2. Upgrading the Oracle Financial Services Lending and Leasing Database

2.1 Pre-requisites

• It is assumed that an earlier version of Oracle Financial Services Lending and Leasing is installed.

2.2 Audience

This document is intended for system administrators or application developers who are upgrading Oracle Financial Services Lending and Leasing Application.

2.3 Conventions Used

Term	Refers to
Home Directory/$OFSLL_HOME	Oracle Financial Services Lending and Leasing Home Directory
Application	Oracle Financial Services Lending and Leasing

2.4 Upgrading Application Database

An upgrade is a process of updating an existing version to its higher version. For example, upgrading Oracle Financial Services Lending and Leasing from 14.5.0.0.0 to 14.6.0.0.0.

Note

Oracle Financial Services Lending and Leasing also supports direct upgrade from 14.4.0.0.0 to 14.6.0.0.0 version.

• To upgrade from 14.5.0.0.0 to 14.6.0.0.0, refer to Upgrade to 14.6.0.0.0 section below.
• To upgrade from 14.4.0.0.0 to 14.6.0.0.0, perform the below steps and then continue with instructions in Upgrade to 14.6.0.0.0 section.

To perform Direct Upgrade from 14.4.0.0.0 to 14.6.0.0.0, do the following:

• In the folder ofslldb.zip\infrastructure\indexes, delete the file ‘upgrade_in_rel_ofsll_14_6_0_0_0.sql’.
• Copy ‘upgrade_in_rel_ofsll_14_4_0_0_x_to_14_6_0_0_0.sql’ file available under data_fix folder to \ofslldb.zip\infrastructure\indexes folder.
• In the folder ofslldb.zip\infrastructure\indexes, delete the file ‘upgrade_tb_rel_ofsll_14_6_0_0_0.sql’.
• Copy ‘upgrade_tb_rel_ofsll_14_4_0_0_x_to_14_6_0_0_0.sql’ file available under data_fix folder to \ofslldb.zip\infrastructure\tables folder.
• Copy the file ‘upgrade_seed_data_combination_14_4_0_0_x_to_14_6_0_0_0.sql’ available under data_fix folder to \ofslldb.zip\seed_data\us\combination_data\sql\.
• In the folder ofslldb.zip\infrastructure\directories, delete the file ‘upgrade_utldir_cmn_14_6_0_0_0.sql’.
• Copy the file ‘upgrade_utldir_cmn_14_4_0_0_x_to_14_6_0_0_0.sql’ available under data_fix folder to \ofslldb.zip\infrastructure\directories folder.
• Execute the following grants as sys user to facilitate Data Masking functionality for Personally Identifiable Information using Data Redaction:
  • grant EXECUTE ON sys.dbms_redact TO ${OFSLL_USER};
  • grant SELECT ON REDACTION_POLICIES TO ${OFSLL_USER};

  2.4.1 Upgrade to 14.6.0.0.0

  Choose ‘2’ as the installer option at the ‘Selecting the Install Type’ stage, then the script runs the upgrade installer.

  

  During the upgrade process directory objects are to be created and installer prompts for the same as indicated below:

  

  Respond to the prompts and continue. For more details, refer to ‘Installing Upgrade’ section in Database Installation Guide.

  While installing the upgrade, the installer performs the following tasks:

  1. Stop the running services, if any.

     

  2. Install the upgrade

     

  3. Recompile the invalid objects and complete installation.

     

  Post upgrade, install the database object of web services by referring to the instructions detailed in chapter 2 ‘Installing WebServices Database Objects’ of WebServices Installation Guide.

  Grant java file permissions for the directory objects created by executing the script ‘set_java_perms.sql’ available in dba_utils folder. For more information, refer to the process detailed in section 2.5 of Database installation guide.

  Note

  Post upgrade, if there are any invalid java stored procedures noticed, please recompile the respective units manually.