Oracle Applications Patching :How to Run hrglobal driver in Oracle EBS 12.2.X Version.

Applying hrglobal driver is needed during an oracle applications upgrade or when the  payroll data is required to be analyzed as per latest code pack.

Below are the steps to apply hrglobal driver in a Oracle EBS environment (12.2.x)

Before applying hrglobal driver download the latest hrglobal patch from My Oracle Support.

Start an Oracle online EBS Patching cycle.

1.adop phase=prepare

2. Apply latest hrglobal patch

adop phase=apply patches=<patchnum>

3. Run Datainstall and hrglobal driver using below commands

ADOP utillity is intelligent enough to switch to Patch Filesystem depending on the ADOP phase being run.
For any Other manual operations, we need to set the environment to point to Patch Filesystem explicitly.

. ./EBSapps.env PATCH

+Run DataInstall

java oracle.apps.per.DataInstall apps appspassword thin test.domain.com:1521:DEV

Select the Required localisations and save the changes.

Example of Data Install Changes Summary is shown below.



          DataInstall - Actions confirmation

Do you really wish to exit and save your changes?

      [Y]      - Yes, save then exit
      [N]      - No, don't save but exit
      [Return] - To return to the DataInstall Main Menu

Enter your choice (for example Y) : Y


          DataInstall - Actions summary
          -----------------------------

The following actions will be performed:


Localisation         Product(s)               Leg. Data? Action
-------------------- ------------------------ ---------- -------------
Global               Human Resources          Installed  Install
United Arab Emirates Human Resources          Installed  Install
United Arab Emirates Payroll                  Installed  Install

Localisation   College Data? Action
-------------- ------------- -------------
United Kingdom
United States

Option                         Data?         Action
------------------------------ ------------- -------------
JIT/Geocode


Legislation                            Action
------------------------------         -------------
ALL  All Legislations


++Apply hrglobal.drv using below syntax.

adop phase=apply patchtop=$PER_TOP/patch/115 patches=driver:hrglobal.drv workers=8

4. adop phase=finalize

5. adop phase=cutover

6. adop phase=cleanup