1. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Release 11i Apps DBA NCOAUG – Summer 2001 Chicago, IL Randy Giefer rgiefer@solutionbeacon.com Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks

2. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 2  Welcome  Overview (Apps DBA Delta Training For 11i)  Audience Survey  Presenter Introduction Welcome !

3. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 3  Technical - Database Administrator - Apps System Administrator - Developer  Current Application Release - Release 10.7, 11.0.x, 11i (11.5.1 – 11.5.4)  Current User Interface(s) - Character, SmartClient, Citrix, OADM, NCA Intended Audience

4. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 4  Educate - High Level Summary - Not The Complete, Exhaustive Source - Provide Guidance And Direction - Information To Build A Training Plan  Awareness, Try Not To Scare  Reference Materials ( Whitepaper available upon request ) rgiefer@solutionbeacon.com rgiefer@solutionbeacon.com www.solutionbeacon.com Today’s Goals

5. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 5 The Biggest and Most Complex Release Ever !  Increased Functionality  New Technology What is Release 11i?

6. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 6 Increased Functionality …  Products – Applications Release 11i - over 152 162 products - over 15 17 product families  Workflow – Enabled (over 15 products)  Self-Service Web Apps  BIS  CRM What is Release 11i?

7. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 7 New Technology …  Oracle 8i  Internet Computing Architecture  Java-Enabled!!! Combined Together… = Release 11i Technology Stack What is Release 11i?

8. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 8  Release 11i Technology Stack - Internet Computing Architecture (ICA) - Oracle 8i and 8i New Features  Release 11i Functionality What is Release 11i?

9. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 9  Release 11i Technology Stack - Internet Computing Architecture (ICA) - Oracle 8i and 8i New Features  Release 11i Functionality What is Release 11i?

10. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 10 Database Server Tier Middle Tier Client Tier Release 11i Technology Stack

11. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 11 Database Server Tier Middle Tier Client Tier 8i Database Release 11i Technology Stack

12. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 12 Database Server Tier Middle Tier Client Tier 8i Database JInitiator Release 11i Technology Stack 8i ORACLE_HOME

13. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 13 Database Server Tier Middle Tier Client Tier 8i Database JInitiator Release 11i Technology Stack Simple so far, right? 8i ORACLE_HOME

14. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 14 Database Server Tier Middle Tier Client TierConcurrent Processing Server AdminServer WebDB 2.2 Listener FormsServer ReportsServer 8.0.6 ORACLE_HOME WebDB 2.5 Apache 8.1.6 Web ORACLE_HOME 8.1.6 Database Applications Technology Stack Web HTTP Servers JInitiator Release 11i Technology Stack !! Release 11.5.1 !!Discoverer Server * * Optional 8.1.6 ORACLE_HOME

15. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 15 Database Server Tier Middle Tier Client TierConcurrent Processing Server AdminServer FormsServer ReportsServer 8.0.6 ORACLE_HOMEApache 8.1.6 iAS ORACLE_HOME 8.1.6 Database Applications Technology Stack Web HTTP Servers JInitiator Release 11i Technology Stack !! Release 11.5.2, 11.5.3 !!Discoverer Server * * Optional 8.1.6 ORACLE_HOME

16. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 16 Database Server Tier Middle Tier Client TierConcurrent Processing Server AdminServer FormsServer ReportsServer 8.0.6 ORACLE_HOMEApache 8.1.7 ORACLE_HOME 8.1.7 Database Applications Technology Stack Web HTTP Servers JInitiator Release 11i Technology Stack !! Release 11.5.4 !!Discoverer Server * * Optional 8.1.6 iAS ORACLE_HOME

17. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 17 Technology Stack Products Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.6 Other Oracle Homes – App(8.0.6), WebDB(8.1.6) WebDB 2.2 and WebDB 2.5 ! JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 1.1.8 JDK (Java Development Kit) 1.1.8 Oracle Web Discoverer 3.3.48 (Optional) Oracle JInitiator (1.1.7) On The Client Oracle Forms 6i Oracle Reports 6i Oracle Graphics !! Release 11.5.1 !!

18. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 18 Technology Stack Products Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.6 Other Oracle Homes – App(8.0.6), iAS(8.1.6) WebDB 2.2 and WebDB 2.5 ! Apache Web Server (1.3.9, Full - jsp, jServ) JServ (1.1) JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 1.1.8 JDK (Java Development Kit) 1.1.8 Oracle Web Discoverer 3.3.48 (Optional) Oracle JInitiator (1.1.7) On The Client Oracle Forms 6i Oracle Reports 6i Oracle Graphics !! Release 11.5.2, 11.5.3 !!

19. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 19 Technology Stack Products Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.6 8.1.7 Other Oracle Homes - App(8.0.6), iAS(8.1.6) WebDB 2.2 and WebDB 2.5 ! Apache Web Server (1.3.9, Full - jsp, jServ) JServ (1.1) JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 1.1.8 JDK (Java Development Kit) 1.1.8 1.2.2 Oracle Web Discoverer 3.3.48 (Optional) Oracle JInitiator ( 1.1.7 1.1.8.7 ) Oracle Forms 6i Oracle Reports 6i Oracle Graphics !! Release 11.5.4 !!

20. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 20  Install is More Complex (# products), But Easier Than 10.7 NCA  More Products (All Products Get Installed, Regardless Of Licensing)  Server Partitioning (TWO_TASK)  Driven By Many, Many Configuration Files !!! Technology Stack Notes

21. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 21  Tech Stack – More Complex to Administer  Administrator Profile “Roles”  DB – Database Administrator (8.1.7)  App – Applications Administrator (8.0.6)  Web – Web Administrator (iAS/8.1.6)  Numerous Start/Stop Scripts Technology Stack Notes

22. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 22 More Complex to Administer $COMN_TOP/admin/scripts  adalnctl.sh Apps Listener  adcmctl.sh Concurrent Managers  adrepctl.sh Reports Server  adtcfctl.sh TCF Server  adfrmctl.sh Forms Server  adfmsctl.sh Forms Metric Server  adfmcctl.sh Forms Metric Client  adapcctl.sh Apache Technology Stack Notes

23. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 23 $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/scripts  addbctl.sh Database  addlnctl.sh Database Listener Technology Stack Notes

24. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 24 Technology Stack – Many Ports

25. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 25 Oracle Applications Environment Manager (oaem)  Facilitates.profile Establishment ( DB, App, Web )  No Need For Multiple UNIX.profile Scripts  Provides Start / Stop / Status – All Components  Download From Solution Beacon Website www.solutionbeacon.com R11i Tools To Assist You

26. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 26  Release 11i Technology Stack - Internet Computing Architecture (ICA) - Oracle 8i and 8i New Features  Release 11i Functionality What is Release 11i?

27. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 27 Oracle8i – New Features Materialized Views Cost-based Optimization Database Resource Manager Partitioned Tables Temporary Tables Invoker Rights Cache Fusion Locally Managed Tablespaces Function-based Indexes STATSPACK RMAN Log Miner

28. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 28 Materialized Views Summarize, Precompute, Aggregate Data Stored Data (Not A View) Snapshot query_rewrite_enabled -> CBO

29. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 29 Cost-Based Optimization Optimization Based on Hints & Statistics Optimizer Reviews Potential Execution Plans Compares Execution Plans Chooses Lowest Cost Release 11i, optimizer_mode = choose Refer To Whitepaper For init.ora Parameters $FND_TOP/sql/AFCHKCBO.sql

30. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 30 Cost-Based Optimization Need To Keep Statistics Current ! FND_STATS (Not ANALYZE, DBMS_STATS) Oracle Provided Concurrent Programs - -Analyze All Index Columns - -Gather Table Statistics - -Backup Table Statistics - -Restore Table Statistics - -Gather Column Statistics (Obsolete !!) - -Gather All Column Statistics (Obsolete !!) - -Gather Schema Statistics

31. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 31 Database Resource Manager Gives DBA More Control Of System Resources Consumer Groups And Resource Plans Allocate And Assign Priorities Limited To CPU Resources See Oracle Note 106948.1 For Examples

32. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 32 Partitioned Tables Tables Sub-divided Into Smaller Segments More Manageable Than A Large Table Separate Indexes, Segments Balance I/O Two Partitioning Methods Range Partitioning Hash Partitioning

33. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 33 Temporary Tables Name Says A Lot Exists Only For Duration Of A Session No REDO For SQL To Temporary Tables No DML Locks INV And GL Starting To Use

34. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 34 Invoker Rights Invoke Or Execute Procedures/Pkgs As If You Were The Owner One Instance/Occurrence Of A Package In APPS Schema No More Multiple Sets Of Books Architecture (MSOBA) or Multiple Reporting Currencies (MRC) Schema Duplication

35. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 35 Cache Fusion Parallel Server Environments Increases Performance and Availability Shares the Cache Across OPS Nodes Big Feature of Oracle 9i (Real Application Clusters)

36. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 36 Locally Managed Tablespaces Tablespaces That Manage Their Own Extents Bitmap In Each Datafile Each Bit Signifies A Data Block Reduced Contention On The Data Dictionary

37. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 37 Function-Based Indexes Create Index Using A Function On Column After Creation, Just Like Normal Index Use This As A Tuning Aid create index ap_chrg_allocations_n99 on ap_chrg_allocations_all (abs(allocated_amount));

38. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 38 STATSPACK Historical Data Collection BSTAT/ESTAT On Steroids 100+ Metrics Stores Data In Database Checkout Whitepaper For More Info

39. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 39 RMAN Catalog-based Backup & Recovery Tool Automatically Determines: Database Files, Archive Logs, Control Files No Other OS files Compresses Datafiles – Only Used Blocks Incremental Backups – Only Changed Blocks More Info - Oracle8i Recovery Manager User's Guide and Reference

40. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 40 Log Miner Finally! Readable Interface Into The REDO Logs Generates DML SQL From Logs (No DDL) “Supported” Oracle Analysis Tool Aids in: Determining Trends Capacity Planning Point-in-Time Recovery

41. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 41 Oracle8i – New Features Materialized Views Cost-based Optimization Database Resource Manager Partitioned Tables Temporary Tables Invoker Rights Cache Fusion Locally Managed Tablespaces Function-based Indexes STATSPACK RMAN Log Miner

42. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 42 Oracle8i – New Features What do these new features give you?

43. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 43 Oracle8i – New Features, Summary Flexibility Power Performance “These new Oracle 8i features provide flexibility to Apps DBAs and Developers, which gives them more control and power over the environment. By correctly and efficiently applying these features, greater performance can be obtained.” Ladder Commercial “Just because you have the power, doesn’t mean you should use it.”

44. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 44 Release 11i Technology Stack - Internet Computing Architecture (ICA) - Oracle 8i and 8i New Features Release 11i Functionality What is Release 11i?

45. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 45 Required Fields Are Color Highlighted LOV Indicator Bubble Help Context Sensitive Help Right Mouse Click – Popup Menus Better Colors! Folder Tab Metaphor - Alternate Regions Displayed As Folder Tabs For 10.7/11 NCA Installs, No More Floating Toolbar! New Look And Feel

46. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 46  Purchasing  General Ledger  Payables  Project Accounting  Receivables  HR  Account Generator  Oracle Business Intelligence  Oracle Service Workflow-Enabled Applications

47. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 47  Oracle Engineering  Oracle Inventory  Oracle Web Employees  Oracle Web Customers  Oracle Web Suppliers  Implementation Wizard  Oracle CRM Workflow-Enabled Applications

48. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 48  WF_PURGE Package  Oracle Note: 132254.1  Performance-Related Profile Options: - Account Generator: Run in Debug Mode - Purchasing: Workflow Processing Mode Workflow-Enabled Applications

49. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 49  Some, Not All  Define Concurrent Program  Define Concurrent Manager  Session Control Dialog  Network Test Screen System Admin Screen Changes

50. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 50 Conc Program - Screen Changes

51. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 51 New fields on the Concurrent Programs screen:  Priority  Incrementor  MLS Function  Restart on System Failure  Enable Trace  NLS Compliant Define Concurrent Programs

52. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 52 New button on the Concurrent Programs screen: Session Control Define Concurrent Programs

53. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 53 Concurrent Program - Screen Changes

54. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 54 Concurrent Program – Screen Changes Session Control Dialog

55. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 55  Consumer Group - Database Resource Group  Rollback Segment - First Commit Only!  Optimizer Mode - FIRST_ROWS - ALL_ROWS - RULE - CHOOSE Session Control Dialog

56. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 56 Define Concurrent Manager Screen Changes Consumer Group: Database Resource Group Concurrent Manager – Screen Changes

57. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 57  Additional Latency and Bandwidth Information - Client to the Middle-tier - Middle-tier to the Database-tier Network Test Screen

58. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 58 Network Test Screen

59. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 59  FND: Resource Consumer Group - Database Resource Manager  Utilities:SQL Trace  Account Generator: Run in Debug Mode  Purchasing: Workflow Processing Mode - Online - Background New Profile Options

60. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 60  Admin Utility Used to: - Add Products - Add Languages For UNIX: $cd COMMON_TOP/admin/assistants/licmgr $LicenseMgr $AD_TOP/bin/adlicmgr.sh License Manager

61. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 61 My Definition of Cloning… The process of reproducing an entire environment, including the Oracle home ($ORACLE_HOME) and Application top ($APPL_TOP) directory structures. Note that this may be different than what you currently now as “refreshing” a database. Cloning 11i Instances

62. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 62 Two Methods:  Manually - Need To Change - Dozens Of Configuration Files - Numerous Site Profile Values - Not Supported  Oracle’s adclone.pl Cloning 11i Instances

63. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 63 adclone.pl:  MetaLink Document: 280896  Patch 1636653 1906056  A Supported Method  Limitations – Identical Configuration Overview:  Pre-clone, Copy, Post-clone, Wrap-up Tasks Cloning 11i Instances – adclone.pl

64. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 64  DDRTEST (ddrtest.jsp)  Found On Oracle’s FTP Site (ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/apps/patchsets/AOL/DDRTEST/) - Display DBC File Contents - CLASSPATH And Important Class Versions - Tests JDBC Connection - Validates Login To Apps - Verifies Client Cookies Debugging Tool – DDRTEST

65. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 65  Found On Oracle’s FTP Site: ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/apps/patchsets/PATCHSET_COMPARE_TOOL/ - Updated Nightly By Oracle - Can Be Used For 10.7, 11.0.x And 11.5.x - Displays Currently Available Patchsets - Reads Your applptch.txt File - Produces Reports On Differences - Automate It Patchset Comparison Tool

66. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 66  FNDCPASS - Oracle Supported Utility For Changing Passwords – Finally!  UNIX find Command: $find. -exec grep -l 8001 {} \;  GNU Find Utilities – locate command Miscellaneous Tips And Tricks

67. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 67 The Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to Release 11i are… Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

68. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 68 Number 10... Needed an excuse to get out of work!!! Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

69. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 69 Number 9... Oracle is live on it! Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

70. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 70 Number 8... Oracle 8i, Oracle 8i, Oracle 8i! Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

71. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 71 Number 7... We’re all getting bored with 10.7 / 7.3.4 and need something new! (BTW, This Combination Is De-Supported) Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

72. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 72 Number 6... R10.7 Support Ends on December 31, 2002! Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

73. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 73 Number 5... Web based GUI interface! Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

74. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 74 Number 4... No more SmartClient! (What was Smart about it in the first place?) Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

75. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 75 Number 3... Locally Managed Tablespaces! Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

76. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 76 Number 2... Order Management Rewrite !!!! (No More OEORPC Listener) !!!! Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

77. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 77 and the # 1 reason to upgrade to Release 11i... (drum roll please...) Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

78. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 78 and the # 1 reason to upgrade to Release 11i... The TRMs are finally online!!!!!!!!! (Both On Documentation CD And On MetaLink – eTRM) Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade

79. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 79 More Information Email: rgiefer@solutionbeacon.comrgiefer@solutionbeacon.com Utilities, Papers, Tools: www.solutionbeacon.comwww.solutionbeacon.com See Us At OAUG: - R11i Installation And Upgrade Workshop - Upgrade SIG - R11i Upgrade Panel - Concurrent Manager Panel

80. © 2001 Solution Beacon, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 80 Questions