There are situations where it makes sense to run an “empty” patch cycle in E-Business Suite R12.2. For example, I will run an empty patch cycle after a major operation (R12.1.3 to R12.2 upgrade, platform migration, etc.) to confirm that I can, successfully run a patch cycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other “trick” that I tend to use is a There are several ways to create it. \u00a0I used to use the Unix https:\/\/www.patorjk.com\/software\/taag\/#p=display&f=Banner&t=FINISHED<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n By having As an example, let’s say you wanted to run an “empty patch cycle” as described in MOS 2316218.1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n IMPORTANT: Simply printing the FINISHED text block does NOT indicate SUCCESSFUL completion. \u00a0Only that the command has finished. \u00a0As always, be sure check for errors.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are situations where it makes sense to run an “empty” patch cycle in E-Business Suite R12.2. For example, I will run an empty patch cycle after a major operation (R12.1.3 to R12.2 upgrade, platform migration, etc.) to confirm that … Continue reading tail.txt <\/code>file to indicate when a process has finished. \u00a0It is a simple ASCII text file that contains the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n ####### ### # # ### ##### # # ####### ###### \n # # ## # # # # # # # # # \n # # # # # # # # # # # # \n ##### # # # # # ##### ####### ##### # # \n # # # # # # # # # # # # \n # # # ## # # # # # # # # \n # ### # # ### ##### # # ####### ###### \n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nbanner <\/code>command (which isn’t generally present on Linux systems). Because of that, the easiest way now is to use an online ASCII art generator:<\/p>\n\n\n\ntail -f ${DL}\/tail.txt<\/code> run at the end of a long command, it is pretty easy to notice when the process completes. \u00a0This is particularly useful when you may have the window in the background, be running from a different machine, or maybe you’re just glancing at the screen from across a room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n. \/oracle\/${TWO_TASK}\/EBSapps.env run\ndate;{ echo ${APPSPW}; echo ${SYSTEMPW}; echo ${WLADMIN}; }|\\\nadop phase=prepare,finalize,cutover; date; tail -f ${DL}\/tail.txt\n\n. \/oracle\/${TWO_TASK}\/EBSapps.env run\ndate;{ echo ${APPSPW}; echo ${SYSTEMPW}; echo ${WLADMIN}; }|\\\nadop phase=cleanup cleanup_mode=full;date;tail -f ${DL}\/tail.txt\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n