After each production clone of an Oracle instance I have to take care of a few things myself. I change some profile options so that the developers don’t keep tripping on each other.
Forms Colours
I like to keep all the instance form colours different from each other so that I can easily tell them apart. Set the following profile option to any colour of your choice.
Java Color Scheme
This profile option can have multiple values to give different colours to the forms. You can set different colours for all the Oracle instances to tell them apart by their colour.
The different colours are,
| Color |
Example |
| Blaf |
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| Blue |
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| Khaki |
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| Olive |
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| Purple |
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| Red |
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| Teal |
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| Titanium |
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Password profile options
Since production is setup with very high security passwords get locked easily. In a big team of developers someone might enter the old password several times and lock a username which everyone shares. After which it becomes a problem setting a new password as all the old ones cannot be reused. To fix this problem set the following profile option value to NULL.
Signon Password Case
Signon Password Custom
Signon Password Failure Limit
Signon Password Hard to Guess
Signon Password Length
Signon Password No Reuse
Apps Session
I also like to keep a session alive for several hours on a non production instance as I keep getting in and out of the instance. Hence I change the following profile option to 300 for 300 minutes, i.e. 5 hours.
ICX:Session Timeout
Hiding the Diagnostics Menu Item from Help menu.
Setting the following profile options will prevent unauthorized users from viewing or making changes on forms personalizations.
Hide Diagnostics = Yes
To prevent Oracle from asking for the APPS password when we click on Diagnostics submenu under Help, Set the following profile.
Utilities: Diagnostics = Yes
Retrieve the SMTP server host
Programs which send out emails can use the following profile options to get the host name which will is used as the mail server and the server port
OKS: SMTP HOST
OKS: SMTP PORT
Modify the Jinitiator window title
The header is very useful to show messages. For example the instance name, the date when the instance was cloned from production. The text has to be entered in the following profile option
Site Name
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After setting the profile option value, the window title will show the following,
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Diagnostics
To prevent Oracle from asking for the APPS schema password change the value of the profile option name, Utilities:Diagnostics to Yes.
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