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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Context Value Management Failed

Context Value Management Failed

Issue: Incorrect Custom top defied using OAM Manage Custom Parameters

Auto config throws the following error:
File system template : /u01/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/ad/12.0.0/admin/template/adxmlctx.tmp
Checking for customizations to Context template
Customizations found : Yes
Action to be taken : Customizations to be appended to the template

StackTrace:
oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLDOMException: invalid character " in name
at oracle.xml.util.XMLUtil.validateName(XMLUtil.java:447)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLDocument.createElement(XMLDocument.java:706)
at oracle.apps.ad.context.AppsContext.addTmplCust(AppsContext.java:1012)
at oracle.apps.ad.tools.configuration.FileSysDBCtxMerge.updTmplwithDBup(FileSysDBCtxMerge.java:328)
at oracle.apps.ad.tools.configuration.FileSysDBCtxMerge.updateFileSysTemplate(FileSysDBCtxMerge.java:270)
at oracle.apps.ad.tools.configuration.FileSysDBCtxMerge.updateFileSysFiles(FileSysDBCtxMerge.java:209)
at oracle.apps.ad.context.CtxValueMgt.mergeCustomInFiles(CtxValueMgt.java:1790)
at oracle.apps.ad.context.CtxValueMgt.processCtxFile(CtxValueMgt.java:1608)
at oracle.apps.ad.context.CtxValueMgt.main(CtxValueMgt.java:763)

ERROR: Context Value Management Failed.
Terminate.

Solution:
Backup FND_OAM_CONTEXT_CUSTOM and FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES tables

create table FND_OAM_CONTEXT_CUSTOM_bak as select * from FND_OAM_CONTEXT_CUSTOM


create table FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES_bak as select * from FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES

truncate table applsys.FND_OAM_CONTEXT_CUSTOM

truncate table applsys.FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES

Run autoconfig on the db tier.

Run autoconfig on the apps tier

Retest