(Forms and Reports) Gibt es was neues für die Administratoren 12.2.1.4

What‘s new?

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 1 Agenda Different between 12.2.1.3 and 12.2.1.4 Installation 12.2.1.4 Upgrade to 12.2.1.4 Administration 12.2.1.4

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 2 Compare Forms 12

Forms 12.2.1.3 Help Forms 12.2.1.4 Help

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 3 Compare Forms 12

Forms 12.2.1.3 Help Forms 12.2.1.4 Help

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 4 Installation Roadmap Verify your system's environment jdk1.8.0_211 and it has to be 64 bit Verify your Repository Database

Equal to or higher than 12.1.0.1 for 12c databases and must be

Parameter Minimum Required Value

SHARED_POOL_SIZE 147,456 KB

SGA_MAX_SIZE 147,456 KB

DB_BLOCK_SIZE 8 KB

session_cached_cursors 100

processes 1000

open_cursors 1600

db_files 600

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 5 Installation Roadmap (12.2.1.3) Verify your system's environment JDK was jdk1.8.0_131 64bit Verify your Repository Database

Equal to or higher than 12.1.0.1 for 12c databases and must be Oracle Database

Parameter Minimum Required Value

SHARED_POOL_SIZE 147,456 KB

SGA_MAX_SIZE 147,456 KB

DB_BLOCK_SIZE 8 KB

session_cached_cursors 100

processes 1000

open_cursors 1600

db_files 600

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 6 Oracle WebLogic Server and Coherence Disk Space Requirements

Installation Type Disk Space Required

Coherence Installation 567 MB

WebLogic Server Installation 582 MB

Complete Installation 660 MB

Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure Disk SpaceRequirements

Installation Type Disk Space required

Fusion Middleware Infrastructure 2.2 GB

Fusion Middleware Infrastructure With Examples 2.3 GB

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 7 Oracle WebLogic Server and Coherence Disk Space Requirements (12.2.1.3)

Installation Type Disk Space Required

Coherence Installation 567 MB

WebLogic Server Installation 582 MB

Complete Installation 660 MB

Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure Disk SpaceRequirements

Installation Type Disk Space required Fusion Middleware Infrastructure 1.4 GB Fusion Middleware Infrastructure With Examples 1.5 GB

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 8 Oracle Forms and Reports Disk Space Requirements

Installation Type Disk Space required

Standalone Forms Builder 3.5 GB

Forms and Reports Deployment (includes Fusion 6.5 GB Middleware Infrastructure)

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 9 IPv6 Support by Component

Component IPv6 Only Dual Stack Comments Oracle HTTP Yes Yes To configure Oracle HTTP Server Server for IPv6, see Configuring Oracle HTTP Server for IPv6 in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle WebLogic Yes Yes The Oracle WebLogic Server Web Server Server plug-ins support IPv6, beginning with the 11g release. Oracle Forms No No Oracle Forms and Reports are Services configured with Oracle HTTP Serverand mod_wl_ohs to proxy requests, which can be configured for IPv6. Oracle Platform No Yes Requires a dual stack because Security Services Oracle Database requires IPv4 addresses. Oracle Reports No No Uses reverse proxy to communicate with Oracle HTTP Server, which can be configured for IPv6.

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 10 IPv6 Support by Component(12.2.1.3)

Component IPv6 Only Dual Stack Comments Oracle HTTP Yes Yes To configure Oracle HTTP Server Server for IPv6, see Configuring Oracle HTTP Server for IPv6 in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle WebLogic Yes Yes The Oracle WebLogic Server Web Server Server plug-ins support IPv6, beginning with the 11g release. Oracle Forms No No Oracle Forms and Reports are Services configured with Oracle HTTP Serverand mod_wl_ohs to proxy requests, which can be configured for IPv6. Oracle Platform No Yes Requires a dual stack because Security Services Oracle Database requires IPv4 addresses. Oracle Reports No No Uses reverse proxy to communicate with Oracle HTTP Server, which can be configured for IPv6.

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 11 Enabling Unicode Support

Variable Description

LANG This environment variable sets the installation default locale. For example: setenv LANG en_US.UTF-8

LC_ALL This environment variable overrides the value of the LANG environment variable and the values of any other LC_* environment variables. For example: setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8 locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES= LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL=

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 12 Setting the Operating System Open File and Processes Limit

* soft nofile 4096 * hard nofile 65536 * soft nproc 2047 * hard nproc 16384

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 13 Windows Operating Systems Requirements

Fusion Middleware Products Visual Studio (VC++) Version

Oracle WebLogic Server Plugin Visual Studio 2012 (VC++ 11.0) Visual Studio 2010 (VC++ 10.0)

Oracle HTTP Server Visual Studio 2012 (VC++ 11.0) Visual Studio 2010 (VC++ 10.0)

Oracle Traffic Director Visual Studio 2013 (VC++ 12.0)

Forms and Reports Visual Studio 2010 (VC++ 10.0) SP1 Visual Studio 2012 (VC++ 11.0) Visual Studio 2013 (VC++ 12.0)

OBIEE Visual Studio 2010 (VC++ 10.0) SP1

Oracle Internet Directory Visual Studio 2010 (VC++ 10.0) SP1

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 14 Installing Oracle Forms in a New Oracle Home Oracle Forms must be installed inside an Oracle home directory, which is created when Oracle WebLogic Server is installed. Oracle Forms must be installed in its own Oracle home directory that it does not share with any other Oracle Fusion Middleware products of a different version.

Although Oracle BI-Publisher 12.2.1.4 can be called from Oracle Forms 12.2.1.4 applications, this BI-Publisher version cannot be installed into the same Oracle home as Forms.

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 15 Overview of Installation and Configuration Steps Perform the following steps to complete the installation and configuration of Oracle Forms:

Install WebLogic Server Infrastructure. Install Forms/Reports . Run Repository Creation Utility (RCU). Run Configuration Wizard.

Start all servers to complete configuration.

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 16 Start all servers to complete configuration. Lsnrctl (Listener for Database) Repository Database

NodeManager

AdminServer WLS_FORMS WLS_REPORTS

Components

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 17 What's New in this Release Oracle Forms Standalone Launcher Improvements

Single Sign-on Support Starting with this release, FSAL supports single sign-on (SSO) using Oracle Access Manager.

Improvement of Cache Handling The algorithm used to determine if a cache update is necessary has been significantly improved

Support for Version 11.0.2 The Oracle Forms Standalone Launcher is now compatible with Java versions 11.0.2 (LTS) and later.

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 18 What's New in this Release Increased Allowed Text Length for Text or Display Items The Maximum Length property for Text and Display items has been changed from 65534 to 2097151

Improved WebUtil File Transfer Rate When transferring files using the file upload and download features of WebUtil, the transfer rate has been increased by as much as 30% for both transfers between the user and middle- tier and between the user and database.

Be carefull using the new „webutil.olb“. Using the new *.olb run into moving the webutil_canvas to the top at compile time.

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 19 Deprecation Notice for Oracle Reports Oracle Reports has been deprecated as of Fusion Middleware 12c Release 2 (12.2.1.3.0).

This means that no further development of Oracle Reports is planned for the future.

In future releases, Oracle is not planning any functional enhancements for Oracle Reports other than critical bug fixes.

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 20 Upgrading Oracle Forms

I have used https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/developer-tools/forms/12.2.1.4/install- fnr/upgrading-oracle-forms.html#GUID-13B1E173-BB27-45CD-A99B-9EA980E54FDE

I have already done Upgrade from 12.2.1.2 to 12.2.1.4 and 12.2.1.3 to 12.2.1.4

Upgrade runs without any errors so far you do not use step by step from Oracle Documentation

Inside the Documents is an error.

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 21 Upgrade to 12.2.1.4 You have to install a new Oracle Middleware and Oracle Home

You are not allowed to install into the same Oracle Middleware / Oracle Home

Install new JDK Install new Middleware Install new Forms / Reports

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 22 How to Upgrade Shutdown system components, including Admin Server and the managed servers

Uninstall Oracle Forms version 12.2.1.3.0/12.2.1.2

Install Oracle Forms version 12.2.1.4.0 on using the same Oracle Home path as 12.2.1.3.0.

Start system components, including Admin Server and the managed servers on node

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 23 Upgrade from 12.2.1.2 Running the Upgrade Assistant to Upgrade the Domain Schema

Reconfiguring the 12.2.1.2.0 Domain using the WLS Reconfiguration Wizard

Running the Upgrade Assistant to Upgrade the Components Configuration

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 24 Upgrade from 12.2.1.3 Shutdown system components, including Admin Server and the managed servers

Uninstall Oracle Forms version 12.2.1.3.0/12.2.1.2

Install Oracle Forms version 12.2.1.4.0 on using the same Oracle Home path as 12.2.1.3.0.

Start system components, including Admin Server and the managed servers on node

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 25 ERROR If you have done as i told one slide before you will run into Error

Shutdown system components, including Admin Server and the managed servers

Uninstall Oracle Forms version 12.2.1.3.0/12.2.1.2

Do not uninstall the Version 12.2.1.3 or 12.2.1.2. Rename to _OLD

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 26 Bug Fixed

Bug ID Description

29836735 REP-56048 AFTER 12C UPGRADE WHEN DESFORMAT=RTF

27939769 RWWEBSERVICE WITH SSO ENABLED FAILS FOR GETJOBID (WORKS FOR BASIC EM REQUESTS)

27881909 FORMAT AXIS LABEL (Y FORMAT) AND FORMAT DATA LABELS DOES NOT WORK

27763841 PDF CREATED BY INFO STILL SHOWS ORACLE 11GR1 INSTEAD OF 12C

27238962 ENHANCED SUBSET PDF OUTPUT SHOWS SQUARED CHARACTER FOR CARRIAGE- RETURN

26552470 ADD SUPPORT FOR LRM(\U+200E) AND RLM(\U+200F) IN ORACLE REPORTS

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 27 Bug

Bug ID Description 29028753 INTERMITTENT ORA-01756/REP-56048 WHEN USING PARAMETERS WITH SPACES IN 12C

28946457 THERE IS NO PROPERTY RELATED TO QUERY ARRAY SIZE

28928891 AUTO SKIP DOESN'T WORK CORRECTLY WHEN COPY AND PASTE

28648675 READINESS CHECK FAILS FOR FORMS UPGRADE STEP

28515432 AUTO-SKIP FAILS AT FIRST TIME INPUT MULTI-BYTE CHARACTORS IF EXECUTE_QUERY

28425035 FORMS SESSION HANGS AFTER EXIT FROM MENU ITEM

28224060 MISSING FONTS AT THE PROPERTY PALETTE OF ITEM UNDER FONT NAME LOV

28170106 FIELD VALUE GETS AUTOMATICALLY SELECTED DURING INPUT, USING AQ

28103538 WHEN USING WEBUTIL: WUC-24 DOWNLOADING WEBUTIL 12C DLLS

28044002 AUTO SKIP DOESN'T WORK CORRECTLY WHEN INPUT MULTIBYTE MORE THAN MAXIMUM LENGTH

27944496 FRM-41068 : ERROR IN SET_MENU_ITEM_PROPERTY

27880279 CHANGE RESTRICTIONS OF SET_ALERT_PROPERTY

27865002 ADF DOMAIN UPGRADE FAILS WHEN IT IS CONFIGURED FORMS&REPORTS ORACLEHOME

27819175 12C WEBUTIL CLIENT_GET_FILE_NAME USING MULTI-FILTER NO LONGER WORKS AS IN 6I

27539809 WEBUTIL_HOST.BLOCKING AND NONBLOCKING WITH BLOCKALLOWHEARTBEAT FREEZES FORMS

27353367 CHGHOST COMMAND FAILS WITH NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION

27291926 WHEN REMOVE A TOOLTIP AND RUN FORM ON THE WEB STILL CAN SEE A SMALL DOT

27226646 NOTE EXAMPLE IN SECTION "5.1.3 CONFIGURING OHS" IS INCORRECT FORMAT.

27211389 NOT ABLE TO GET PROPER VALUE AFTER DELETE/CLEAR LIST ITEM VALUE.

26996652 SAME BEHAVIOR FROM BUG 22724515 IN FORMS 12.2.1.3.0

26968496 ITEM WITH AUTOMATIC SKIP DOES NOT MOVE TO THE NEXT NAVIGABLE ITEM

26810846 OPMN REFERENCE IN FORMS DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 12C TO BE REMOVED.

26392419 FORM12C: UNICODE GARBLED WHEN INSERT INTO NVARCHAR2 BY WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED

26189555 FORMS 12.2.1.2.0 ON WINDOWS 2012, HAVING PERFORMANCE ISSUE ON HEBREW DATA

25829500 RAISE FORM_TRIGGER_FAILURE FROM POST QUERY ON PROCEDURE BASED DATABLOC 93652

25533512 EXTEND FORMS FSAL CONSOLE OUTPUT TO ASSIST DEBUGGING EFFORTS

25215010 FORMS LDAP RESOURCE ADMINISTRATION DOES NOT CONNECT VIA SSL

25031354 FORMS CURSOR POSITION RESET TO TOP WHEN MOUSE-CLICKS ON TAB SHEET

22739705 FRMXML2F CAUSES THE JVM TO CRASH FOR SOME FORMS IN WIN 2012 R2 X64

20308814 FOCUS LOST WHEN NAVIGATING OUTSIDE AND RETURN BACK TO THE FORMS WINDOW

Jan-Peter Timmermann Consulting Sunday, November 24, 2019 28 Danke für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit

Jan-Peter Timmermann JPT-Consulting Bekstr.4c 22880 Wedel +49 172 215 1043

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