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At times, Application Engines can get really big and searching for a Section within a complex App Engine can be a quite daunting. That said, PeopleSoft provides a feature to locate Sections within an App Engine with ease. Read on to figure out.

As of PeopleTools 8.52 it is possible to use REST services for POST/GET functionality. However what do you do if you are on an older PeopleTools version, but still need to make a HTTP POST and then GET the response?

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Organizations put a lot of efforts in choosing the people who can award compensation to their workforce. They may even decide to have a different set of people for different type of compensations awards (i.e. Salary allocation or Stock Grant) as per their business needs. But the question is (more...)

I have an experimental Oracle Linux VM that I am playing with, and I am going to want to try to run some desktop applications inside the image.  So, I want to enable the X Window Graphical Environment.

Here’s the command to install it all:

yum groupinstall “X Window System” (more...)

Oracle EBusiness Suite is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive suite of ERP package in the world. With growing demand to manage the complexity of data, “Oracle E-Business Suite” is one of the primary ERP Software choice considered by Enterprises around the world. There is a consistent growing opportunities for (more...)

I know it hasn’t been supported for a while now, but I have been using some 32-bit hardware for testing non-production, non-critical stuff in PeopleSoft for a while now.  It’s been okay for just playing around.  While the 64-bit was certified, all of the Windows binaries were still actually 32-bit. (more...)

This one-hour session is recommended for technical and functional users who need to know about how to import requisition from other modules and the setup involved in addition to how to troubleshoot and the diagnostic steps.

TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

• Introduction to scenarios in other modules from where Requisitions are created
• (more...)

This one-hour session is recommended for technical and functional users who need to know about the Budgetary Control.

TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

• Budgetary Control Options
• Budgetary Control Setup
• Budgetary Control Usage
• Useful Information

A short, live demonstration (only if applicable) and question and answer period will be included.

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I have been reading up on PeopleSoft’s new Update Delivery model.  It sounds very interesting, but one of the things that I caught was the fact that they will be delivering a Virtual Machine on Virtual Box where you can extract the updates that you need.  You can watch a (more...)

I have a few blog posts that show how to use jQuery plugins on PeopleSoft homepages. When designing those pagelets in Pagelet Wizard, it is important that your XSL/HTML include jQuery and any necessary plugins within your pagelet's HTML/XSL. This is how my Slideshow and Accordion Navigation templates work. Including (more...)

This is a continuation of my Windows 8 PeopleSoft Installation.  Previously, I installed WebLogic.  In this step, I plan to create the application server, batch server, and web server.  After this step, we should be able to log into PeopleSoft.

Setting the Environment Variables

Before running anything, we need to (more...)

A lot went on this week at MEOUG Majlis 2013 Annual Conference held on March 25-26, 2013 at Westin, Dubai UAE, 250+ attendees, 30+ end users success stories and quite a few shiny, new products highlights from Cliff Godwin, SVP Oracle. There was a very good session on empowering people (more...)

This post is a continuation of my installation of PeopleSoft on a Windows 8 Beta installation.  Previously, I installed Tuxedo.  This post is about the JRockit JVM.  In PeopleTools 8.52, you might be able to get away with using the Regular Oracle Sun JVM, but WebLogic seems designed to (more...)

This is a continuation of the Windows 8 install.  Previously, I installed the JRockit JVM.  In this post, I am installing the WebLogic web server.  This is the middleware that makes the PIA work.  The PIA is actually created from the psadmin utility, and I’ll do that in a later (more...)

It's been some time since I wrote much here about Oracle's E-Business Suite.  It's not that I don't like the EBS Suite, because I really do.  I've just been focused on other things.

Sometimes, when you're distracted, somebody will put out something so nifty that you're forced to (more...)

This is a quick blurb about an installation problem that I ran into.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get screenshots grabbed or exact error messages written down, but maybe this will still help.

The first problem was that near the end of the PeopleTools 8.53 Installer, the program gave me a (more...)

In case you haven’t already noticed, PeopleTools 9.2 is out and available for download!  You can download it from edelivery.

With Collaborate 13 on the near horizon, I'm hearing quite a bit of "Hey Floyd, what's EiS doing at Collab 13?"...the short answer is that we have a pretty significant presence at the conference.  Here's the long answer:

Sessions

Da Booth

Hey, you can't be an Oracle (more...)

Several years ago, I started to build my lab environment on CentOS 5.4 and VMWare server 2.0.
It was rather good and stable, even though performance was not to be targeted. I built a lot of virtual machines, including some Oracle VM Servers for the Peoplesoft VM template (more...)