AS Patch Set 10.1.2.3

Application Server/Developer Suite Patch Set 10.1.2.3.0 is production on Windows and Solaris.

Patch 5983622
PLACEHOLDER BUG FOR AS/DS 10.1.2.3 PATCHSET RELEASE
Release iAS 10.1.2.3
Product Oracle Application Server Products

This is used patching Admin/Desktop on Windows too.

Note Discoverer 10.1.2.3 is not certified with EBS as well as bug fixes into cp4, cp5 and cp6 are not fixed in 10.1.2.3. CP for 10.1.2.3 will include all the missing bug fixes on top of 10.1.2.3.

Connect to Discoverer Plus/Viewer is Very Slow in the Connection Phase

OracleAS Discoverer Plus 10.1.2 installation, is really slow in the connection phase, both from APPS links and Standalone connection. After the insert of the login details in the Connect Box it is showing for approx 20 minutes the following page :

Request Progress

Processing your request
The page you have requested is taking some time to process. Please wait...

The Cause is that the Connect descriptor resolve slowly as it did not contain a valid entry.

Having the following entry in the sqlnet.ora :

NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (LDAP, TNSNAMES, EZCONNECT, ONAMES, HOSTNAME)

will delay the authentication, as it will first try to authenticate the connect descriptor through OID, where it does not exist.

A simple configuration gain is to change the way the client looks up the connect descriptor. This connect descriptor must be translated by Oracle Net into the network protocol location of the database (IP address and port number) and the name of the database service.

There are a variety of methods to store this information, such as in a TNSNAMES.ORA (TNSNAMES) file, Oracle Internet Directory (OID - LDAP), Oracle Names (ONAMES) or using the Host Naming Adapter.

The default connect descriptor lookup path is to first look in the local naming file TNSNAMES.ORA, then to try the well-known Oracle Names servers, and then finally to try the Host Naming Adapter. The parameter that influences this lookup order is NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH parameter in the SQLNET.ORA file.

-- To implement the solution, Update the sqlnet.ora file in the Discoverer ORACLE_HOME from :

NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (LDAP, TNSNAMES, EZCONNECT, ONAMES, HOSTNAME)

to

NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES)

if the connect descriptor is configured to be resolved via tnsnames.ora, otherwise order the list with the right connect descriptor which is used first.

Cumulative Patch for Oracle Discoverer 10.1.2.2

This will be implemented for iAS 10.1.2.2 (Discoverer 10.1.2.54.25) version going forward. This is only for Plus/Viewer. (D40 patches will also be using this cumulative model)
Discoverer Admin/Desktop 10.1.2.54.25 (part of iDS 10.1.2.2) will continue to use the current patching model. Previous versions, iAS 10.1.2.0.2 / 10.1.2.1 (Discoverer 10.1.2.48.18
or 10.1.2.50.05) will continue to use the current patching model.


First Cumulative Patch (for example, let's call it PATCH1) contains 70 bug fixes over 10.1.2.2. Or in other words, PATCH1 = 10.1.2.2 + 70 bug fixes If second Cumulative Patch (PATCH2) request MLR receives 30 bugs, PATCH2 will end up containing 70 + 30 = 100 bug fixes over 10.1.2.2 or, in other words, PATCH2 = 10.1.2.2 + PATCH1 + 30 bug fixes and so on for PATCH3 ... PATCH3 = 10.1.2.2 + PATCH2 + x bug fixes

Opatch is used to install Discoverer Cumulative Patches. The patch readme has all the install/rollback instructions.


Patch 5943426 - CUMULATIVE PATCH I: (AVAILABLE FOR SOLARIS, LINUX 32BIT, WINDOWS 32BIT, AIX 5L 64BIT)

Patch 6129303 - CUMULATIVE PATCH II: (AVAILABLE FOR SOLARIS, LINUX 32BIT, WINDOWS 32BIT, HPUX 64BIT)

Patch 6155500 - CUMULATIVE PATCH III: (AVAILABLE FOR LINUX/INTEL, SOLARIS-64, WINDOWS/NT, AIX 5L 64BIT, HPUX 64BIT, HP/IA64 (HP UX ITANIUM))

Patch 6357481 - CUMULATIVE PATCH 4 : (AVAILABLE FOR LINUX/INTEL, SOLARIS-32, WINDOWS/XP, AIX 5L 64BIT, HPUX 32BIT, HP/IA64 (HP UX ITANIUM))

Patch 6472361 - CUMULATIVE PATCH 5: (AVAILABLE FOR HP ITANIUM IA64, LINUX 32BIT, WINDOWS 32BIT, SOLARIS 64BIT (23), AIX 5L 64BIT)

Patch 6669003 - CUMULATIVE PATCH 6 : (AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS, SOLARIS-32, LINUX/INTEL, IBM/AIX-5L, HP-32, HP/IA64 (ITANIUM))

Cumulative Patch 7 - ETA not available

Patch 67xxx60 - CUMULATIVE PATCH 7 : (AVAILABLE FOR LINUX 32BIT, AIX 5L 64BIT, SOLARIS-32, WINDOWS 32BIT)