Oracle Reports 12c and DESTYPE=blobdestination

Last week a colleague of mine contacted me to support him for a problem to configure and use Oracle Reports 12c (12.2.1.2.0 and 12.2.1.3.0) with DESTYPE=blobdestination, which means instead of displaying a rendered Report like PDF or XLS or HTML in the Browser to store the generated Report in a LOB into an underlying table in an Oracle Database. At first you will need to download the BLOBDestination11g.jar (even when its compiled for Oracle Reports 11g, you can use it with Oracle Reports 12c) from My Oracle Support Note 11514155.1 https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocContentDisplay?id=1151455.1 Transfer...

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Tracking applied Patches in WebLogic Server outfile

With a small trick you can track your applied patches in your Oracle Software Home on your Oracle WebLogic Server in the outfile. Simply add -Dweblogic.log.DisplayPatchInfo=true to your already existing setUserOverrides.sh or create a new setUserOverrides.sh in your $DOMAIN_HOME/bin directory. # Display applied patches in WebLogic Server outfile JAVA_OPTIONS="$JAVA_OPTIONS -Dweblogic.log.DisplayPatchInfo=true " After that just restart your WebLogic Server and you will find in the outfile of your WebLogic Server following entries: #...

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