Adpatch Modes and Options

Adpatch Modes and Options:

I have already discussed steps to apply adpatch and brief about maintenance mode in my other post and you can get the same from below.
How to apply adpatch?

http://appsdbaraz.blogspot.com/2013/12/applying-adpatch-or-autopatch-and.html

My main focus on this post would be discussing all the options of adpatch and modes of adpatch.

Modes of adpatch:  

1. Interactive mode
2. Non-Interactive mode
3. Test mode
4. Pre-Install mode

Interactive Mode:  

It is the default mode of adpatch when we don’t use anything. We can apply patch in this mode by going into patch directory and simply type adpatch in command prompt and hit enter.

Non-Interactive:

We can apply in this mode as:

$adpatch Interactive=no

It uses default files to store prompt values and can be applied from patch directory.

Test Mode:

This mode is purposely used to check the what exactly patch is doing and will do everything without actually changing anything.

We can apply patch in this mode as:

$adpatch apply=no

By default apply=yes

PreInstall Mode:

This mode is used to apply adpatch for any upgrade or consolidated update of utilities itself. So, it would be suggested to apply pre-install patch first.

When we apply patch in preinstall mode, it updates all AD utilities befre upgrade or update.

We can apply adpatch in this mode as:

$adpatch preinstall=y

Adpatch Options:

We have multiple adpatch options and based on the requirement we can use specific options. Here, I will try to cover most often used adpatch options.

Noautoconfig:

$adpatch options=noautoconfig

This options is used to skip the autoconfig execution as by default it executes the autoconfig and updates the configuration file if any template file is added. This option is helpful when we apply multiple adpatch and they are not merged.

Nocompiledb(without compiling database):

While we apply adpatch, It may create invalid objects and by default adpatch compiles the invalid objects after patch application. But in case you do not want to compile invalid objects to ensure the minimal autopatch time, you can apply adpatch as below:

$adpatch options=nocompiledb

Nocopyportion:

This option is used to apply adpatch without copying the files present in copy driver. This can be applies as:

$adpatch options=nocopyportion

Nocompilejsp:

Adpatch also compiles the java server pages(JSP) after completion of patch application and can be skipped using the option nocompilejsp as below:

$adpatch options=nocompilejsp

Nodatabaseportion:

Nodatabaseportion option is used to skip the adpatch the activity of database driver. It can be used as:

$adpatch options=nodatabaseportion

Nogenerateportion:

Nogenerateportion option is used to skip the adpatch activity of generate driver portion of the patch  and you can use the option nogenerateportion as below:

$adpatch options=nogenerateportion

Maintenance Mode disabled:

If you want to apply your adpatch without enabling maintenance mode, you can apply using the option as hotpatch as below:

$adpatch options=hotpatch

Nolink:

Nolink option is used to skip the relinking and can be used as:

$adpatch options=nolink

Nogenform:

Nogenform option is used to skip the generate form file and can be used as:

$adpatch options=nogenform

Maintainmrc:

Maintainmrc is used for adpatch to execute the maintain MRC schema as part of patch. By default maintain MRC is done for standard patch and is disabled for documentation and translation patches.

$adpatch options=nomaintainmrc

Noprereq:

This option is used to skip the checking of pre-requisite patches and by default it checks for pre-requisite patch. This option can be used as below:

$adpatch options=noprereq