Oracle Applications Release 12.2.5 New Features.

First most excited and visible feature is Look and Feel. Oracle R12.2.5 has come-up with Cloud UI – Icon based UI.
Now you will see icons in the login screen which is more comfortable to view from Tablets and Mobiles.
1- dualfs option : R12.2 was release cloning was in 2 almost repetitive steps
Step–>1 – Clone the Source run file system to target run file system
Step–>2 – Clone the target run file system to target patch file system.
Now with dualfs option during cloning can do both the above steps in one shot. And yes Oracle reduced cloning efforts to almost 50 % now. In one shot both the file system will be configured.
2- Central Inventory : Believe me I am having the feeling that Oracle has started his own listener to listern my pains. When you are
hosting multiple Oracle R12.2 instances on the same server inventory is always need to considered and specially when you are running fs_clone. Now with the introduction of this feature we will be in a comfortable position.
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3- adop – Maintenance and Validation : adopmon. This can be used for
-Overall monitoring
-Individual Phase
Last time when I applied patch I missed to run fs_clone which was post patch application. Now when I ran prepare phase for the next cycle it went into error. We need to abort and cleanup and then redo the stuff again.
Now adop -validate will save us from all this circus and will let us know our instance is ready for the patching or not.
4- Weblogic oacore Performance enhancement: Overall if you have observed basic memory requirement or usage of R12.2 it is bit on the higher end compared to other versions. Specially managed server if you see it starts Java Messaging services, deployed EJB’s.
Also reported issue related to oacore that it takes long time and alos when you do startall script last one which get start and takes more time is oacore only.
So now oracle has addressed the performance side and did 2 enhancement
1–> Parameter -DserverType=wlx -> This is startup parameter for all the manged server and prevent startup of EJB, JMS,JCA services
2–> Context Variable s_deploy_portlet -> This prevent Portlet Producer libraries to get deployed in EBS domain.
Also default value of s_forms-c4wsstatus is set to Disable as earlier it was enabled.
5- adop UI : Keeping that in mind now adop UI has become more selective, to the point information, also more refined information from 12.2.5 onwards.