Install Oracle Fusion Middleware on Oracle 12C Container database

How to install FMW on 12c -

1. Limitation - Cannot run RCU directly on CDB database, may receive below error and the RCU creation will fail with the below error in rcu log: 

ORA-65096 invalid common user or role name with RCU

File:/…/…/rcuHome/rcu/integration/../mds_user.sql

Cause - cannot Run RCU on CDB database directly. Create PDB for running Fusion Middleware separately.

Solution -Create separate PDB for FMW install as shown below:

    CON_ID       DBID    CON_UID GUID

---------- ---------- ---------- --------------------------------

NAME                           OPEN_MODE  RES

------------------------------ ---------- ---

OPEN_TIME

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

CREATE_SCN TOTAL_SIZE

---------- ----------

         3 3925402302 3925402302 0815A8F30BE5186FE0538C02A8C0712E

PDB01                          MOUNTED

   1910872          0

SQL> alter pluggable database PDB01 open read write;

Pluggable database altered.

SQL> SELECT name, open_mode FROM v$pdbs;

NAME                           OPEN_MODE

------------------------------ ----------

PDB$SEED                       READ ONLY

PDB01                          READ WRITE

Issue 2 - 

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  Error:  XATRANS Views are not installed on this Database. This is required by the OIM Schema

  Action: Install view XAVIEWS as SYS user on this Database.

          Refer to the Oracle Database Release Documentation for installation details.

Solution - Fix the issue by installing the package on the PDB database as shown below - 

[oracle@prac12c admin]$ sqlplus /nolog

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.1.0 Production on Sun Dec 7 21:10:57 2014

Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

SQL> connect SYS@PDB01 as sysdba

Enter password: 

Connected.

SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/xaview.sql

DROP VIEW d$xatrans$

*

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

DROP VIEW d$pending_xatrans$

*

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

View created.

Synonym created.

View created.

Synonym created.

Issue 3 -

The 'Secure Files' option is not set in the target database.  Please set the db_securefile parmater to 'PERMITTED' before continuing.

Solution -

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE

------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------

db_securefile                        string      PREFERRED

SQL> alter system set db_securefile=PERMITTED scope=BOTH;

System altered.

SQL> sho parameter db_securefile

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE

------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------

db_securefile                        string      PERMITTED