#74 – Killing COBOL

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
  • Advanced PS Admin – Dan and Kyle
  • Take Control of PeopleSoft Logs with Elasticsearch – Dan
• New Elastic Stack 5.2 features @ 2:00
• Tabs v. Spaces – Language Analysis @ 3:00
• JQ – command line JSON parser @ 5:30
  • choco install jq
• ps-availability 2.0 @ 7:30
• SQL Server 2016 is Certified @ 13:30
• PT 8.55.14 DPK – more recent binaries @ 15:30
  • and psft_cm.yaml
• Killing COBOLs off slowly @ 19:30
  • Idea – Replace Payroll COBOL with App Engine
• COBOL DPK Follow-up @ 24:00
• BI Pub Security @ 26:15
• BI Publisher Logging @ 29:15
• Patch for BI Pub/Query Manager output @ 33:00
• OS Update from Kyle @ 34:45
  • Oracle Linux or RedHat?
• Planning PeopleTools and Catch-up Projects 43:00
• Kicking off a Catch-up Project @ 54:00
• Multiple Change Assistant Installations @ 57:30