Financial Close Management Maintenance Release Installation Prerequisites

The following table provides an overview of the installation and configuration process for Oracle SOA Suite and Financial Close Management if you are moving from Financial Close Management Release 11.1.2.0 to Release 11.1.2.1.

Note the following about applying the maintenance release to Financial Close Management:

The maintenance release installation option is supported from Financial Close Management Release 11.1.2.0.01 (patch set 9672729). You can use the OPatch lsinventory command to find out whether this patch has already been applied.
Before you are apply the maintenance release to move from Financial Close Management Release 11.1.2.0.01 to Financial Close Management Release 11.1.2.1, make sure there are no schedules with an Open status.

Table 17. Roadmap for Applying the Maintenance Release to Financial Close Management

Task	Reference
Shut down all EPM System, WebLogic, and SOA services.
Install Financial Close Management Release 11.1.2.1 on the machine hosting Financial Close Management Release 11.1.2.0. Note: During installation, select Apply Maintenance Release. You must apply the maintenance release to all EPM System products in the deployment.	Installing EPM System Products.
Upgrade Oracle SOA Suite components to PS3 and then apply any required patches. The following list provides an overview of the steps: Update the existing software (SOA components). Update the _SOAINFRA schemas. Update the _MDS Schema. Update configurations and stores. For more information, see section 3.8.3 in the Oracle® Fusion Middleware Patching Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1.1). Enable WS-AtomicTransactions. For more information, see section 3.8.4 in the Oracle® Fusion Middleware Patching Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1.1). Run the SOA Upgrade Script to upgrade the WebLogic domain. Update the Oracle Web Services Manager repository. Apply the following patches for Oracle Fusion Middleware, available on My Oracle Support: 11063511 - SPORADIC MISSING OF SUBJECT IN BUSINESS EVENT HEADER 11864201 - PSE FOR MLR BUG 11864201 ON TOP OF 11.1.1.4.0 (PSE #536496) Shut down the Financial Close Management managed server, the SOA Server, and all managed servers before you apply a patch. Review the patch Readmes for information on how to apply a patch. For patch 11063511, set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to ../Oracle/Middleware/Oracle_SOA1. For patch 11864201, set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to MIDDLEWARE_HOME/oracle_common. Apply the patches on each machine on which SOA is installed.	Oracle® Fusion Middleware Patching Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/doc.1111/e16793/patch_set_installer.htm#CHDCCEAC)
Configure EPM System products, selecting all required configuration tasks except for Deploy to SOA, including database configuration and Web application deployment for Shared Services and Financial Close Management.	Using EPM System Configurator
Start WebLogic Administration Server.
Perform tasks in WebLogic Administration Console: Log in to the WebLogic Administration Console if you are not already logged in. and click Deployments in the left pane. In the right pane, delete FCCNotification, FCCTaskNotification, and FCCAlertNotification from the deployments. Go to Services, then JDBC, then DataSources and delete EDNLocalTxSource and EDNSource. Start SOA Server. During SOA Server startup, you might see errors, because the SOA Composites on the server are from the earlier release and the underlying components are from the upgraded release. You can ignore these messages.
Start EPM System Configurator and select the Deploy to SOA task for Financial Close Management.	Using EPM System Configurator
Shut down all the servers and restart them (SOA Server, WebLogic Administration Server).
Perform maintenance release postconfiguration tasks for Financial Close Management.	Financial Close Management Postconfiguration Tasks
Stop the SOA server, and then start EPM System products, the SOA Server and Financial Close Management in the order listed. Note that there is a new start order for Release 11.1.2.1.	Starting and Stopping EPM System Products, and Financial Close Management Application Server
Update product integration types by importing the Release 11.1.2.1 versions of all product integration files. The product integration files are posted on My Oracle Support.	“Managing Integration Types” in the Oracle Financial Close Management Administrator's Guide.