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Quick tip to save Oracle KB Documents

Usually people ask me about downloaded KB Documents from Oracle Support that are not legible.  The step to save these documents are:   open the document in an new window, then save it and finally remove from the .html file … Continue reading

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Oracle Officially Retires Support for Informix and Sybase database platforms

On Aug 7, 2014.   Oracle officially withdraws support for Informix and Sybase database platforms:  Tech Update – Oracle Modifies Supported Platforms for PeopleSoft (Doc ID 1915316.1). The note indicates that: PeopleSoft 9.1 will be the terminal release for PeopleSoft applications … Continue reading

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PeopleSoft DB Post-restoration activities

There is plenty information on Oracle Support to cloning/restoring PeopleSoft DB, also about cloning PeopleSoft Servers and Domains. But post-restoration activities are personalized for each PeopleSoft client, as different implementations and environments could be implemented.  Anyway I post the general … Continue reading

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Oracle Officially Retires Support for Crystal Reports

On September 18, 2014; Oracle officially withdraws support for Crystal Reports and Business Objects Enterprise (BOE ):  Tech Update – Retires Oracle Support for Crystal Reports ( Doc ID 1927865.1 ) The note indicates that PeopleTools 8.54 is the latest … Continue reading

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Creating TAO tablespace on PSDEFAULT

The PSDEFAULT tablespace is the default for the database owner user “PSADMIN”, when you create a table-record if its definition does not has a custom tablespce then its created on the PSDEFAULT tablespace. When you create the PeopleSoft Database you … Continue reading

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Sizing PeopleSoft Hardware

Customers continuously ask me about Hardware sizing when they implement a new PeopleSoft Application. Usually hardware support provider and seller has the Architecture sizing specification.   They deliver standard forms and questionnaires to calculate the needed requirements. These are some Hardware … Continue reading

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How to compare only PeopleTools objects to Demo environment

An easy way to achieve this: Using Application Designer Search for a project “PPLTOOLS” (PeopleTools 8.52: PeopleSoft Application Designer Developer’s Guide> Planning Records, Control Tables, and TableSets – Table-Based Systems ).   It should contain the complete list of PeopleTools Objects. There … Continue reading

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PeopleSoft and HyperThreading

Recently a new discussion about this topic was created on Oracle Community forum.  This is the experience that I have with PeopleSoft on HT Processors: 1. Administration: I found that enabling or disabling HT have some repercussions on the platform … Continue reading

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Timeout on the PSAPPSERV for an integration Domain

Bad written integration WebServices can block all browsing for a PeopleSoft Application on a bad configured Application Server. When an Pub/Sub Application server is configured with a timeout equal to zero for the PSAPPSERV service, it can be blocked and … Continue reading

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