I’ll be speaking at MEOUG Majlis 2013

MEOUG’s Annual Conference Majlis is back and I got an opportunity to speak during Middle East Oracle User Group (MEOUG) Majlis 2013 Annual conference scheduled to be held on 25-26 March 2013 at Westin, Dubai, UAE. My session will be covering secrets and rapid upgrade of successful R12 project. If you are going (more...)

Peopletools 8.53 and Peoplesoft 9.2

Here we are, probably later than initially expected though, but here we are.
Peopletools 8.53 released last month, unfortunately I did not get time to play with.
And as expected and announced, Peoplesoft 9.2 is now available as of today !

Theoretically, a new area is opened for the (more...)

More Collaborate Teasers

Since I put up the Collaborate 13 Teaser post revealing the Welcome screen for the new EiS Technologies Reporting and BI product, I've been swamped by folks asking to see more.

Keep in mind that there are some limits on what I can say before Collaborate 13 (I may not (more...)

The Part-timer’s Dilemma

jobsIt struck me as I was talking to a dynamite woman, who has chosen to work part-time. She was looking for something that would be challenging and engaging, but not critical enough that deadlines loomed large on her. She was struggling to find it.

Truth? It does not exist.

If (more...)

Excel To CI: Can’t find project or library

Today, I received this error in the Excel to CI Macros:

Compile Error: Can’t find project or library

It seems to be pointing to a “sToolBarTemplateActions”.

Excel to CI Error

Thanks to the help of Srinivas Reddy, I think I found the problem.

Basically, what seems to have caused the problem for me was (more...)

Collaborate 13 Teaser

Those of you who follow either this blog or my Twitter account (@fteter) know that I've been up to my eyeballs in new product development over the past three or four months.  You know that I've been using ADF Essentials in building that product.  You also know that (more...)

PeopleSoft 9.2 to be released March 22

Oracle announced today at the Alliance '13 conference that the PeopleSoft 9.2 will be generally available on March 22.


Here's the link to the press release:  http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1920557

What and where is your concealed talent?

Holbein-erasmus

Now that’s an expression for a skeptic!

The global workforce is loaded with concealed talent, resulting in lost value and opportunities for both business and workers.

Why is talent concealed? Two things really:

  1. We only see what we are looking for.
  2. We aren’t using reputation effectively.

The first causes the (more...)

A New App! – Redirect on Sign-on

There’s a new App on the PeopleSoft App Store!

We’ve developed an enhancement that’ll save your users precious time – every single time that they logon.

Groups of users often use areas of the system almost exclusively, however other groups never go near these areas and have their own hotspots (more...)

Calling All Oracle OpenWorld – Oracle Open World Call for Presentations

Time flies and it seems like Oracle Open World 2012 just ended but planning for this tremendous event goes on year round.   Oracle Open World 2013 will be held September 22-26 in San Francisco, CA.   If you’d like to attend minus the cost of registration and have a great UPK story to tell, submit an abstract before April 12th!  Go to the Open World Call for Papers website for more details and registration information. (http://www.oracle.com/openworld/call-for-papers/information/index.html)

Calling All Oracle OpenWorld, Java, and MySQL Experts

The Call for Proposals is open. Have something interesting to present to (more...)

OBIEE – Oracle Business Intelligence – Webinar

The Oracle Business Intelligence Special Interest Group 2013 Webinar
Series presents

OBIEE 11g – Overview, New Features, Upgrade Considerations & Live Demo

Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Central Time

Humana, Oracle Corporation and Ludus Inc. present the following four
topics on OBIEE 11g
•        OBIEE 11g Overview
•        OBIEE 11g New Features
•        OBIEE 10g to 11g Upgrade Considerations
•        OBIEE 11g Live Demo

No registration is required.  Please connect to the link below five
minutes in advance.

Simply click http://infiniteconferencing.com/Events/avlogin/
and use (more...)

Getting it Right: 100KM, Team of 4 and 48 Hours

It’s about an endeavor undertaken by our team of four people to raise funds for charity and to walk 100KM within 48 hours to meet the challenge set by Oxfam Trailwalker.  This post highlights our journey, the outcome and re-emphasizes some well-known facts.

We started with goal setting; success was the obvious goal so success criteria were defined at the start in consultation with all stakeholders. Key Success Indicators (KSIs) were to raise funds to qualify for the event (i.e. 50K INR) and to complete 100KM walk within 48 hours with all four members. We did identify stretch (more...)

Collaborate 2013

It is almost time for Collaborate 2013. For those of you attending, here is my schedule:

I will also be working in the Oracle User Experience demo pod and visiting in the PeopleTools demo pod. I look forward to seeing you there!

BIG DATA HADOOP Testing with MapReduce Examples Part 3


In BIG DATA HADOOP Testing with MapReduce Examples Part 1 and BIG DATA HADOOP Testing with MapReduce Examples Part 2 I have resolved some of the issues in getting the HADOOP running but still I have some issues left over and this time it is "Invalid shuffle port number -1 returned" when the mapreduce jobs are submitted.


hadoop@bigdataserver1:~/hadoop> hadoop jar ./share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-2.0.0-cdh4.2.0.jar wordcount /bigdata1/name.txt /bigdata1/output
13/03/13 14:59:38 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
13/03/13 14:59:39 INFO service.AbstractService: Service:org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client. (more...)

BIG DATA HADOOP Testing with MapReduce Examples Part 2

In BIG DATA HADOOP Testing with MapReduce Examples Part 1 the map reduce example was not complete. I ran the wordcount with the proper lower case to see what happens and again it error-ed.


hadoop@bigdataserver1:~/hadoop> hadoop jar ./share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-2.0.0-cdh4.2.0.jar wordcount /bigdata1/name.txt /bigdata1/output
13/03/13 14:58:06 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
13/03/13 14:58:06 INFO mapreduce.Cluster: Failed to use org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalClientProtocolProvider due to error: Invalid "mapreduce.jobtracker.address" configuration value for LocalJobRunner : "localhost:9001"
13/03/13 14:58:06 ERROR security.UserGroupInformation: PriviledgedActionException as:hadoop (auth:SIMPLE) (more...)

BIG DATA HADOOP Testing with MapReduce Examples Part 1

hadoop-mapreduce-examples-2.0.0-cdh4.2.0.jar - jar file for testing hadoop

wordcount example reads text files and counts how often words occur and here I am passing the name.txt which was copied to the HDFS


hadoop@bigdataserver1:~/hadoop> hadoop jar ./share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-2.0.0-cdh4.2.0.jar wordcount /bigdata1/name.txt /bigdata1/output
13/03/13 14:58:06 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
13/03/13 14:58:06 INFO mapreduce.Cluster: Failed to use org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalClientProtocolProvider due to error: Invalid "mapreduce.jobtracker.address" configuration value for LocalJobRunner : "localhost:9001"
13/03/13 14:58:06 ERROR security.UserGroupInformation: PriviledgedActionException (more...)

BIG DATA Moving a file to HDFS

Here is a simple step to copy a file into HDFS Hadoop File System.

First Create a Directory



hadoop@bigdataserver1:> hadoop fs -mkdir /bigdata1
hadoop@bigdataserver1:>

Copy the a sample file

hadoop@bigdataserver1:> hadoop fs -put /home/hadoop/hadoop/bigdata/name.txt /bigdata1
hadoop@bigdataserver1:>

Let us check if we can see the directory

hadoop@bigdataserver1:> hadoop fs -ls /
Found 1 items
drwxr-xr-x   - hadoop supergroup          0 2013-03-13 13:14 /bigdata1
hadoop@bigdataserver1:>

Let us check if we can see the file

hadoop@bigdataserver1:> hadoop fs -ls /bigdata1
Found 1 items
-rw-r--r--   1 hadoop supergroup       1370 2013-03-13 13:14 /bigdata1/name.txt
hadoop@bigdataserver1:>



BIG DATA HADOOP Services Startup and Shutdown

When using start-all.sh , I got the message "This script is Deprecated. Instead use start-dfs.sh and start-yarn.sh"

So it is clear that start-all.sh should not be user and the same hold true with stop-all.sh

Using start-dfs.sh it gives me JAVA_HOME is not set


hadoop@bigdataserver1:~/hadoop/sbin> sh start-dfs.sh
which: no start-dfs.sh in (/home/hadoop/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/home/hadoop/hadoop/bin)
13/03/13 11:44:55 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Starting namenodes on [localhost]
localhost: Error: JAVA_HOME is not set and could not be found.
localhost: Error: JAVA_HOME is not set and could (more...)

BIG DATA CDH Single Node Setup

To get started with a single node setup here are some simple steps.

- Get a machine which supports CDH , in my case I had a SUSE Linux
- Create a hadoop user
- Download hadoop tar ball hadoop-2.0.0-cdh4.2.0.tar.gz
- Download and Install JDK 1.6 or 1.7
- Unpack the tar ball hadoop-2.0.0-cdh4.2.0.tar.gz
- Source the JAVA_HOME variable
- Modify the hadoop configuration files
- Set password less ssh to the localhost
- Format hadoop namenode
- Start the services
- Validate the setup

I am jumping (more...)

BIG DATA Cloudera and Oracle

Cloudera and Oracle partnered to bring a reliable mainstream enterprise solution of Big Data through the Oracle Big Data Appliance. It is designed and optimized for big work load and built using standard hardware.

Oracle Big Data Appliance is a supported big data infrastructure which is affordable , salable and integrated with the key components of big data platform.

CDH (Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop) is for enterprise deployment which is included with the Oracle Big Data Appliance. It has a free version and it supports up to 50 node but it can scale up with the paid version.