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1. What is the AD Splicer used for ?

AD Splicer is an AD utility which allows to register an Oracle a new product (off-cycle product) into a base release of Oracle Applications. After this step, the new Oracle product will be recognize as a valid Oracle Application product.

AD Splicer register the new product and creates a new environment setup. 

AD Splicer cannot be used for custom or non-Oracle products. 

AD Splicer must be run on each APPL_TOP. 

2. AD Splicer Control Files

Off-cycle products are generally released as patches. These patches contains:

• one product configuration file (newprods.txt)  (must be modified)

• 2 product definition files (mustn't be modified):

                1) <NEW_PROD_ALIAS>prod.txt : contains the definition of the new product

                2) <NEW_PROD_ALIAS>terr.txt : contains the language information for the new product

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AD Splicer is a utility used to add an off-cycle product into Oracle Applications.

Products which have been released between the base releases of 11i are referred to an off-cycle product. Once AD Splicer is used to splice these off-cycle products into Oracle Applications they are recognized by other AD utilities like AD Patch as a valid Oracle Applications product for a given release.

In a multi node environment adsplicer should be used on all the APPL_TOPs.It is recommended to run AD Splice on the Admin node first.

Before using AD Splice you are required to add the new tablespace for the new products that are going to be added. In case you have migrated to the Oracle Applications new tablespace model you would require to create a new tablespace APPS_TS_TOOLs manually before using AD Splicer.

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