Oracle Infogram

Oracle On Linux Installation Menu
Contributed by Angela Golla

Check out this handy link for Oracle on Linux information: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/index.html


Oracle Advanced Customer Services
Contributed by Angela Golla

A recent Gartner report highlights Oracle Advanced Customer Services as a valuable investment. Learn more about Advanced Customer Services offerings from this brochure: http://www.oracle.com/support/library/brochure/advanced-customer-service-brochure.pdf

Oracle BI Discoverer 10.1.2.3 Release Details

As announced at the Oracle Business Intelligence Blog.

OBI EE

More BI, this time Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 - APEX Integration using Web Services - Triggering Ibots at the obi-ee-plus blog.

Blog in the Spotlight:
H.Tonguç Yılmaz
This is one of the best Oracle blogs out there. I was thinking of which of the three excellent postings to put in the Infogram. Well, they're all good, so why not just go to his blog and do some reading. He has lots of good, hands-on guidance and experience to share.

ECM

Some good links to resources for Oracle ECM, the Former Stellent, over that the Fusion ECM blog.

Linux Tips

One of the signs of a good DBA is comfort with the OS. They don't just know how to install the product, they KNOW the OS. Here are a few Linux pointers at the Tyler Muth Blog

DBMS_Utility

Finally, a note of caution about using DBMS_Utility to analyze at the Momen Blog.

VISIT THE NEW PEOPLESOFT BEST PRACTICE CENTER ON OTN
PeopleSoft technology leads and PeopleTools experts can learn how to service-enable PeopleSoft business services, workflows, and business components. "How-to" sessions cover technology areas such as BPEL, ESB, BAM, ADF, and WebCenter. Visit today and bookmark it for constant updates and Webcasts

UPGRADE PLUS FOR PEOPLESOFT FMS AND 9.0 MP5 NOW AVAILABLE
Introducing the general availability of Upgrade Plus, which allows upgrading directly to FSCM 9.0 MP5. Upgrade Plus integrates the maintenance packs of 9.0 MP5 directly into the upgrade—simplifying the upgrade with no secondary patch needed. The FSCM 9.0 MP5 upgrade certification is the first deliverable of the Upgrade Plus program that Doris Wong announced at Open World 2007. This upgrade includes the following paths:
- FSCM 8.4x to 9.0 MP5
- FSCM 8.8x to 9.0 MP5
- FSCM 8.9 to 9.0 MP5
- EPM 8.8SCP to FSCM 9.0 MP5
More information available on Customer Connection

UPCOMING ADVISOR WEBCASTS FOR PEOPLESOFT ENTERPRISE
Expert information on services, products, and technologies comes straight to your desktop through Oracle Web Conferencing.

May 6: PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions (CS) 2008-2009 Financial Aid US Regulatory (Regs) 3

May 7: PeopleTools 8.4x LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) Troubleshooting

May 27: Tuning Application Server on UNIX

June 10: Procurement Cards in PeopleSoft Purchasing

Get more details on Advisor Webcasts (requires login ID and password)

Check out future events for HCM experts:
The Conference Board Employee Engagement and Retention Conference
May 7-9, San Francisco, California
American Payroll Association
May 13-17, Austin, Texas
Towers Perrin HR Service Delivery Forum
May 18-20, San Diego, California
IHRIM
June 1-4, Orlando, Florida

Oracle has launched a number of application-specific best practice centers on Oracle Technology Network. A library of self-paced, "Getting Started" briefings, how-to tutorials, Webcasts, and community links covering BPEL, SOA-based integration, Application Development Framework (ADF), and WebCenter are updated monthly.Visit the Fusion Middleware Best Practice Centers for Oracle E-Business Suite PeopleSoft Siebel today.

Do and Don’t, Mostly Don’t

A bit thinner Infogram than usual this week, but this posting by Tom Kyte makes up for it by linking to some excellent blogs to peruse. If Tom Kyte recommends it, that’s good enough for me.

External Authentication

This posting at the Talking Identity blog is an engaging discussion of the industry trend (and demand for) external identification.

Premier Support for EBS Extended
Oracle Extends Premier Support for the Oracle® E-Business Suite Posted by Dave Warhoe, 4/22/08 at 10:14:01 PM
COLLABORATE 2008, DENVER, CO 15-APR-2008 05:00 AM

• During his keynote today at the COLLABORATE conference, Oracle President Charles Phillips announced the company has extended Premier Support for the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10 through November 2010.

For more, please visit Chris Warticki's blog.

Upcoming Conferences and Events sponsored by User Groups:

Check the details for the following sessions here:

·South Australian Business Service (SABSUG) UG - May 13; TBA
·JD Edwards Southern California (SCUG) UG - May 14; Long Beach, CA
·Greater Philadelphia RUG - May 15; Philadelphia, PA
·Mid-Atlantic Regional Users Group (MARUG) - May 19; Richmond, VA
·Eastern Australia RUG - May 22; Sydney, AU
·JD Edwards Southeast UG - May 22 - 23; Charleston, SC
·Northwest RUG - May 28; Portland, OR
South Arkansas Northern Lousiana (SANLA) RUG - May 29; El Dorado, AR

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Platform Statement of Direction

The latest JDE Platform Statement of Direction was posted in Feb 2008 on customer Connection. Check it here

Upcoming PeopleSoft Events

Click here for more information and registration to these free Web events sponsored by Quest user groups:

May 6, 2008 (11:00- 12:00 PDT)
Creating a World Class HR Shared Services/Call Center Organization

May 7, 2008 (11:00- 12:00 PDT)
Create a World Class HR Shared Services/Call Center Organization that Integrates with Your PeopleSoft HCM Platform

June 10, 2008 (11:00- 12:00 PDT)
Maximizing Self Service Effectiveness - Trends in HR Direct Access

June 17, 2008 (11:00- 12:00 PDT)
Creating a Dynamic Employee Portal with On-Demand HR Communications Technology

June 19, 2008 (11:00- 12:00 PDT)
ONBOARDING: How Web-Based Onboarding Engages New Hires and Speeds Up Time to Productivity

Everything Technical You Wanted to Know About Your Upgrade (But Were Afraid to Ask)

This is a complimentary webinar for the PeopleSoft users community. Click here for more information

Quest Northeast Conference -July 16-18, 2008

Location: MGM at Foxwoods Resort - Ledyard, Connecticut
Registration Cut Off Date is July 10, 2008

This conference is held by Quest International Users Group in partnership with many of our key affiliate user groups from the Northeast like Boston RUG, Financial Services IUG , Greater Philadelphia RUG, JD Edwards NorthEast User Group, Northeast PeopleSoft & NY/NJ JD Edwards RUG and Southern New England User Group.

You don't have to be a member of Quest or any of the affiliate user groups to attend this regional event, simply be a customer or vendor of Oracle. Some of the agenda items for this 3 day conference are:
- Roundtable and enhancement paper sessions for key industries selected
-The latest updates from Oracle
- A wide variety of exhibitors and vendor product demonstration sessions
- And of course the ever important networking opportunities to help build relationships with people in your area

Greater Philadelphia PeopleSoft JDEdwards Regional Users Group Meeting

Greater Philadelphia Regional User's Group will be meeting on May 15, 2008, at Dave & Buster's in Philadelphia, PA! Join your fellow PeopleSoft & JDEdwards users for timely and relevant information, Oracle updates and networking opportunities. Some of the Agenda items for this meeting are as follows:

PeopleSoft events :

Time and Labor for PeopleSoft Customers; Application Change Management for PeopleSoft; PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Release 9.0 and Beyond; Advanced Reporting Tips and Techniques; Aligning HR Systems, Processes and Overall Strategy; Advanced PeopleTools Tips and Techniques; Noetix reporting for PeopleSoft HR and Hoverboards; Applying Bundles (from a user perspective); CRM OnDemand

JDE EnterpriseOne events:

Cost Justifying your E1 Upgrade; How to sell an EnterpriseOne upgrade to upper management

Click here for registration and further information.

Reminder: Charity Marathon Run Seeking Contributions

Some time ago we reported that Lynn Davis, a long-time Oracle EBS guru who is now working for Ahmed Alomari at Cybernoor, is preparing to participate in a marathon for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She's almost half way there on her donations goal, would you like to be the one to get her closer to the finish line? Please consider donating at this link. Many companies (including Oracle) have charity matching available, so make sure you see if your company has a program available (there's a lookup form on the second page of the contribution process).

Lynn sent me this update that I wanted to share with our readers:

My fundraising is moving in a positive direction thanks to everyone on this mail. Since my training began in late January, I have walked a total of 211 miles! Over the last month or so, Saturday’s training sessions comprise upwards of 10 miles and have a duration of 5-6 hours. Needless to say, I am done for the remainder of the day between long soaks in the bath and the nursing of my aching parts.

So the first event takes place this coming Sunday, 4May08, amongst the beautiful redwood forests in Northern California. I am very much looking forward to the 6 or 7-hour scenic drive on Saturday though I am not quite as excited about the return journey. I understand Humboldt, the nearby township, is a “hippie” town, the home of Berkeley retirees. I am sure I will be questioning my euphoria of choice by the time I have completed the circuit albeit for a good cause.

In the next update, I should have pictures of the event for your amusement .

New Patchset

The 10.2.0.4 patchset is now available for Sparc64 Solaris and others at Metalink.

JD Edwards

IBM’s Power Systems and i V6R1…Are They Ready for JD Edwards? a useful link over at the JD Edwards Advisor

OTN Forums

The I'm a Simple DBA blog reminds us of the value of the OTN forums in this posting. It's an old cliche that the best things in life are free. For once it may be true! Well, no, the best thing going is Priority Service, but if you already have that, why not use the forums too?

SQL Injection

It's good to remember SQL injection from time to time. Junior web developers (and even some incorrigible senior ones) love to use it because it makes their lives easy. It doesn't make life so nice for those with an interest in data security. Oracle Musings blog pointed out an excellent article at Oracle WTF on injections and their potential for damage.

Overloading PL/SQL

I was doing some research for a customer on overloaded code and came upon this blog entry, which I thought was a good overview with some hands-on examples.

JD Edwards

Some good updates on EnterpriseOne over at the JD Ewards Advisor blog.

Scaling Up

The High Scalability blog has some links to a presentation (slides and video) on how Google deals with scaling up (as you can imagine, they do a lot of that). I hope you have better luck with the video, I gave it five minutes and it still didn't finish downloading, so it may be 'overwatched' at the moment. In a way, that's mildly amusing, considering the video isn't scaling to meet demand. But the slides downloaded fine, and are full of eminently technical material (suitable for menacing non-technical relatives, saying that 'this is really interesting stuff' and 'just sit down here and I'll explain it all in terms you can understand').

Performance: CMT and Oracle

Considering CMT? Glenn Fawcett points out a few factors here on Utilizing CMT with Oracle.


Oracle Subdomains

Eddie Awad has come up with this great list of subdomains at his blog:

• docs.oracle.com
• tahiti.oracle.com
• etrm.oracle.com
• irep.oracle.com
• forums.oracle.com
• otn.oracle.com
• technet.oracle.com
• oss.oracle.com
• mix.oracle.com
• wiki.oracle.com
• blogs.oracle.com
• asktom.oracle.com
• education.oracle.com
• crmondemand.oracle.com
• htmldb.oracle.com

• metalink.oracle.com
• metalink3.oracle.com
• academy.oracle.com
• partner.oracle.com
• my.oracle.com
• ilearning.oracle.com
• emeajobs.oracle.com
• campus.oracle.com
• jobs.oracle.com
• solutions.oracle.com
• workforce.oracle.com
• events.oracle.com
• edelivery.oracle.com
• sqldeveloper.oracle.com
• login.oracle.com

• st-curriculum.oracle.com
• ui.oracle.com
• exchange.oracle.com
• pressroom.oracle.com
• portalstandards.oracle.com
• isdportal.oracle.com
• download.oracle.com
• workforce.oracle.com
• elocation.oracle.com
• usableapps.oracle.com
• marvel.oracle.com
• apex.oracle.com
• store.oracle.com
• otnsemanticweb.oracle.com
• search.oracle.com

April CPU and EBS

A good summation of the April CPU, with links, over at the Oracle Security Blog.

OBI EE

A good blog from an Oracle employee working with our OBI EE product. A representative article is Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 - Overriding Autogeneration of Dimension Level Names of Hyperion Essbase 9.3.1 Wow, I'm really tired from just typing that title. Good, hands on material.

APEX

David Peake gives us some unofficial (but probably pretty darned reliable) peeks over the horizon on the direction of APEX at his blog.

Hyperion e-Support Set To Retire
Hyperion Customer Support: Oracle recently announced the upcoming transition of Hyperion e-Support to OracleMetaLink 3. To help prepare customers and partners for this change, a new transition information website is now available. This will provide customers and partners more specific details regarding significant changes, transition information, benefits, FAQ, and a customer feedback e-mail account. MORE...

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General Availability of 8.12 Update 3

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 Update 3 is now generally available. This update contains all Electronic Software Updates (ESUs) and Application Software Updates (ASUs) completed since the base release of EnterpriseOne 8.12 (April 2006) through February 5, 2008.

Special instructions for this update are posted to the Software Delivery site on Customer Connection. Directions for navigating to the instructions are included in the documentation booklet on the Electronic Product Delivery (EPD) site.
For a list of all available baseline ESUs, please click here (requires Customer Connection log in)

Upcoming Webinars/Advisor Webcasts

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (time in MDT)
- Shop Floor Mgt Automatic Acctg. Instructions for Mfg Acctg, April 30, 10:00 a.m.
- Promoting Solution Explorer Objects in JDE EnterpriseOne, May 1,10:00 a.m.
- Planned Cross Docking, May 8,10:00 a.m.
- Pro Forma Journal Entries,,May 13,10:00 a.m.
- JDE E1 on iSeries - Gathering JDE, OS logs from System i May 14, 10:00 a.m.
- Failure Analysis for use in Service Mgmt & Capital Asset Mgmt, May 15,1:00 p.m.
- Using the XML Interoperability API with JDE TR 8.97, May 20, 1:00 p.m.
- Guaranteed Real Time Events with Tools Release 8.97, May 21, 10:00 a.m.
- User Defined Depreciation Overview & Adding New Depreciation Rule,May 22,10:00 a.m.
- Lead-Time and Back scheduling E1 Releases 8.10 and Above, May 28,10:00 a.m.

JD Edwards World
- A91 Address Book Enhancements, April 24, 10:00 a.m. (MDT)
- What’s New on World A9.1 for the State, Province / Country Code File; Authorized Alternate Payees, Sub ledger and sub ledger types in P04102, May 13, 1:00 p.m. (MDT)
- Benefits Administration, May 15, 10:00 a.m. (MDT)
- Transit from Purchasing to A/P, May 20, 9:00 a.m. (MDT)

Details for the above Advisor Webcasts can be viewed on Customer Connection

Oracle Procurement Experts Answer Your Questions About ... Oracle Advanced Procurement Release 12
In this second in a series of columns featuring answers to customers' most frequently asked questions about Oracle Procurement products, Oracle sourcing expert Bill Tokheim offers details about R-12's new features and provides tips on how to successfully prioritize upgrade projects.

Two New Tools Save Time and Money in R12 Training and Documentation
Two interactive tools with a track record for saving training time and money for Oracle procurement applications are becoming available for the iProcurement module in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 for Advanced Procurement.

Oracle Sourcing R12 Soon to be Available Through Hubwoo
Look for details in the coming weeks about a plan to combine Oracle Sourcing with Hubwoo's global sourcing expertise and hosting services. The strategy calls for Hubwoo to implement an instance of Oracle Sourcing 12 (R-12) and make it available to customers that prefer on-demand.

Join the Discussion About Oracle Advanced Procurement
Check out this forum that allows you to share information and insights about Oracle iProcurement and read what other users have to say.

Events
Oracle will be participating in a number of industry events for procurement professionals this spring. Venues where Oracle will be sponsoring, presenting, or exhibiting include the following:

May 4-7 Institute for Supply Management's Annual Conference in St Louis, Missouri
May 6-9 Sourcing Interests Group's Global Conference, Newport Beach, California

Better Living Through OEM


- SOA Runtime Governance With Oracle Enterprise Manager

- Tuesday, 22nd April @ 11 a.m. PDT/3:00 p.m. EDT/6:00 p.m. GMT

Registrations open on OTN.

10046, A Friend in All Weathers

H.Tonguç Yılmaz demonstrates that 10046 is a swiss-army-knife of a trace technique in his blog.

Performance and the Art of Being Nice

Nice can mislead you, at least the one in Unix, and the I'm Just a Simple DBA blog fills us in on some of the ins and outs of using the nice utility.

Hyperion and PeopleSoft: Collaborate '08

Mark Rittman, of Rittman Mead Consulting, is blogging from Collaborate '08, concentrating on Hyperion. You can find his updates here.

For updates from the PeopleSoft sessions, check out the Grey Sperling blog.

Siebel

The Notes on Siebel blog continues their series on Order of Events.