While applying a one-off patch to an OBIEE environment via OPatch it failed with this message:
The response file for OCM configuration does not exist (or) is not readable. Please provide a valid response file.
In this environment we were not using OCM so it hadn’t been configured. It seems OPatch will create a new instance of OCM at %ORACLE_HOME%\ccr but it won’t have the necessary response file.
The fix was simple – run this command:
%ORACLE_HOME%\ccr\bin\emocmrsp.bat -no_banner -output S:\out.rsp
and then apply the patch by referencing the response file created above:
opatch apply -ocmrf S:\out.rsp -jre %ORACLE_HOME%\jdk\jre
Hope this helps someone out there.