WebLogic Server 12.2.1.3.0 - First Look

Since last night the latest release of the Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.3.0 is available. I have already installed and configured the latest release, the installation process remains the same as in the previous release, so nothing really new. The Configuration Wizard ($ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/config.sh) got a new cool neat feature. On the screen 2 of the Configuration Wizard (Templates), you will find a Filter Templates option. In...

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Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.3.0 available

Since today the latest release of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack is available for download under Oracle Technology Network. The latest release of the Fusion Middleware Stack 12.2.1.3.0 contains various products: Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.3.0 can be found under http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic/downloads/index.html Oracle Forms & Reports  12.2.1.3.0 can be found under http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/forms/downloads/index.html Oracle...

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Internet Explorer under Mac OS X

In case, you are like me regularly working with Web environments, you will need to test from time to time your stuff with different browser, e.g. Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Under Mac OS X many Users are using for example Safari and switching the User Agent to Internet Explorer 11 or something like that to simulate an Internet Explorer. Microsoft is providing for free (YES, its for FREE !!!) a Virtual Machine for 90 days. The...

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Display Oracle Forms 12c Sessions with WLST

Sometimes you want to get a quick overview of the current connected Forms Sessions in your Oracle Forms 12c environment and the Fusion Middleware Control (http://<servername>:7001/em) is sometimes really slow reacting. Under the My Oracle Support (MOS) Note 1580517.1 you can find a small handy Python Script, which should display you all informations about your current Forms Sessions against a specific Managed Server hosting your Forms Application. But with Oracle Forms 12c this is not longer working out of box. Under Oracle Forms 12c...

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Oracle Forms 12c and FRM-93652

I am currently working on a huge migration project for Oracle Forms 11g to Oracle Forms 12c (12.2.1.2.0) and we experience some nice FRM-93652 errors in several Forms. We had several Forms masks on which we executed a query over the menu, data is displayed in the Forms mask afterwards we clicked a button to exit the Forms and the complete Forms session crashed with FRM-93652 :-) In the underlying formsapp-diagnostic.log in $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/<servername>/logs directory, I only could see following 3 lines: [2017-08-24T11:16:50.300+02:00]...

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Parsing Named Arguments into Python Scripts

If you are coming from the Shell Script World, you are used to parse Named Arguments into your Shell Script, e.g "-u" for Username, "-p" for Password and so on. With Python Scripts you normally pass ordered arguments into your Python Script, so you are bond with the arguments in a fixed order, while passing Named Arguments you can reshuffle them in any order. A typical Shell Script Snippet would look like that: export UserName="" export PassWord="" export URL="" while getopts u:p:c: CurOpt; do case ${CurOpt} in u) UserName="${OPTARG}"...

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Configure Single Sign On for Cloud Control 13c against Active Directory

In many cases you want to use your Microsoft Active Directory Login to be authenticated against your Oracle Cloud Control 13c. Here is a step by step solution how to implement Single Sign On for your Oracle Cloud Control against Microsoft Active Directory. Lets assume following Environment: AD Domain = DEMO.COM Microsoft AD Server = adserver.demo.com AD LDAP Port = 389 Cloud Control 13c Server = cloudcontrol13c.demo.com Windows Steps Connect...

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