OBIEE 11g patching strategies (or lack thereof)

I'm very interested to know how people are patching production instances of OBIEE 11g. I've been very frustrated by the fact that Oracle releases tons of "one off" patches (which aren't guaranteed not to screw up other things), but no "production ready" patches that have been fully regression tested, etc. I don't think they EVER released a production patchset for 11.1.1.3, I think everyone had to wait for 11.1.1.5 (which was almost a year later)...
I can understand this for the 10.1.3.4.x series, because that seems basically "mature" - but OBIEE 11g has a TON of bugs in it.
So my question is - what strategies are people using to test patches and decide whether to put them in or not? I just installed a patch that is crashing the server when trying to save repository variables and init blocks. I don't have time to spend a day testing each and every "controlled" patch out there.
What to do? Is Oracle ever going to start releasing monthly or quarterly "patchsets" that have all patches bundled and tested together?
Thx,
Scott

Hi Dpka, that's exactly what I was afraid of. I've gone from being a data mart and OBIEE developer to spending literally half my time working on Oracle SRs for OBIEE 11.1.1.5. I'm hitting the exact same issues as you - lots of untested one-off patches that break other items, with no fully integration tested patchsets ever being released (11.1.1.3 was out for over a year...never saw a patchset for that...I can't wait another year for an integrated set of 11.1.1.5 patches).
Here's my high level complaint - Oracle USED to put together patchsets, which were groups of patches tested to work together. These would come out every few months. But for the last two years or so, I don't see Oracle doing that any more - not just for OBIEE - I see this for almost everything (for example, we also use OWB - trying to do the upgrade to 10.2.0.5 but there are literally a hundred patches to apply).
In general - has Oracle simply stopped producing patchsets? If so - I really demand a refund for the support we're paying. My job is not to spend two weeks applying 100 patches on something because Oracle can't do basic integration testing on their patches.
Uggg, sorry, really really frustrated with Oracle right now. I wish they would stop working on "new features" and crap on 11g OBIEE and get the basic tool to work properly. I really get the feeling a lot of what went into 11g was glitz and glamour, but it was implemented by people that had never used the tool "real life". Just a guess, but some of the bugs are so basic that I refuse to believe that anyone that ever actually implemented and used the tool could have made those mistakes.
Scott

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