Tuesday, March 17, 2015

EBS 12.2 -- Turkish Character problem in RDF - > PDF reports , garbage junk characters

In standard/default EBS 12.2 configuration, getting Reports PDF outputs which contain special characters(like turkish characters) is not supported.
That is ; by default you can not produce proper Report PDF outputs through Concurrent Requests if your characterset contains special characters.

In 12.2, Oracle Reports PDF is supported only for US7ASCII, WE8ISO8859P1 and WE8MSWIN1252 charactersets.

So, in order to get Oracle Reports PDF outputs, Oracle recommends using BI Publisher if your characterset is different than those 3 charactersets above.

On the other hand; there are solutions for getting proper PDF outputs from the Concurrent Programs which uses Oracle Reports in EBS 12.2..

Lets take a look at the related documents:

Ok here is a bunch of documents related to our subject..

Troubleshooting Guide for Font Aliasing / Font Subsetting / Font Embedding Issues (Doc ID 350971.1)
How to Know if Font Subsetting / Font Embedding Has Been Used by Oracle Reports when Generating a PDF output (Doc ID 882227.1)
How to Display Polish Language Specific Characters Correctly in PDF Report Output in Reports 11g (Doc ID 876163.1)
Master Note for Font Issues in Oracle Reports (Doc ID 1297012.1)

So, when you analyze these docs, you will see that what we need to do to solve this, is Font subsetting or Font Embedding..

Before giving the solution; lets review the related process in Oracle Reports;

When the report is run, first the reports engine looks in uifont.ali if there is a font mapping to be applied for the specified fonts.
Then it looks in the uiprint.txt file for the printer defined in TK_PRINTER and
in turn examines the PPD file which the uiprint.txt entry points to. The PPD is
a printer definition file with a lot of information about the capabilities of a
certain printer.
Finally it is necessary to provide an AFM file for each of the fonts
which contains the font metrics for the reports engine to generate the output
correct.


So,
In order to be able to format the output, Reports MUST have access to Font Metric information (AFM files for a "Postscript Printer" environment).
If "Font Metric" information is not available for a Font used in a report, Reports will "alias" this font with another Font for which Font Metric Information is available.
The file uifont.ali may be used to give "directives" for the font aliasing.
If there are no directives for a Font or if the directives cannot be used, Oracle Reports will look for the nearest matching font under the same character set which can be used instead.
This problem may occur when you develop your reports on a given platform type (Windows) and deploy it on another platform type (UNIX).



So, with the help the info above, it is not hard to say that our solution and thus our action plan will be against font files(ttf), uifont.ali and AFM files.

Note that: Following action plan was prepared for a Turkish EBS 12.2 environment.. 

In that environment , before correcting the AFM files, Reports PDF outputs were displayed with Greek characters ..
After correcting the AFM files, turkish characters were displayed as garbage characters.
Finally, after copying font files and modifying uifont.ali properly, the character problems were dissapeared.

Copy the font files ;

What we need to do is; make the reports executable to see and reach the necessary font files..
In case of turkish report "ALBANWTJ.ttf" font file can be used for this.
Just, cd $AU_TOP/resource and cp ALBANWTJ.ttf (or all the ttf files ) to one of the directories defined in $REPORTS_PATH.

Modify the uifont.ali;

Modify the uifont.ali file according to the fonts you used in the problematic Report..
Just open the report using a PDF viewer, and look for the fonts used in it. 
Note them down and make the necessary font mappings in uifont.ali..

cd $ORACLE_HOME/guicommon/tk/admin
vi uifont.ali

Add the mappings just after the PDF Subset Section;
For example, here I have mapped all the courier and Times fonts to the ALBANWTJ.ttf font, which includes turkish fonts..

[ PDF:Subset ]
Courier..... = "ALBANWTJ.ttf"
Times..... = "ALBANWTJ.ttf"

Once you are done with editing uifont.ali; control/check the uifont.ali file using mfontchk tool.

Linux with applmgr user> mfontchk
Parsing font alias file "/u01/install/APPS/fs2/EBSapps/10.1.2/guicommon/tk/admin/uifont.ali"

Successfully parsed font alias file

Correct AFM files;
The need is explained in the following document:
Symbol Characters ("Greek") Instead Of Expected Characters Are Displayed in Reports or Reports Parameter Form (Doc ID 300416.1)

So, set the EncodingScheme property in the font AFM file used to"FontSpecific" instead of "AdobeStandardEncoding" 

execute the following script;

#!/bin/sh
cd $ORACLE_HOME/guicommon/tk/admin/
mkdir AFM2
cd AFM 
for filename in *
do
sed "s/EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding/EncodingScheme FontSpecific/" $filename > ../AFM2/$filename
done
cd ..
mv AFM AFM_org_bck
mv AFM2 AFM


Once everyting is configured properly, it is good to restart concurrent managers (just in case)
When your report will display the characters properly, just open the document in Acrobat Reader and display the fonts, you will see that font subsetting works :)

Before font subsetting :
As you see below, fonts are not changed to ALBANWTJ, also the output had junk characters.


After  a successful font subsetting:  The fonts are mapped to ALBANWTJ and no more Turkish character problems in the output.

EBS R12 -- XML reports "ancestor-or-self" causes performance problems

In EBS , we usually have performance problems when our reports triggered from the concurrent requests have a lot of data to process. 
We deal with these performance problems in different way. Sometimes, they can be fixed by updating some java parameters and sometimes we give some arguments to the concurrent request as workarounds.
Here is a situation as an example for this:

Anyways, in this post, I will write about something different.. Specifically, impact of using "ancestor-or-self" in the reports templates..

So, if you may have performance problems in your Custom XML reports, I suggest you to check the ancestor-or-self usage..
If your report takes no time in the database, but waits for the OPP to process; then you may be hitting this. Note that: You may encounter these kind of performance in the standard reports, too..(For Ex: XML publisher OM reports )
There are patches present in Oracle Support for the standart request though.
On the other hand; if that is the case for a custom report; then you need to check if "ancestor-or-self" is used in your template, because it creates performance problems..  You can use direct references instead of using ancestor-or-self..
The bug 10172653 represents this issue.

For more details, you can check the following support notes:

R12: Troubleshooting Known XML Publisher and E-Business Suite (EBS) Integration Issues (Doc ID 1410160.1)
Requests Are Taking Time Due To "ancestor-or-self" Tag Used In RTF (Doc ID 1579418.1)
Performance Issue In INVARCLI_XML Report (Doc ID 1558834.1)
R12: Performance Issue With Matching Holds Report By Buyer Report (XML) With XML Data Output (Doc ID 1637962.1)
Order/Invoice Detail Report (XML) is performance intensive (Doc ID 1481575.1)
INVIRSIQ_XML - The Concurrent Manager Has Timed Out (Doc ID 1488353.1)

Thursday, March 12, 2015

EBS R12 -- APP-FND-01926 ORA-06508 ORA-01403 errors in Clone evironment

In a new clone environment, while opening the forms, you may encounter something like the following;


Yesterday such a problem was escalated to me.
Lets look what I did for diagnosing the problem, finding the actual cause and fixing it.

Reviewed notes:

APP-FND-01926, ORA-06508 (Doc ID 797242.1) --> Custom.pll and plx was in place, recompiled and didnt see any problems.. Also, no environment variable problems were seen

"App-Fnd-01926" and "ORA-01403" Errors Occur While Initializing Forms (Doc ID 1290156.1) --> checked the profile "FND_MO_INIT_CI_DEBUG" .. It was not set..

Could not Find Program Unit when Connecting to Apps (Doc ID 229399.1) --> did not fix..compiling all forms and all libraries did not fixed..

Client Gets App-Fnd-01926 Every Time After Bounce Apps 11i Forms Service (Doc ID 555409.1) --> no pll , plx , fmx or fmb were located in the alternate directories.. Not related

Troubleshooting ORA-01403, ORA-06508 and FRM-40735 in Forms (Doc ID 459005.1) --> saw some diffences between pll and plx files.. (custom.pll and custom.plx versions were ok bytheway)


Also tried the following;

apps compile
Regenerate jar files.
Relink Applications
Restarted Application Tier..

--> Did not help..

Checked the forms server logs:
Nothing much there.. No errors . No warnings..

Checked the Clients java console log:(also enabled trace and debug for java in the control panel)
Nothing much in java console log..
It was loading the images, no errors.. It was starting the applet, and waits.. Seemed like forms server is the one that generates the error.
 
basic: Loaded image: jar:http://ermanhost:8087/OA_JAVA/oracle/apps/fnd/jar/fndaol.jar!/oracle/apps/media/FNDIEROR.gif
basic: Applet started
basic: Told clients applet is started
network: CleanupThread used 7826080 us

Checked the CUSTOM.pll and CUSTOM.plx headers.. Also compared with the Live environment.. Their versions were the same..

Opened the custom.pll using Forms Builder and checked the libraries attached to it, there were several libraries there.. So checked all the pll and plx  version and saw several pll and plx files which differ in version..

Used the scripts in the document:
Troubleshooting ORA-01403, ORA-06508 and FRM-40735 in Forms (Doc ID 459005.1)

Found several files.
Then decided to compile all the plls using frmcmp_batch..
Prepared a script and executed it..
But, this was a good try, but did not solve the problem...

Copied AU_TOP/resource from the LIVE environment once again..
Didnt solve..

After all, checked the FRD trace which is present in FORMS_TRACE_DIR again and found the following:

Error Message: FRM-40815: Variable GLOBAL.IGI_INSTALLED_GLOBAL_VAR does not exist.
Error Message: FRM-40815: Variable GLOBAL.IGI_INSTALLED_GLOBAL_VAR does not exist
Error Message: FRM-40815: Variable GLOBAL.IGI_PREV_ORG does not exist.
Error Message: FRM-40815: Variable GLOBAL.IGI_INSTALLED_ORG_VAR does not exist.
Error Message: FRM-40815: Variable GLOBAL.OPM_GML_INSTALLED1 does not exist.

Okay. at this point; at least we have seen the errors..
There were bunch of documents for these specific error, but I have started to feel that this blogpost
will never end :) That's why I w ll keep it short..

SOLUTION:

The problem was in CUSTOM.pll ..

For the solution - > Deployed a backup CUSTOM.pll , compiled it and restarted the forms server. This was the fix!

On the other hand; even with the old CUSTOM.pll , there were the same FRM-40815 errors in the forms server logs..So these FRM-40815 errors were not the actual causes of the problem.. The exact cause was the CUSTOM.pll...

To find the actual cause, I analyzed the forms trace file..

Forms server was saying "Comleted call_all_libraries" for the CUSTOM.pll that was working properly ... For the problematic pll, ,Forms Server was saying "CUSTOM_EVENT_EXCEPTION ORA-06508 ORA-01403" in the same lines..

So, it was obvious that the problematic CUSTOM.pll had some plsql which executes some sqls and encounters ORA-01403..
Actually, there was a problematic plsql call in the CUSTOM.pll .. That problematic plsql was belong to another custom.pll(lets say blabla.pll) and the problem was caused because of it, not the CUSTOM.pll actually..

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

EBS -- Health Check , Preparing a comprehensive Health check report

In this blog post, I will go through the checks which can be done while preparing a health check report for EBS environment.. 
I will review both the custom checks which we can declare ourselves and  the standard checks which are done by the Oracle provided tools for making comprehensive  health checks..

Lets start with taking a look to what we can done ourselves, I mean what we can control,  to collect information from the environment for preparing our healtchecks.. 
DB controls:

1) Is DB configured properly? Init.ora parameters, limits, sga, pga etc..
2) Is DB working properly? Any errors, check logs.
3) What about the DB performance? Awr analysis.
4) Check backups.. How to recover the database? Is the backup policy is consistent with the Recovery policy?
5) If there is a standby db in the environment, control the standby side fully.. Is dataguard configured properly?
6) How is the configuration of Database Server's OS? Any problems in the resources? Memory,IO and CPU.. Rpm's , and kernel checks..
7) Any errors in the Database server's OS logs?
8) Are te password of Db users weak? Any password policy is in use? Are there any public synonyms or public grants? What about security in the db level? Any default passwords or users? Any unneeded db schemas present?
9) Check Db space requirements? Any tbs or mount reaching the limits? Are the datafiles autoextend? Are there space available to support an increase in the database size?
10) Check the scheduled jobs? Both cron and jobs inside the rdbms? What are their frequency and costs?
11) Are the stats gathered with regular intervals?
12) What are the top sqls? What are the sqls need tuning and what are their module information?
13) What is the database version and patchset? What about the latest PSU ?

APPLICATION(EBS) controls:

1) Are Apps web server , form servers, oacore and concurrent managers configured properly?
2) Are the connection configuratons of EBS components configured as they need to be? (RAC tns configurations, application twotask configuration and so on..)
3) Any errors or warning in the application log files?
4) Are the java configurations in place ? (in order to support the application load..)
5) Are the stats jobs scheled, are the purging scheduled?
6) What are the scheduled jobs, concurrent programs and alerts ? What is the load that they bring..?
7) Is the notification mailers parameters configured properly? Any errors in the ntf mailer logs?
8) Check the alert configurations
9) Check the workflow configurations
10) What about the EBS Application user's password policy? check the security configuration of the system.
11)  How it the performance of the EBS Application Server?
12)  Are there space available in the application filesystem to support an increase in the application size?
13) Check backups.. How to restore this application server? Is the backup policy is consistent with the Recovery policy?
14)  If standby is used in this environment? Are the application filesystems syncronized with the Standby application filesystems? Is the configuration appropriate with the switchover and failover scenarios?
15)  Check the patch levels.. What is the EBS version? What about support dates? Is the latest CPU patch patch applied? Are the latest product delta patches applied?
16)  Check the configuration of Application Server's OS .. Are there any resource problems based on the Memory , IO and CPU ?
17)  Check the OS logs of Application Server..Any errors or warnings? Are the kernel parameters ok?

Okay.. This list above consists of several checks as you see.. They may appear with one per line, but actually the things mentioned there are not so easy to check.. It takes time and effort..
Anyways;
Besides from the controls above, Oracle provides us some tools for collecting information for

Like CP analyzer..
So, you can get benefit from Cp analyzer (Concurrent Processing - CP Analyzer for E-Business Suite (Doc ID 1411723.1)).. 
CP analyzer is a great tool to analyze Concurrent Processing environment in EBS instances.. It gives you a detailed and clear picture in HTML format.. Thus, you gather almost all the information you need to investigate the distinct problem causes in Concurrent Processing environment, without struggling with OS commands or complicated sql statements..



I strongly recommend to use CP analyzer in making Health Checks for EBS environments.

CP analyzer is available via the following Oracle Doc:
Concurrent Processing - CP Analyzer for E-Business Suite (Doc ID 1411723.1)

CP analyzer can be used in any EBS envrionment with version 11.5.10.2 to 12.2.3 [Release 11.5 to 12.2]

It does the following analysis and provide an
HTML for you to view those analysis;

Immediate Analysis and Output of Concurrent Environment
E-Business Applications Concurrent Processing Analyzer Overview
Total Purge Eligible Records in FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS
E-Business Suite Version
Concurrent Processing Database Parameter Settings
Applied ATG Patches
Known 1-Off Patches on top of Rollups
E-Business Applications Concurrent Request Analysis
Long Running Reports During Business Hours
Elapsed Time History of Concurrent Requests
Requests Currently Running on a System
FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS Totals
Running Requests
Total Pending Requests by Status Code
Count Pending Regularly Scheduled/Non Regularly-Scheduled Requests
Count of Pending Requests on Hold/Not on Hold
Listing of Scheduled Requests
Listing of Pending Requests on Hold
Listing of Pending Requests Not on Hold
Volume of Daily Concurrent Requests for Last Month
Identify/Resolve the Pending/Standby Issue, if Caused by Run Alone Flag
Tablespace Statistics for the fnd_concurrent tables
E-Business Applications Concurrent Manager Analysis
Concurrent Managers Active and Enabled
Concurrent Manager Processes by Workshift
Active Manager for Applications that are not Installed/Used
Total Target Processes for Request Managers (Excluding Off-Hours)
Request Managers with Incorrect Cache Size
Concurrent Manager Request Summary by Manager
Check Manager Queues for Pending Requests
Check the Configuration of OPP
Identifies Concurrent System Setup and configurations
Identifies and recommends Concurrent Best Practices
Easy to add Tool for regular Concurrent Maintenance
Execute Analysis anytime to compare trending from past outputs
There is also a tool called ORAChk, which replaces popular Rac Check tool.. ORAchk - Health Checks for the Oracle Stack (Doc ID 1268927.2)

ORAChk can scan the following areas:

-Oracle Database
Standalone Database
Grid Infrastructure & RAC
Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Validation
Upgrade Readiness Validation
Golden Gate
-Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (12c only)
Repository
Agents
-E-Business Suite
Oracle Payables (R12 only)
Oracle Workflow
Oracle Purchasing (R12 only)
Oracle Order Management (R12 only)
Oracle Process Manufacturing (R12 only)
-Oracle Hardware Systems
Oracle Solaris
Here is an example run of ORAChk.. It just needs to read the central inventory, if it cant find the inventory you can pass the inventory location using RAT_INV_LOC environment variable:
Note that: If your environment is 32 bit, you need to pass -ebs32bit argument too..
Running it interactively is very simple; just download orachk.zip, unzip orachk.zip and run ./orachk using rdbms software owner..
Here is an example report:
Oracle orachk Assessment Report

System Health Score is 88 out of 100 (detail)

Summary

OS/Kernel VersionLINUX X86 OELRHEL 5 2.6.18-194.el5
DB Home - Version - Names/r12/d01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/11.1.0 - 11.1.0.7.0 - PROD
Database Serverermanhost
orachk Version12.1.0.2.3_20150305
Collectionorachk_ermanhost_PROD_031015_105413.zip
Duration9 mins, 53 seconds
Executed byoracle
Collection Date10-Mar-2015 10:54:34

Note! This version of orachk is considered valid for 115 days from today or until a new version is available

Table of Contents

  • Findings Needing Attention
    • On Database Server
  • Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Scorecard
  • Findings needing further review
  • E-Business Suite
  • Findings Passed
    • On Database Server
  • RDBMS patch recommendation Summary report
  • RDBMS patch recommendation Detailed report
  • Top 10 Time Consuming Checks
As you see above there are numerous contents in the OraChk report..
Lets take a look at the E-Business Suite section of the report and see what do we have there..

E-Business Suite

StatusTypeMessageStatus OnDetails
FAILSQL CheckOne or more Workflow email notification preferences are disabledAll DatabasesView
FAILSQL CheckOne or more Workflow Error Items foundAll DatabasesView
FAILSQL CheckOne or more Supplier site missing service_tolerance_id after upgrade from 11i.All DatabasesView
WARNINGSQL CheckOutput post processor (OPP) heap size settings are probably too low.All DatabasesView
INFOSQL CheckReview E-Business Suite Best PracticesAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckThe Java Mailer is enabled, and does not appear to have any corruptionAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckThe Workflow Java Mailer Service is enabled and runningAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo major Workflow Looping Items foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo Workflow stuck activities foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with out of sync accounting dates were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incorrect payment selection status were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with out of sync accounting dates were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo orphan accounting events were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incorrect payment selection status were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incompletely discarded lines were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo common invoice data integrity issues were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incorrect data in payment schedules or payment fields foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo common invoice data integrity issues were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incorrect data in payment schedules or payment fields foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incorrect data in payment schedules or payment fields foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with multiple transaction entity records in SLA were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo unaccounted events with event dates in closed periods were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with issues in amounts or base amounts were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo common invoice data integrity issues were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with different amounts in ap_invoice_distributions and xla_distribution_links were found for PRODAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo payment records with missing accounting events were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incorrect payment selection status were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incorrect data in payment schedules or payment fields foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incorrect data in payment schedules or payment fields foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo checks with multiple transaction entity records in SLA were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with different amounts in ap_invoice_distributions and xla_distribution_links were found for PRODAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with issues in amounts or base amounts were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with incorrect payment selection status were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with different amounts in ap_invoice_distributions and xla_distribution_links were found for PRODAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo orphan accounting events were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo orphan accounting events were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo inactive vendor sites which would impact 1099 reporting were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with reversed distributions having a null amount were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo automatic withholding tax (AWT) distributions with missing AWT_RELATED_ID foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo automatic withholding tax (AWT) distributions with missing AWT_RELATED_ID foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo unmatched purchase orders with invoice related amounts or quantities were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo canceled or discarded lines with non-zero invoiced quantity were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo automatic withholding tax (AWT) distributions in functional currency with different values for amount and base_amount were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo automatic withholding tax (AWT) distributions with missing AWT_RELATED_ID foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invalid prepay application data foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo duplicate bank account records foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo automatic withholding tax (AWT) distributions with missing AWT_RELATED_ID foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo common PO/Receipt matching data mismatches foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo automatic withholding tax (AWT) distributions with missing AWT_RELATED_ID foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo unaccounted invoice distributions with null value for both cash and accrual posted flags were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo duplicate external payee records found in iby_external_payees_allAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with cancellation issues foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo matched PO's with invoiced quantity or amount discrepancies between the shipments and the distributions were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo discarded invoice lines with active distributions were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo upgraded invoices with null party_id and party_site_id were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo expense reports with incorrect value (Y) for the generate_dists flag were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with org_id that does not match the batch org_id were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo upgraded invoices with null invoice_type_lookup_code were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with default code combination ID equal to -1 were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo automatic withholding tax (AWT) distributions with missing AWT_RELATED_ID foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo automatic withholding tax (AWT) distributions with missing AWT_RELATED_ID foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo automatic withholding tax (AWT) distributions with missing AWT_RELATED_ID foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with unknown characters were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo reversing invoice distribution pairs which are not encumbered but which have BC_EVENT_ID populated were found.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo payments with out of synch check_id values between ap_checks_all and ap_invoice_payments_all were found.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo prepayment applications were found with incorrect accounted amounts due to incorrect final payment rounding.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo payment clearing accounting events were found where related payment events are not correctly prorated across all invoice distributions.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo functional currency invoices with BASE_AMOUNT populated were found.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo checks with incorrect accounted amounts found.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with posting status out of synch with the corresponding accounting events were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo prepayment applications were found with accounted amounts which are multiples of the actual prepayment application amount.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo orphan invoice distributions with no line foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo upgraded invoices found with missing records in XLA_DISTRIBUTION_LINKS foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo payments with out of sync accounting dates foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo payments with posting status out of synch with the corresponding accounting events were foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo receiving distributions out of synch with AP distributions for quantity or amount billed foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo purchase order shipments with quantity or amount data which does not match the values on the distributions foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo unaccounted accounting events having event dates in closed periods foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with validation_request_id populated after invoice validation has completed with error foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo missing records found in XLA_DISTRIBUTION_LINKS for migrated paymentsAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo historical upgraded events missing records foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo Incomplete Accounting Events foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo approved distributions containing unprocessed budgetary control events foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo missing payment history record found for accounted checksAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo Suppliers missing individual_1099/tax_payer_id after upgrade from 11i.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo unclearing/maturity reversal events found that not getting accounted for voided paymentsAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo Orphan checks foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo unaccounted events foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo amounts or base amounts are out of synch between Payables and EBtaxAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo payments found in a SPOILED status which would leave PPR in Formatting statusAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo Refund checks found with maturity rate information populatedAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo Voided checks found with incorrect statuses in ap_checks_allAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo Incomplete Accounting Events foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo checks with exchange rate information populated in AP Views FoundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo operating units with missing system parameter values foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo supplier contacts with missing job titles foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo invoices with invalid liability accounts foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo partially cancelled invoices foundAll DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo Payables application accounting definitions (AAD) were found with a status of "Invalid", "Not Validated", or "Validating".All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo orphan Cash Management bank accounts without assignments were found.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckThe output post processor (OPP) timeout settings are appropriate.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo duplicate primary account owners were found.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckThe java heap space execution setting for Payments concurrent programs is set appropriately.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo orphan bank accounts with no owner were found.All DatabasesView
PASSSQL CheckNo orphan Receivables bank accounts with no assignments were foundAll DatabasesView

Okay.. We have functional checks related to EBS in this section..
Ofcourse, there are OS , database and performance related checks in the report (see Table of Contents section above) , but I m interested in the EBS findings because Db,Os and performance specific controls can be done by us using the checks in DB controls and App Controls that I have mentioned above, anyways..

So in conclusion; we can say that a comprehensive report for an EBS environment may be prepared by combining the findings in :

  • APPS Controls(Mentioned in this document)
  • DB Controls(mentioned in this document)
  • Cp Analyzer Report
  • ORAChk Report