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In this Document

Purpose

Scope

Details

Do you have the Latest Patch Wizard Patch? ARU access protocol requires Patch Wizard patch

FAQ: PATCH WIZARD FAQ (Note 976688.2)

11i Customers - There is an 11.5.10 Extended Support Patch Level Verification

Patch Wizard Description

How it works Accessing the Patch Wizard Forms

Initial Configuration

Creating Filters

Registering Flagged Files (R12)

Executing Create Recommendation

Executing Create Recommendation - changes in R12

Reviewing the Recommendations

Prerequisite Patches

Reviewing the Patch Impact Analysis

Reviewing the Aggregate Impact

Reviewing the Aggregate Impact - changes in R12

Analyze Specific Patches Important change in R12.1.2

Scheduling the Recommend/Analyze Process

Downloading Patches

Training and Additional Resources

Logging a Service Request

Change Log

References

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Applications Manager - Version 11.5.10.2 to 12.2 [Release 11.5.10 to 12.2]

Information in this document applies to any platform.

PURPOSE

This document explains the usage of the Patch Wizard utility to keep your E-Business suite system up to date with the latest

recommended patches.

It is recommended that this document be referenced in conjunction with the R11i/R12 documentation on Patch Wizard found in

the Additional Resources section below.

Document 976688.1- Patch Wizard FAQ

Document 1400757.1- How to Find E-Business Suite Recommended Patches

Document 1633974.2- How to Find E-Business Suite Patches & E-Business Suite Technology Stack Patches

Patch Wizard Presentation

SCOPE

This tool is available for E-Business Suite Release 11i and Release 12

DETAILS

Do you have the Latest Patch Wizard Patch? ARU access protocol requires Patch Wizard patch

Please review Note 1267768.1and apply the latest patch(es) appropriate to your EBS version (Release 11i, Release 12.0,

Release 12.1, or Release R12.2) to ensure continued access by Patch Wizard to the Automated Release Update (ARU) system for

download of the Infobundle and patches.

Use this quick SQL query to verify if you have the latest Patch Wizard Patchesapplied.

FAQ: PATCH WIZARD FAQ (Note 976688.2)

Please review Note 976688.1for common patch wizard questions and answers.

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A so in a step- y-step gui e to crea te a Patc Wizar Responsi i ity or En Users t at oes not ave a ccess to OAM, owever

End Users have full (or restricted) access to review Patch Wizard reports.

Administrators can restrict different access for End Us ers when following this setup guide

11i Customers - There is an 11.5.10 Extended Support Patch Level Verification

Patch Wizard is able to check if your instance meets the minimum baseline patch requirements for extended support on Oracle E-

Business Suite 11.5.10.

Extended support for 11.5.10 begins December 1, 2010 (Note 883202.1).

Refer to Note 1178133.1for details on this feature including the patches to apply. The enhancement provides a new pre-defined

"Support" filter to identify the minimum baseline patches for all products, and allows you to select the new "Minimum Baseline

Support" option for the product families in your custom filters. The results will show whether the patches are applied/unapplied,and if unapplied, will show an impact analysis for the patch.

Video: A short 3-minute video to demonstrate this enhancement is available in Note 1077813.1.

Patch Wizard Description

Patch Wizard is a utility that comes installed as part of the E-Business Suite products and can be accessed via Oracle Applications

Manager. This utility compares the patches you have already applied against a list of all recommended Oracle E-Business Suite

(EBS) patches.

Recommended patches can include high-priority patches or patches that update EBS products to a new code level, such as

Release Update Packs (RUPs), Product Family RUPs, and pre-upgrade patches.

Note that Patch Wizard will not apply the patches but will enable you to do an impact analysis prior to applying them. PatchWizard is a utility for E-Business Suite patches, and not for patches of the technology stack components (RDBMS, Forms, etc).

How it works

Patch Wizard is an interface that allows you to set your Patch Wizard execution preferences, analyze and compare patches

currently applied in your instance to the patches included in the Recommended Patch List, perform an impact analysis, and easily

download the patches you decide to apply.

When conducting the analysis, the Patch Wizard retrieves current patch information directly from the My Oracle Support (formerly

Metalink), and compares this list with the patches you already have installed in your system. The final report will provide an

output of recommended EBS patches and new code level patches for your version and the impact of installing them. You can also

specify other patches for which you want Patch Wizard to perform an impact analysis.

Accessing the Patch Wizard Forms

1. Login using a user that has System Administrator Privileges2. Select the System Administratorresponsibility

3. Choose Dashboard option under Oracle Applications Manager.Alternatively, you can choose the Patching and Utilities

option under the OAM menu.

4. From the dropdown list on the top-right corner, select Patch Wizard, and click the Gobutton.

Initial Configuration

Patch wizard requires a very simple initial setup that is described here.

1. Once in the Patch Wizard main form, the first section you will find is the Patch Wizard Tasks, with four tasks. The first task

in the list is called Patch Wizard Preferences. Click on the icon across this task.

2. Set the value for Staging Directory. This is to going to be the working directory for this utility. Patch Wizard will use the

path defined here as the work area.

3. Set the My Oracle Support (MOS) credentials. The credentials are needed so that Patch Wizard can connect to the MOS

portal to retrieve the current patch information.

To set the credentials, click on the Metalink Credentials link in the preferences form. This will open a new form to enter a

valid Support portal user, password and e-mail address. If your server uses proxy server to connect to the Internet, enter

the proxy information.

*Bug 9460674addresses a request to replace references to "Metalink" with "My Oracle Support" in the Patch Wizard UIs.
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What if my server does not have access to the Internet?

If your server does not have access to Internet, or you cannot enter your credentials, you still have the option to download

the patch information file (called Infobundle file) manually refer to the FAQ My server does not have Internet

connection. Can I still use Patch Wizard? in Note 976688.1.

4. Populate the res t of the options for merge, language/platform, and display option defaults according to your instance and

business requirements. (Patch Wizard does not automatically identify and select the installed languages and platform of

your instance.)

* New in 12.1.2 *

The "In Use Products Defaults" section was added to the preferences in 12.1.2. By selecting this option you will get patch

recommendations for the products you have selected in the In Use column on the Codelevels Summary page. For details, refer tothe Oracle E-Business Suite Patching Procedures documentation.

Caution:If you use the Codelevels Summary page to update your In Use products list, be sure you do not uncheck any products

that are active in your system, or are required for system operation.

Further clarification of this feature/documentation is currently being reviewed in Bug 9889503.

Creating Filters

Patch Wizard analyzes two different types of patches within desired E-Business Suite products :

1. Recommended Patches: These are patches that fix issues and have been identified as high priority patches by Oracle. You

are strongly recommended to apply them.

2. New C ode Levels: These ar e patches that deliver new functionality and bring the product code to the latest release.

Patch Wizard allows you create filters where you can select what products and what type of patches you want to analyze. The

system comes with three predefined filters but you have the option to create your own filters as well. To create filters conductthe following actions:

1. Under the Patch Wizard Taskssection, select the second task, Define Patch Filters.

2. Click on Create New button.

3. Enter a name and description for the filter.

Note: It has been reported that filters with single quotes/apostrophes in the name cause a warning "No check box was

selected in the Patch Filter" during the Create Recommendation process. As a result, no recommendations are made.

The same error was found when using a backslash (\) in the filter name. It was found through Bug 9460334 that

this currently a limitation due to the impact of the code changes required. As a workaround, please define

filter names without single quotes/apostrophes and backslahes.

4. Mark the check boxes for one or more product families you want to include in the analysis. For each product family, you

can choose to analyze for recommended patches or new code levels, or both.
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Registering Flagged Files (R12)

Prior to running your Patch Wizard process, you can register your customized files in the Register Flagged Files tool in OAM. This

is to allow Patch Wizard to indicate when a patch will overwrite a customized file.

The Register Flagged Files tool is a Web-based utiliy in Oracle Applications Manager, which can be accessed from the OAM

Patching and Utilities menu. Choose the Register Flagged Filesoption from the drop-down list in the top right hand corner.

See the document "Oracle Applications Patching Procedures" for further details on this tool and the steps to register a customized

file.

Below is a sample extract of an impact analysis summary page in Patch Wizard, showing that there is one flagged file that will be

changed by the patch that was analyzed. By clicking on the number, you can see the details of the file.

Executing Create Recommendation

*Before the firsttime you run a Patch Wizard process in your instance, it is recommended that you run the "Update current view

snapshot" process (under "Maintain snapshot information") from the AD Administration (adadmin) menu. Follow the "Maintaining

Snapshot Information" section in the EBS documentation "Oracle Applications Maintenance Procedures."

1. Under Patch Wizard Tasks, select the third task, Recommend/Analyze Patches.

2. In the Options section, choose Create Recommendation.

3. Optionally mark the checkbox for Upload patch information bundle before analyzing patches. This would let patch wizard

know that you want to download the latest version of the patch list (Infobundle file) available in My Oracle Support. Note

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e s ag ng rec ory pr or o e rs execu on. s c ec ox oes no ex s n see e nex sec on .

4. Once you launch the process to analyze the patches in your system, you need to wait until the process completes. To

check the status of the execution, select the icon under the Job Status column in the Patch Wizard Ta sks.

* New in R11i *

The latest R11i one-off patch (see Note 1267768.1) introduces an additional checkbox called "Create recommendation without

analyzing individual patches." Use this flag to complete the process faster and see the list of recommended patches without

the details in the Impact button. Note, the impact details will display for patches that were analyzed before, and patches with no

impact analysis can be analyzed on a case by case basis (using 'Analyze Specific Patches'), reducing unnecessary processing

time.

Executing Create Recommendation - changes in R12

In R12, the Upload patch information bundle before analyzing patches check box does not exist, and the latest Infobundle isalways downloaded automatically when submitting the create recommendation process for a filter (given the My Oracle Support

credentials are set). Please also review the section Reviewing the Aggregate Impact - changes in R12in this document for

the function of the check boxAnalyze Aggregate Patch Impact.

* New in 12.1.2 *

12.1.2 has an additional option "Patch recommendations for In Use products only" when running the Create Recommendation

process. For details, please see the Initial Configuration section of this document.

Reviewing the Recommendations

After the execution of the analysis process completes, a report will be displayed in the main form of the Patch Wizar d utility,

under the Results section. To refresh the output and view the latest results, click the Go button in the Filter Criteriasection, right

above the Resultssection. You can narrow down the selection by entering a filter name and/or completion date if needed.

R11i: The results section displays the completed requests

R12: The results section displays the completed and in-progress requests.

Once the results are displayed and completed, click on the icon under the Details column to view the report.

After clicking on the details icon, you will see that the report is divided into two sections:

1. The top area lists all the recommended patches

2. The bottom area lists patches that provide new code levels on top of the versions you currently have in your system

R11i: Only unapplied patches are displayed. However, with Patch 9803629, a "Status" column was introduced, and with that,

unapplied patches are displayed as well. See Note 1178133.1- 4.6 View Patch Status - for the description of the statuses

"Unapplied," "Missing," and "Applied."

R12: Both applied and unapplied patches are displayed. Applied patches have a status of Applied, and unapplied patches have a

status of Unapplied or Missing. Unapplied means that there are no prerequisite code level patches that have not been applied yet.

Missing means that there are prerequisite code level patches that have not been applied yet.

Review the list of recommendations, and if you want to do an impact analysis for any of the patches, click on the icon under the

Impact column, in the same row for the patch in concern.

Prerequisite Patches

Patch Wizard identifies the hard-prerequisite patches for the patches in the results page. Soft-prerequisites, which may be

conditionally required based on your instance or functionality used, are not listed.

R11i: Patch Wizard identifies the first-level prerequisite patches that have not been applied (Total Pre-Reqs column).

Prerequisites-of-prerequisites are not listed. However, if analysis of patch A identified patch B as its prerequisite, and now youwant to identify the prerequisites for patch B, you can run the Analyze Specific Patches process (see the section below on Analyze

Specific Patches) for patch B and so on, to go down the chain of prerequisite patches.

R12: Patch Wizard identifies the prerequisite codelevel patches that have not been applied (Prerequisites column). This is due to

the patch prereq checking changes in R12. Please refer to the 'How has patch prereq checking improved in Release 12 compared

to Release 11i?' in the General Information section of Note 459156.1 for more details.

Reviewing the Patch Impact Analysis

After clicking the Impact button for the re commended patch, you will see the Patch Impact Analysis, as seen in the screenshot

below. This analysis gives you an idea of how the patch application will impact your environment. For example, this screenshot

shows that the patch 7555553 contains a total of 2525 files however, the actual number of files to be installed on the system is

only 59. The reason for this difference in file numbers is because most of the files in the patch have already been applied in the

environment where this analysis was conducted.

This report provides drill-down options, so you can review how your system will be impacted if you decide to apply the patch in
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detail. For example, you can click on the number next to Existing Files Changedto view the file name, the current version of the

file in your instance, and the version of the file delivered in the patch.

Please note the following regarding the Indirect Impact Summary:

Unchanged Files Affectedshows unchanged JSP files that need to be recompiled. The recompile occurs automatically

during adpatch and does not need to be done by the user.

Menu Navigation Trees Affectedlists the responsibiltiies and menu navigation paths that lead to patched Forms and

patched or indirectly affected JSPs.

Diagnostics Tests to Re-Runis no longer being used and is planned to be removed from the Indirect Impact Summary

page in 12.1.3 per Bug 9329180.

The Objects Affectedcolumn seen when viewing a direct impact (for example, Existing Files Changed) shows the indirect

impact caused by that directly impacted file.

Reviewing the Aggregate Impact

In R11i, clicking on the View Aggregate Impact link from the Patch Impact Analysis page (screenshot above) displays the

combined impact of the patch and its pre-requisite patch(es). Note that only the first-level prerequisite patches that are

unapplied, if any, are included in this analysis i.e., prerequisites-of-prerequisites, even if they exist, are not analyzed as part of

the aggregate impact.

In R12, aggregate impact takes on a different definition. This will be explained in the next section.

Reviewing the Aggregate Impact - changes in R12

As explained in the previous section, theView Aggregate Impact link in R11i displays the combined impact of one patch and its

prerequisite patches (and not prerequisites-of-prerequisites).

In R12, aggregate impactrefers to the impact of multiplepatches, and does notinclude their prerequisites. The following steps

demonstrate how the aggregate impact analysis can be run in R12.

1. Check theAnalyze Aggregate Patch Impactflag when executing Create Recommendation.

2. Once the process completes, check the results (Recommended Patches Results>Details button) and notice that the

Included in Aggregate Patch Impactcolumn is Yes for all the unapplied/missing patches . (The impact of each individual

patch can be seen by clicking on the Impact button here).

3. To see the aggregate impact of all the patches from this recommendation with the Included in Aggregate Patch Impact

column Yes, click on the paper icon to the left of the Aggregate Impact button at the top of the page.
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4. You may choose to not select theAnalyze A ggregate Patch Impactflag in step 1, as the flag is optional. In the results

page, you can choose to run an aggregate impact analysis of the patches that you select manually. Just mark the checkbox

to the left of the patch numbers you want to get a combined aggregate impact for, and click on the Aggregate I mpact

button as seen in the above screenshot (the actual button, not the highlighted paper icon). You can also override a

previous analysis by selecting a different set of patches.

Analyze Specific Patches

The Analyze Specific Patches option in the Recommend/Analyze Patches Page allows you to specify any patch(es) for which you

want to run a patch impact analysis. Once submitted, the process can be viewed by clicking the Job Status button in the main

page. When complete, go to the Results section in the main Patch Wizard page to find the results (the specified patch numbers

will be displayed) and click on the Details icon.

During this process, the specified patches are downloaded to the staging directory. In R11i, the un-applied prerequisite patches

are downloaded as well. If My Oracle Support credentials are not set in the preferences or the patch is a password-controlled

patch, the patch needs to be placed in the staging directory manually before running the process. If you are on 12.1.2, see the

below section Important change in R12.1.2.

*You cannot specify a merged patch.

*R12 has an option Analyze Aggregate Patch Impact under the Patches box.

Important change in R12.1.2

After patch 7651091 (R12.ATG_PF.B.DELTA.2), which is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.2 Release Update Pack (RUP2),

Patch Wizard downloads all the "ad" product patches into the /ad directory and all the "non-ad" patches into

the /nonad directory. The subdirectories "ad" and "nonad" are automatically created under the staging

directory if you have set up your My Oracle Support credentials and patches are downloaded automatically.

If you are manually downloading the patches for Patch Wizard to analyze, you must manually create the subdirectories "ad" and

"nonad" and place all the "ad" product patches in the /ad directory and all the "non-ad" patches into the

/nonad directory.

Scheduling the Recommend/Analyze Process

The Recommend/Analyze Patches Page contains a Schedule section. You can enter a date and time in this section to run the

request at a later time. The default setting is to run the job immediately. You can also schedule automatic recurring requests byentering the information in the Recurrence section.

Downloading Patches

After you complete your analysis and decide which patches you want to apply, Patch Wizard can help you to download and merge

them so you can apply multiple patches more quickly.

From the recommendations report, mark all the patches you want, and click on Download button. This will open a new form

where you can select additional download options.

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In this form, you will need to determine the platform and languages you have in your system, you can decide whether or not to

merge the selected patches, and if so, how you want to merge them. You can also schedule the download to be executed at a

different time.

The patches will be placed in the staging directory you defined in the preferences. Please refer to the Important change in

R12.1.2section in this document for details on the "ad" and "nonad" subdirectories in which patches are downloaded after

upgrading to 12.1.2.

Training and Additional Resources

Following is a list of additional resources with information you will benefit from while working with the Patch Wizard utility.

New: Patch Wizard Overview and Videos Note 1077813.1(includes a video on the 11.5.10 Extended

Support patch level verification enhancement)

Patch Wizard FAQs: Note 976688.1

How to Find E-Business Suite Recommended Patches:Note 1400757.1Oracle Applications Patching Procedures

Release 12.1

Part No. E12148-02

Section 3-1

Oracle Applications Maintenance Utilities

Release 11i (11.5.10.2)

Part No. B19300-01

Section 5-17

Oracle Diagnostics Catalog. Release 11i Note 179661.1, Release 12 Note 421245.1

You liked this, but need more? Check Oracle Application Change Management pack in Note 982302.1

Logging a Service Request

Please log Service Reqeust (SR) for Patch Wizard issues under the Product Oracle Application Manager and the Problem

CategoryApplication Manager (OAM) Issuesin My Oracle Support.

Change Log

Date Description

15-Jan-2015 Added Note 1633974.2 to help find EBS Patches & EBS Tech Stack Patches

26-Jul-2011 Added the Registering Flagged Files section

06-Jul-2011 Added description about the R11i 'Create recommendation without analyzing

individual patches' option.

11-May-2011 Due to an addition of a performance patch, removed reference to patch

10405353 and directed readers to go to Note 1178133.1 for the11i Extended

Support feature.

22-Apr-2011Replaced 11i extended support feature patch 9803629 with patch 10405353
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REFERENCES

BUG:9460334 - 'NO CHECK BOX WAS SELECTED' ERROR IN PATCH WIZARD USING FILTER NAME WITH QUOTES

NOTE:1077813.1- Patch Wizard : Overview and Videos

NOTE:179661.1- E-Business Suite Diagnostics 11i Test Catalog

BUG:9889503 - WISH LIST: CLARIFICATION NEEDED ON CODELEVELS SUMMARY FEATURE IN PW

NOTE:1400757.1- How to Find E-Business Suite Recommended Patches

NOTE:1267768.1 - Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 11i and 12.x: Required Updates for Patch Wizard

NOTE:1178133.1- Extended Support Patch Level Verification in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10

BUG:9460674 - REMOVE REFERENCES TO R11I FEATURES AND METALINK IN R12 PATCH WIZARD

NOTE:883202.1- Patch Requirements for Sustaining Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10

NOTE:421245.1- E-Business Suite Diagnostics References for R12

NOTE:976688.1 - Patch Wizard FAQ [Video]

NOTE:459156.1- Oracle E-Business Suite Patching FAQ for Release 12Didn't find what you are looking for? Ask in Community...

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