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”