Oracle Developer 6I Patch Sets

How to Upgrade to Oracle Developer 6I Patch Set 19 for E-Business Suite 11i

If you are using Oracle Forms and Reports 6i with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, you may want to upgrade to the latest patch set available. Oracle Developer 6I Patch Set 19 (version 6.0.8.28) contains fixes specific only to EBS 11i and is recommended for all Apps customers[^1^].

In this article, we will show you how to upgrade to Oracle Developer 6I Patch Set 19 for E-Business Suite 11i on Windows and Solaris platforms. We will also provide some links to useful resources for more information.

Prerequisites

Before you start the upgrade process, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

A working installation of Oracle E-Business Suite 11i (version 11.5.10.2 or higher) on Windows or Solaris.

A working installation of Oracle Forms and Reports 6i (version 6.0.8.27 or lower) on Windows or Solaris.

A backup of your EBS 11i environment and database.

Enough disk space to store the patch files and apply them.

The appropriate Motif runtime library patch for your Solaris platform (if applicable).[^3^]

Download the Patch Set

The first step is to download the Oracle Developer 6I Patch Set 19 from My Oracle Support (formerly Metalink). You will need a valid support contract and account to access this site.

The patch number for Windows is 12318963 and the patch number for Solaris is 12318964. You can search for these numbers in the Patches & Updates section of My Oracle Support.

Download the patch files to a temporary directory on your EBS 11i server. You will need about 300 MB of disk space for each platform.

Apply the Patch Set

The next step is to apply the Oracle Developer 6I Patch Set 19 to your EBS 11i environment. You will need to follow different steps depending on your platform.

Windows

Shut down all EBS 11i services on your server.

Unzip the patch file p12318963_60828_WINNT.zip to a temporary directory.

Navigate to the Disk1 subdirectory and run setup.exe.

Follow the instructions on the screen to install the patch set. Choose Oracle Forms Developer and Forms Server as the product to install.

When prompted, enter the location of your existing Oracle Forms and Reports 6i installation (for example, C:\\oracle\\dev6i). The patch set will overwrite some files in this directory.

When the installation is complete, restart your EBS 11i services.

Solaris

Shut down all EBS 11i services on your server.

Unzip the patch file p12318964_60828_SOLARIS.zip to a temporary directory.

Navigate to the Disk1 subdirectory and run runInstaller.

Follow the instructions on the screen to install the patch set. Choose Oracle Forms Developer and Forms Server as the product to install.

When prompted, enter the location of your existing Oracle Forms and Reports 6i installation (for example, /oracle/dev6i). The patch set will overwrite some files in this directory.

When the installation is complete, restart your EBS 11i services.

Verify the Upgrade

To verify that you have successfully upgraded to Oracle Developer 6I Patch Set 19, you can check the version number of your aa16f39245