Needle – Overview of Specifications (SPEC) in Oracle JDE EnterpriseOne
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I’m starting a new category of posts called “Needles”. It is going to have Oracle Support Documents that I have found useful or interesting. Sometimes finding documents that meet that criteria are hard to find among the many documents on My Oracle Support site.
Here is my first one…
Overview of Specifications (SPEC) in EnterpriseOne (Doc ID 1142313.1)
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Have you ever wondered about how all the “specs” were related in JDE? There are at least 34 database tables that contain some sort of data required to manage object specs from creation to deployment not to mention files like DDDICT, DDTEXT & GLBLTBL.
The Overview of Specifications (SPEC) in EnterpriseOne (Doc ID 1142313.1) gives a really good overview of all the parts and pieces involved. In fact, one of the first things they mention is the many names of “Specs”:
Depending on encoding, location and usage, specs may be called any of the following:
| Object | Description |
|---|---|
| Central Object | This object implies it is the central repository of specifications. |
| TAMSpec | This is JDE’s specific SPEC format with file extensions of *.xdb & *.ddb |
| SPEC | The short name for specification |
| Metadata | In this example, other than Business/Control data it may also be called metadata |
| Serialized Object | These objects have been generated into JAVA code that the JAS/HTML Server can interpret and use. |
Probably the most valuable part of the document are the many links to other documents:
- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Documentation – Release 9.2.x
- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Documentation – Release 9.1.x
- Document 626511.1 E1: DD: Deploying Data Dictionary Changes
- Document 944015.1 E1: ENV: Frequently Asked Questions on Caching in EnterpriseOne
- Document 650630.1 E1: FDA: Tables Cached by JDBJ on the Web Client (JDBj Database Caches)
- Document 2164730.1 E1: ENV: How to Manually Delete Global Tables (including Data Dictionary Specs), Runtime Cache, and UBE Overrides
- Document 1090584.1 – E1: BSFN: Frequently Asked Questions on Business Functions and NER Running on JAS
- Document 942143.1 – E1: PKG: How to Find Package Management Guide and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Documentation – Tools Release 8.98 Onwards
What is one of the “needles” within the My Oracle Support haystack that you have found useful?
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