Updated on 8th October 2021 for Microsoft Edge Version 94.0.x.x & for Windows 11 that comes without Internet Explorer (or it doesn’t allow you to start Internet Explorer)
A much easier method is available with versions later than the one I used earlier.
Step# 1. Go to Edge settings (type edge://settings in the address bar and select “Default Browser”
Change “Allow sites to be reloaded in the Internet Explorer mode” to “Allow”, that will require you to restart the browser. Please restart
Step# 2. Now enter the address of your Oracle Application in the address bar and wait for the login page to load. Once loaded, click on the “three dots” menu by the extreme right of the browser and select “Reload in Internet Explorer mode”
This will open another dialog box as seen with the above image. Toggle “Open this page in Internet Explorer mode next time” and click “Done” button, that will produce more notifications like the one you could see with the below image.
It asks you to leave the Internet Explorer mode and another button “Show in toolbar”. This is an interesting button, clicking that starts showing a small tool button in the tools area and the button will reload the current page in “Internet Explorer mode”.
That’s all. Just click the toolbar button and your Oracle Application login page will be loaded in “Internet Explorer mode” immediately.
Toggling the switch to “Open this page in Internet Explorer mode next time” in the “Step# 2” adds an entry to “Internet Explorer mode pages” area for your current page and the entry is valid for next 30 days. Microsoft is expecting you to modernize your “page” within those next 30 days ;). Once this entry expires, you must get the “Open this page in Internet Explorer mode next time” dialog box once again.
October 8, 2021 update ends here.
After 25 years ever since it was launched, Windows 11 will be the first OS that is not shipping with Internet Explorer.
How does this matter to Businesses those use Oracle Application versions 11 & 12.0.xx? Well, currently Internet Explorer is the only one browser that allows to load Oracle JRE (NPAPI client) for Oracle Forms, on which much of the Oracle module rely.
Oracle Applications has patched the latest releases with a technology called JWS (Java Web Start), that let’s the users to download a jnlp file from the application and Oracle Java Run Time to start in desktop mode (without being loaded in a browser session) loading Oracle Forms. Well, this enhancement is not available for Application versions 11 & 12.0.xx
Microsoft was expecting a huge cry from the Businesses that use Oracle Applications/legacy implementations those cost millions of dollars and fine tuned for Internet Explorer. Cutting these businesses could mean loads for Microsoft, So they have integrated “IE Mode” into their chromium based “Edge browser”, which is the default browser on Windows 11. IE Mode makes Edge Chrome to “act” as if it were Internet Explorer for legacy Web based applications & loads NPAPI clients like JRE.
Today let us see how to configure Microsoft Edge Chrome for Oracle Applications.
Start Microsoft Edge Chrome & open “Settings”
Click on Default Browser & spend a moment to check currently set options.
Let us change few of those settings like shown below.
Let Internet Explorer open sites in Microsoft Edge -> Change to Allow
Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode ->Change to “Allow”. This will require you to restart the browser.
You must add the sites those you want to open in IE mode by clicking “Internet Explorer mode pages” Add button. Such pages will have maximum 30 days validity. Without, JRE will not load and will prompt you to download it from the default location.
Now, let us click the restart button & give it a try.
Quite often auditors could come with some strange requirements (especially when they do not understand the business) & we had to formalize on foot couple of years back. From those days, I always wanted to put together few things and post this, which is happening today.
Our requirements were to list the receipts in 7 buckets, ie, within last 120 days, between 121-180 days, beween 181-1 year, between 1-2 Years, between 2-3 Years and 3-5 Years and 5 Years+ (and still in stock!)
Please note, I am using a custom function “omsconcorgqty_f“ (code provided below, that concatenates the subinventory quantities into a single column. This function could raise an exception when the column length exceeds 4000 characters.
Minimum requirements: Your EBS instance must be using Oracle database 11gR2 to use “LISTAGG” that is used with the custom function. In addition to, I am using PIVOT, that is supported from 11g.
The below example considers a situation where business has a WMS enabled organization. You can pass NULL to :P_WAREHOUSE_ID when not applicable.
If your organization uses multiple UOM for items, you must adjust the below query accordingly, especially for the cost part.
The average cost for the item is picked using the following logic.
If the :P_ORG_ID has item quantities, then the cost for the item will be picked from the same organization. If the :P_ORG_ID organization doesn’t have quantities and warehouse has, then the cost from :P_WAREHOUSE_ID organization will be picked. So there could be inventory value differences and you shouldn’t use the inventory values derived from this exercises if the above said conditions apply.
One of the challenges you are going to face is to identifying the transaction types those should be considered as a receipt. For example, we receive materials in stock through the following transactions.
SELECT a.transaction_type_id
, a.transaction_type_name
, a.transaction_source_type_id
, b.transaction_source_type_name
, a.transaction_action_id
, c.meaning
FROM mtl_transaction_types a
, mtl_txn_source_types b
, mfg_lookups c
WHERE a.transaction_source_type_id = b.transaction_source_type_id
AND a.transaction_action_id = c.lookup_code
AND c.lookup_type = 'MTL_TRANSACTION_ACTION'
AND a.transaction_type_id IN (12,15,18,40,41,42)
ORDER BY transaction_type_id;
If your organization uses additional transaction types for receiving stock to the stores, please include them to the solution. Here the solution is about scanning the entire MTL_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS table & based on the volume of data/hardware resources, it could be a very painful ordeal. My suggestion is to run the query when there are least numbers of “issues” are expected.
I will try to explain the approach step by step, for better understanding.
At the first level we will pick all items for the organization(s) from the MTL_ONHAND_QUANTITIES & use this list for picking up items from the MTL_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS.
with ohqty_data as (
select inventory_item_id, sum(transaction_quantity) oh_qty from
mtl_onhand_quantities
where
organization_id in (:p_org_id,:p_warehouse_id)
group by inventory_item_id
)
The above code portion will pick all the items from quantities table that has on-hand quantities.
inv_data as (
select inventory_item_id, qty, age_in_days,
sum(qty) over (partition by inventory_item_id order by age_in_days) running_balance,
sum(qty) over (partition by inventory_item_id order by age_in_days)-qty previous_balance
from (
select inventory_item_id, sum(transaction_quantity) qty,
age_in_days from (
select inventory_item_id, transaction_quantity,
case
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) <= 120 then 1
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 121 and 180 then 2
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 181 and 365 then 3
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 366 and 730 then 4
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 731 and 1095 then 5
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 1096 and 1825 then 6
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) > 1825 then 7
end age_in_days
from mtl_material_transactions mmt
where
1=1
and inventory_item_id in (select distinct inventory_item_id from ohqty_data)
and organization_id in (:p_org_id,:p_warehouse_id)
and transaction_type_id in (12,15,18,40,41,42)
)
group by inventory_item_id, age_in_days
)
)
This code portion groups data into multiple age buckets, based on business requirements. We will be using few Analytical functions to determine balance in individual age buckets. The final SQL block will look like below.
with ohqty_data as (
select inventory_item_id, sum(transaction_quantity) oh_qty from
mtl_onhand_quantities
where
organization_id in (:p_org_id,:p_warehouse_id)
group by inventory_item_id
),
inv_data as (
select inventory_item_id, qty, age_in_days,
sum(qty) over (partition by inventory_item_id order by age_in_days) running_balance,
sum(qty) over (partition by inventory_item_id order by age_in_days)-qty previous_balance
from (
select inventory_item_id, sum(transaction_quantity) qty,
age_in_days from (
select inventory_item_id, transaction_quantity,
case
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) <= 120 then 1
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 121 and 180 then 2
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 181 and 365 then 3
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 366 and 730 then 4
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 731 and 1095 then 5
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 1096 and 1825 then 6
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) > 1825 then 7
end age_in_days
from mtl_material_transactions mmt
where
1=1
and inventory_item_id in (select distinct inventory_item_id from ohqty_data)
and organization_id in (:p_org_id,:p_warehouse_id)
and transaction_type_id in (12,15,18,40,41,42)
)
group by inventory_item_id, age_in_days
)
)
select inventory_item_id, age_in_days, age_bucket_balance from (
select inventory_item_id, age_in_days,
case when (running_balance <= oh_qty) then qty
else nvl(oh_qty - previous_balance, oh_qty)
end age_bucket_balance from(
select a.*, b.oh_qty from inv_data a
inner join ohqty_data b on b.inventory_item_id = a.inventory_item_id
order by a.inventory_item_id, a.age_in_days
))
where age_bucket_balance > 0;
Problem & The solution.
Oracle inventory issues the quantities following FIFO method. Say you received 10 pieces of a material in January 2021 and additional 10 pieces of the same item on February 2021. Think of a transaction that issues 8 quantities in March 2021. The balance sheet for the item after the transaction will look like below
The given code block does this calculation! I will find some time in near future for step by step explanation for the logic & solution. I’ve many people to thank for this solution, especially my colleague Sherin Thomas Mathew, Iudith Menzel and our sales team that stood with me through a month long experiments and wrong outputs.
Let us minutes change the code block with an insert
INSERT INTO OMSINVSTAGE(INVENTORY_ITEM_ID, AGE_IN_DAYS, CLOSE_BALANCE)
with ohqty_data as (
select inventory_item_id, sum(transaction_quantity) oh_qty from
mtl_onhand_quantities
where
organization_id in (:p_org_id,:p_warehouse_id)
group by inventory_item_id
),
inv_data as (
select inventory_item_id, qty, age_in_days,
sum(qty) over (partition by inventory_item_id order by age_in_days) running_balance,
sum(qty) over (partition by inventory_item_id order by age_in_days)-qty previous_balance
from (
select inventory_item_id, sum(transaction_quantity) qty,
age_in_days from (
select inventory_item_id, transaction_quantity,
case
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) <= 120 then 1
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 121 and 180 then 2
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 181 and 365 then 3
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 366 and 730 then 4
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 731 and 1095 then 5
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) between 1096 and 1825 then 6
when (trunc (sysdate) - trunc (mmt.transaction_date)) > 1825 then 7
end age_in_days
from mtl_material_transactions mmt
where
1=1
and inventory_item_id in (select distinct inventory_item_id from ohqty_data)
and organization_id in (:p_org_id,:p_warehouse_id)
and transaction_type_id in (12,15,18,40,41,42)
)
group by inventory_item_id, age_in_days
)
)
select inventory_item_id, age_in_days, age_bucket_balance from (
select inventory_item_id, age_in_days,
case when (running_balance <= oh_qty) then qty
else nvl(oh_qty - previous_balance, oh_qty)
end age_bucket_balance from(
select a.*, b.oh_qty from inv_data a
inner join ohqty_data b on b.inventory_item_id = a.inventory_item_id
order by a.inventory_item_id, a.age_in_days
))
where age_bucket_balance > 0;
Commit & don’t forget to delete rows before NEXT run. Use a global temporary table for best results.
Once the rows are populated to our table, we can execute the final code block to generate the Ageing report.
WITH DATASET AS(
Select pivot_data.* from (
select
inv_data.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID,
inv_data.close_balance TYPE_QTY,
inv_data.AGE_IN_DAYS from OMSINVSTAGE inv_data
where
1=1
--inv_data.inventory_item_id = 27626
and inv_data.close_balance > 0
)
PIVOT (sum(type_qty) FOR AGE_IN_DAYS IN (1 as "120 Days",2 "121-180 Days",3 "181-365 Days",4 "1Yr-2Yr",5 "2Yr-3Yr",6 "3Yr-5Yrs",7 "5Yrs+")) pivot_data)
SELECT msi.concatenated_segments, msi.description,msi.primary_uom_code,
CASE WHEN nvl((Select sum(transaction_quantity) from mtl_onhand_quantities moq where moq.inventory_item_id = msi.inventory_item_id and moq.organization_id=:P_ORG_ID
group by moq.inventory_item_id,moq.organization_id),0) > 0 then (
Select item_cost from cst_item_costs cic
where cic.inventory_item_id = msi.inventory_item_id and cic.organization_id = msi.organization_id and cic.cost_type_id = 2)
ELSE
(Select item_cost from cst_item_costs cic
where cic.inventory_item_id = msi.inventory_item_id and cic.organization_id = :P_WAREHOUSE_ID and cic.cost_type_id = 2)
END item_cost,
dataset.*,
OMSCONCORGQTY_f(:P_ORG_ID, :P_WAREHOUSE_ID, dataset.inventory_item_id, msi.primary_uom_code) org_quantity FROM DATASET
INNER JOIN mtl_system_items_kfv MSI ON MSI.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID = DATASET.INVENTORY_ITEM_ID AND MSI.ORGANIZATION_ID=:P_ORG_ID
ORDER BY msi.concatenated_segments;
omsconcorgqty_f function
This function adds (W) before the subinventories from :P_WAREHOUSE_ID organization for easier identification.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION omsconcorgqty_f (
p_org_id IN NUMBER,
p_warehouse_id IN NUMBER,
p_item_id IN NUMBER,
p_uom IN VARCHAR2
) RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
l_qty_string VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
SELECT
LISTAGG(subqty, ',') WITHIN GROUP(
ORDER BY
subqty
)
INTO l_qty_string
FROM
(
SELECT
inventory_item_id,
CASE
WHEN organization_id = p_warehouse_id THEN
'(W)'
|| subinventory_code
|| '('
|| to_char(SUM(transaction_quantity))
|| ')'
ELSE
subinventory_code
|| '('
|| to_char(SUM(transaction_quantity))
|| ')'
END subqty
FROM
mtl_onhand_quantities_detail moq
WHERE
moq.inventory_item_id = p_item_id
AND moq.transaction_uom_code = p_uom
AND organization_id IN ( p_org_id, p_warehouse_id )
GROUP BY
inventory_item_id,
subinventory_code,
organization_id
)
GROUP BY
inventory_item_id;
RETURN l_qty_string;
END;
A single music track, movie, event, product… changes the life for many & in my case it was a single API by Oracle!
“oe_order_pub.process_order” that comes with Oracle Applications (We are using EBS R12)
The firm for which I work is using an inhouse developed module for the complete retailing & I take the credit of developing the full solution using this ONE API/around this API.
From a mere “Oracle Forms & Reports” developer with some knowledge about Oracle database, developing around this single API to facilitate Sales Orders and Returns (RMA) slowly shaped me in to whatever I am today.
We are using this custom module from last 11 years and I wouldn’t say there were no issues. We’ve many sales outlets and most of them are connected to the datacenter using ADSL data lines. Sometimes the connections caused, other times code caused, few other times some internal bugs caused problems were there, however against the volume of sales transactions those we make yearly, limited to numbers those could be counted in fingers.
So, recently I was contacted by the sales team, to resolve an issue with a sales return, with lines stuck “Awaiting Return” status. While inspecting the transaction, I realized that the salesmen tried to return this SO multiple times and instead of 2 lines against the sales order, there were 20 lines (10 attempts). I cleared whole those lines with errors and tried to receive the materials once again, bringing up the error:
RVTPT-020: Subroutine rvtoe_RmaPushApi() - EQuantity cannot be greater than original ordered quantity. returned error
Cause: Subroutine rvtoe_RmaPushApi() - EQuantity cannot be greater than original ordered quantity. returned an in
Eventually, I landed upon the Oracle support document “RMA Receipt Error:RVTPT-020: Subroutine rvtoe_RmaPushApi() – EQuantity Cannot Be Greater Than Original Ordered Quantity (Doc ID 2409611.1)” & according to the document, this situation arises when there are multiple transactions trying to do a RMA against the same quantities! So I ran couple of quick queries like below:
Select * from oe_order_lines_all where header_id = (Select header_id from oe_order_headers_all where order_number='18016698');
Fetched all the line ids from the lines table against the order number & then tried to see where exactly the line ids were refernced. Whenever a RMA is facilitated the lines table fills in the columns “REFERENCE_HEADER_ID” and “REFERENCE_LINE_ID” with the header_id and line_id values from the original sales order. All I had to make sure that the line ids were referenced multiple times.
Select * from oe_order_lines_all where reference_line_id IN (4656844, 4656845);
As expected, I was able to find four lines (expected 2 lines only) and was able to track down the 2nd RMA that was automatically created by the API due to some unknown reasons (I said there were few problems using the API)
Based on the suggestions available with the support document, I cancelled the duplicate RMA transaction (Actually another Sales Order with the next immediate document number) & created a new receipt for the Sales Order that was stuck with lines having “Awaiting Return” flow status.
Internet explorer? Java client? Yes! Oracle E-Business Suite (Oracle Apps) uses NPAPI client when accessed through a web browser for Oracle Forms/Reports based applications. Currently the only one browser that allows the NPAPI client to load is Internet Explorer.
Depending upon the complex JAVA dependencies your version of Oracle Applications must be supporting a particular version of java client. Although you can use switches to load latest versions of JRE for your legacy Oracle application, not always advisable as I’ve experienced non-responsiveness & freezing.
Windows 10 version 2004 (Released by late May 2020) & subsequent cumulative updates MUST be the reason, causes a major issue with Internet Explorer (as on 26th June 2020). Once you installed & removed a higher version of JRE, JRE 6.x will not load anymore on the browser. You can reset Internet Explorer, reset your JRE & what not? Trying to open the Oracle forms based application would show the plugin being loaded and that’s all!
Strangely, I can see this issue is with only JRE 6.x when JRE 7.x and later load as usual without any problems. So if you think you have tried “everything” already & landed on this page, let us give it another try.
You can divide the below tasks into two sections. If JRE 6.x is the only one java client remaining after removing all other versions & if the JAVA_HOME or other Java related keys are not set under environment variables, just delete the “Sun” & “Java” Folders from “AppData” “Roaming”, “LocalLow” & “Local” folders. You may delete the “Javasoft” entry from “Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft” registry path also. Try to load Oracle forms based application and if the java client is NOT at all loading, follow the below instructions.
Uninstall Java Software
After uninstallation remove all remnants of Java software from the system.
This should open the appdata folder the current user.
Let us find and delete all “Java” and “Sun” folders and content within those folders. Please note, if you are using JAVA for other than accessing Oracle EBS, the following instructions may result disastrous situations. Hence I recommend you to continue with utter caution.
Delete “Sun” and “Java” folders as I have said before from “Roaming”, “LocalLow” & “Local”
Open RegEdit
and open the below path
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft
Delete the “JavaSoft” folder completely.
Now switch to “Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\JavaSoft”
This is the registry path where 32 Bit version of Java software is installed. Delete this folder also (if exists after uninstallation).
Now you are ready to re-install the Java client once again. I would prefer a computer restart prior attempting re-installation, which is not mandatory.
After the re-installation of JRE, opening the internet explorer should ask you for permission to enable the client and Oracle EBS should able to load the NPAPI client properly. Do let me know whether it helped you.
Today we will see how we can use CUSTOM.pll for enabling special menus and printing a custom report by invoking the special menu that we activate using the library.
We are going to use Oracle’s seeded form “POXPOEPO” AKA Purchase Orders.
Please make sure that you make a backup for the CUSTOM.pll prior making below said modifications. CUSTOM.pll is “always” found uner $AU_TOP/resources folder
We’ll enable the SPECIAL15 menu item for the exercise.
Load up CUSTOM.pll using Oracle Forms Designer & make sure you are connected to database before loading the library file.
Attach APPCORE, APPCORE2 libraries with your copy of CUSTOM.pll
Attach FNDCONC.pll library for calling printing related activities
Your CUSTOM.pll should look like the above after attaching said libraries.
Add the block as seen with the image by the bottom of your CUSTOM.pll package body.
BEGIN
IF (event_name = 'WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE') THEN
IF (l_form_name = 'POXPOEPO' AND l_block_name = 'PO_HEADERS') THEN
-- fnd_message.debug(l_form_name);
app_special2.instantiate('SPECIAL15', '&Print', 'prord',TRUE,'LINE');
END IF;
END IF;
END;
Now you can proceed with writing code for what happens when “SPECIAL15” event happens
BEGIN
IF (event_name = 'SPECIAL15') THEN
IF (l_form_name = 'POXPOEPO' AND l_block_name = 'PO_HEADERS') THEN
print_po(name_in('PO_HEADERS.ORG_ID'),name_in('PO_HEADERS.SEGMENT1'));
--fnd_message.debug('Will Print This Order');
--app_special2.instantiate('SPECIAL15', '&Print', 'prord',TRUE,'LINE');
END IF;
END IF;
END;
Here, I am calling a procedure that I defined with CUSTOM.pll for handling print requests.
and the package body is as following (not another image, I am going to save some efforts for you)
procedure print_po(p_org_id IN NUMBER, p_order_number IN VARCHAR2) is
l_ord_num NUMBER := 0;
l_ord_type_name VARCHAR2 (240);
l_req_id_Rep NUMBER;
l_request_completed BOOLEAN := FALSE;
l_req_phase VARCHAR2 (20);
l_req_status VARCHAR2 (1000);
l_req_dev_phase VARCHAR2 (1000);
l_req_dev_status VARCHAR2 (1000);
l_req_message VARCHAR2 (1000);
l_conc_mgr_status NUMBER;
p_call_stat NUMBER;
p_activep_stat NUMBER;
l_order_category_code NUMBER;
l_report_name VARCHAR2 (40);
l_ret_report_name VARCHAR2 (40);
l_req_id NUMBER;
l_order_type_name VARCHAR2(30);
--
l_signing_person VARCHAR2(240);
l_person_designation VARCHAR2(240);
BEGIN
--fnd_message.debug('Will Print This Order');
/*This is a custom procedure that checks whether the concurrent manager is online or not, you can safely comment this line
--Check the status of Concurrent Manager
apps.xx_conc_mgr_status_p (p_call_stat, p_activep_stat);
IF p_call_stat <> 0
THEN
fnd_message.set_string ('Concurrent Manager Status Unknown');
fnd_message.show;
ELSE
IF p_activep_stat > 0
THEN
NULL; --Message('ICM is running' || l_activep);
ELSE
fnd_message.set_string (
'Concurrent Manager is down, Please try printing the invoice later');
fnd_message.show;
RAISE form_trigger_failure;
END IF;
END IF;
--Checking concurrent manager status end----
-- MESSAGE ('Concurrent manager status: up & running');
*/
BEGIN
/* I am picking up the reports names (concurrent_program_name from FND_CONCURRENT_PROGRAMS_VL view as we have different layouts for companies
you can set up a value for l_report_name while variable is defined
---
--
SELECT execution_file_name,STRING1, STRING2
INTO l_report_name, l_signing_person, l_person_designation
FROM omspoprintreg
WHERE 1 = 1 AND organization_id = p_org_id
AND TRUNC (SYSDATE) BETWEEN start_date_active
AND NVL (end_date_active, SYSDATE);
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
THEN
fnd_message.set_string (
'No reports defined for this type of transaction, Please contact OM Super User');
fnd_message.show;
RAISE form_trigger_failure;
END;
-- FND_MESSAGE.DEBUG('Printing Order '||p_org_id||' order number '||p_order_number);
*/
--
--
l_req_id :=
fnd_request.submit_request ('PO',
l_report_name,
NULL,
SYSDATE,
FALSE,
P_ORG_ID,
P_ORDER_NUMBER,
l_signing_person,
l_person_designation,
chr(0));
--You cannot setup :SYSTEM.MESSAGE_LEVEL within CUSTOM.pll, hence use COPY
--to suppress messages like 'Two records saved'
COPY('25','SYSTEM.MESSAGE_LEVEL');
COMMIT;
-- FND_MESSAGE.DEBUG('Your request id is '||l_req_id);
l_request_completed :=
fnd_concurrent.wait_for_request (request_id => l_req_id,
INTERVAL => 1,
phase => l_req_phase,
status => l_req_status,
dev_phase => l_req_dev_phase,
dev_status => l_req_dev_status,
MESSAGE => l_req_message);
--:SYSTEM.Message_Level := '25';
COMMIT;
editor_pkg.report (l_req_id, 'Y');
end print_po;
That’s it!
Now copy the CUSTOM.pll to $AU_TOP/resources & compile it
If you don’t have syntax errors or other, you must have the fresh CUSTOM.pll
Please make sure that no users are currently online while you are compiling the CUSTOM.pll (This is only applicable to cases where the CUSTOM.pll is already deployed for different forms)
Log on to the instance, access Purchase Orders form & you should see a new menu item under “Tools” menu enabled
While CUSTOM.pll implements “editor_pkg.report” by attaching FNDCONC.pll, FORMS personalization will fail to provide the same functionality as most of the seeded forms do not have FNDCONC library attached to them by default. If you don’t want to use editor_pkg.report to open the completed report, you may create a database level procedure to submit the request(s) and call the same against SPECIAL(n) menu item through FORMS personalization.
Two days back I’ve seen a tweet from Michael Ferrante asking the “Forms Enthusiasts” to hold their breathe, as Oracle is going to announce something “Exciting” for Oracle forms. Are you EXCITED as much I am? Well, I am pretty sure, it is going to be a push for AuraPlayer, as he has mentioned them in the tweet.
Regardless, I’ve a local instance of Weblogic Server 12.2.1.3, installed and a classic domain created. I stopped using it as my firm decided to drop the idea to migrate our 20+ years old Developer 6i developed ERP to Weblogic due to the complexity of Oracle licensing, followed by the uncertainty of Oracle support for Oracle forms beyond 2025 (Which is just 6 years away).
Hell with it, I wanted to see how far I have configured the domain and ended up setting up the forms server, publishing the half baked legacy application. As I have made more than dozen Weblogic installations in last 2-3 years time, I had almost everything backed up from different installations like configuration files, environment and registry files. All I needed was to copy and replace them at most of the places to bring the legacy application online within couple of hours time.
However, I have noticed that while starting the Weblogic Admin Server (from the command prompt, using supplied .cmd files), I was getting a number of java errors & all of them were related to FADS (Forms Application Development Services) & some text were like below (Sorry for the wrapping issues)
weblogic.application.library.LibraryDeploymentException: [J2EE:160141] Could not initialize the library Extension-Name: fads-dbtools-library. Ensure that the deployment unit is a valid library type (WAR, EJB, EAR, plain JAR). D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\forms..\sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\lib\oracle.dbtools-common.jar (The system cannot find the file specified) with : D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\forms..\sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\lib\oracle.dbtools-common.jar at weblogic.application.internal.library.LibraryDeploymentFactory.getLibData(LibraryDeploymentFactory.java:98) at weblogic.application.internal.library.LibraryDeploymentFactory.createDeployment(LibraryDeploymentFactory.java:50) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentManagerImpl.createDeployment(DeploymentManagerImpl.java:195) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentManagerImpl.access$800(DeploymentManagerImpl.java:61) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentManagerImpl$DeploymentCreatorImpl.createDeployment(DeploymentManagerImpl.java:628) Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker$DeploymentAssertionError: Unexpected transition: current state for application fads#1.0 : STATE_NEW attempt to transition to STATE_ADMIN Dumping 2 callbacks ———————- BEGIN CALLBACK DUMP ——- java.lang.Exception: prepare at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.save(DeploymentStateChecker.java:152) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.prepare(DeploymentStateChecker.java:157) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.prepare(AppContainerInvoker.java:65) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppDeployment.prepare(AppDeployment.java:166) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.doPrepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:41) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter.prepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:193) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$1.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:31) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments$2.doItem(ConfiguredDeployments.java:741) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.parallel.BucketInvoker$2.run(BucketInvoker.java:95) at weblogic.work.ContextWrap.run(ContextWrap.java:46) at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:670) at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager._runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:352) at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager.runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:337) at weblogic.work.LivePartitionUtility.doRunWorkUnderContext(LivePartitionUtility.java:57) at weblogic.work.PartitionUtility.runWorkUnderContext(PartitionUtility.java:41) at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.runWorkUnderContext(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:644) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:415) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:355) java.lang.Exception: activate at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.save(DeploymentStateChecker.java:152) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:164) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:90) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.activate(BasicDeployment.java:274) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.BasicDeployment.activateFromServerLifecycle(BasicDeployment.java:507) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.doActivate(DeploymentAdapter.java:53) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter.activate(DeploymentAdapter.java:202) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$2.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:52) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments$2.doItem(ConfiguredDeployments.java:741) at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.parallel.BucketInvoker$2.run(BucketInvoker.java:95) at weblogic.work.ContextWrap.run(ContextWrap.java:46) at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:670) at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager._runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:352) at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager.runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:337) at weblogic.work.LivePartitionUtility.doRunWorkUnderContext(LivePartitionUtility.java:57) at weblogic.work.PartitionUtility.runWorkUnderContext(PartitionUtility.java:41) at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.runWorkUnderContext(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:644) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:415) at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:355) ———————- END CALLBACK DUMP ——- at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.throwAssertion(DeploymentStateChecker.java:88) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.illegal(DeploymentStateChecker.java:107) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.up(DeploymentStateChecker.java:122) at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:166) at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:90) Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
Basically, these errors NEVER truly interrupt anything with deploying a forms based application, unless you want to do more with FADS. FADS deployment looks for some specific libraries and missing them were generating the above errors. As I mentioned, for a classic domain, addressing this error may not be truly necessary (for testing). I just love NO errors under usual scenarios, hence decided to fix it.
I referred the below documents to find a proper solution
The 1st document insists that we must delete/rename the pre-installed SQLDEVELOPER (3.x) under ORACLE_HOME (eg: D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home) & install a version that is minimum 4.2, however doesn’t mention anything about the highest version supported.
After checking the fads configuration py file, I realized that the files FADS deployment trying to locate during the startup were NOT available with SQLDEVELOPER 18.x:
The 2nd document I referred explained about configuring FADS & the blogger used SQLDEVELOPER 17.2 for his exercise. Hence I downloaded the specific version 17.2, extracted and copied the folder “sqldeveloper” to ORACLE_HOME & followed the instructions as provided within the Oracle document.
Error while using SQLDEVELOPER 18.x
D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\oracle_common\common\bin>wlst.cmd D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\forms\fads\fads_config.py Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Djava.vendor=”Sun Microsystems Inc.” Initializing WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) … Welcome to WebLogic Server Administration Scripting Shell Type help() for help on available commands
fads configuration script Admin Server will be shutdown by running this script. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] :Y You need to install Oracle SQL Developer 4.2 or higher under ORACLE_HOME. Did you install SQL Developer 4.2? [Y/n] :Y error: SQL Developer 4.2 is not installed under D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home Install it and run this script again. Download Oracle Sql Developer from http://www.oracle.com. exiting… Problem invoking WLST – Traceback (innermost last): File “D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\forms\fads\fads_config.py”, line 341, in ? File “D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\forms\fads\fads_config.py”, line 207, in fullConfig NameError: system
Successful configuration using SQLDEVELOPER 17.x
D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\oracle_common\common\bin>wlst.cmd D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\forms\fads\fads_config.py Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Djava.vendor=”Sun Microsystems Inc.” Initializing WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) … Welcome to WebLogic Server Administration Scripting Shell Type help() for help on available commands
fads configuration script Admin Server will be shutdown by running this script. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] :Y You need to install Oracle SQL Developer 4.2 or higher under ORACLE_HOME. Did you install SQL Developer 4.2? [Y/n] :Y SQL Developer 4.2 is installed under D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home connecting to WebLogic: Please enter your username :weblogic Please enter your password : Please enter your server URL [t3://localhost:7001] : Connecting to t3://localhost:7001 with userid weblogic … Successfully connected to Admin Server “AdminServer” that belongs to domain “base_domain”. Warning: An insecure protocol was used to connect to the server. To ensure on-the-wire security, the SSL port or Admin port should be used instead. obtaining Admin Server host/port information Location changed to domainRuntime tree. This is a read-only tree with DomainMBean as the root MBean. For more help, use help(‘domainRuntime’) fadsui.ear:-> D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_projects\applications\base_domain\forms\fads\fads-ui.ear webservices – http://localhost:7001/fads/apis (updated to http://192.168.125.1:7001/fads/apis) Saving… Totals {connections=1, rest=1, updated=1} updating FADS OWSM policy creating fads keystore Already in Domain Runtime Tree Keystore created Already in Domain Runtime Tree Key pair generated Context is missing, therefore using current context “/WLS/base_domain”. Successfully configured property “keystore.type”. Successfully configured property “location”. Successfully configured property “keystore.sig.csf.key”. Successfully configured property “keystore.enc.csf.key”. creating fads WSM policy set Session started for modification. Description defaulted to “Global policy attachments for RESTful Resource resources.” The policy set was created successfully in the session. Policy reference “oracle/multi_token_rest_service_policy” added. The configuration override property “propagate.identity.context” having value “true” has been added to the reference to policy with URI “oracle/multi_token_rest_service_policy”. The policy set restPolicySet is valid. Creating policy set restPolicySet in repository. Session committed successfully. importing fads authorization policy import fadsWSpolicy passed D:\Weblogic\Middleware\Oracle_Home\forms\fads\policy\fadsWSMPolicy.zip Importing “META-INF/policies/oracle/binding_authorization_template_fads” Successfully imported “1” documents Location changed to edit custom tree. This is a writable tree with No root. For more help, use help(‘editCustom’) Starting an edit session … Started edit session, be sure to save and activate your changes once you are done. Saving all your changes … Saved all your changes successfully. Activating all your changes, this may take a while … The edit lock associated with this edit session is released once the activation is completed. Activation completed shutting down the Admin Server Shutting down the server AdminServer with force=false while connected to AdminServer … Disconnected from weblogic server: AdminServer shutting down the Admin Server …….done with fads post configuration………… please start the Admin Server
Exiting WebLogic Scripting Tool.
Once the configurations are successfully completed, the configuration process shuts down the Admin Server. Start the Admin Server & there should not be errors towards missing FADS libraries.
It looks like I am getting something new everyday to blog…the latest is from Oracle Application R12 once after I added a new responsibilities to few users.
The Functions those are listed under new responsibility from the HTML page will not launch, instead a popup window appears with the statement “The Xyz Function Is Not Available Under The abcd Responsibility”
I recently had a nightmare with a custom form, that was revamped almost after 6 years of usage. Although the compiling on Production instance doesn’t have any issues, only portions of the form would load & the only few elements displayed were totally misaligned and the cells looked like just a plain straight line…
After many failed attempts, I tried to clear the cache, which we didn’t from a long time. The culprit was the cache. After releasing the cache, I recompiled the form & everything was fine.
With the above issue also, our issue was with the cache. After releasing the cache, the users were able to launch the form from the HTML page itself. If, this didn’t resolve your issues, have a look here
A long thread name? Well the topic is vast, hence the long name. I’ve been dealing with Oracle EBS or applications R12 from last 9 years. Initially I was ONLY developing for the new infrastructure, that gradually changed to taking care of the whole instance.
Painfully, however definitely I did familiarize myself with Linux (RHEL) & the database, exposing myself to building systems with copies of EBS running for development & testing.
Our instance is approximately 650GB as on date, including both application stack and database & a cold backup is hardly 125GB in tar balls. I have attempted & succeeded to build the cloned instances on my home desktop machine many times, however the performance was a huge issue, forcing me to discard the setups quite often.
This time, I decided NOT to discard as my new desktop at home is a beast compared to my previous machine, that was neither less a best ;) & to figure out “something” that will address the “performance” bottleneck.
I created a new VM using Oracle VirtualBox with following specs
6 processors, 20GB memory & 2 fixed size VDI files (120GB, 600GB) respectively for application and database repositories. I was aware of a limitation already, I was setting up the VDI files on a Western Digital Green series 2TB drive! which spins at 5400RPM!
Well, everything went smooth & and I had the instance up and running in couple of hours time & this time, the response of the instance was awesome. I even boasted about finally winning over the “biatch” to my team & sat back feeling “too proud” for the moment.
Next day (Month End 30th April 2019)
I am all excited after figuring out a way to flush GNOME desktop environment & replace it with Xfce & new tricks…
Started the VM at home, started the EBS instance and tried to access the instance from the same machine. I couldn’t even get the login page…something was gravely wrong. I decided to check the performance monitor and found the following:
Slowly I was forced to recognize the terror! The Standard Concurrent manager was configured to process 25 requests at the same time with a cache of 5 & 30 seconds sleep between the requests. Our month end has a number of scheduled jobs + Gather schema statistics in the queue. My VM was breaking up with the I/O. My 2TB storage oriented disk was NOT spinning fast enough to provide the data for the processes & I was left with the BIGGEST question of the hour “Now what?”
I stopped the Concurrent manager, adjusted the processes to 5 for Standard manager & restarted the instance. Left the instance running whole night and 1st May morning, the instance was back to normal performance as whole the scheduled jobs were finished during the night.
Next day I added one 1TB SSD & moved the application & database VDI files over to it. I was able to get the login screen within 2-3 seconds once after the application started from the VM. I submitted number of create accounting and other resource hungry jobs, which were completed in few seconds time…
Now, my setup is ONLY for the sake of it. It doesn’t have many users, it is idle most of the time & almost every day I shutdown the desktop machine after a day’s usage. This might not be the scenario at a real TEST environment. You may need to implement archive logging & RMAN, those all requiring more space & faster access to storage. A Desktop has less resources & the ONLY positive element you are going to live with is the pleasure of building it & knowledge gained while fixing few new issues.
So, can you build a performance oriented R12 using Desktop environment, the short answer is yes. Does it worth the efforts? Well, definitely YOU are the ONE who have to answer it.
Follow the space & soon I will post a thread explaining the entire exercises. If you are in a hurry, you may refer this
The above article loosely explains how to clone R12 instance on Linux 7. However the same could be followed for Linux 6 as well (both RHEL & OEL)
One of the most awkward things that keeps on happening in my life is, I land on my posts/comments those were posted years back, which were definite solutions to few perplexing situations like “Error: Missing ormi[s]://<host>:<port>”
Year 2015, I posted a comment with the below thread
explaining a possible solution to the error in attention…but I missed it.
Few days back I was setting up a VM with Oracle Applcations R12 to test SSD based storage device & landed on the same error! I didn’t have a clue…last four days I was going through each every other notes those I made, was scavenging through tones of blog posts and Oracle support documents, trying out suggestions to overcome the error below:
Executing service control script: …../admin/scripts/adoacorectl.sh stop Timeout specified in context file: 100 second(s)
We had our Oracle Application R12 implemented on RHEL 5 & later cloned the same instance on Oracle Linux 6 for TESTs. One of the major differences between RHEL 5 & 6 was the native support for IPV6 with Linux 6. Not just R12, many Oracle products WERE/ARE not yet completely compatible with IPV6 & the first thing geeks ask you to do is to disable IPV6 (Even today!)
I did, trust me I did it on the interface, I did it in the sysctl.conf & wherever possible & still had the same ormi error, whenever I tried to shutdown the application services. The temporary solution was to re-run the stop all script & finally the script completes with “0” error.
I was NOT happy & I wanted my instance to shutdown gracefully, over a single attempt. I “knew” that Oracle was very sensitive to Network stack, a screwed up hostfile, DNS, firewall…anything that is related to network could cause these kind of issues. So I decided to go through each one of them. So, first was the hosts file.
The default /etc/hosts file from Linux 6 has the entries like below
When Linux 5 have | Glad that I had a machine to cross check
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
Immediately I decided to give it a try, I chopped the unnecessary strings from the hosts file & started the application tier & tried to shutdown!
That was it, no more “Error: Missing ormi[s]://<host>:<port>”
No hacking of the Context files or disabling the IPV6 protocol is required, which could complicate SSH tunnel etc (as per Linux guys, I am not a Linux guy yet ;) in those means)
So, now you have a working solution, you have your IPV4 & IPV6 both enabled & an instance shuts down as you expect. Well, party time guys!
It looks like, setting up the compatibility for Windows 7 solves the Reports Builder shaking, freezing behavior to a greater extend. Going on with the “Fix” as NOTHING else could be done with a product that is NOT anymore supported by Oracle.
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I “trust” Microsoft and I do update my Work/Home/VMs regularly. Ahum! 99.9% of the times I never had to go back and fix anything, that .1% times, things went awfully bad.
I cannot confirm which update, certainly one update within last 2 months have made Oracle Reports Developer 10g/6i loads messier than earlier. Now both version of reports developer will NOT load the layout designer properly.
The interesting factor about the layout designer is:
It hangs more often when you have multiple reports opened from a single instance of the reports developer & you are switching between the layouts.
For example, if you opened Report 1’s layout & closed it, then opening the Report 2’s layout arrests the designer & all the toolbar icons and rest go astray (as you could see with above image) which will force you to end task the developer using Task Manager/or other known measures.
It is irky, shaky, yet you can do your work with multiple sessions of reports developer opened with only one report loaded. There are no guarantees that this IS the ultimate solution. I often have to terminate the report builder and restart it to do my development(s) :(
I’ve more news for you. I did a reinstall routine of Patch 3 for 10g developer & remembering Windows 7 was the last OS certified with the developer suite, changed the compatibility for the Report Developer and set it as Windows 7. I am not sure whether it acts as a mediator, my report builder is much stable as I am jolting these few lines. Keeping fingers crossed.
