This week on the podcast, Dan shares some of his favorite musicians live virtual shows, Kyle discusses the difference between Fluid Homepages and Dashboards, and they also discuss the extended 8.56 support window.
This week on the podcast, Dan shares a VisualStudio Code plugin that edits files using SSHFS and some lessons learned from a recent PeopleTools 8.56 upgrade. Dan and Kyle also talk about using Terraform to build and create servers on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.
This week on the podcast Kyle and Dan discuss different strategies for managing DPK archive files. Dan also discovers a few small improvements in the 8.56 PS_HOME and where to find the mythical Application DPK files.
This week on the podcast, Kyle shares from follow-up on URLs and Metadata, Dan discusses Single Signon changes with PeopleTools 8.56, and Dan explains the concept EFFDT to an enterprise Java developer.
Starting in Change Assistant 8.56, a new file is used to track the installations of Change Assistant, C:\Windows\PeoplesoftCA.txt. While Change Assistant 8.55 let us install multiple versions at the same time, 8.56 now tracks which your Change Assistant installations.
C:\Windows\PeoplesoftCA.txt
1 8.56.05 c:\psft\ca\hr025-8.56.05
2 8.56.05 c:\psft\ca\hrtst-8.56.05
The Change Assistant installer scripts set the path for the file. On Windows, is uses the WINDIR environment variable and on Linux it generates a temporary folder.
if isWin() :
winpath = os.environ['WINDIR']
else :
winpath = tempfile.gettempdir()
The C:\Windows location doens’t seem like the best place to store this file though. C:\Windows is for Windows files, not for vendor configuration. I’d like to see this stored in a better location, like C:\ProgramData\Peoplesoft.
If you run into errors when installing Change Assistant, especially in early releases of 8.56, try deleting the PeoplesoftCA.txt file. Earlier versions of Change Assistant used this format of the file (this is from Change Assistant 8.56.03):
INSTALL_PATH=c:\psft\ca\hr024-8.56.03
There are multiple ways to install Change Assistant with 8.56.
tools_client\setupPTClient.bat on the PeopleSoft Imagesetup.bat file under PS_HOME\setup\PsCASilent Install option:
.\silentInstall.bat c:\psft\ca\hr025-8.56.05 NEW NOBACKUP
.\silentInstall.bat c:\psft\ca\hcmpum UPGRADE NOBACKUP
A few changes to the installation process:
PeoplesoftCA.txt has a newer version in it.setup\PsCA\installCA.exe, but in the latest 8.56.05 client tools that file does not exist. setup.bat script to perform the installation. setup.sh script for Change Assistant on Linux. PeopleTools 8.56 has been released. This week on the podcast we talk about new features in 8.56 that we are excited about and dive into some of the changes to Deployment Packages.
This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle review some of the highlights from the Alliance conference. Then, they talk about about the history of PTF, hidden gems in PeopleTools, upcoming 8.56 changes and more.
This week on the podcast Kyle and Dan start deploying Elasticsearch, monitoring failed logins, and working with YAML files. They also discuss watching log files and recap a PeopleTools 8.56 preview webinar.
PS_EOPM_REF* Views This week on the podcast, Charlie Sinks joins us to talk about everything we learned at the Upper Midwest Regional User Group meeting. We talk about PeopleTools 8.56, changes in Lifecycle Management, Fluid adoption, Elasticsearch, Dan’s DPK session, and much more.
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about announcements from Oracle Open World. We hit the highlights for PeopleSoft Administrators and grade our predictions from last week. Dan also shares why Windows 95 was connecting to PeopleTools 8.55 environments.
We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration. If you have comments, feedback, or topics you’d like us to talk about, we want to hear from you! You can email us at podcast@psadmin.io, tweet us at @psa_io, or use the Twitter hashtag #psadminpodcast.
You can listen to the podcast here on psadmin.io or subscribe with your favorite podcast player using the URL below, or subscribe in iTunes.
Thanks to Graham Smith and Javier Delgado for their write-ups and everyone on Twitter who kept us up-to-date.