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.

Runs adop phase=prepare command.

Environment/Instance Properties

Property Name	Property Code	Required	Description
EBS Source Script	`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 when performing the deploy operation. All other operations are sourced from run by default. e.g. `/u1/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSorcl_ebs01.env` run
EBS Database Password	`FDEBS_DB_PASSWORD`	Yes	DB User to connect with privileges. eg: Apps. Make sure you have permission to execute sqls with this user for all schemas.
System Database Password	`FDEBS_SYSTEM_PASSWORD`	Yes	SYSTEM Password for AD Online Patching.
Weblogic Admin Password	`FDWLS_ADMIN_PASSWORD`	Yes	The password for the WebLogic admin user.

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