Landed Cost Management R12

Attached is the database schema of LCM and its integration with purchasing, receiving, inventory and costing.

View password of application user in Oracle E-Business Suite R12

Login to Apps user

Step 1:

--Package Specification
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE get_pwd
AS
   FUNCTION decrypt (KEY IN VARCHAR2, VALUE IN VARCHAR2)
      RETURN VARCHAR2;
END get_pwd;
/

Step 2:
--Package Body
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY get_pwd
AS
   FUNCTION decrypt (KEY IN VARCHAR2, VALUE IN VARCHAR2)
      RETURN VARCHAR2
   AS
      LANGUAGE JAVA
      NAME 'oracle.apps.fnd.security.WebSessionManagerProc.decrypt(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) return java.lang.String';
END get_pwd;
/

Step 3:
Query to get password for apps user.

SELECT
(SELECT get_pwd.decrypt (UPPER ((SELECT UPPER (fnd_profile.VALUE ('GUEST_USER_PWD')) FROM DUAL)), usertable.encrypted_foundation_password) FROM DUAL) AS apps_password
 FROM fnd_user usertable
WHERE usertable.user_name LIKE UPPER ((SELECT SUBSTR (fnd_profile.VALUE ('GUEST_USER_PWD') ,1 , INSTR (fnd_profile.VALUE ('GUEST_USER_PWD'), '/') - 1 ) FROM DUAL))
Step 4:
 --Query for finding any application user
SELECT usr.user_name,
       get_pwd.decrypt
          ((SELECT (SELECT get_pwd.decrypt
                              (fnd_web_sec.get_guest_username_pwd,
                               usertable.encrypted_foundation_password
                              )
                      FROM DUAL) AS apps_password
              FROM fnd_user usertable
             WHERE usertable.user_name =
                      (SELECT SUBSTR
                                  (fnd_web_sec.get_guest_username_pwd,
                                   1,
                                     INSTR
                                          (fnd_web_sec.get_guest_username_pwd,
                                           '/'
                                          )
                                   - 1
                                  )
                         FROM DUAL)),
           usr.encrypted_user_password
          ) PASSWORD
  FROM fnd_user usr
 WHERE usr.user_name = '&USER_NAME';




---REFERENCE
http://muthunagaraj.blogspot.com/2012/07/steps-for-finding-password-of-user-in.html

How to run concurrent program in procedure/ trigger

req_id NUMBER;

RESULT BOOLEAN;

RESULT := APPS.fnd_request.set_mode (TRUE);

                req_id := APPS.FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST('FND',

                                         'FNDSCURS',

                                         '',

                                         sysdate,

                                         FALSE,

                                         :NEW.BATCH_ID);

               commit;

  

--this is sample to run the active users standard report having no parameter, you can explore the parameters by reviewing the FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT body. 

Error while ruuning OAF Hello World OAException: Message Name: SECURITY_APPL_SERVER_ID

Solution: This may occur due to the dbc file no correctly being parsed. Replace the dbc file from application server into jdeveloper required path.

Server Path: /opt/oracle/inst/apps/<SID>_<apps_node>/appl/fnd/12.0.0/secure/<SID>.dbc
Jdeveloper Path: D:\jdevhome\jdev\dbc_files\secure

Gather schema errors out after upgrade from R12.1.1 to R12.1.3

This is a known bug and solution is in the given mentioned oracle support note

11i - 12 Gather Schema Statistics fails with Ora-20001 errors after 11G database Upgrade (Doc ID 781813.1)

How to run a Concurrent Program from ZOOM button in R12

Brief Introduction to Custom Library: The CUSTOM.pll library is a standard Oracle Forms PL/SQL library that is supplied by Oracle with the Oracle Applications. This is Oracle’s built-in feature that allows the customer to enhance the standard functionality of the Applications by implementing site-specific business rules. Every Oracle Forms -based eBusiness screen, and any custom form developed using the Oracle Application development standards, will access the CUSTOM library. This makes an ideal point of creating business rules that effect the entire organization. This is the only method of forms enhancement whose functionality is supported by Oracle World Wide Support. Although any enhancements coded by the customer are not directly supported by Oracle World Wide Support.

Solution:

To run a report we have to make changes in CUSTOM.pll library which resides in $AU_TOP resource folder. To make customizations in CUSTOM.pll we have to open the CUSTOM.pll in form builder.

Then to make code enable for ZOOM button is to be written in CUSTOM.pll to write the code library is to be opened in Forms builder.

After compiling the library place it on the server and compile it again with the following code

Source the environment variable.

. frmcmp_batch.sh module=/opt/oracle/apps/apps_st/appl/au/12.0.0/resource/CUSTOM.pll userid=apps/apps output_file=/opt/oracle/apps/apps_st/appl/au/12.0.0/resource/CUSTOM.plx module_type=library compile_all=special

Note: You have to re login to see the changes.

Code to Run the Concurrent Program:

To run the reports we will have to write the code in event procedure of CUSTOM.pll the code is as following:

procedure event(event_name varchar2) is

form_name            varchar2(30) := name_in('system.current_form');

  block_name          varchar2(30) := name_in('system.cursor_block');

  lv_param_p1         varchar2(30);

  lv_param_p2         varchar2(30);

  request_id          NUMBER;

  timer_id            timer;

  parm_request_id     number;

  progress_no         number;

  v_layout            boolean;

  l_wait                            boolean;

  x_Phase             Varchar2(100);

  x_Status            Varchar2(100);

  x_Dev_Phase         Varchar2(100);

  x_Dev_Status        Varchar2(100);

  x_Message           Varchar2(100); 

  begin

   

    if (event_name = 'ZOOM') then

    if (form_name = 'ARXTWMAI' and block_name = 'TGW_HEADER') THEN

   

    lv_param_p1 := name_in('tgw_header.TRX_NUMBER_MIR'); --- This is the parameter that is from standard form into the report parameter

   

    v_layout :=FND_REQUEST.add_layout('AR','USA_AR_INVOICE_VOUCHER','en','US','PDF',NULL); -- This is to set the layout

   

    request_id :=  fnd_request.submit_request('AR','USA_AR_INVOICE_VOUCHER','Cust Export Sale  Voucher',SYSDATE,FALSE,'','','',lv_param_p1,lv_param_p1,'','','','','');  --- This will submit the concurrent request to execute the report. Parameters in sequence to execute the report.

   

    COMMIT; --- commit must be used when ever a concurrent parogram is run customized

    clear_message;

     If request_id Is Null Or

       request_id = 0 Then

      Return;

     End If;

    

    

       fnd_message.set_string('Request Submitted :' || request_id ||'. Please Wait ..... ');

       fnd_message.show;

        SET_APPLICATION_PROPERTY(CURSOR_STYLE, 'BUSY');

        APP_WINDOW.PROGRESS(0);

       

        l_wait := Fnd_Concurrent.Wait_For_Request(request_id,1,0,x_Phase,x_Status,x_Dev_Phase,x_Dev_Status,x_Message);

       

          If x_Dev_Phase = 'COMPLETE' THEN --- And x_Dev_Status = 'NORMAL' Then

            

             --    message(x_Dev_Phase);

            

Editor_Pkg.Report(request_id,'Y'); --- This resides in FNDCON.pll library you will have to add this library to CUSTIOM.pll so the compile the library otherwise it will not compile. Shown in figure at the end.

           Else

                              Fnd_File.Put_Line(1,Rpad('x_phase',20,' ') || '=' || x_Phase);

                              Fnd_File.Put_Line(1,Rpad('x_status=',20,' ') || '=' || x_Status);

                              Fnd_File.Put_Line(1,Rpad('x_dev_phase=',20,' ') || '=' || x_Dev_Phase);

                              Fnd_File.Put_Line(1,Rpad('x_dev_status=',20,' ') || '=' || x_Dev_Status);

                              Fnd_File.Put_Line(1,Rpad('x_message=',20,' ') || '=' || x_Message);

                              Fnd_File.Put_Line(1,'Warning : Starting print report failure! It did not running in 120 seconds, its request_id is ' ||

                                                To_Char(request_id) || ' please check it.');

    End If;

     

        SET_APPLICATION_PROPERTY(CURSOR_STYLE, 'DEFAULT'); 

        APP_WINDOW.PROGRESS(1);

       

       

                

        end if;   

 

    end if;   

 

  end event;

This will execute your required report but report will be complete in warning and report must be added to that request group.

Press Yes in above figure.

Difference between ad_bugs and ad_applied_patches

Bug Definition: A software bug is an error, flaw, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that produces an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended ways. 

In oracle e-business suite when some standard functionality is not working correctly or as per mentioned in documentation there is a bug and for bug oracle support recommends patch. One single patch can fix a single or multiple bugs.

AD_BUGS
All the bugs whose fixes has been applied before that release i-e patches applied in Oracle Applications Installation. Upon successful installation many entries exists in this table.

AD_APPLIED_PATCHES
It holds the information of patches applied after installation. If 2 patches happen to have the same name but are different in content (eg. "merged" patches), then they are considered distinct and this table will therefore hold 2 records.

So whenever a patch is applied, entries occur in both tables.

Oracle Reports Language changes from English to some other

1.     Open report builder => Tools => File Conversion

2.     Select rdf file which need to covert first

3.     Select file path and give any file name on that file, rex file will generate on that path.

4.     Open that file in any editor.

5.     Replace charset = 178 or charset = 0 or any charset datatype length with charset = 31 and save it.

6.     Again open report builder => Tools => File Conversion.

7.     Select rex file first and then open rdf file for file conversion.

8.     Save rdf file

Check the report if not correct result follow below mention action plan.

Problem: All customized reports giving output in English language got disturbed. They are changed from English to some other language.

Solution: Kindly check the report log file. It might be displaying error:
REP-0004: Warning: Unable to open user preference file

Request Logs Contain the Message "REP-0004: Warning: Unable to open user preference file" (Doc ID 1120529.1)

Copy the prefs.ora file from /opt/oracle/apps/tech_st/10.1.2/tools/admin to /home/oracle/ 

Copying " pref.ora file to /home/oracle." would be required if all requests are failing to Print. If you remove pref.ora file and print Active users report and that works then you do not need this. Having prefs.ora being present at /home/oracle has no harm. It is just a preference file. 

Bounce the application node and retest if the issue is resolved. If above solution doesn't work then after taking backup of existing environment file and add the below lines and bounce the application node and retest. It must be resolved by now.

"IX_PRINTING=$FND_TOP/$APPLRSC/ixlib.cfg 
export IX_PRINTING " 

The note might be useful Oracle Reports 10.1.2 NLS Setup Guide for Oracle Applications Release 12 (Doc ID 415967.1)

getaddrinfo(localhost, NULL, 1) failed (Name or service not known): No such file or directory

During the start up of middle tier services opmn was failed to start with the below error.

When attempting to start up the R12 middle tier services, the following error occurs.

ERROR

getaddrinfo(localhost, NULL, 1) failed (Name or service not known): No such file or directory
getaddrinfo(localhost, NULL, 1) failed (Name or service not known): No such file or directory
getaddrinfo(localhost, NULL, 1) failed (Name or service not known): No such file or directory
opmnctl: opmn start failed.

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:
1. Apply R12 prerequisites
2. Install R12 using Rapid wizard
3. Startup middle tier services.

CAUSE

The hosts file does not contain the localhost entry needed for loopback
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain

SOLUTION

To implement the solution, please execute the following steps:

1. Modify hosts file and add localhost entry to look like below (example for Linux):

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
Note: For other platforms please check how the hosts entries should look like in the platform specific "Oracle Applications Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12" note.

Start middle tier services.

Reference:
http://crescentitsme.blogspot.com/2014/01/getaddrinfolocalhost-null-1-failed-name.html

Size of Oracle Applications R12 increasing rapidly

There can be number of reasons behind the rapid increase of oracle applications, few of them are listed below which I encountered.

CASE I:

There might be some sort of logging/ debugging enabled in system. You can check them from following queries.

Profiles 'Utilities: SQL Trace' and 'Concurrent: Allow Debugging' are set on site and user levels. If they are set, disable them.

select p.profile_option_name SHORT_NAME,
n.user_profile_option_name NAME,
decode(v.level_id,
10001, 'Site',
10002, 'Application',
10003, 'Responsibility',
10004, 'User',
10005, 'Server',
10007, 'SERVRESP',
'UnDef') LEVEL_SET,
decode(to_char(v.level_id),
'10001', '',
'10002', app.application_short_name,
'10003', rsp.responsibility_key,
'10005', svr.node_name,
'10006', org.name,
'10004', usr.user_name,
'10007', 'Serv/resp',
'UnDef') "CONTEXT",
v.profile_option_value VALUE
from fnd_profile_options p,
fnd_profile_option_values v,
fnd_profile_options_tl n,
fnd_user usr,
fnd_application app,
fnd_responsibility rsp,
fnd_nodes svr,
hr_operating_units org
where p.profile_option_id = v.profile_option_id (+)
and p.profile_option_name = n.profile_option_name
and p.profile_option_name in
('SQL_TRACE', 'FND_CONC_ALLOW_DEBUG')
and usr.user_id (+) = v.level_value
and rsp.application_id (+) = v.level_value_application_id
and rsp.responsibility_id (+) = v.level_value
and app.application_id (+) = v.level_value
and svr.node_id (+) = v.level_value
and org.organization_id (+) = v.level_value
order by short_name, level_set;

Run the sql below to check if any concurrent program is trace enabled on concurrent program define form. If there are any, un-check the flag on the concurrent program define form.

select application_id,
concurrent_program_name,
last_update_date,
last_updated_by
from fnd_concurrent_programs
where enable_trace = 'Y';

Connect SQLPLUS with command as below with DB user(e.g. oravis):

>sqlplus /nolog
SQL> conn / as sysdba
SQL> show parameter user_dump_dest

The returned directory will store ALL .trc & .trm file, this may cause increase size rapidly.

CASE II:

Size of core files might increasing path of which is: "/opt/oracle/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_prodapps/ora/10.1.2/forms"

So according to support note
Note 1331304.1: Forms Core Dump Files generated in E-Business Suite R12 (Doc ID 1331304.1)

 Edit context parameter value "s_forms_catchterm"
FROM
<FORMS_CATCHTERM oa_var="s_forms_catchterm">1</FORMS_CATCHTERM>
TO
<FORMS_CATCHTERM oa_var="s_forms_catchterm">0</FORMS_CATCHTERM>


Run Autoconfig to make change effective.

FORMS_CATCHTERM. This variable enables or disables the Forms abnormal termination handler which captures middle tier crashes and writes diagnostic information into the dump file or the forms server log file. Allowed values are {0,1}. By default, this value is set to '1' which enables the Forms termination handler. Setting this variable to '0' disables the Forms termination Handler.

So, set it to 0 is to disable the Forms termination Handler.

You can remove those core files as they are not needed, because they are OK to remove. You can just use OS command to delete them.

Moreover,
Note 356878.1: R11i / R12 : How to relink an E-Business Suite Installation of Release 11i and Release 12.x (Doc ID 356878.1)

Another oracle support note was found in this regard if above solution doesn't work.

Note 1194383.1: R12: Frequent frmweb core files created in $INST_TOP/ora/10.1.2/forms (frmweb core dumps) (Doc ID 1194383.1)
to apply Patch 8940272 - MULTIPLE CORE DUMPS FOUND DURING LOAD TESTING.

You can apply with command:
>opatch apply
You also can rollback it with command:
>opatch rollback -id 8940272

Oracle Applications installation on Linux 64 bit

https://blogs.oracle.com/ptian/entry/oracle_application_r12_12_1

When BI Publisher desent works in Office 2010

https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1111620&tstart=477

Finally figured out what is the root cause of this issue is. This is caused by one of the Microsoft's windows security update that installs VBA runtime file, which is supposed to fix a VBA vulnerability but caused third party softwares (plug-in) stop working! Yes, this third party software in this case is the Template Builder. 

Here is the detail of the MSFT update patch.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932349

Basically what we need to do is to delete '.exd' files, which have been invalidated by the update, then refresh them by restarting the Word again. In my case, I found one file under C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Forms so deleted it, then restarted Word, now it's all working.

Running a SQL Loader as a concurrent program

There are few steps to register a control file in Oracle Applications R12.

Step I:

Place the test.ctl script under the “bin” directory in application top directory e.g“$FND_TOP/bin”.

Also place the data.csv file on the server and give the complete path of csv in ctl file. e-g: /opt/oracle/FND_TOP/bin/data.csv

Step II:

   Login to Oracle Application  > System Administrator responsibility
   Navigate Concurrent > Program > Executable and enter a new one:
   Executable: test
   Short Name: test
   Application: Application Object Library (or if you place it in any other top then give its name)
   Description: SQL Loader
   Execution Method: SQL*Loader
   Execution File Name: test

Step III:

   Navigate to: Concurrent > Program > Define and enter a new one:

   Program: SQL Loader Program
   Short Name: test
   Application: Application Object Library
   Description: SQL Loader
   Name: test
   Method: SQL*Loader

   Output Format: Text

Step IV:  

   Navigate Security > Responsibility > Request
   Query for Group: System Administrator Reports and add one request
   Type: Program, Name:  SQL Loader program