After receiving several questions about the new Oracle 11 protocol on LoadRunner and the version 12 of the E-Business suite, I thought it would interesting to give a few tips about these technologies too.

Oracle Web Applications 11i is the new protocol used by the newer LoadRunner versions to script the E-Business suite. The advantage of it is that you can use a single protocol to script the application instead of using the multi-protocol approach. This can be useful if your license is limited or you don’t want to spend more money on protocols that you don’t have. Another advantage is that this protocol can be used to script the newer version of the E-Business suite, 12.

Tip 1: Correlating the Login

After recording your basic script, the first thing you will have to correlate on the Login is the ICX ticket.

In order to do do this, you will have to add this command right before clicking on the functionality link:

web_reg_save_param("ICX",
"LB=var xgv15         \= \"",
"RB=\"\n",
"Search=Body",
LAST);

Eg.: If you accessing the “Submit Processes and Reports” functionality for example, you will have to add this code right before the “web_text_link(“Submit Processes and Reports”…” line.

This parameter will be used later on the “nca_connect_server” and “frmservlet” requests. On both requests, look for the “icx_ticket=” part of the URL and replace the code to your parameter ({ICX})

You will also need to correlate another session parameter that sometimes is not correlated automatically and sometimes is wrongly correlated when you’re recording the script.

Look for the “web_url(“frmservlet”…” line mentioned above and add the following block BEFORE it:

web_reg_save_param("Jsession",
"LB=/forms/lservlet;jsessionid\=",
"RB=",
"Search=Noresource",
LAST);

This will create the “Jsession” parameter that will be used on another call before the “nca_connect_server” call.

Look for a line that starts with “web_url(“lservlet;jsessionid=” and replace on the URL parameter the large string that comes after “/lservlet;jsessionid=” with your parameter. Remember, do not replace the large session string on the title (first parameter), but on the URL parameter. Eg.:

web_url("lservlet;jsessionid=5ce9bad22e40aa7f7f9c4cff2549fc09a968476354cb39d14a0bd8636339170b.e38NaN0ObNiKai0LbNiSchaRaNaMe0",
"URL=http://<you_application_server>/forms/lservlet;jsessionid={Jsession}?ifcmd=getinfo&ifhost=XXX&ifip=10.10.10.10",

To summarize things you will have to do 5 things.

1. Capture the ICX paramter
2. Replace the ICX parameter on the frmservlet call
3. Replace the ICX parameter on the nca_connect_server request
4. Capture the Jsession paramter
5. Replace the Jsession parameter on the lservlet;jsessionid= call

This should also work if you’re scripting against an Oracle 11 application with the new LoadRunner protocol.

And remember, this has worked for me, but may not work for you depending on how your application was deployed and configured.

Tip 2: Recording Sessions with HTTPS (SSL)

Your application may be configured to use SSL (HTTPS connections). If this is your case, you probably won’t be able to record your scripts directly since LoadRunner is not able to identify which server you’re connecting to.

To solve this issue you will have to manually add your application server address and port before recording.

Click on the “Options” button on the lower left corner of the recording window (before you start recording).

Select “Network > Port Mapping” on the left side pane and click on the “New Entry” button. This screen should be presented:

Target Server and Port are respectively your application server address and port. Service you can leave as “Auto Detect”. Record Type you can leave as “Proxy”. Set Connection type to “Auto”.

This will enable the SSL Versions and SSL Cyphers fields. With this fields you will have to check with your application administrator or spend some time “guessing” the correct configuration.

Click on Update and start recording the script. If everything was set correctly, LoadRunner should be recording your actions inside the application as usual.