Oracle Database 11.2.0.4 Certified with E-Business Suite 12.2
By Elke Phelps (Oracle Development) on Mar 05, 2014
By Elke Phelps (Oracle Development) on Mar 05, 2014
I'm very happy to announce the certification of Oracle Database 11.2.0.4 with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.
To begin planning your database upgrade to 11.2.0.4, you should review our documentation in this order:
What does this mean if you are upgrading to R12.2?
The following database features and options are certified:
Oracle's Revenue Recognition rules prohibit us from discussing certification and release dates, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.
References
To begin planning your database upgrade to 11.2.0.4, you should review our documentation in this order:
- Interoperability Notes: Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (Note 1623879.1)
- R12.2 Consolidated List of Patches and Technology Bug Fixes (Note 1594274.1) . The interoperability note references this note. It is crucial that you review all requirements in Section 2.2, "Database 11.2.0.4 Patches and Bug Numbers" of this note.
- Database Initialization Parameters for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Note 396009.1). Make certain that you review Section 4, "Release-Specific Database Initialization Parameters For Oracle 11gR2" and Section 6, "Additional Database Initialization Parameters for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2".
What does this mean if you are upgrading to R12.2?
- This upgrade is highly recommended for all EBS 12.2 environments.
- If you are just beginning your upgrade to R12.2 project, you should consider upgrading to Oracle Database 11.2.0.4 now.
- If your are currently in the midst of your R12.2 upgrade, you may continue as planned with Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 and upgrade to 11.2.0.4 as your R12.2 upgrade project and test plans permit.
- If your go-live date is soon, you may choose to continue as planned with Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 and upgrade to 11.2.0.4 after you go-live with 12.2.
- Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle Technology Products (PDF)
- Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (Note 742060.1)
- 12.2.2 and higher
- Linux x86-64 (Oracle Linux 5, 6)
- Linux x86-64 (RH 5, 6)
- Linux x86-64 (SLES 10, 11)
- Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit) (10, 11)
- Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit) (10, 11) - Database tier only
- IBM AIX on Power Systems (64-bit) (6.1, 7.1)
- HP-UX Itanium (11.31)
- Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)
- IBM: Linux on System z
Database Feature and Option Certifications
The following database features and options are certified:
- Advanced Compression
- Active Data Guard
- Advanced Security Option (ASO) / Advanced Networking Option (ANO)
- Database Partitioning
- Data Guard Redo Apply with Physical Standby Databases
- Native PL/SQL compilation
- Oracle Label Security (OLS)
- Real Application Clusters (RAC)
- Real Application Testing
- Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Column Encryption
- Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Tablespace Encryption
- SecureFiles
- Virtual Private Database (VPD)
- Database Vault
Oracle's Revenue Recognition rules prohibit us from discussing certification and release dates, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.
References
- Interoperability Notes E-Business Suite Release 12.2 with Database 11g Release 2 (Note 1623879.1)
- Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2: Consolidated List of Patches and Technology Bug Fixes (Note 1594274.1)
- Database Initialization Parameters for Oracle Applications Release 12.2 (Note 396009.1 )
- Database Preparation Guidelines for an Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 Upgrade (Note 1349240.1)
- Using Oracle 11g Release 2 Real Application Clusters with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (Note 1453213.1)
- Using Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 with a Database Tier Only Platform on 11g Release 2 (Note 1613707.1)
- Export/Import Process for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 Database Instances Using Oracle Database 11.2 (Note 1613716.1)
- Using TDE Column Encryption with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (Note 1585696.1)
- Using TDE Tablespace Encryption with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2(Note 1585296.1)
- Enabling SSL in Oracle Applications Release 12.2 (Note 1367293.1)
- Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle Technology Products (PDF)
- Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (Note 742060.1)
