Find applied patches for R12 EBS Oracle Applications

One key task for Oracle Application EBS Database Administrators is to perform patching on regular basis for maintenance pack upgrades and bug fixes. However, with busy work schedules, keeping track of applied patches can be a challenge.

Oracle R12 Applications uses the following tables under the APPS schema to track the status for bug fixes and patches with adpatch:

ad_applied_patches
ad_bugs


SQL> desc ad_applied_patches
Name Null? Type
----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------
APPLIED_PATCH_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
RAPID_INSTALLED_FLAG VARCHAR2(1)
PATCH_NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(120)
PATCH_TYPE NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
MAINT_PACK_LEVEL VARCHAR2(30)
SOURCE_CODE NOT NULL VARCHAR2(3)
CREATION_DATE NOT NULL DATE
CREATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER
LAST_UPDATE_DATE NOT NULL DATE
LAST_UPDATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER
IMPORTED_FLAG VARCHAR2(1)
IMPORTED_FROM_DB VARCHAR2(30)
IMPORTED_ID NUMBER
MERGE_DATE DATE
DATA_MODEL_DONE_FLAG VARCHAR2(1)


A useful query to track status of applied patches for the E-Business Suite with Oracle EBS is the following:

SQL> select applied_patch_id, last_update_date
from ad_applied_patches
order by last_update_date;


APPLIED_PATCH_ID LAST_UPDATE_DAT
---------------- ---------------
41444 03-NOV-09
41445 03-NOV-09
42444 09-NOV-09
42445 09-NOV-09
43444 18-NOV-09
44444 24-NOV-09
45444 30-NOV-09
45445 30-NOV-09
45446 30-NOV-09
45447 30-NOV-09
45448 03-DEC-09

APPLIED_PATCH_ID LAST_UPDATE_DAT
---------------- ---------------
45449 03-DEC-09
45450 03-DEC-09
45451 03-DEC-09

Hope this quick tip helps fellow Oracle Apps DBAs.

How to find list of AutoPatch Sessions and Patches for Oracle R12 EBS

Another useful tip besides using the Oracle Applications Manager (OAM) interface to
the R12 EBS Patch Wizard for discovering patches and adpatch session details is to
execute the adphrept.sql script located under the $AD_TOP/patch/115/sql directory for
Oracle E-Business Applications with Release 12.

The syntax for collecting the patch information is to login to the apps tier for R12 EBS for Oracle Applications as the APPS schema account shown below:


cd $AD_TOP/patch/115/sql
sqlplus {applmgr}/{applmgr password}@{SID} @adphrept.sql {query depth} {patch_name or ALL} {patchtype or ALL} {level or ALL} {language or ALL} {$APPL_TOP or ALL}

Detailed syntax is available in the Oracle Applications Patching Procedures Release 12.1 manual in Chapter 5 available from Oracle Technology Network as shown in the URL below:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B53825_03/current/acrobat/121adpp.pdf

So lets say we want to find the patch information for dates between September 1, 2009 and December 1, 2009 to inventory all currently applied EBS patches. We can issue the script as follows.


$ cd $AD_TOP/patch/115/sql
$ sqlplus apps@TEST @adphrept.sql 3 ALL ALL 09/01/2009 12/01/2009 \
ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL N N N N N dec09.xml

The result is returned to an XML file called adfilerep.xml
that can be viewed by a web browser or XML file viewer.


$ sqlplus apps@TEST @adphrept.sql 3 ALL ALL 09/01/2009 12/01/2009 ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL N N N N N dec09.xml

SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.5.0 - Production on Thu Dec 3 18:42:04 2009

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

Please be patient, this will take a very long time.

If you are prompted for any parameters, please exit and review the parameter list you have submitted.

Gathering data for report. Report output will be written to adfilerep.xml.

As Oracle advises, this takes anywhere from 20-40 minutes to compile the list of patches into the XML file.

The output will spool the XML file along with the associated XSL files called adpchrep.xsl (under $AD_TOP/html directory) which should be copied to the same directory to view the patch details with either and XML or web browser. OK so here is the trick to view the report. Copy the XML file and XSL files to the $OA_HTML directory. Then you can view the report in web browser.


Another way to examine patches applied is via the script called adpchlst.sql.
This script lives under the $AD_TOP/patch/115/sql directory and provides you with the ability to view list of all patches in a given date range. For example the following script called by adpchlst.sql can tell us details between December 1,2009 and December 3, 2009:


$ cd $AD_TOP/patch/115/sql
$ sqlplus apps/xxxx@TEST @adpchlst.sql 12/01/2009 12/03/2009

SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.5.0 - Production on Thu Dec 3 19:17:45 2009

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options


Report of patches applied between 12/01/2009 and 12/03/2009

APPL TOP NAME BUG NUMBER APPLIED AS
--------------------------------------------------------
GLOBAL 8766170 EXPLICIT
GLOBAL 8782125 EXPLICIT
GLOBAL 8894390 EXPLICIT
GLOBAL 8926397 EXPLICIT
GLOBAL 8938206 EXPLICIT
GLOBAL 8938292 EXPLICIT
GLOBAL 8946954 EXPLICIT

APPL-TOP DEFINITIONS:

NAME SYSTEM_NAME DESCRIPTION
------------------------------------------------------------
GLOBAL TEST
Complete updated view of all applied patches


These are useful scripts to have at hand when creating patch inventory for tracking patches. As an Apps DBA, patching is a core activity that fills many hours of the working day.