Tag Archives: Setup

R12 Visual Studio 2005 Setup

Problem:

What Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 products were installed to be used with E-Business Suite R12.1 on Windows?

Solution:

The following products were installed from Microsoft Visual Studio 2005:

1. Under Language Tools:
Visual C++:
Smart Device Programmability [probably not needed]
Visual C++ Tools
Visual C++ Run-Time Libraries
Visual C++ Class & Template Libraries

2. Under .NET Framework SDK:
Tools

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 was installed to D:MSVS.

D:MSVSVC was the path used while installing E-Business Suite R12.1

D:MSVSVCbin was added to the PATH environment variable after D:cygwinbin (although the R12 installation guide did not state that it should be added).

 

netca Error: ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor

Problem: When configuring the TNS settings using the Oracle Net Configuration Assistant, the follow error appears:

Connecting… ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor. The test did not succeed.

Solution: Mismatch between hostnames in tnsnames.ora and listener.ora.

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Function Not Available To This Responsibility

Problem: When examining an EBS form using Help > Diagnostics > Examine, the following error occurs:

Function Not Available To This Responsibility.
Change responsibilities or contact your System Administrator.

Solution: This is standard functionality. The EBS instance was upgraded to R12.1.3.

To allow access to the submenu items under the Help menu > Diagnostics, please perform the following steps:

Choose System Administrator, navigate to System > Profiles, and query the profile “Utilities : Diagnostics”. At the appropriate level (user/responsibility), change the value to Yes.

Logout and then login (you may need to bounce iAS (Apache) to clear cache).

Retest the issue.

Reference:

“Function Not Available To This Responsibility” After Upgrading To Release 12.1.3 [ID 1200743.1]

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ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into (“HR”.”PAY_ELE_TMPLT_CLASS_USAGES”.”CLASSIFICATION_ID”)

Problem: When running International HRMS Setup from the UK HRMS Super User responsibility, the following error occurs:

Inserting Balance Attribute Definition : ONLINE_SOE_BALANCE_ATTRIBUTE
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Start of log messages from FND_FILE
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("HR"."PAY_ELE_TMPLT_CLASS_USAGES"."CLASSIFICATION_ID")

Solution: Ensure that the Human Resources product (PER) is licensed.

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Installing FSCM 9.0 PeopleBooks for SQL Server on Windows

Problem: Procedure for installing PeopleBooks for Financials/Supply Chain Management (FSCM) 9.0 unclear.

Solution:

The documentation for installing PeopleBooks is available in the PeopleTools Installation guide. In this case, FSCM 9.0 was installed on PeopleTools 8.49 on the Microsoft SQL Server database.

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Installing PeopleTools PeopleBooks 8.49

Problem: When user clicks on PeopleTools > Web Profile > Web Profile Configuration, clicks Search > Dev, and then clicks the Help link, the following message appears:

Help cannot be displayed because no help topic was found for the help context ID "WEB_PROF_GENERAL". 
To view the PeopleSoft Online Library, click here.

Solution: The PeopleTools PeopleBooks CD was not installed.

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Page Not Found After SSL Setup

Problem:

After setting up SSL on PeopleSoft instance, logon page appears. After logging on, the web browser displays the message:

This page cannot be displayed.

Solution:

Needed to change Web Profile from DEV to PROD in Application Server config file.

Unable to make a network connection

Problem: When configuring Workflow Mailer, and no password is entered for the Inbound Mailer Server (IMAP), the instance pauses for a few seconds, then returns:

Unable to make a network connection

Solution:

If a valid mail server is entered into the Inbound Server Name under Inbound Email Account, but invalid username and password is entered, the following message appears:

Unable to connect to the mail account. Check the host, user name and password.

If a valid mail server is entered into the Inbound Server Name under Inbound Email Account, and a valid username and password is entered, the following message appears:

Validation

Need to put a valid username and password into the Inbound Server Name.

Ensure that the Test Email Address and Reply-To email addresses are different.

e.g. dbadmin@school.com, surajini.shrivastav@school.com

PDF reports not appearing in browser

Problem:

After running a report in PeopleSoft with PDF output, when the output file is clicked in Process Monitor, a dialog box appears prompting you to save the PDF file to the hard drive. The expected behaviour is that the PDF report will appear in the browser window.

Solution:

1. In Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu and then click Internet Options. Click the Advanced tab. Then click Restore Defaults.

Alternatively, uncheck ‘Do not save encrypted pages to disk.

2. The digital certificates are incorrectly configured. Regenerate and setup the correct certificates.

Setting Up IBM WebSphere as a Service

Problem:

If the user that starts the IBM WebSphere web server logs off the system, the web server is shut down. A Windows service must be created to ensure that the web service(s) remain running.

Solution:

At Command Prompt, issue the following commands:

E:
 cd E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin
 WASService.exe -add fsdev -serverName server1 -wasHome E:IBMWebSphereAppServer -profilePath E:PSOFTFS900webservfsdev -logFile E:IBMWebSphereAppServerlogsstartNodefsdev.log -restart true -startType automatic
WASService.exe -add fsdmo -serverName server1 -wasHome E:IBMWebSphereAppServer -profilePath E:PSOFTFS900webservPIA_fsdmo -logFile E:IBMWebSphereAppServerlogsstartNodefsdmo.log -restart true -startType automatic
E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin>cd E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin
E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin>WASService.exe -add fsdev -serverName server1 -wasHome E:IBMWebSphereAppServer -profilePath E:PSOFTFS900webservfsdev -logFile E:IBMWebSphereAppServerlogsstartNodefsdev.log -restart true –startType automatic
 Adding Service: fsdev
 Config Root: E:PSOFTFS900webservfsdevconfig
 Server Name: server1
 Profile Path: E:PSOFTFS900webservfsdev
 Was Home: E:IBMWebSphereAppServer
 Start Args:
 Restart: 1
 IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 - fsdev service successfully added.
 E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin>
The “IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 – fsdev” service is created.
Note that the log file is E:IBMWebSphereAppServerlogsstartNodefsdev.log
E:>E:
 E:>cd E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin
E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin>WASService.exe -add tramdmo -serverName server1 -wasHome E:IBMWebSphereAppServer -profilePath E:PSOFTFS900webservPIA_tramdmo -logFile E:IBMWebSphereAppServerlogsstartNodetramdmo.log -restart true -startType automatic
 Adding Service: tramdmo
 Config Root: E:PSOFTFS900webservPIA_tramdmoconfig
 Server Name: server1
 Profile Path: E:PSOFTFS900webservPIA_tramdmo
 Was Home: E:IBMWebSphereAppServer
 Start Args:
 Restart: 1
 IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 - tramdmo service successfully added.
To remove the service:
 cd E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin
 WASService.exe -remove tramdmo
E:>E:
 E:>cd E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin
E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin>WASService.exe -add peoplebooks -serverName server1 -wasHome E:IBMWebSphereAppServer -profilePath E:PSOFTFS900webservPSOL_fsdmo -logFile E:IBMWebSphereAppServerlogsstartNodepeoplebooks.log -restart true -startType automatic
Adding Service: peoplebooks
 Config Root: E:PSOFTFS900webservPSOL_fsdmoconfig
 Server Name: server1
 Profile Path: E:PSOFTFS900webservPSOL_fsdmo
 Was Home: E:IBMWebSphereAppServer
 Start Args:
 Restart: 1
 IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 - peoplebooks service successfully added.
 E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin>
To remove the service:
 cd E:IBMWebSphereAppServerbin
 WASService.exe -remove peoplebooks

Reference:
http://handly.blogspot.com/2008/05/setting-up-websphere-61-cluster-to.html

Setting up the WebSphere Node Manager as a Windows service

First, you need to set up the Node Manager on each physical server to run as a service and restart after a reboot:

Open a Command Window and go to the ..IBMWebSphereAppServerbin directory
Type in the following command (adjusted for your install paths):

WASService -add “IBM WebSphere Node Agent” -servername nodeagent -profilePath D:IBMWebSphereAppServerprofilesAppSrv01 -wasHome D:IBMWebsphereAppserver -logFile D:IBMWebSphereAppServerprofilesAppSrv01logsnodeagentstartNode.log -logRoot D:IBMWebSphereAppServerprofilesAppSrv01logsnodeagent -restart true -startType automatic