Jim Marion is releasing a new book on writing mobile applications with PeopleTools. Fluid and MAP have been out for about a year. If you guessed that a new PeopleTools mobile book would cover these mobile technologies, you guessed correctly. But I saw no reason to stop there. After describing… Read More »PeopleTools Mobile Book
Javier Delgado has a nice overview of building a custom File Upload Listening Connector for the Integration Broker: One of my customers recently had the need of allowing a third party web application to attach files into PeopleSoft. After trying a number of different approaches (the integration had to be… Read More »File Upload Listening Connector
I stumbled across this page about the PeopleSoft IDDA logger in PeopleBooks today. I haven’t seen this tool before, so I wanted to give it a quick test to see how it works. I wanted to know what type of data the IDDA logged and if the data would be… Read More »PeopleSoft Instrumented Development Diagnostic Aid (IDDA)
From Kyle Benson: a servlet filter to remove PS_TOKEN from the response cookie: One option is to simply disable the PS_TOKEN, and therefore prevent this vulnerability altogether! The problem is, PeopleSoft does not give us the option to disable it. I decided to come up with a proof of concept… Read More »PSEatCookies
Downloading new PeopleSoft Images (PI) from Oracle Support every few months can get old. Oracle Support has a WGET script that will download the images for you, but it is written for Unix. After seeing this post from Duncan Davis, I copied his script and made few changes. First, I… Read More »Download PeopleSoft Images on Windows using WGET
TraceMagic is a utility that gives PeopleSoft system administrators, programmers and support engineers the ability to quickly isolate performance bottlenecks in SQL Statements and/or PeopleCode functions. It accomplishes this by turning the text-based, time-ordered tracesql file into a sortable-grid display, allowing the user to quickly locate system performance issues. TraceMagic… Read More »TraceMagic
Last week a presentation at Hack in the Box, “Oracle PeopleSoft Applications are Under Attack”, focused on vulnerabilities in PeopleSoft applications. The presentation showed a number of ways that hackers could get access to a system. While some of the issues need to be fixed by Oracle (like poor encryption),… Read More »Limit PeopleSoft Vulnerabilities