R12 – Virtualbox Connection

So you got R12 up and running and want to connect to it from a Vbox machine? I’m running R12.0.4 on OEL5.3 with Virtualbox 2.2.2 having a Windows 7 machine. R12 R12 is installed on OEL with the hostname: localhost.localdomain Firefox works locally against R12 so the EBS stack in working at this point. Start […]

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Dell XPS M1530 and OEL 5.3

Well why make a post about this? OEL does not seem to be a complete operating system – it feels like Linux 5 years ago with loads of drivers missing and command line fiddling. One chapter for each part… Graphics This does work out of the box but the built in driver is not great […]

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Windows 7

This post is written in Windows 7 RC running in Virtualbox inside Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.3 – good fun! OEL is in reality a Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a bit amputated in term of applications and drivers. The reason for this constellation is OEL 5.3 Supports eBusiness Suite R12 and RDBMS 10g. […]

R12 – Firefox and Java

I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Firefox Firefox 3 does not work with R12. I could get forms to work however framework pages had problems with buttons. So install Firefox 2 instead. Java Plug-in For R12.0.4 on OEL desktop you want to use JRE 1.5.0.13 otherwise you […]

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R12 – OEL Login Script

Use this script (vis.sh) to initialise the Oracle environment. I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Run as Oracle user: $ . ./vis.sh Note the dot and space in front of a script to assign variables to the current environment. #!/bin/bash shopt -s expand_aliases ORACLE_SID=VIS ORACLE_HOST=`hostname -s` CONTEXT_NAME=${ORACLE_SID}_${ORACLE_HOST} […]

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R12 – Managing

This article applies to: EBS 12.0.4 on OEL5.3 EBS 12.1.1 on OEL5.4 RDBMS 10g on OEL5.3 RDBMS 11g on OEL5.3 and OEL5.4 I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Login This is my own login script which you can see here. Login to OEL as Oracle and run […]

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R12 – Hardware and Software

This is the hardware and software I use for the R12 Laptop. I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Laptop My laptop is a Dell XPS M1530 with the following specs: CPU Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache) Memory […]

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OEL – Package Script

Use this script (apmall.sh) to update OEL5.3 with correct libraries. I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Update the SOURCE environment variable with your source dir. First try to run $ ./rpmall.sh chk to show what is missing and then install with: $ ./rpmall.sh inst But beware this […]

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R12 – Installation

This article applies to version 12.0.4. I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Download Oracle E-Business Suite – EBS from http://edelivery.oracle.com/ Rapid Install patch 6919017 from http://metalink.oracle.com Transfer Files Boot into Ubuntu and transfer files to the /oracle partition for example /oracle/install Unzip Boot into OEL and login […]

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OEL – Installation

This article applies to OEL 5.3. I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. This flavour of Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) so if you can’t find the answer here google for RHEL issues instead. Having played around with this operating system for a […]

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