How to make an Oracle Report Type concurrent program produce an excel friendly output?

Comma can be concatenated between the column values, however a better option is to create tab delimited file, as it takes care of commas within the string.

For this, use SQL similar to below in the report
select 'a' || chr(9) || 'b' from dual;

Can you do fnd_request.submit_request from SQL Plus/Toad in Oracle?

You will need to initialize the global variables first using

fnd_global.apps_initialize(user_id => :user_id,
resp_id => :resp_id,
resp_appl_id => :resp_appl_id,
security_id => :security_id,
server_id => :server_id);

By doing the above, your global variables upon which Concurrent Managers depend upon will be populated. This will be equivalent to logging into Oracle Apps and submitting the concurrent request from a responsibility.

How do you link a Host type concurrent program to Concurrent Manager?

Assuming your executable script is LOADPO.prog, then use the commands below
cd $XXPO_TOP/bin
ln -s $FND_TOP/bin/fndcpesr $XXPO_TOP/bin/LOADPO

How to make concurrent program end with warning?

If the concurrent program is of type PL/SQL, you can assign a value of 1 to the retcode OUT Parameter.

For a Java Concurrent program, use the code similar to below
ReqCompletion lRC;
//get handle on request completion object for reporting status
lRC = pCpContext.getReqCompletion();
lRC.setCompletion(ReqCompletion.WARNING, "WARNING");

In self service, you wish to change the background color and the foreground text of the OA Framework screens to meet your corporate standards. How will you do it?

You will need to do the below steps
Go to Mid Tier, and open $OA_HTML/cabo/styles/custom.xss
Enter below text( change colours as needed)


cd $OA_HTML/cabo/styles/cache
Take a backup of all the css files.
Delete all the files of following pattern oracle-desktop*.css
The idea here is to delete the cache. Next time when you logon to Oracle Apps Self Service, the Framework will rebuild the css file if found missing for your browser.

In OA Framework Self-Service screen, you wish to disable a tab. How will you do it?

Generally speaking, the tabs on a OA Framework page are nothing but the SubMenus. By entering menu exclusion against the responsibility, you can remove the tab from self service page.

Which table is used to provide drill down from Oracle GL into sub-ledger

GL_IMPORT_REFERENCES column GL_SL_LINK_ID