Prepares for Online Patch. With EBS 12.2, manual changes can be applied using online patching. FlexDeploy supports both traditional and online patching as a way of deploying your customizations and personalizations. Use this operation to initiate the prepare phase for Online Patching Cycle

Environment/Instance Properties

Property Name	Required	Description
FDEBS_SOURCE_SCRIPT	Yes	Source Script with full path. e.g. /u1/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSorcl_ebs01.env If you would like to apply changes directly to run edition for EBS R 12.2+, specify the run param after the script. By default it connects to patch edition. e.g. /u1/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSorcl_ebs01.env run

Property Name

Required

Description

FDEBS_SOURCE_SCRIPT

Yes

Source Script with full path.
e.g. /u1/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSorcl_ebs01.env

If you would like to apply changes directly to run edition for EBS R 12.2+, specify the run param after the script. By default it connects to patch edition.

e.g. /u1/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSorcl_ebs01.env run

Project Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description

Inputs

Input Name	Input Code	Required	Description

Outputs

Output Name	Required	Description

Artifacts

This operation doesn't consume or produce any artifacts.

Endpoint Selection

This operation will select all available App Tier (EBS Web Server/EBS Forms Service/ EBS MWA Server) resource type endpoints associated to the environment instance.

Endpoint Execution

This operation will run randomly on any App Tier (EBS Web Server/EBS Forms Service/ EBS MWA Server) resource type endpoint.

Special Considerations

See Supported EBS Object Types at the end of this document for supported objects and considerations.

Please note that you need to ensure custom files are defined in the custom synchronization driver. For example, if you have custom java class files under the $JAVA_TOP/{Company identifier}/* directory, and if all the files under this directory need to be synchronized between the patch file system and the run file system, then add the following entry in the custom synchronization driver file:
rsync -zr %s_current_base%/EBSapps/comn/java/classes/{Company identifier} %s_other_base%/EBSapps/comn/java/classes