This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about planning PeopleTools and Catch-up projects, BI Publisher security, and how to turn off excessive BI Publisher logging. We also talk about slowly killing COBOL with PeopleSoft (it’s not dead yet) and using multiple Change Assistant installations. Show Notes Collaborate Sessions… Read More »#74 – Killing COBOL
I was looking through my web server logs and noticed that they contained a large amount of 404 errors for /apple-touch-icon*.png and /favicon.ico requests. The /apple-touch-icon*.png requests come from mobile devices (mostly iOS, but also some Android) and all browsers will look for the favicon.ico image file. Here is 24… Read More »PeopleSoft and Touch Icons
This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about Query Manager bugs, changing how they apply CPU Patches, and testing partial database refreshes. Then Dan gives an overview of Oracle Configuration Manager and laments it’s unsupported status. Show Notes Collaborate Sessions Advanced PS Admin – Dan and Kyle Take… Read More »#73 – Oracle Configuration Manager
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. Show Notes Collaborate Sessions Advanced PS Admin – Dan and Kyle Take Control of PeopleSoft… Read More »#72 – Alliance 2017 Recap
About a year ago, I posted a project to check on the status of all our PeopleSoft environments. Our status page has become an important part of monitoring our environments. I check that page every morning and the email alerts let me be proactive in addressing environment issues. We also… Read More »ps-availability Version 2.0
This week we podcast from the Alliance 2017 Conference in Las Vegas. Jason Gilfoil and Eric Bolinger join us to talk about DevOps and Ansible with PeopleSoft. We talk about application orchestration, mixing Ansible and Puppet, customizing the DPK and more. Show Notes Introducing Jason Gilfoil @ 1:30 Introducing Eric… Read More »#71 – DevOps and Ansible w/ Jason Gilfoil and Eric Bolinger
One annoyance with Change Assistant (among a few) is that you have to start it “as Administrator”. If you don’t, you’ll get the message “Another instance of Change Assistant is already running” (even though it’s not). While running a program “as Administrator” is not hard, there is no reason why… Read More »Running Change Assistant without “as Administrator”
This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about Log Correlation fields, resetting SES security filters, and getting started with the ACM. Then they dig into storing attachments and searching attachments with SES and Elasticsearch. Show Notes Log Correlation Fields @ 1:00 8.55.13 JSON Output Change @ 9:00 Trace… Read More »#70 – Attachments