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Generate Applications Files Tasks

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Objectives

At the end of this module, you should be able

to do the following:

• Describe AD Administration

• View log files

• List file generation tasks you can perform with AD Administration

• Generate message, form, report and product jar files


Module Overview

This module consists of the following topics:


• Perform preliminary steps

• Respond to prompts

• Describe the Generate Applications Files menu tasks


AD Administration

AD Administration is divided into the following categories:

• File generation tasks

• File system maintenance tasks

• Database maintenance tasks

• Database entities compilation and reloading tasks

These tasks are performed by:

• Database administrators

• System administrators

• Technical specialists


Preliminary Tasks

AD Administration preliminary tasks include:

• Logging on as applmgr

• Running the environment file

• Verifying that $ORACLE_HOME is set properly

• Verifying that $TWO_TASK identifies the correct database

• Ensuring that $ORACLE_HOME/bin and $AD_TOP/bin are in your PATH

• Shutting down concurrent managers when relinking certain files or performing certain database tasks

• Ensuring there is sufficient temporary disk space


AD Administration Prompts

AD Administration asks you for:

• The correct APPL_TOP

• The name of the log file

• Your preference on whether to notify you by email if an error occurs during parallel worker execution

• The batchsize or default number of rows to process and commit during certain SQL operations

• The correct Oracle Applications database

• The password for the SYSTEM schema

• The password for the APPLSYS schema


AD Administration Log Files

$APPL_TOP

admin

<SID>

log

adadmin.log



• If an error occurs or if you are unsure of messages returned by AD Administration, review the main AD Administration log file adadmin.log

• This log file is located in the $APPL_TOP/admin/<SID>/log directory

• If errors exist in the main log file, check the appropriate log file listed in the next slide to determine the cause of the error



In addition to the main AD Administration log file, other log files include:

• adrelink.log - stores information on relinking tasks

• adworkXXX.log - these are the worker log files where XXX is the number of the worker (for example, 007)

– For database and generation tasks run in parallel, check these log files for details


AD Administration Main Menu

AD Administration Main Menu

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1. Generate Applications Files menu

2. Maintain Applications Files menu

3. Compile/Reload Applications Database Entities

menu

4. Maintain Applications Database Entities menu

5. Change Maintenance Mode

6. Exit AD Administration


Generate Applications Files

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1. Generate message files

2. Generate form files

3. Generate report files

4. Generate product jar files

5. Return to Main Menu

Generate Applications Files Menu



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Generate Message Files


Generate Message Files

• This task generates message binary files (extension .msb) from Oracle Application Object Library tables

• Oracle Applications uses the message binary files to display messages


Generate Message FilesDo you want to generate Oracle Message files

using this character set [Yes] ?

Enter list of products ('all' for all products) [all] : QA CS CE

...

Setting up environment...

Generating message files...

Creating the AD_UTIL_PARAMS table...

...

There are now 33 jobs remaining (current phase=admin):0 running, 33 ready to run and 0 waiting.

..

Starting worker processes.

Worker process 1 started.

..

AD Worker version: 12.0.0

AD Worker started at: Wed Jul 11 2007 03:28:05 ..



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Generate Form Files


Generate Form Files

• This task generates binary Oracle Forms files (extension .fmx) for all installed languages from the form definition files (extension .fmb)

• Oracle Applications uses the binary form files to display data entry forms

• Perform this task whenever you have issues with a form or set of forms


Generate Form Files

When generating forms, AD Administration:

• Prompts for the number of parallel workers

• Displays the current character set (from NLS_LANG)

• Asks whether you want to generate Oracle Forms objects in this character set

• Asks whether you want to regenerate Oracle Forms PL/SQL library files

• Asks whether you want to regenerate Oracle Formsmenu files


Generate Form Files

AD Administration also:

• Asks whether you want to regenerate Oracle Forms executable files

• Asks for which products to generate Oracle Forms objects

• Asks whether you want to generate specific forms objects for each selected product


Generate Form Files

• If you did not choose to generate all forms objects, it displays a list of Oracle Forms objects and allows you to select specific objects

• It then generates all selected Oracle Forms objects for all selected products in parallel


Generate Form Files

Your current character set is ‘WE8ISO8859P1’.. . .Do you want to regenerate Oracle Forms executable files [Yes] ?

Enter list of products (‘all’ for all products) [all]:

Generate specific form objects for each selected product [No] ?

reading product form information...Selecting Oracle Forms PL/SQL library files and menu files to generate...

Selecting library and menu files for Applications Object Library...



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Generate Report Files



This task generates the binary Oracle Reports report files (extension .rdf) for all installed languages. It performs the following actions:

• Displays the current character set (from NLS_LANG)

• Asks whether you want to generate Oracle Reports objects using the current character set

• Asks whether you want to regenerate Oracle Reports PL/SQL library files

• Asks whether you want to regenerate Oracle Reports executable files

• Asks for which products you want to generate Oracle Reports objects



This task performs the following actions:

• It asks whether you want to generate specific Oracle Reports objects for each selected product

• If you did not choose to generate all Oracle Reports objects, it displays the list of Oracle Reports objects and allows you to select specific objects

• Generates all selected Oracle Reports objects for all selected products



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Generate Product JAR Files


Generate Product JAR Files

This task:

• Generates product JAR files under $JAVA_TOP and copies them to $APPL_TOP

• Copies Oracle Forms registry file (Registry.dat) from $ORACLE_HOME/forms/java to $JAVA_TOP/oracle/forms/registry

• Signs JAR files, if on the Web server

• Recreates appsborg.zip and appsborg2.zip under $APPL_TOP and $JAVA_TOP


Module Summary

In this module, you should have learned how

to do the following:


• View log files

• Generate message, form, report, and product jar files


Module Discussion

• Describe the features of AD Administration

• Describe the flexibility of the generate files options


Module Practice

• Starting AD Administration

• Generating forms files

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