If you’re familiar with PeopleTools 8.55 , then you must have heard about DPKs. DPK are the deployment kits which automates the installation and configuration of PS environment. DPK uses Puppet and Hiera for performing these automation and configuration tasks. What is Puppet? Puppet is an open source configuration management tool and produced by Puppet […]
Continue readingIn 2015 Oracle Open World, Oracle announced that a new search engine for PeopleTools 8.56 – Elastic Search. This year, in 2016 Oracle Open World – they announced that Elastic Search will also become available in upcoming PeopleTools 8.55 Patch. The way things are, hopefully it would be available in PeopleTools 8.55 Patch 11. Oracle […]
Continue readingWhat are Journal Entries? Any financial transactions in PeopleSoft General Ledger are recorded in the form of Journal Entries. They have the following features: Consist of header and lines Follow double entry system i.e. they have debits and credits Journals must be balanced i.e. debit equal to credit Journal header is saved in Jrnl_Header table Journal lines […]
Continue readingYou need the Micro Focus software to compile and run Cobol programs. Micro Focus compiler for Cobol has two versions – Net Express for Windows and Server Express for Unix/Linux. In this article, we will discuss Micro Focus for Windows. For PeopleTools 8.55, the supported version for Windows is Micro Focus Net Express 5.1 Wrap […]
Continue readingWith release of PeopleTools 8.55, Oracle introduced the concept of DPK i.e. Deployment Kits. Before we discuss about DPKs, we need to learn about how PeopleSoft system works. You might already know that PeopleSoft architecture comprises of different layers i.e. Database Server, Application Server, Web Server and Process Scheduler. When you deploy a PS environment, […]
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