Thanks Oracle for R12.AD.C.DELTA.6

When reading through the release notes of the latest Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2 AD.C.Delta.6 patch in note 1983782.1, I wondered what they meant by “Simplification and enhancement of adop console messages”. I realized what I was missing after I applied the AD.C.Delta6 patch. The format of the console messaged changed drastically. To be honest, the old console messages printed by adop command reminded me of a program where somebody forgot to turn off the debug feature. The old adop console messages are simply not easily readable and looked more like debug messages of a program. AD.C.Delta6 brought in a fresh layout to the console messages, it’s now more readable and easy to follow. You can see for your self by looking at the below snippet:
### AD.C.Delta.5 ### $ adop phase=apply patches=19197270 hotpatch=yes Enter the APPS password: Enter the SYSTEM password: Enter the WLSADMIN password: Please wait. Validating credentials... RUN file system context file: /u01/install/VISION/fs2/inst/apps/VISION_ebs/appl/admin/VISION_ebs.xml PATCH file system context file: /u01/install/VISION/fs1/inst/apps/VISION_ebs/appl/admin/VISION_ebs.xml Execute SYSTEM command : df /u01/install/VISION/fs1 ************* Start of session ************* version: 12.2.0 started at: Fri Apr 24 2015 13:47:58 APPL_TOP is set to /u01/install/VISION/fs2/EBSapps/appl [START 2015/04/24 13:48:04] Check if services are down [STATEMENT] Application services are down. [END 2015/04/24 13:48:09] Check if services are down [EVENT] [START 2015/04/24 13:48:09] Checking the DB parameter value [EVENT] [END 2015/04/24 13:48:11] Checking the DB parameter value Using ADOP Session ID from currently incomplete patching cycle [START 2015/04/24 13:48:23] adzdoptl.pl run ADOP Session ID: 12 Phase: apply Log file: /u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/12/adop_20150424_134739.log [START 2015/04/24 13:48:30] apply phase Calling: adpatch workers=4 options=hotpatch console=no interactive=no defaultsfile=/u01/install/VISION/fs2/EBSapps/appl/admin/VISION/adalldefaults.txt patchtop=/u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/patch/19197270 driver=u19197270.drv logfile=u19197270.log ADPATCH Log directory: /u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/12/apply_20150424_134739/VISION_ebs/19197270/log [EVENT] [START 2015/04/24 13:59:45] Running finalize since in hotpatch mode [EVENT] [END 2015/04/24 14:00:10] Running finalize since in hotpatch mode Calling: adpatch options=hotpatch,nocompiledb interactive=no console=no workers=4 restart=no abandon=yes defaultsfile=/u01/install/VISION/fs2/EBSapps/appl/admin/VISION/adalldefaults.txt patchtop=/u01/install/VISION/fs2/EBSapps/appl/ad/12.0.0/patch/115/driver logfile=cutover.log driver=ucutover.drv ADPATCH Log directory: /u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/12/apply_20150424_134739/VISION_ebs/log [EVENT] [START 2015/04/24 14:01:32] Running cutover since in hotpatch mode [EVENT] [END 2015/04/24 14:01:33] Running cutover since in hotpatch mode [END 2015/04/24 14:01:36] apply phase [START 2015/04/24 14:01:36] Generating Post Apply Reports [EVENT] [START 2015/04/24 14:01:38] Generating AD_ZD_LOGS Report [EVENT] Report: /u01/install/VISION/fs2/EBSapps/appl/ad/12.0.0/sql/ADZDSHOWLOG.sql [EVENT] Output: /u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/12/apply_20150424_134739/VISION_ebs/adzdshowlog.out [EVENT] [END 2015/04/24 14:01:42] Generating AD_ZD_LOGS Report [END 2015/04/24 14:01:42] Generating Post Apply Reports [END 2015/04/24 14:01:46] adzdoptl.pl run adop phase=apply - Completed Successfully Log file: /u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/12/adop_20150424_134739.log adop exiting with status = 0 (Success)
### AD.C.Delta.6 ### $ adop phase=apply patches=19330775 hotpatch=yes Enter the APPS password: Enter the SYSTEM password: Enter the WLSADMIN password: Validating credentials... Initializing... Run Edition context : /u01/install/VISION/fs2/inst/apps/VISION_ebs/appl/admin/VISION_ebs.xml Patch edition context: /u01/install/VISION/fs1/inst/apps/VISION_ebs/appl/admin/VISION_ebs.xml Reading driver file (up to 50000000 bytes). Patch file system freespace: 181.66 GB Validating system setup... Node registry is valid. Application services are down. [WARNING] ETCC: The following database fixes are not applied in node ebs 14046443 14255128 16299727 16359751 17250794 17401353 18260550 18282562 18331812 18331850 18440047 18689530 18730542 18828868 19393542 19472320 19487147 19791273 19896336 19949371 20294666 Refer to My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 1594274.1 for instructions. Checking for pending adop sessions... Continuing with the existing session [Session id: 12]... =========================================================================== ADOP (C.Delta.6) Session ID: 12 Node: ebs Phase: apply Log: /u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/12/adop_20150424_140643.log =========================================================================== Applying patch 19330775 with adpatch utility... Log: /u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/12/apply_20150424_140643/VISION_ebs/19330775/log/u19330775.log Running finalize actions for the patches applied... Log: @ADZDSHOWLOG.sql "2015/04/24 14:15:09" Running cutover actions for the patches applied... Spawning adpatch parallel workers to process CUTOVER DDLs in parallel Log: /u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/12/apply_20150424_140643/VISION_ebs/log/cutover.log Performing database cutover in QUICK mode Generating post apply reports... Generating log report... Output: /u01/install/VISION/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/adop/12/apply_20150424_140643/VISION_ebs/adzdshowlog.out adop phase=apply - Completed Successfully adop exiting with status = 0 (Success)
So what are you waiting for fellow Apps DBAs? Go ahead, apply the new AD Delta update to your R12.2 EBS instances. I am really eager to try out other AD.C.Delta6 new features, especially “Online Patching support for single file system on development or test systems”