Oracle EBS (Beta) connection

Introduction

An Oracle EBS (Beta) connection, created using the Oracle EBS (Beta) connector, establishes access to Oracle EBS. Once a connection is configured, you can create instances of Oracle EBS (Beta) activities associated with that connection to be used either as sources (to provide data in an operation) or as targets (to consume data in an operation).

Create or edit an Oracle EBS (Beta) connection

A new Oracle EBS (Beta) connection is created using the Oracle EBS (Beta) connector from one of these locations:

• The design component palette's Project endpoints and connectors tab (see Design component palette).
• The Global Endpoints page (see Create a global endpoint in Global Endpoints).

An existing Oracle EBS (Beta) connection can be edited from these locations:

• The design component palette's Project endpoints and connectors tab (see Design Component Palette).
• The project pane's Components tab (see Component actions menu in Project pane Components tab).
• The Global Endpoints page (see Edit a global endpoint in Global Endpoints).

Configure an Oracle EBS (Beta) connection

Each user interface element of the Oracle EBS (Beta) connection configuration screen is described below.

• Connection name: Enter a name to use to identify the connection. The name must be unique for each Oracle EBS (Beta) connection and must not contain forward slashes / or colons :. This name is also used to identify the Oracle EBS (Beta) endpoint, which refers to both a specific connection and its activities.

  • Server: Enter the fully qualified domain name of the Oracle EBS instance. For example, oracledb.example.com.

  • Username: Enter the application user username to connect to the Oracle EBS instance specified for Server. The application user must have the required privileges to view and execute the procedures and functions intended for your use case.

  • Password: Enter the password associated with the supplied username.

  • Service: Enter the Oracle System Identifier (SID) of the Oracle EBS database to connect to. The SID of the default Oracle EBS database is orcl.

  • Optional settings: Click to expand additional optional settings:

    • Quote identifiers for Oracle EBS: Select this option to use double quotes (") around Oracle EBS database identifiers to preserve their case. When unselected, identifiers are interpreted as uppercase.

    • Port: Enter the port to connect to the Oracle EBS instance specified for Server. By default, Oracle EBS uses port 1521 for database services.

• Test: Click to verify the connection using the specified configuration. When the connection is tested, the latest version of the connector is downloaded by the agent(s) in the agent group associated with the current environment. This connector supports suspending the download of the latest connector version by using the Disable Auto Connector Update organization policy.

• Save Changes: Click to save and close the connection configuration.

• Discard Changes: After making changes to a new or existing configuration, click to close the configuration without saving. A message asks you to confirm that you want to discard changes.

• Delete: After opening an existing connection configuration, click to permanently delete the connection from the project and close the configuration (see Component dependencies, deletion, and removal). A message asks you to confirm that you want to delete the connection.

Next steps

After an Oracle EBS (Beta) connection has been created, you place an activity type on the design canvas to create activity instances to be used either as sources (to provide data in an operation) or as targets (to consume data in an operation).

Menu actions for a connection and its activity types are accessible from the project pane and design component palette. For details, see Actions menus in Connector Basics.

These activity types are available:

• Execute Procedure: Executes a procedure in an Oracle EBS database and is intended to be used as a target in an operation.

• Execute Function: Executes a function in an Oracle EBS database and is intended to be used as a target in an operation.