Internet Explorer 8

First Install Java JRE 1.5.0.13 as usual as the download from the Apps server to IE8 would not work – and just install the version required by default so you might need a different version Then add your Apps server to IE8 security settings: Lower the security setting to medium-low for Trusted Sites: Allow pop-ups […]

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R12 – E-Business Tax – ZX

Oracle E-Business Tax covers “standard” procure to pay and order to cash transaction taxes, with the exception of withholding taxes and those taxes handled by the Latin Tax Engine solution. In general the limited per module 11i setup has been changed to become a proper self-contained tax engine. With that however comes complexity to the […]

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R12 – Subledger Accounting – XLA

Back to R12 – Upgrade Overview Subledger Accounting is a new application that provides an accounting abstraction layer for subledgers – between subledger accounting events and GL journal entries. This functionality was in 11i placed in each of the subledgers implemented in different way resulting in different reconciliation processes for each of the subledgers. Subledger […]

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R12 – Payments – IBY

Back to R12 – Upgrade Overview This is a completely new module to provide a central payment capture and disbursement facility. Overview New Concepts: Payment Processing Profile, Payment Request and Payment Instruction Payment disbursement functionality for Payables Credit card functionality for Advanced Collections and Receivables Bank account transfer functionality for Cash Management Secure storage and […]

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R12 – Cash Management – CE

Back to R12 – Upgrade Overview The new centralized bank account model provides a single point for defining and managing internal bank accounts for Oracle Payables, Oracle Receivables, Oracle Payroll, Oracle Cash Management, and Oracle Treasury. Biggest change in cash management is for the users as many screens are now as OAF forms: Screens has […]

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R12 – Upgrade Overview

This is a my personal log of changes from 11i to R12. It is my intent to go through core financials in R12 as an internal project in order to make a structured approach to new features and changes in the new release. So the notes below only applies to core Financials modules in scope. […]

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R12 – Payables – AP

Back to R12 – Upgrade Overview Many changes has been made to AP but all great improvements though. Overview Suppliers: are now defined in Trading Community Architecture – TCA Invoice lines: entity added between header and distributions Banks and bank accounts: now part of Cash Management Banks and branches: are now defined in TCA like […]

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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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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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