Oracle financials upgradation

What are the upgradation features between versions 10.7 to 11.0 ,11.0 to 11i oracle financials, oracle manufacturing modules.

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What is the business downtime to allow Oracle Financials upgrade

We are shortly to embark on an upgrade from Oracle Financials
10.7to 11i. We will be implementing MRC and EFC at a later
stage.
We have tested upgrade process in two test environments. I'd
appreciate views from anyone who's completed an upgrade or who
knows something about it as to how many hours/days it takes to
carry out the upgrade. How many business days Down Time for
Financial Systems are typical??
Would be very greatful for responses on this as soon as
possible.
Sean Reilly

My experience is 4 days (24 hours) for technical upgrade and 2
days for testing.
Desmond

Upgrading Oracle Financials To 11i

How long did it take you to Upgrade Oracle Financials (GL,AR,AP,FA & PO)from Rel 10.7 or Rel 11 to Rel 11i?
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Depends upon how vanilla your install is. Assuming you've got sufficient hardware in place the install itself takes a few days (you'll want to run some test migrations to work out the kinks and perfect the process). Once the physical work is done its the testing and validation that takes all the time.

Is it possible to change the chart of accounts in Oracle Financials?

Dear Colleagues,
Is it possible to change the chart of accounts in Oracle Financials?
Thank you in advance.
Andrey

It is not an easy change. Oracle typically recommends against it but sometimes company structure or processes change so much that you are forced to do it.
Take a look at http://www.vantagesolutions.com/media/SCOUG_May_2004.pdf as well as http://www.erpstuff.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6381.
If you google "change oracle chart of accounts", you will find some more hits as well. This is a big project.
If you other business reasons to do a reimplementation, then changing COA as part of that will be very easy.
For a lot of companies debating between reimplementation and upgrade, a need to change COA becomes the last straw in favor of reimplementation.
Hope this helps,
Sandeep Gandhi

URGENT:currency conversion from oracle financials 10.7 to 11i

Hey all, Any one has the idea about the currency conversion from oracle financials 10.7 to 11i?? how to handle it?? do we need seperate code for currency conversion or is there any software that we can use??

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Shenba ([email protected]):
Hey all, anyone has idea how the currency conversion is handled during upgrade of
for oracle financials 10.7 to 11i. Is there any software available or do we need to do coding for currency conversion.
Thanks<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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ORACLE Apps Upgrade or re-implementation

We are planning to upgrade our ORACLE Financials from 10.7 SC to 11i.
It appears that we have two options:
Perform upgrade steps and use autoupgrade to upgrade 10.7 to 11i
OR
Install as a fresh instance.
Implement system as a new install
Migrate data using interface.
I would like to know if any body has any experience with any of these approaches and any pro's and con's for each options.
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Thanks for the info. I was already leaning towards re-implementation, and now I think I'll try it for sure before the upgrade. But where do I find info. on carrying out a re-implementation? I don't recall seeing it in the manual (it is called something else?). Can you please provide me with details on where to locate such info, or on the procedure itself. Thanks.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Narendra Rao ([email protected]):
If you have to do some or many of the following then you may consider reimplementation versus Upgrade:
1. Data, in your current 10.7 is bad quality or corrupted.
2. You need to purge data.
3. It is essential that you need the latest functionality in 11i NOW, and is not easily available via upgrade as you need change your setup.
4. Your database blocksize need to be changed or your O/S need to be upgraded (like in HP 10.2 v/s HP 11.x)
5. You have a large volume of data that it could be easy to port data v/s upgrade as your window for upgrade is not feasible.
6.You have a lot of products integtatd with oracle applications that will push your window into more than a 4 day weekend.
7. Above all, you have ample customizations that would force you to reimplement.
8. You are rolling out new divisions or adding new compaines to your Business Suite.
9. and many many more
If you would like upgrade to 11i and anticipate only the current functionality in 10.7 to be reflected in 11i, with minimal customizations, then Upgrade is your choice.
Cost of upgrade v/s cost of reimplement, timespan for upgrade v/s timespan for reimplement, and above all ROI for either method must be clearly understood. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Please provide me the documentation link for Oracle Financials.

Hi All,
Can anyone please provide me the link for documentaion on Oracle Financials (Oracle Assets, General Ledger, Inventory, Order Entry, Payables, Cash Management, Purchasing, Receivables, Revenue Accounting, Sales Analysis).
Thank you,
Prasad.

I have to upgrade my database server 10.1.0.2 to
10.1.0.4 both windows server and linux86
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Financial Analytics - Source as Oracle Financials 11.5.8 (Older Versions)

We need to know the possibility of load data into Financial Analytics using source as Oracle Financials 11.5.8.
As we know the connector is for EBS 11.10i.
Please let us know.
Nilaksha.

I think it is best to ask this directly to a technical oracle consultant. I think they will say, you have to upgrade anyway...
But I think you can just try it and look how many mappings go wrong so you can see how much you have to customize.

Refer a book on Oracle Financials

Hi All,
I am new to Oracle Financials.
Can anyone please suggest me some books on Oracle Financials.
I am currently working on Oracle Forms and Reports and I want to go into Oracle Financials (Techno Functional).
Appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Madhu K.

Madhu,
I would recommend the following:
Tehnical Books:
Oracle Applications DBA Field Guide
http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Applications-DBA-Field-Guide/dp/1590596447
Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Release 11.5.10+
http://www.amazon.com/Installing-Upgrading-Maintaining-E-Business-Applications/dp/0615141226/
Oracle Applications DBA - Covers 11i and R12
http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Applications-DBA-Covers-11i/dp/0070077290
Oracle E-Business Suite Security
http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-E-Business-Suite-Security-John/dp/0072262761/ref=pd_sim_b_3
Functional Books:
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-E-Business-Financials-Handbook-Osborne/dp/0072132302/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i: Implementing Core Financial Applications
http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-E-Business-Suite-11i-Implementing/dp/0471412058/ref=pd_sim_b_5

How to merge these patches EBS: R12.1 Oracle Financials Recommended Patches

Dear Experts,
Please note that we have implemented the following modules on E-Business Suit 11.5.10.2 .
SCM Modules:
1. Inventory
2. Purchasing
3. Order Management
Finance Modules:
1. General Ledger
2. Fixed Assets
3. Accounts Receivables
4. Accounts Payables
5. Cash Management
We have also upgraded our database from 9.2.0.6 to 11g R2 as per the latest metalink interoperablity notes. Currently our EBS Version on test Enviroment is 11.5.10.2 with 11g R2
please note that as per the metalink note id EBS: R12.1 Oracle Financials Recommended Patches [ID 954704.1], We are in process of analysing the patches.
Please let us know how to merge these patches and proceed with our R12.1 upgrade driver.
Please also let us know are there any steps which needs to be performed after the below steps.
Run the Accounting Health Check and resolve data issues (Note 416699.1)
Complete all Period Close Actions/Processes. Validate and account as much data as possible and make sure everything is transferred to GL.
Run your standard reconciliation and account balance reports after period close and resolve issues.
Run the Accounting Health Check again. Resolve all remaining data issues (Note 416699.1)
If upgrading to R12.0.x, apply Patch 7653100 (Note 557869.1)
If upgrading to R12.1.x, apply Patch 8773483:R12.FIN_PF.B (Note 880275.1)
Proceed with the next steps of the upgrade.
Your quick action in this regards will be highly appreciated.
Regards
Mohammed.

Mohammed,
I am not an expert although I have significant experience upgrading the database and applications from 11.5.10.2 to 12.1.1 and 12.1.3 in both test and production environments. The following are a few thoughts as you continue down the upgrade path:
Patch 8773483 will need to be installed in pre-install mode along with a number of other pre-install mode patches. If you haven't looked at the following note you will need to since it contains information you need:
Oracle Applications Release Notes, Release 12.1.1 [ID 798258.1]
Pay particular attention to the README.txt instructions for patch 9179588 since it wants you to merge other patches with it before applying.
Another note you need to be aware of, especially if you want reconcile past the 6 month window used for accrual write offs during the upgrade, is:
R12.0 and R12.1: FAQ for the SLA Upgrade: SLA Pre-Upgrade, Post-Upgrade, and Hot Patch [ID 604893.1]
Other good sources of information for financials are:
Impact of R12 Design in Procure To Pay Accounting Flow [ID 429105.1]
Projects Uptake of the TCA Architecture in Release 12 [ID 417511.1] <--- AR/TCA (HZ) table join information that is very good
Payments In Order Management In R12 [ID 1164613.1]
If you don't have XLE and ZX currently licensed in your 11.5.10.2 instance, you will need to license them so the tax conversion runs successfully.
If you have legal entity identifications that are more than 30 characters, you will want to be aware of the size limitation imposed on the column LEGAL_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER in the table XLE.XLE_ENTITY_PROFILES, The following job will fail if the combined values exceed the LEGAL_ENTITY_IDENTIFIER column length which is shortened in R12:
xleupg01.sql
There are lots of potential pitfalls in an R12 upgrade. You simply need to test, test, and test again everything you use, read the RCD's and R12 documentation as much as possible, etc ... Having said that, there are many good things about an R12 upgrade too, from both the functional and technical perspectives.
Riley

Oracle R12 Upgrade - Estimated Downtime

We are midsize company upgrading from Oracle Financials R11i (11.5.9) to R12. Our consulting vendor performing the upgrade has estimated 8 days to complete the upgrade. Our DB size is less than 150gb and we have a very vanilla environment (only 14 CEMLI's).
Having managed extremely complex SAP upgrades in the past, cutting over during long weekends and thus maximum downtimes of 72hrs I am blown away by an estimated 8 days of downtime in this case.
Does anyone have any experience with this type of upgrade and the expected downtime windows to be incurred by the business?

Hi,
8 calendar days of downtime seems an excessive estimate for the what you've described, though of course there are a lot of factors that influence this. You'll have a much better idea of what to expect once you've performed a dry run (or five :-) ) on a test system. Has the consulting vendor offered any sort of justification for the estimate? That is, are they pointing to anything in your environment that makes this upgrade particularly long? What sort of hardware are you using? Are you migrating to a new platform during this upgrade? Does all of the work they're estimating for truly need to be done during the outage window, or is there some that can be done before or after? What does their estimate look like if you only convert some Financials data during the upgrade, and do the rest post-upgrade?
I can only offer the following data point, though I suspect that there are others on this forum with more varied R12 upgrade experience:
Our upgrade (11.5.10.2->12.0.3) was for a system with a similar data footprint (slightly smaller, in fact), and similarly vanilla environment (customizations limited to reports). We were running on mid-range hardware (two-node system, 2-CPU db server, single-CPU app server). We started our upgrade on a Friday at 6 PM, and finished sometime late the following Sunday evening...less than 72 hours. Granted, this is not an apples-to-apples comparison: you're starting at 11.5.9, not 11.5.10.2. Then again, I assume you'll also be going directly to 12.0.4. We had to add time to our upgrade to apply the 12.0->12.0.3 upgrade driver.
If we were discussing this over a beer, I'd be tempted to claim there's some [Scotty Factor|http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ScottyFactor|Beam me up!] going on here. Since this is a public forum, however, I would never be so woefully unprofessional, and merely suggest that you request clarification from your vendor on the justification for their estimate. :-)
Regards,
John P.
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Hidden parameters appears after Oracle 11gR2 upgrade

Platform: HP-UX B.11.31 U ia64
Upgrading from: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
Upgrading to : Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
Issue : There are around 130 hidden parameter appear after Oracle 11gR2 upgrade.
Before upgrade I have commented the hidden parameters on the PFILE. PFILE only to start the database for the Oracle 11gR2 upgrade.
Before upgrade, checking the hidden parameter:
SQL> SELECT name,description from SYS.V$PARAMETER WHERE name LIKE '\_%' ESCAPE '\';
optimizerextended_cursor_sharing_rel
optimizer extended cursor sharing for relational operators
allowlevel_without_connect_by
allow level without connect by
I am using client parameter file ( PFILE ) commented the hidden parameters highlighted above.
However after successful upgrade to 11gR2, creating SPFILE from the PFILE ( commented the hidden parameters) now i am getting 132 hidden parameters.
SQL> select count(1) from sys.V$PARAMETER where name like '\_%' escape '\';
COUNT(1)
132
SQL> select name from sys.V$PARAMETER where name like '\_%' escape '\';
name
aggregationoptimization_settings
alwaysanti_join
alwayssemi_join
andpruning_enabled
btree_bitmap_plans
bloomfilter_enabled
bloomfolding_enabled
bloompruning_enabled
complexview_merging
compressioncompatibility
connectby_use_union_all
convertset_to_join
costequality_semi_join
cputo_io
dimensionskip_null
eliminatecommon_subexpr
enabletype_dep_selectivity
fastfull_scan_enabled
firstk_rows_dynamic_proration
gbyhash_aggregation_enabled
generalizedpruning_enabled
globalindexpnum_filter_enabled
gsanti_semi_join_allowed
improvedouterjoin_card
improvedrow_length_enabled
indexjoin_enabled
ksbrestart_policy_times
leftnested_loops_random
localcommunication_costing_enabled
minimalstats_aggregation
mmvquery_rewrite_enabled
newinitial_join_orders
newsort_cost_estimate
nljbatching_enabled
optimadjust_for_part_skews
optimenhance_nnull_detection
optimnew_default_join_sel
optimpeek_user_binds
optimizeradaptive_cursor_sharing
optimizerbetter_inlist_costing
optimizercbqt_no_size_restriction
optimizercoalesce_subqueries
optimizercomplex_pred_selectivity
optimizercompute_index_stats
optimizerconnect_by_combine_sw
optimizerconnect_by_cost_based
optimizerconnect_by_elim_dups
optimizercorrect_sq_selectivity
optimizercost_based_transformation
optimizercost_hjsmj_multimatch
optimizercost_model
optimizerdim_subq_join_sel
optimizerdistinct_agg_transform
optimizerdistinct_elimination
optimizerdistinct_placement
optimizereliminate_filtering_join
optimizerenable_density_improvements
optimizerenable_extended_stats
optimizerenable_table_lookup_by_nl
optimizerenhanced_filter_push
optimizerextend_jppd_view_types
optimizerextended_cursor_sharing
optimizerextended_cursor_sharing_rel
optimizerextended_stats_usage_control
optimizerfalse_filter_pred_pullup
optimizerfast_access_pred_analysis
optimizerfast_pred_transitivity
optimizerfilter_pred_pullup
optimizerfkr_index_cost_bias
optimizerfull_outer_join_to_outer
optimizergroup_by_placement
optimizerimprove_selectivity
optimizerinterleave_jppd
optimizerjoin_elimination_enabled
optimizerjoin_factorization
optimizerjoin_order_control
optimizerjoin_sel_sanity_check
optimizermax_permutations
optimizermode_force
optimizermulti_level_push_pred
optimizernative_full_outer_join
optimizernew_join_card_computation
optimizernull_aware_antijoin
optimizeror_expansion
optimizerorder_by_elimination_enabled
optimizerouter_join_to_inner
optimizerouter_to_anti_enabled
optimizerpush_down_distinct
optimizerpush_pred_cost_based
optimizerrownum_bind_default
optimizerrownum_pred_based_fkr
optimizerskip_scan_enabled
optimizersortmerge_join_inequality
optimizersqu_bottomup
optimizerstar_tran_in_with_clause
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optimizertable_expansion
optimizertransitivity_retain
optimizertry_st_before_jppd
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optimizerunnest_disjunctive_subq
optimizeruse_cbqt_star_transformation
optimizeruse_feedback
orexpand_nvl_predicate
orderednested_loop
parallelbroadcast_enabled
partitionview_enabled
pivotimplementation_method
prerewrite_push_pred
predmove_around
pushjoin_predicate
pushjoin_union_view
pushjoin_union_view2
pxminus_intersect
pxpartition_scan_enabled
pxpwg_enabled
pxual_serial_input
queryrewrite_setopgrw_enable
removeaggr_subquery
replacevirtual_columns
resourcemanager_plan
rightouter_hash_enable
selfjoinmv_duplicates
sqlmodel_unfold_forloops
sqltunecategory_parsed
subquerypruning_enabled
subquerypruning_mv_enabled
tablescan_cost_plus_one
unionrewrite_for_gs
unnestsubquery
usecolumn_stats_for_function

I just came across a similar case: 1 (just one) of our (RAC-) databases has 130-something underscore-parameters set to non-default values.
version is still 11.1.0.7 (e.g. not 11gR2).
All of those hidden parameters seem to be CBO related (list on request).
Weird is: Only one of our (very similar, supposedly same-config) databases have these hidden parameters set.
Colleagues justly wonder: Who, When, What has caused these parameters to be expliclty set for this one system?
Note: we do not have the complete history of this system documented (systems have been managed by 3 different parties already).
It is quite possible they came in with some patch or upgrade (catupgr?) somewhere between 11.1.0.1 and 11.1.0.7, but a confirmation would be nice.
Information welcome.
System info:
Linux hostname 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 9 03:27:37 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Versions
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
CORE 11.1.0.7.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
5 rows selected.

System Core Dumped after Oracle patch upgrade 9.2.0.6 to 9.2.0.8

Hi,
We are continously getting dumps on our BW Central instance server after we did an Oracle patch upgrade from 9.2.0.6 to 9.2.0.8.
Following is our system environment
SAP Release.............. "640"
Application server....... "abci"
Operating system......... "SunOS"
Release.................. "5.10"
Hardware type............ "sun4v"
Database server.......... "abdb"
Database type............ "ORACLE"
Database name............ "ABP"
Database owner........... "SAPABP"
SAP kernel............... "640"
Database version......... "OCI_920 "
Patch level.............. "175"
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Date and Time          14.04.2008 09:26:17
ShrtText
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    The current ABAP program "SAPMSSY2" had to be terminated because the ABAP
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    To resolve the problem, contact your SAP system administrator.
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Error analysis
    An SAP System process was terminated by an operating system signal.
    Possible reasons for this are:
    1. Internal SAP System error.
    2. Process was terminated externally (by the system administrator).
               Last error logged in SAP kernel
    Component............ "Taskhandler"
    Place................ "SAP-Server awci_ABP_00 on host awci (wp 5)"
    Version.............. 1
    Error code........... 11
    Error text........... "ThSigHandler: signal"
    Description.......... " "
    System call.......... " "
    Module............... "thxxhead.c"
    Line................. 9780
How to correct the error
    The SAP System work directory (e.g. /usr/sap/c11/D00/work ) often
    contains a file called 'core'.
    Save this file under another name.
    If you cannot solve the problem yourself and you wish to send
    an error message to SAP, include the following documents:
    1. A printout of the problem description (short dump)
       To obtain this, select in the current display "System->List->
       Save->Local File (unconverted)".
    2. A suitable printout of the system log
       To obtain this, call the system log through transaction SM21.
       Limit the time interval to 10 minutes before and 5 minutes
       after the short dump. In the display, then select the function
       "System->List->Save->Local File (unconverted)".
    3. If the programs are your own programs or modified SAP programs,
       supply the source code.
       To do this, select the Editor function "Further Utilities->
       Upload/Download->Download".
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       or which actions and input led to the error.
Kindly help.
Regards
Sachin
Edited by: Sachin N on Apr 14, 2008 12:26 PM

No. If the environment would be wrong the system wouldn´t start up.
Core dumps are in 99 % of the cases program errors (in the SAP kernel or in an interface (libdbora*)), misaligend accesses of data etc.
If you encounter such an error have a look in the C-Stack. If you can´t see where the error is happening opening an OSS call. Most of those errors are fixed by installing the latest patches for the kernel and the database interface.
Markus

Differences between Hyperion consolidation and Oracle Financials Consolidat

I'm looking for a document- recommendations etc. explaining why using Hyperion Consolidations versus Oracle Financials Consolidation ?
Thanks
Marcel

Genie,
I agree that a case is made on how well these two ERPs solve the day to day tasks before a company chooses one of these two. But my question is aimed at finance to begin with. You are going to need a general ledger for any company or government regardless of ERP. And how well you can drive the ledger to map your business is the key here.
The way ledger is built is around a business area ,company or country and is very tighly designed in SAP. I would like to know if there is any equivalent of the configuration items in ORACLE. I am more interested in terminology of ORACLE.
For example ,
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GL ==> Book In ORACLE
Document Number ===> Invoice Number
Posting Period in SAP ==> Posting period In ORACLE
Most of the terms are finance terms , so they are common ( eg. an account number is an account number in ORACLE and SAP ) between two systems. I am interested in any specific thing that is available in ORACLE but not in SAP and vice verse.
thanks for the link you have provided.
Its very useful.

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