This week Mark Hoernemann joins us to talk about platform certifications with PeopleTools. Mark explains how the PeopleTools team determines what platforms to support and how the support policies work. Then Mark gives us more details on the PeopleSoft Cloud Manager. Show Notes Bringing App Engine to an SQR Discussion… Read More »#78 – Cloud Manager and Certifications w/ Mark Hoernemann
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
This week on the podcast, Dan tries a different Remote Desktop tool, using RSS feeds to monitor PeopleSoft data and comparing SQL Explain Plans with SQL Developer. Then Kyle gives a great overview of the PeopleSoft Test Framework and what you need to know before using it. Show Notes mRemoteNG… Read More »#60 – PeopleSoft Test Framework 101
This week Dan talks about his 8.55 Go-Live weekend, simplifying patch download with getMOSPatch, and using Kyle’s Maintenance Backdoor. Then Kyle and Dan discuss strategies and tips to make Go-Live weekends successful. We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration. If you have comments,… Read More »#45 – Go-Live Weekends
This week Kyle and Dan discuss the Diagnostic Plugin Framework, sourcing environment variables for PeopleTools, Kyle’s great new psadmin-plus project. Also, we find out who it a c:\temp person and who is a Desktop person. We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration. If… Read More »#34 – psadmin-plus
The delivered COBOL compile scripts support compiling each HOME individually, but we can’t combine homes into a single CBLBINA folder. Additionally, with PeopleTools 8.55 dropping support for PS_CUST_APP_HOME, we are using a custom PS_APP_PATCH_HOME folder in the layer between PS_CUST_HOME and PS_APP_HOME. To learn about PS_APP_PATCH_HOME, check out this video… Read More »PS_APP_PATCH_HOME and Custom COBOL Compile
Kyle and Dan continue the discussion of DPK-based PeopleSoft Images. Dan shares a few frustrations with the new PI’s, we both learn a new way to generate trace files, and brainstorm how to manage the DPK’s YAML files. We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on… Read More »#17 – PI’s and DPK’s (Part 2)
This week on The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast we talk about documentation, how we like to document, what has worked for us and some of our documentation pet peeves. We also share all of our favorite tools that make the PS Admin job easier. This topic was so much fun, we had to… Read More »#9 – Tools and Documentation Part 1
Time for everyone’s favorite language: COBOL! Well, it’s not my favorite, and probably not your favorite, but it is important to PeopleSoft. Many core programs in HR use COBOL and will most likely stay COBOL for a while. Those COBOL programs are stable, fast, and once you compile you rarely… Read More »All About COBOL