The RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent

The RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent is used to initiate Oracle E-Business Suite (OEBS) programs directly from the Automation Engine and manage programs launched from Concurrent Manager. An Agent utility creates the Automation Engine Jobs for existing OEBS programs.

Oracle's Concurrent Manager is very good at running single Oracle E-Business Suite programs, but is limited when trying to create complex multi-program Workflows with dependencies. The RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent easily handles complex Workflows with dependencies, passes dynamic parameters, and automates output management. The RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent combines the best of both Concurrent Manager and the Automation Engine into a unified single point of control.

Using the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent, you can:

  • Initiate OEBS programs directly from the Automation Engine user interface using the full range of Automation Engine application management features.
  • Create Automation Engine Jobs for existing OEBS programs.
  • Capture and manage, through the user interface, user-definable sets of OEBS programs initiated from Concurrent Manager.

These capabilities are described below.

Initiating OEBS Programs from the Automic Web Interface

To create complex multi-program Workflows with dependencies, you can build your Workflow objects in the Automic Web Interface. The Automation Engine can manage and launch Jobs in Concurrent Manager.

To accomplish this in the Automation Engine user interface, you create Jobs to run OEBS programs through Concurrent Manager. These Jobs can be added to a Workflow to take advantage of the full range of Automation Engine automation features. Also, by initiating OEBS programs from the Automic Web Interface, you can take advantage of Job monitoring, dynamic parameter passing, and output distribution. You also can open the program output and logs from the Automic Web Interface.

Creating Jobs for OEBS Programs

The RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent includes a utility that automatically creates Automation Engine Jobs from your existing OEBS programs. This utility allows you to choose an Application Short Name, then reads the necessary information about each program from the OEBS tables, and builds the Automation Engine Jobs for each program.

Creating a Workflow for an OEBS Request Set

The RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent includes a utility to create an Automation Engine Workflow from an existing OEBS request set. If Jobs do not already exist for the programs within the selected request set, based on the naming convention specified in the New Job Name field, the Agent will automatically create them as well.

Capturing and Managing OEBS Programs

The RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent can capture and manage OEBS programs initiated directly from Concurrent Manager. When the specified OEBS programs are initiated by whatever mechanism you normally use to get them into Concurrent Manager (e.g. a Foundation screen, CONCSUB command, or Windows application), the sets of programs are monitored through the Automation Engine user interface. You can then use all the featured of the Automation Engine to control the Jobs running on the system.