Posts By Alexander Pavlik

Alexander Pavlik

I work with Oracle EBS since 2011. I like technical challenges and interesting tasks. During my free time I enjoy playing basketball, reading books and travelling.

Upgrading Oracle Apex on Windows

By Alexander Pavlik|February 26th, 2026|

Introduction 1 Prerequisites 2 Check the Current Apex Version 3 Stop Tomcat 4 Download the Latest Apex and Patch Set Bundle 5 Unzip Apex 6 Run Upgrade Script 7 Recheck the Upgraded Apex Version 8 Copy Images 9 Apply the Latest Bundle Patch 37366599 [...]

Standalone ORDS installation

By Alexander Pavlik|February 20th, 2026|

IntroductionPlatform certification1 Test environment2 Install Java 173 Install ORDS3.1 Create ords config and logs directories3.2 Create an environment file3.3 Create a self signed certificate3.4 Convert the private key to DER format3.5 Apply the environment file3.6 Run the ords installer4 Create ORDS startup and shutdown scripts5 [...]

Upgrading an Oracle E-Business Suite server from Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8

By Alexander Pavlik|August 5th, 2025|

Introduction 1 References 2 Test environment details 3 Take a backup 4 Apply the required EBS patches 4.1 Apply FMW Patch (Oracle Linux 8, RHEL 8 and SLES 15 only) 4.2 Apply Oracle Web Tier Pre-install check patch (Oracle Linux 8, RHEL 8, SLES [...]

How to clear the Oracle EBS cache in a script

By Alexander Pavlik|June 11th, 2025|

Introduction 1 Clearing the Cache from the Backend 2 Conclusion Introduction In Oracle EBS 12.1 and 12.2 cache is cleared according to the following document: How To Clear The Cache Using Functional Administrator? (Doc ID 759038.1) Functional Administrator>Home>Core Services>Caching Framework>Global Configuration>Clear All Cache But [...]

Sending files from Linux to SharePoint online using a Python script

By Alexander Pavlik|April 17th, 2025|

Introduction 1 Install python 1.1 Create a test python script 2 Identify the target Sharepoint document library 3 Create an app registration 4 Create API permissions 5 A python script for uploading files to sharepoint Introduction Blitz Report is primarilly installed in Linux systems. [...]

Adjusting Oracle EBS Forms resolution

By Alexander Pavlik|March 21st, 2025|

I want to share a useful tip with Oracle E-Business suite users. On some monitors EBS Forms size may be too large or too small. The solution is described in the following MOS Doc: For EBS Forms based applications on Mac OS workstations the [...]

Adop fs_clone is stuck and hanging for hours

By Alexander Pavlik|February 24th, 2025|

Recently one of our customers experienced issues with adop phase=fs_clone. It just hanged for a day without any message and then failed. I spent some time debugging as there were no errors in the adop log files and adopscanlog did not help. Then I [...]

Configuring mod_plsql in EBS 12.2

By Alexander Pavlik|January 23rd, 2025|

Mod_plsql is a module included in EBS 12.2 Apache web server. It can be used to develop web application pages using server PL/SQL. The following steps need to be taken to enable this module. 1 Automated mod_plsql Configuration 2 Manual Configuration 2.1 Create a Test [...]

Creating a custom concurrent manager in Oracle EBS

By Alexander Pavlik|October 28th, 2024|

Preface 1 Automated procedure 2 References 3 Create a new concurrent manager 4 Add an exclude rule to the Standard manager 5 Activate the custom concurrent manager 6 Run a test concurrent request 7 Conclusion Preface In this post I will describe how to [...]

Configuring mod_plsql in EBS 12.1.3

By Alexander Pavlik|September 5th, 2024|

Mod_plsql is a module included in EBS 12.1.3 Apache web server. It can be used to develop web application pages using server PL/SQL. The following steps need to be taken to enable this module. 1 Automated mod_plsql Configuration 2 Manual Configuration 2.1 Create a Test [...]

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