Apps DBA - Tracing

Oracle Apps DBA - Enable Trace Application level

1. How do you enable/disable a trace to a Oracle Application Forms Session?

solution:

1. Connection to Oracle Applications
2. Navigate to the particular form, which you want trace to be enabled
3. Goto Menu Help->Diagnostics->Trace->Regular Trace and select it
4. It will ask you for Apps Password. Provide it
5. Then it will show the file path where trace is going to be generated
6. Ask developer to perform their transactions, once they are done disable the trace
7. Goto to that location to get the trace file
8. Get the trace out put file using tkprof with different options

To disable Trace Session

Goto Menu Help-> Diagnostics->Trace->No Trace

2. How do you enable/disable a trace to a Oracle Application Forms Session? (Other Way)

Solution:

1. Get the serial #, sid of particular form session by navigating Help->about Oracle applicatins
2. Connect to database using sqlplus with relavant user
3. execute dbms_system.set_sql_trace_in_session(2122,332,TRUE);
4. Select spid from v$process where addr=(select paddr from v$session where sid=2122);
5. You will get spid like 4515 for above statement
6. Goto udump location and type ls -ltr *4515* you will get trace file

To disable Trace Session

1. execute dbms_system.set_sql_trace_in_session(2122,332,FALSE);

3. How do you enable/disable a trace to a Concurrent Program?

Solution:

1. Connect to Oracle Applications
2. Navigate to System Administrator->Concurrent->Program->Define
3. Query the concurrent program on which you want to enable trace.
4. Check the enable trace check box bottom of the screen, Save it.
5. Ask the developer to submit the request, Once the request got submitted and completed normal.
6. Get the spid as select oracle_process_id from apps.fnd_concurrent_requests where request_id=456624.
7. You will get a spid like 12340.
8. Goto Udump and ls -ltr *12344*.
9 . You will get trace file.