Oracle EBS Refresh

[satish]

Dear Erman,

We need your expert answers on below concerns with respect to EBS refresh.I understand the below approach is not recommended.For better understanding,please kindly calrify

1)Say,If i  have applied patches on application node and i did not copy the apps file system and cloned only database retaining the target apps file system. In what ways it will effect ,will it fail while running autoconfig on apps tier?

Upto my knowledge  "we will miss out the bug fixes on target node if we do not copy the apps file system from source" apart from this there will be no problem.

2.During patching of source applications ,if the patch would have touched my database ,say creating new sequence,updating any profiles,etc... ,In this case ,will cloning only db part be successful ,keeping the target apps filesystem intact or will it fail?

Thank you for all the support

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

1)It depends on the patches.. If those patches are designed to change the apps tier objects as well, then yes you will use functionality.. Again, it depends on the patches.. It may fail.. If those patches are related with autoconfig and if those patches are designed to change both db objects and the related apps tier objects, then yes it will probably fail.

Think -> Your DB tier code is in the future, but your APPS Tier code is in the past.

2) if that patches touched the database only, then yes you can only clone your db..
However; i don't recommend it. That decision requires a deep analysis for those patches.