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When To Apply AD & TXK Latest Patches
When To Apply AD & TXK Latest Patches
Patches?
Steven Chan
SENIOR DIRECTOR
E-Business Suite 12.2's Online Patching feature allows you to apply patches
to your environment while it is still running. For example, you can apply
patches to Financials while your end-users are entering bills in Accounts
Receivable. These patches are applied using our Applications DBA (AD) and
EBS Technology Stack (TXK) tools.
A reader recently asked whether it's advisable to apply our latest EBS 12.2.7
update at the same time as our AD-TXK Delta 10 updates. This is a great
question, since it touches on both our goals for our AD and TXK tools as well
as our internal testing practices for new updates and patches.
The short answer: You should apply the latest AD and TXK infrastructure
tools in an initial patching cycle, and then apply EBS updates and patches
(e.g. EBS 12.2.7) in a later patching cycle.
Why?
There are two reasons: