Wednesday, June 24, 2009

HOW TO UNINSTALL A PRODUCT THAT IS NOT BEING USED?

How to de-install / make inactive certain applications?
Certain modules (e.g. PO, AP, GL, PER) are marked as installed or shared in License Manager or the output of $AD_TOP/sql/adutconf.sql. How can this status be changed so the modules are no longer installed in anyway.
SolutionThere is no supported way of achieving this. Once an application is installed, or shared installed, this is a permanentstate.Oracle Applications products are tightly integrated and share common code and data model in order to provide a seamless and consistent look-and-feel. If a product has been implemented, setup data, configuration data, transaction data, and patches may all rely upon specific choices that have been made previously and changing the license status will potentially create data corruption. This is not a simple matter of updating a flag in a table.Imagine a legal system where decisions are made based upon precedent. You cannot revise history and change the precedent without adversely impacting all decisions related to the precedent.
Even if the customer has no longer purchased a license to use the product, because the product is fully licensed, all the pre- and post-upgrade steps for that product must be followed and all the files needed by the product will continue to be generated. However there may be a feature in This option is not available in R11 and R12.

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