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Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.

2: Upgrade Sizing and Best Practices


This document contains database schema sizing information, application tier sizing information, upgrade timing, and
other best practices, all designed to make your upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 as smooth as possible.
The sizing data is based on the upgrade of a 456 GB Release 12.1.3 database to Release 12.2.
There is a change log at the end of this document.

In This Document

Application Tier Size


Tablespace Size
Schema Size
R12.2 Best Practices
Required Post upgrade Jobs
Sample Upgrade Timings

Database Size:
Before Upgrade DB Size (GB)

After Upgrade DB Size (GB)

Delta (GB)

% Growth

456

481

25

5.5

The 25 GB greater database size after the upgrade reflects the additional system tablespace needed as a
prerequisite for enablement of Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR).
Environment details
Operating system:
Server Memory:
Number of CPUs:
Database Release:
Oracle E-Business Suite:

Oracle Linux Enterprise Edition Server Release 5.8


34 GB
32
11.2.0.3
12.1.3

Note: The database and application tiers are on the same machine.
Database Configuration
SGA:
Shared Pool Size:
PGA:
Log Buffer:
job_queue_processes:

5 GB
1 GB
3 GB
30 MB
32

During the upgrade of the Admin Tier, batchsize was 1000 and number of workers used was 32.

Application Tier Size


Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 introduces Online Patching. This requires three application tier file systems:

fs1 (Production file system) Used by the current users of the system.

fs2 (Copy of production file system) Used by the patching tools.


fs_ne (Non-editioned file system) Stores files containing data that is needed across all file systems (for
example, data import and export files, report output files, and log files).
Inst (INST_TOP) - Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Instance Home, contains all the config files, log files, SSL
certificates etc.

All three file systems serve a single database. The file system that is currently being used by the running application is
never patched: all patches are applied to the file system that is not currently in use.

Component

Before Upgrade Size

After Upgrade Size

ORACLE_HOME
APPL_TOP
INST_TOP
fs1 (APPL_TOP+ INST_TOP)
fs2 (APPL_TOP+ INST_TOP)
fs_ne

3.6 GB
28 GB
20 MB
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable

3.6 GB
Not applicable
Not applicable
30 GB
29 GB
660 KB

Tablespace Size
Tablespace size was calculated as Total TableSpace Size Free Space.

Tablespace Name
SYSTEM
CTXSYS
OWAPUB
SYNCSERVER
DCM
CWMLITE
SYSAUX
HTMLDB
B2B_IDX
MTR
DSGATEWAY_TAB
DISCO_PTM5_META
B2B_LOB
OLTS_DEFAULT
OPMOR
PORTAL
PORTAL_DOC
B2B_DT
OLTS_SVRMGSTORE
RE
IAS_META
WCRSYS_TS
OCATS
UDDISYS_TS
PORTAL_LOG
OLTS_ATTRSTORE
ODM_DATA

Before Upgrade Size (MB)


16489
475
0
25
178
0
1594
311
14
2
5
2
11
2
5
1
0
61
2
7
201
2
2
19
0
0
30

After Upgrade Size Difference


(MB)
(MB)
16819
330
475
0
25
178
0
1662
311
14
2
5
2
11
2
5
1
0
61
2
7
201
2
2
19
0
0
30

0
0
0
0
0
68
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

% Growth
2%
00%
0.06%
0%
0%
0%
4.26%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%

APPS_TS_DISCO_OLAP
APPS_TS_QUEUES
APPS_TS_TOOLS
APPS_TS_INTERFACE
APPS_TS_SEED
XDB
APPS_TS_TX_IDX
GEOR_TBS
NOETIX
APPS_TS_DISCO
TEMP2
APPS_TS_MEDIA
DISCO_PTM5_CACHE
B2B_RT
APPS_TS_SUMMARY
APPS_TS_ARCHIVE
APPS_TS_TX_DATA
APPS_CALCLIP
PORTAL_IDX
ORABPEL
OLTS_CT_STORE
APPS_OMO
TEMP1
BAM
OLTS_BATTRSTORE
APPS_TS_NOLOGGING
NON_APPS_TS_DATA
Total

10
7201
14
17456
34184
151
98809
2021
0
766
9192
2536
97
38
11694
938
94631
4676
0
11
7
638
10740
6
0
94
66
315414

10
7201
14
17303
34317
151
99286
2021
0
766
9192
2536
97
38
10580
937
94462
4676
0
11
7
638
10740
6
0
267
66
315159

0
0
0
-153
133
0
477
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
-1114
1
-169
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
173
0
-254

0%
0%
0%
-0.89%
0.39%
0%
0.48%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0.00%
-0.97%
0.10%
-0.18%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0.00%
0.00%
0%
185%
0%

Schema Size
Two new schemas have been created for Release 12.2:
1. APPS_NE: For the Non-Editioned file system
2. GHG: For the Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting.
Only a few of the schemas are listed below show significant change in the size after the upgrade.

Schema Name
AP
APPLSYS
APPS
APPS_NE
AR
BSC
CSC
CSI
EGO
INV

12.1.3 Size (MB)

12.2 Size (MB)

Difference

% Difference

4360.63
38724.44
2395.63

4379.5
39377.81
1765.38
95.25
90567.63
285.69
183.5
6036.94
2690.44
11658.13

18.88
653.37
-630.3
95.25
-141.8
-171.8
-49.25
72.5
34.5
175.57

0.43
1.69
-26.31

Not applicable

90709.44
457.44
232.75
5964.44
2655.94
11482.56

Not applicable

-0.16
-37.55
-21.16
1.22
1.3
1.53

JTF
MSC
OKC
PJI
SYS
XDO
XLA

30272.75
5120.44
2969.19
936.25
19893.52
1477.13
3059.06

30340.38
5153.94
3037.69
969.38
20819.65
1626.38
3134

67.63
33.5
68.5
33.13
926.13
149.26
74.94

0.22
0.65
2.31
3.54
4.66
10.1
2.45

Release 12.2 Upgrade Best Practices


Recommended initialization (init.ora) parameter settings for the upgrade.

It is recommended to follow AWR pool advisories for optimizing the SGA and PGA size in the Release 12.2
upgrade.

An upgrade involves tens of concurrent sessions. Suitable starting values are:


1. log buffer = 30 to 100 Mb
2. shared pool = 1 to 4 GB
3. pga target = 3 to 20 GB
4. buffer cache = 5-50 GB (multi-GB)

You should ensure that SGA and PGA are allocated appropriately within the available memory of the
system. If set higher it may cause excessive paging, or even swapping.

Set job_queue_processes = No. of CPUs adobjcmp.sql (Phases: plb+90 and last+63)


This parameter is set at the beginning of the upgrade; it will be most useful in the phases mentioned
above.

Setting parallel_max_servers to 2 x no. of CPUs will help with large index creation, statistics gathering, and
some large upg+ phase jobs.

In order to maximize multiblock I/O sizes, you should remove "db_file_multiblock_read_count" (if
specified).

Ensure you reset the following init.ora parameters after completion of the Release 12.2 upgrade.
o recyclebin
o parallel_max_servers
o job_queue_processes

Isolate post-upgrade concurrent programs to a separate manager queue.


The downtime portion of the upgrade involves the automatic submission of 95 distinct concurrent programs. For a list of
the programs, refer to the "Required Post-Upgrade Jobs" section of this document.
In several cases, these programs will run in multiple threads, so the total number of concurrent requests that form part
of the post-upgrade step is much higher. These programs will be picked up and executed by the concurrent manager
once the system is up, and as such their execution will be mixed with the execution of ongoing concurrent jobs in the
system.

To improve manageability of this situation, you can define a separate concurrent manager queue to process only these
programs. This can be achieved by using inclusion and exclusion rules to prevent other manager queues (such as the
standard manager) from picking up these requests, and cause this new manager queue to only process these requests.
Doing this allows you to control the number of target processes allocated to these post-upgrade concurrent programs,
including dynamically with the use of work shifts. For additional details about configuring new manager queues, target
processes, inclusion/exclusion rules, and work shifts, refer to Oracle E-Business Suite Setup Guide from the Onine
Documentation Library.
Before you shut down all services as part of the Perform the Upgrade tasks mentioned in the Upgrade Guide, you
need to deactivate all Request Processing managers. This is needed so that when the services are brought up at the end
of the upgrade, the existing Request Processing Managers do not start picking up and executing requests. After the
upgrade is complete, you need to perform the following steps to create new program type and managers to run the
post-upgrade requests.
To create a new program type, and include a program in that program type:
1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as SYSADMIN, and navigate to System Administrator > Concurrent : Program >
Type
Name: R12PUPT
Application: System Administration
Description: Program Type for Post Upgrade Request
2. Include programs from the above list into this new program type.
3. Navigate to System Administrator >Concurrent: Program >Define
4. Search for Program "Refresh Materialized Views"Type (choose):R12PUPT
5. Do the same for other programs in the list.
To exclude a program type from the Standard Manager:
1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as SYSADMIN and navigate to System Administrator > Concurrent : Manager
>Def ine
2. Search for Standard Manager.
3. Click on Specialization Rules.
4. Go at the bottom of the list to add a new record.
5. Include/Exclude (choose): Exclude
Type(choose): Request Type
Application(choose): System Administration
Name(choose): R12PUPT
6. Do the same for all other Request Processing managers.
To create a new concurrent manager and include a program type:
1. Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as SYSADMIN and navigate to System Administrator > Concurrent: Manager >
Define
2. Check the Enabled box.
3. Enter the following to create the new concurrent manager:
Manager: R12_Post_Upgrade
Short Name: R12PU
Application(choose): Application Object Library
Description: New manager queue for R12 post upgrade requests
Type(choose): Concurrent Manager
Cache Size: 1
Program Library Name(choose): FNDLIBR
Specialization Rules:
Include/Exclude(choose): Include
Type(choose): Request Type

Application(choose): System Administration


Name(choose): R12PUPT
Work Shifts:
Work Shift (choose): Standard
Processes: Enter a Value, for example 4
Sleep Second: 30
After completing the above steps, activate all "Request Processing Managers" that you previously deactivated.
Note that after all these post-upgrade requests run, you should revert the exclusion/inclusion of managers and
programs to the original state, removing the new program type and new manager. This is necessary as some of the
programs in the list may need to run in the future, as part of the regular system batch processing requirements rather
than part of the upgrade.
Determine optimal number of workers for upgrade.
While monitoring CPU usage and I/O response times, you should test a range of values between 1 x No. of CPUs to 1.5 x
No. of CPUs, . The goal is to maximize the number of workers, while keeping CPU usage below 100% (ignoring occasional
spikes) and I/O response times below 10-15 milliseconds (again, ignoring occasional spikes).

Required Post-Upgrade Jobs


Below is a list of of the concurrent programs that form part of the required post-upgrade steps. These concurrent
programs are automatically submitted during the regular downtime upgrade, so no manual submission is required.
These jobs took 7 hours for the 456 GB database upgrade, using 30 target processes in the concurrent manager.

Application
Name

Concurrent Program Name

User Concurrent Program Name

Elapsed
Time
(min.)

Total
Requests

Advanced
Benefits (BEN)
Advanced
Product
Catalog (EGO)
Advanced
Supply Chain
Planning
(MSC)
Application
Implementatio
n (AZ)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)

BENCWBMU

Compensation Workbench Model


Upgrade Process
User-Defined Attribute Group Views
(AGV) Compilation Program

0.10

0.57

MSCREFMV

Refresh Materialized Views

0.70

AZR12UPGRADE

iSetup R12 Upgrade Selection Sets


Column

0.47

FNDFIXRN

Fix FND role names

0.10

DIAGPATCHINGCP

Diagnostics patching CP

12.60

FDFVGN

Flexfield View Generator

135.10

985

EGOCPAGV

Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Application
Object Library
(FND)
Applications
DBA (AD)
Asia/Pacific
Localizations
(JA)
Collections

AFLOBBLD

Rebuild Help Search Index

16.72

FNDIRLPP

iRep Loading Post Processor

20.72

FNDRSSTG

Request Set Stage

0.87

FNDSCMPI

Compile Security

0.40

FNDLOAD

Generic Loader

13.05

FNDIRLOAD

FNDIRLOAD

24.70

FNDRSSUB

Report Set

1.00

FNDWFAASTATCC

Workflow Agent Activity Statistics


Concurrent Program

1.98

10

FNDWFWITSTATCC

Workflow Work Items Statistics


Concurrent Program

2.75

10

FNDWFDSURV

Workflow Directory Services


User/Role Validation

0.88

FNDWFMLRSTATCC

Workflow Mailer Statistics


Concurrent Program

0.70

10

FNDWFNTFCU

Workflow Update Notification Action


Comments

1.50

FNDWFDSRHP

Workflow Role Hierarchy


Propagation

0.27

FDFCMPN

Compile Non-Compiled Flexfields

56.33

FNDWFBES_CONTROL_QUEUE_CLE
ANUP

Workflow Control Queue Cleanup

0.02

ADDRPOBS

Drop obsolete products schema

51.62

204

JAINDFOBS

India - Remove India Localization


contexts from DFFs

0.07

IEX_COLLECTORS_TO_RESOURCE

IEX: AR Collectors To Resource

0.88

(IEX)
Contracts Core
(OKC)
Contracts Core
(OKC)
Human
Resources
(PER)
Human
Resources
(PER)
Human
Resources
(PER)
Human
Resources
(PER)
Incentive
Compensation
(CN)
Incentive
Compensation
(CN)
Incentive
Compensation
(CN)
Incentive
Compensation
(CN)
Incentive
Compensation
(CN)
Incentive
Compensation
(CN)
Incentive
Compensation
(CN)
Incentive
Compensation
(CN)
Incentive
Compensation
(CN)
Inventory
(INV)
Labor
Distribution
(PSP)
Labor
Distribution

OKCARTCRTCTX

Collectors
Create Clause Text Index

0.18

OKCCHRCRCTX

Create Contract Header Text Index

0.27

PAY_GEN_UPG

Generic Upgrade Mechanism

2.03

PER_FND_SESSIONS_CLEANUP

Remove obsolete sessions from


fnd_sessions

0.53

12

HRTCAUNMP

Unmerge contacts from TCA (TCA


purge only)

3.62

IRC_CREATE_NOTIFICATION

iRecruitment Create Notification


Preferences

0.07

CN_R1212_CNCMAUPD

CN_R1212_CNCMAUPD

1.35

48

CN_R1212_CNCMHUPD

CN_R1212_CNCMHUPD

0.30

48

CN_R1212_CNSRPTXN

CN_R1212_CNSRPTXN

0.35

48

CN_FORMULA_GEN

Generate Formula Packages

7.55

CN_COLLECT_GEN

Generate Collection Packages

1.90

CNUPGPMTRXWRKER

Upgrade payment transactions Worker

0.05

10

CNUPGPMTCLWRKER

Upgrade payment commission lines Worker

0.05

10

CNUPGPMTRXMGR

Upgrade transactions for


AutoUpgrade or AutoPatch

0.08

CNUPGPMTCOMMTRXMGR

Upgrade commissions and


transactions for AutoUpgrade or
AutoPatch - Manager
Items Data Scripts Execution

0.12

4.45

PSPERUPB

PSP: Migrate to OAFramework Effort


Reporting

0.03

PSPUPREP

PSP: Post Upgrade Bad Data Report

0.82

INVIDSEP

(PSP)
Learning
Management
(OTA)
Learning
Management
(OTA)
Lease and
Finance
Management
(OKL)
Marketing
(AMS)
Marketing
(AMS)
Oracle
iProcurement
(ICX)
Payables
(SQLAP)
Payables
(SQLAP)
Payments
(IBY)
Payroll (PAY)
Purchasing
(PO)
Purchasing
(PO)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Receivables

OTARPUPG

Upgrade Log Report

1.30

OTATZUPG

Update Time Zone

0.23

OKLSVPTH

Service Passthrough Report

0.80

AMSUPGHISTORYRECSWKR

Upgrade metrics history records


process - Worker
Upgrade metrics history records
process - Manager
Catalog Child Data Exceptions Report

1.05

64

1.33

3.93

0.07

APWUPRD

Update Expense Status Code in


Expense Report Headers
Upgrade Report Distribution

0.07

IBYUPGCP

iPayment FP.G Upgrade Program

0.00

PYUSLV
POXUPMGR

Payroll Worker Process


Purchasing Post-Upgrade Process

1.47
0.05

4
1

POXUPWKR

Purchasing Post-Upgrade Sub


Process
Third Party Data Integration Update

0.00

0.47

1.75

20

HZ_GNR_DYNMK_PKG_GEN

Geography Name Referencing


Worker
GNR Dynamic packages Generation

0.75

ARHDCH

DQM Sync Import Child Program

0.23

ARHSUFXS

Data Fix for Party Site Use

0.07

ARHDQSYN

DQM Synchronization Program

0.32

ARHMAILS

Mailstop Migration Program

0.03

ARHDQCMAL

DQM Compile All Rules

17.60

ARHDNBCH

Create DNB Hierarchy

0.07

ARHDQM

DQM Staging Program

0.42

ARHDQMPP

DQM Parallel Sync Index Parent

0.10

AMSUPGHISTORYRECSMGR
ICXCUCDER

APWUPDST

HZ_THIRD_PARTY_UPDATE
ARHGNRW

(AR)
Receivables
(AR)
Regional
Localizations
(JG)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service
Contracts
(OKS)
Service (CS)

ARHDQMPC
JGZZVATTRXUPG

Program
DQM Parallel Sync Index Child
Program
EMEA VAT: Transaction Upgrade

0.02

0.95

OKSUHAFMGR

Service Contracts Update History


Annualized Factor Manager

0.28

OKS_TAX_MIGRATION

Service Contracts eBTax Migration

0.05

OKSAQUMG

Service Contracts ASO Queue


Migration

0.58

OKSUHAFWKR

Service Contracts Update History


Annualized Factor Worker

0.02

OKSUBAFMGR

Service Contracts Update Base


Annualized Factor Manager

0.20

OKS_REPROCESS_SUBREQUEST

Service Contracts Subrequest for


Reprocessing Rule Data

0.02

OKSUBAFWKR

Service Contracts Update Base


Annualized Factor Worker

0.02

OKSLAUNCHKWF

Launch Process Workflow for


existing Service Contracts

0.10

OKSTAXHMGR

Service Contracts Update History Tax


Columns Manager

0.23

OKSTAXHWKR

Service Contracts Update History Tax


Columns Worker

0.00

REPROCESS_SYNC_RULE_DATA

Service Contracts
Reprocess/Synchronize Rule Data

0.23

OKSTAXBMGR

Service Contracts Update Base Tax


Columns Manager

0.20

OKSTAXBWKR

Service Contracts Update Base Tax


Columns Worker

0.00

CSSRAUDCMAN

Service: Upgrade for Audit Creation


Record - Manager
Service: General Upgrade for Audit
Records - Worker
Service: Upgrade for Audit Creation
Record - Worker

0.03

0.00

0.02

Service (CS)

CSSRAWGEN

Service (CS)

CSSRAUDCWKR

Service (CS)

CS_KB_SYNC_SOLUTIONS_INDEX

Knowledge Management Solution


Index Synchronization
Knowledge Management Statement
Index Synchronization
Service: General Upgrade for Audit
Records - Manager
Charges: Upgrade for Line Number Manager
Charges: Upgrade for Line Number Worker
Service Request: Synchronize Text
Index Program
Knowledge Management Category
Index Synchronization
Refresh Materialized View

0.73

Service (CS)

CS_KB_SYNC_STATEMENTS_INDEX

0.12

Service (CS)

CSSRAMGEN

0.03

Service (CS)

CSCHGLINENOMGR

0.03

Service (CS)

CSCHGLINENOWKR

0.02

Service (CS)

CS_SR_SYNC_TEXT_INDEX

1.08

Service (CS)

CS_KB_SYNC_CATEGORIES_INDEX

0.05

Trade
Management
(OZF)
Trade
Management
(OZF)
Warehouse
Management
(WMS)
XML Publisher
(XDO)
Total

OZFEARNMV

0.95

OZFMIGUTLREC

Migrate Accruals for Multi Currency


Changes

0.55

WMSGRULE

Generate All Rules

1.05

XDOTMGEN

XML Publisher Template ReGenerator

23.53

431.05

1692

Sample Upgrade Timings


Before applying the main 12.2 upgrade driver (u10124646.drv), AD patch 10117518 must be applied on both file systems
(fs1 and fs2). As a result of applying this patch, two new schemas (APPS_NE and GHG) will be created for use in Release
12.2.
The overall time taken to apply the patch was about two hours.
1. Time taken for creating the users and granting privileges to them was 20 minutes.
2. Compiling JSPs (using perl) took 1 hour 30 minutes.
3. The following database activity timing information is for the Release 12.2 AD patch (10117518), which took 5.5
minutes.

Phase
first
con
seq
tab
tbm
pls
plb
dat
dfr
en

Time (sec.)
24
55
2
22
18
5
19
11
1
0

last
Invoker
Total

89
90
336 (5.5 min.)

The following timing information is for the Release 12.2 main upgrade driver (u10124646.drv) only
Phase-wise breakdown of time for upgrade:

Phase
first
con
seq
tab
tbm
os
pls
vw
plb
pda
daa
upa
pdt
dat
upg
dfr
en
last
Total

Time (in min.)

0.31
2.75
1.15
4.83
16.98
0.03
7.11
3.14
28.04
2.75
21.96
0.08
2.57
34.4
102.2
1.06
8.00
98.04
335.4 min. (5.59 hours)

The upgrade is a very I/O intensive process, moving, updating, and indexing large amounts of data. As such, I/O
subsystem performance and bandwidth are critical to minimizing the amount of downtime. During many Release 11i to
Release 12 customer upgrades, poor I/O sub-system performance was found to be one of the major sources of upgrade
performance service requests.
Therefore, during the upgrade testing process you should monitor I/O performance and correct any issues found. As a
reference, shown below are the IOPS rates and bandwidth measurements that were obtained while testing the upgrade
with the 456 GB database. The numbers were calculated based on data from AWR and OS monitoring utilities.
IOPS:

Maximum IOPS value is 478.9.


During upgrade, IOPS range is from 142 to 478.9. Max value is reported during large indexes creation phase.
High IOPS value (140 to 478) is seen during UPG phases.

I/O Read bandwidth:


Maximum I/O Read bandwidth (in MB): 10.23
During upgrade I/O Reads ( in MB) per second range is from 1.44 to 10.23
Max value is reported during dat and upg phase.
I/O Write bandwidth:
Maximum I/O Write bandwidth (in MB): 3.09

During upgrade I/O Writes per second range is from 0.9 to 3.09 MB.
Max value is reported during dat phase.

I/O Response Times ( in milliseconds):


Below 20ms for the vast majority of AWR snapshot periods. Higher values were present with spikes above 50ms
during the Large indexes create phase and some upgrade phases.
Timing information for Release 12.2 Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR) enablement (Patch 13543062)
Timing reported here is only for application of the EBR enablement patch. Apart from patch application, many other
steps are performed in enabling EBR. The time these take will depend upon the customizations you have.
Refer the the following document for the steps needed to enable EBR:
Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Guide Release 12.0 and 12.1 to 12.2, Part No. E48839 (Section 4, Oracle EBusiness Suite Online Patching)
You need to register all your custom schemas, following the procedures in the above document.
Phase-wise breakdown of time needed for the upgrade:

Phase

Time (min.)

first
con
seq
tab
tbm
pls
last
Total

57.13
0.46
0.8
0.25
35.13
2.65
3.53
100 min. (1.6 hours)

References:

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 Information Center (My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 1581299.1)
Database Initialization Parameters for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (My Oracle Support Knowledge Document
396009.1)
Oracle E-Business Suite Recommended Performance Patches (My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 244040.1)

Change Log
Date

04-Nov-2013

Description

Initial publication.

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