Finding products installed for Oracle R12 E-Business Applications

Recently I was asked for a quick way to find out the status and inventory of products currently installed for Oracle Applications E-Business 12i Suite.

Besides logging into OAM for Oracle R12 EBS, an easier way is to query the FND_PRODUCT_INSTALLATIONS table under the APPS schema. Lets take a sneak peak with a quick example. First, to look at the column definitions for FND_PRODUCT_INSTALLATIONS, we issue a DESCRIBE from SQL*PLUS while logged into Oracle R12 Applications as the APPS schema:


SQL> desc fnd_product_installations
Name Null? Type
----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------
APPLICATION_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
ORACLE_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
LAST_UPDATE_DATE NOT NULL DATE
LAST_UPDATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
CREATION_DATE NOT NULL DATE
CREATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
PRODUCT_VERSION VARCHAR2(30)
STATUS VARCHAR2(1)
INDUSTRY VARCHAR2(1)
TABLESPACE VARCHAR2(30)
INDEX_TABLESPACE VARCHAR2(30)
TEMPORARY_TABLESPACE VARCHAR2(30)
SIZING_FACTOR NUMBER
INSTALL_GROUP_NUM NUMBER(15)
DB_STATUS VARCHAR2(1)
PATCH_LEVEL VARCHAR2(30)

As you can see from the above columns, we can obtain all sorts of useful information about products currently installed.

Now lets use the following query against the FND_PRODUCT_INSTALLATIONS to list the currently installed products and patch levels:



SQL> select product_version, patch_level
from fnd_product_installations;

PRODUCT_VERSION
----------------------
PATCH_LEVEL
----------------------
12.0.0
R12.FPA.B.1

12.0.0
R12.ZPB.B.1



We also have another useful FND table in the APPS schema called FND_PRODUCT_GROUPS that can be used to show product release information for currently installed Oracle R12 EBS applications.


SQL> select product_group_name,product_group_type,release_name
2 from fnd_product_groups;

PRODUCT_GROUP_NAME
---------------------------------------------------------------
PRODUCT_GROUP_TYPE
---------------------------------------------------------------
RELEASE_NAME
---------------------------------------------------------------
Default product group
Standard
12.1.1

These two FND tables are useful for checking product versions and patch levels within your Oracle R12 E-Business applications environments.