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Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part VI

Defining Your Test Strategy Although, you will not be performing the testing until a later time in your upgrade project, you will need to define the testing strategy before the project begins or soon after. Your testing strategy will provide the basis for understanding how you will test your newly upgraded applications. There are several points within the technical upgrade process where your developers will unit test programs, but the majority of testing will occur after your application… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 16, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part V

This is the fifth in a series of articles: Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro. So far, we have discussed the various requirements and information gathering stages, we have also discussed the Business Fit Gap Analysis of our current version of the application and the new release of the application. Now we will discuss Planning, Planning, and Planning. Did I mention Planning? Now that you have gathered this enormous amount of information and performed your business fit gap analysis, you should be kn… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 11, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part IV

This is the fourth in a series of articles: Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro. So far, we have discussed the various requirements and information gathering stages. Here is where we start to roll up are sleeves and do some analysis against our current version of the application and the new release of the application. This is called a Business Fit Gap Analysis. Got Customizations? Well if you have a lot of customizations and you are embarking upon an upgrade from an earlier release, this tas… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 8, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

soft copy of record layout

is there a way to produce a file of the record definitions, similar what is displayed in application designer Continue

Added by Bob Pacca on June 4, 2009 at 11:31am — No Comments

Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part III

This is the third in a series of articles: Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro. So far, I have discussed acquiring pertinent upgrade information, and training your staff. Now, I would like to discuss your Business Requirements and Critical Success Factors. According to our PeopleSoft Pros Poll, many companies have not started or are still in the planning stages of their upgrade. Reading these articles will help you along your journey. Do you know what the Critical Success Factors (CSF) are for your… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 4, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro - Part II

This is the second in a series of articles: Upgrading Like a PeopleSoft Pro. In our previous post, I discussed the first and one of the most important steps: "Acquire all pertinent upgrade information and materials" Now, I would like to make mention of another crucial step in the upgrade process. This step has to deal with Training Your Team. Your PeopleSoft upgrade project team members will require training at one level or another. Furthermore, these team members are the key to a fast and smoo… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on June 1, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

Upgrading PeopleSoft like a Pro

A PeopleSoft upgrade is no minor feat. There is a lot of planning and decision making that must go into the upgrade process. Does my current hardware meet the minimum requirements? Do I need to upgrade my O/S? How about my Database Software? Also, there are many other factors to consider like what people will be involved? What testing strategy will be used? What kind of training is needed and how many people need to go? The bottom line is that planning is the essential Key to a successful upgrad… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on May 28, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments

Peopletools Tables used for Projects and Compare Reports

I am trying to match new patch objects to objects in previous projects that we have modified. This will allow me to identify our work units that are effected. Our work Unit relates to the menu item it affects. I also would like to find out if the compare reports are stored in tables so that I can only find the objects we have modified as well. Anyone help. Continue

Added by Kevin Spletter on May 21, 2009 at 9:15pm — 2 Comments

SQR Processes Error

PeopleTools 8 - PSSQR Copyright (c) 1988-2003 PeopleSoft, Inc. All Rights Reserved Error! SQR Failed To Process *** *** System Error Code 64 ****** PS_StartProc: CreateProcess failed: cmd = K:\bin\sqr\MSS\binw\sqrw cwd = D:\pt84\appserv\prcs\FSC84PRD *** The Crystal reports are still running okay. We have stopped and restarted both the appl and process schedulers and we still are getting the error on ALL SQR processes. Continue

Added by Pamela Broussard on May 19, 2009 at 10:12am — No Comments

Peoplesoft Treasury functional implementation

I manage a treasury departement in french military equipement company. During two years, I was backup product lead on Peoplesoft Treasury. I'm european expert and I implement treasury on several countries (France, Belgium, Neederlands, UK, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Austria, USA, Singapor, Honk Kong and Australia). For each country, I know the banking culture and treasury practise. Peoplesoft Treasury Peoplesoft treasury manage 3 modules : * Module 1 - CM : Cash managemen… Continue

Added by de lassence on April 30, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

XML Publisher in PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.48 and above

With the release of PeopleTools 8.48, Oracle added several new enhancements and has delivered and certified the integration of the Fusion Middleware Product Suite with Tools 8.48. This gives you additional technology options and enhancements that basically provide a bridge to Oracle's future application architecture. Oracle's future architecture is of course, based on the Service Oriented Architecture of its Fusion technology. Additionally, PeopleTools 8.48 is now capable of supporting 64-bit pr… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on March 26, 2009 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Big Win for Functional Teams with PeopleSoft's Application Workflow Engine (AWE) in 9.0

If you or your Functional HR Team worked with any of the PeopleSoft eApplications such as ePerformance, eCompensation, eProfile, or eDevelopment, then you know the frustration of making changes or customizations to the workflow. Well, in HCM 9.0 all of that just became easier. PeopleSoft introduced the Approval Workflow Engine (AWE) in HCM version 9.0. It was partially there in version 8.9, however, it was not accessible via a menu. It was first created within SCM and eProcurement but later ada… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on March 26, 2009 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

PeopleSoft as a Password Authentication "Ticket" Server

My post Generating an AuthToken for SwitchUser demonstrates how to acquire and expire PeopleSoft authentication tokens. Using this approach, you could hook any custom application into the PeopleSoft security model, allowing PeopleSoft to manage security for many of your custom enterprise applications. Continuous token (ticket) validation could be implemented through a very simple web service that calls… Continue

Added by Jim Marion on March 23, 2009 at 11:58pm — No Comments

GZip Compress Static Files

My PeopleSoft web server contains several JavaScript and CSS files that I embed in PeopleSoft pages using the various techniques described in this blog. Unlike files served by the PeopleSoft application, the web server does not GZip compress these static text files. Until recently, I used the GZip ServletFilter described by Jayson Falkner in his post Two Servlet Filters Every Web Application Should Have. But GZipping eve

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Added by Jim Marion on March 23, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Generating an AuthToken for SwitchUser

As the name implies, the PeopleCode SwitchUser function allows developers to switch the logged in Operator ID from one user to another. For security reasons, you can only switch identities if you either have another user's operator ID and password or another user's valid authentication token (AuthToken). While I'm sure there are numerous uses for this function, here are my top two:

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Added by Jim Marion on March 23, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Test Driven Development for PeopleSoft

The PeopleTools blogging team just released an unsupported tool for test driven PeopleCode development: PSUnit. The blog post contains the PSUnit source code and a document that describes how to use PSUnit to test drive PeopleCode development. If you are familiar with one of the xUnit frameworks (jUnit, nUnit,… Continue

Added by Jim Marion on March 21, 2009 at 1:21pm — No Comments

PeopleTools 8.5

After having heard about the upcoming release of PeopleTools 8.5 it is hard to not be a little excited. We here at HyperGen have been making customizations that add the "AJAX" / "WEB 2.0" look and feel to PeopleSoft. I am interested in what everyone else expects from the up coming release and if they are as excited as I am. Thank you, Scott Eubank Hypergen Inc Continue

Added by Scott Eubank on March 20, 2009 at 9:10am — No Comments

PeopleSoft Consultant Now Available for Hire - Where to start?

I recently finished a very long term PeopleSoft consulting contract and now I am in search of my next one. I haven't had to look for a PeopleSoft contract in a long time, so this is like starting new for me. I am amazed at how few PeopleSoft openings are out there. Although, there seems to be more this month than the past 3 months. If your company needs a highly skilled PeopleSoft consultant, please feel free to contact me. So, how does one go about finding a good PeopleSoft contract? Well fir… Continue

Added by Derek Tomei on March 19, 2009 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Db2 or Oracle??

Hello All, My company is thinking of buying Peoplesoft application. Wanted to get everybodies input on which database is beter...Oracle or DB2.... in performance, administration, functionality, complexity of installation etc etc. Thanks, Ak Continue

Added by ali on March 18, 2009 at 12:05pm — 1 Comment

Tech notebook: Leaks at Yahoo?

For more than a year, Yahoo's efforts to remain an independent company have been chronicled like a daily soap opera by the business press. This week's story line: Did Yahoo leak confidential information about a former employee to a San Francisco reporter? The story centers on Eulonda Skyles, an African-American attorney who has filed a discrimination complaint against Yahoo with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Skyles said she had been talki… Continue

Added by Enrique Meadow on February 20, 2009 at 12:47am — No Comments

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