Oracle EBS Customization Patch Impact Analysis Tool

Hi All
There are times when you need to modify Oracle source code to achieve custom functionality. This will ideally happen once you receive a SCR approval from oracle(source code request approval).
The pitfall in this approach is that you will need to monitor the modified files very carefully for impacts. I have built a tool that is integrated with adpatch to monitor and warn of any potential impacts.
Some of you may be interested. If you have any suggestions for improvement please let me know.
http://applikast.blogspot.com/2011/08/oracle-ebs-customization-patch-impact.html
kind Regards,
Arun.

hi Hussein,
This is not certified by Oracle. This is a tool that I built on the current project when we had a situation where we got an SCR from oracle. We made modifications and they got overridden by a patch. This tool was built to prevent any such situations post go-live given that the customization was extremely crticial and it has kept us safe so far.
On a side note I had posted a couple of links to other tools that I had built but those posts seem to have been removed. Do you know why this might have happened? I am only trying to share my knowledge and tools in a broader community to help them. One of the links that has been taken off is also posted on the OAUG Configsyg site but the moderators over here seem to be a bit reluctant to let it remain. I don't quite know why.
Thanks,
Arun.

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