, navigate to Preferences -> Preferred Credentials. From there select Oracle E-Business Suite Preferred Credentials section and enter all required usernames and passwords.

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File Source Mapping

Once you have setup your preferred credentials the next step is to configure your File Source Mapping. To access File Source Mapping page, navigate to Targets -> Oracle Applications -> Change Management -> Customization Manager -> File Source Mapping. This will be use to check out the code from your file version control system so it can be use by Customization Manager to create packages.

Custom Applications Registration

After creating your file source mapping, the next task is to create and/or register your custom application(s).From the Customizations Manager group select Custom Applications to create and validate your custom applications against all your Oracle E-Business environments. This step will allow ACP to interact with your custom application.

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E-Business Suite Mapping

After registration and validation of your custom application, you will need to create your E-Business Suite Mapping. The EBusiness Suite Mapping is used for .pld and Java file compilation as well as report generation. Please note that all operations on this instance are read-only and would not cause any kind of change on the given instance via Customization Manager.

Package Creation
Once you have completed your required configurations, you will be ready to create a package (patch) using Customization Manager. The package creation process is a three step process, on the first step you will name your package, select the target release level (11i or R12), pick your custom application and specify the File Source Mapping to be use.

The next step will require to list the objects that will be included in your package (patch).

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Finally, you will submit the package for creation. You can specify email address to receive notifications of success or failure of package creation.

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Patch Manager
Once you have successfully created your package (patch), the next step is to deploy it to the target instance using Patch Manager. To do so, select the package and click deploy.

Setup Manager
As a final step you will deploy any required setups using Setup Manager. Setup Manager is a improve version of Oracle EBusiness product iSetup, which now has been improve to allow an easier deployment of all functional setups associated with Oracle E-Business .

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Tips and Tricks

Setup Preferred Credentials at the beginning If SVN is selected for File Source Control make sure to install SVN client 1.2 or higher on checkout hosts Make sure that Custom Application is validated against target environments Make sure the SYSADMIN account contains iSetup and LCM EM Client responsibilities When using Automatic Header Injection, it is recommended to create a dummy header place holder using this format: /* $Header: filename.sql 120.0 2009/09/08 12:04:13 username noship $ */

References
Oracle Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide Release 3.1 Part No. E14530-02

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