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This is Mugunthan from iSetup development. Based on my interaction with customers and
Oracle functional experts, I had documented list of manual setups that are required for smooth
loading of selection sets. I am sharing the same. Please let me know if I anyone had to enter
some manual setup while using iSetup.
Understanding iSetup
iSetup is a tool to migrate and report on your configuration data. Various engineering teams from
Oracle develop the APIs/Programs, which migrates the data across EBS instances. Hence all
your data is validated for all business cases and data consistency is guarantied. It requires good
amount of setup functional knowledge and bit of technical knowledge to use this tool.
· ATG patch set level should be same across all EBS instances.
· Copy DBC files of each other EBS instances participating in migration under $FND_SECURE
directory (refer note below for details).
· Edit sqlnet.ora to allow connection between DB
instacnes(tcp.invited_nodes=(<source>,<central>))
· Make sure that same user name with iSetup responsibility exists in all EBS instances
participating in migration.
Note:- iSetup tool is capable of connecting to multiple EBS instances. To do so, it uses dbc file
information available under $FND_SECURE directory. Let us consider three instances A, B &
C, where A is central instance, B is source instance and C is target instances. After copying the
dbc file on all nodes, $FND_SECURE directory would look like this on each machine.
A => A.dbc, B.dbc, C.dbc
B => A.dbc, B.dbc
C => A.dbc, C.dbc
· Only the exact same user can access extracts, transforms, or reports across different instances.
· The “Download” capability offers a way to share extracts, transforms, and loads.
Security Considerations
· iSetup does not use SSH to connect between instances. It uses Concurrent Manager framework
to lunch concurrent programs on source and target instances.
· iSetup does not write password to any files or tables.
· It uses JDBC connectivity obtained through standard AOL security layer
Installed Languages
iSetup has limitations where it cannot Load or Report if the number and type of installed
languages and DB Charset are different between Central, Source and Target instances. If your
case is so, there is a workaround. Download the extract zip file to desktop and unzip it. Edit
AZ_Prevalidator_1.xml to match your target instance language and DB Charset. Zip it back and
upload to iSetup repository. Now, you would be able to load to target instance. You must ensure
that this would not corrupt data in DB. This is considered as customization and any data issue
Announcement: How to use iSetup ?
coming out this modification is not supported.
Custom Applications
Application data is the prerequisite for the most of the Application Object Library setups such as
Menus, Responsibility, and Concurrent programs. iSetup does not migrate Custom Applications
as of now. So, if you have created any custom application on source instance, please manually
create them on the target instance before moving Application Object Library (AOL) data.
Setup objects in General foundation selection set supports filtering i.e. ability to extract specific
setups. Since most of the AOL setup data such as Menus, Responsibilities and Request Groups
are shipped by Oracle itself, it does not make sense to migrate all of them to target instance since
they would be available on target instance. Hence, it is strongly recommended to extract only
those setup objects, which are edited/added by you to target instance. This improves the
performance. iSetup uses FNDLOAD (seed data loader) to migrate most of the AOL Setups. The
default behavior of FNDLOAD is given below.
Profiles
HR: Business Group => Set the name of the Business Group for which you would like to extract
data from source instance. After loading Business Group onto the target instance, make sure that
this profile option is set appropriately.
HR: Security Profile => Set the name of the Business Group for which you would like to extract
data from source instance. After loading Business Group onto the target instance, make sure that
this profile option is set appropriately.
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MO: Operating Unit => Set the Operating Unit name for which you would like to extract data
from source instance. After loading Operating Unit onto the target instance, make sure that this
profile option is set if required.
You must compile and freeze the flex field values before extracting using iSetup.
Otherwise, it would result in partial migration of data. Please verify that all the data been
extracted by reporting on your extract before loading to ensure data consistency.
You can load the KFF/DFF data to target instance even the structures in both source as well as
target instances are different only in the below cases.
Case 1:
If you provide values for Loc1 (Mandate), Loc2 (Mandate), Loc3, Loc4, then locations will be
loaded to target instance without any issue. If you do not provide value for Loc3, then API will
fail, as Loc3 is a mandatory field.
Case 2:
If you provide values for Loc1 (Mandate), Loc2 (Mandate), Loc3 and Loc4 and load data to
target instance, API will fail as Loc3 and Loc4 are not there in target instance.
It is always recommended that KFF/DFF structure should be same for both source as well as
target instances.
If you have any custom Geographies, iSetup does not have any API to migrate this setup. Enter
them manually before loading Locations API.
Currencies Types
iSetup does not have API to migrate Currency types. Enter them manually on target instance
after loading Currency API.
The extract process does not capture employee details associated with users. So, after loading the
employee data successfully on the target instance, you have to configure them again on target
instance.
Accounting Setup
Make sure that all Accounting Setups that you wish to migrate are in status “Complete”. In
progress or not-completed Accounting Setups would not be migrated successfully.
Note: Currently iSetup does not migrate Sub-Ledger Accounting methods (SLA). Oracle
supports some default SLA methods such as Standard Accrual and Standard Cash. You may
make use of these two. If you want to use your own SLA method then you need to manually
create it on target instances because iSetup does not have API to migrate SLA. If a Primary
Ledger associated with Secondary Ledgers using different Chart of Accounts, then mapping
rules should be defined in the target instance manually. Mapping rule name should match with
XML tag “SlCoaMappingName”. After that you would be able to load Accounting Setup to
target instance. You can refer note:736722.1 for more information how to migrate SLA.
Appendix
· Logs are very important to diagnose and troubleshoot iSetup issues. Logs contain both
functional and technical errors.
· To find the log, navigate to View Detail screens of Extracts/
Transforms/Loads/Standard/Comparison Reports and click on View Log button to view the log.
· Generic Loader (FNDLOAD or Seed data loader) logs are not printed as a part of main log. To
view actual log, you have to take the request_id specified in the concurrent log and search for the
same in Forms Request Search Window in the instance where the request was launched.