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December 2009

Part IV : How can we implement ITIL practices for Peoplesoft Applications?

by Vijayakumar Chinnasamy on December 29, 2009 in PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft FieldBook

Part IV : How can we implement ITIL practices for Peoplesoft Applications?

We already started discussing about applying ITIL related concepts into the PeopleSoft infrastructure in our earlier blogs. I took my ITIL Version 3 Foundation Exam last week and passed with 92% score (wow!). I can’t believe it!!! The score was really unexpected but I [...]

Data Mart Consolidation – Data Integration

by Muneeswara C Pandian on December 29, 2009 in Business Intelligence

In the process of Data Mart Consolidation, the second area to focus after Data Model Consolidation is Data Integration (DI) Process. Let us define the following 

Parent Data Mart (PDM) – The Data Mart which is to get extended with the elements from another ( Child ) Data Mart
Child Data Mart (CDM)– The Data Mart which [...]

Living with the Enemy

by Inigo Angelus on December 21, 2009 in Next Gen ERP - SAP

Just imagine two people who hate each other to death, being forced to live in the same house and continue inflicting pain on each other in every possible way. Do you get the picture?  That is what is happening between Oracle and SAP. To Larry Ellison, there is no other enemy more worse than SAP, and for [...]

Ask the Expert 108

by Senthil Kumar Theagarajan on December 21, 2009 in Ask the Expert - Answers

K. S. Rama Naidu Says:
December 17th, 2009 at 5:03 am

I want to display an image as the background for a mail notification, triggered using SendMail through an Application Engine.
The below method works, but with a problem. Any employee who receives this should be granted access to the image folder on the server, which is [...]

Ask the Expert 107

by Senthil Kumar Theagarajan on December 17, 2009 in Ask the Expert - Answers

Question
Mohul , November 25th, 2009 at 5:13 am
How to execute an external software(exe) from peoplesoft.The s/w is intalled on anothe system which is in network (but not on PS server).It is able to run from Command Prompt but not with PS Exec function.

Service Oriented Computing Platform for Shared Services Model

by Pon ArunKumar Ramalingam on December 14, 2009 in Pitstop, Pitstop Oracle, Pitstop Peoplesoft, service oriented architecture

It is the need of the hour for business entities to revisit their growth plans and to perform consistent checks on their performance and operational utilization. One of the driving factor for the transformation of Application Service Providers (http://blogs.hexaware.com/pitstop/application-service-provider-vs-software-as-a-service-asp-vs-saas.html )to Software as a service is the change in the Information Technology Trends.

Part III : How can we implement ITIL practices for Peoplesoft Applications?

by Vijayakumar Chinnasamy on December 8, 2009 in PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft FieldBook

I got little busy recently, so I was unable to continue this topic further. In our earlier two blogs (Part I and Part II), we started talking about some of the ITIL specific details for implementing a Service Desk for Peoplesoft Incident Handling. I read some of the ITIL Version 3 Publications, mainly the Service [...]

Ask the Expert 106

by Senthil Kumar Theagarajan on December 7, 2009 in Ask the Expert - Answers

vinn 
I have a xml file with parent child rows
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1
10
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2
5
The keyNo in the parent is the key field and I put the Field inheritance on the child table. On using file layout and creating AE from it..it doesn’t load the keyNo field data to child table even though the Field inheritance is set. (same field name [...]

Ask the Expert 105

by Senthil Kumar Theagarajan on December 3, 2009 in Ask the Expert - Answers

Booshan 
Can Anyone let me know the equivalent of %UpdateStats in peoplecode. I know %UpdateStats can be used for object type SQL. 
Thank you for posting your Question.
%updateStats is used to update Index table (database table) which stores key row (Like ROWID, INDEXFIELD DATA) information. Once you execute above statement your table & system table are sync. [...]