Step By Step: PeopleTools 8.51 Upgrade (Part 5)

digitaleagle Change Assistant, PeopleTools, Server Administration, Uncategorized 2 Comments

This is a continuation of my PeopleTools 8.51 posts.  This part discusses running the Change Assistant job.

Please see my Step by Step page for more articles like this, or you can start at the beginning of this series withPart 1.

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Step By Step: PeopleTools 8.51 Upgrade (Part 4)

digitaleagle Change Assistant, PeopleTools, Server Administration, Uncategorized 10 Comments

This is a continuation of my PeopleTools 8.51 posts.  Now, we will use Change Assistant.

Please see my Step by Step page for more articles like this, or you can start at the beginning of this series with Part 1.

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Step By Step: PeopleTools 8.51 Upgrade (Part 3)

digitaleagle Java, PeopleTools, Server Administration, Server Administration Weblogic, Uncategorized 1 Comment

This is a continuation of my PeopleTools 8.51 posts.  In this part, we are looking at installing WebLogic and the PIA.

Sorry it has taken a while to get this post proofread — I was sick this weekend and had family visiting as well.  I will try to keep the others coming soon.

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Step By Step: PeopleTools 8.51 Upgrade (Part 2)

digitaleagle PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, PeopleTools, Uncategorized 3 Comments

This step by step continues from the previous part 1.  In that part, we simply prepared the system.  Now, we are ready to install software.

Again, I am following the “Enterprise PeopleTools 8.51 Update” document from Oracle.

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Step By Step: PeopleTools 8.51 Upgrade (Part 1b)

digitaleagle PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, PeopleTools, Uncategorized 4 Comments

This is a continuation of Part 1.  Actually, I got part way through part 2, and I realized that I needed to upgrade Tuxedo to the latest version.  I didn’t find that in the instructions that I was going through.   So, anyway here are the steps I took to upgrade.

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Great Links: Feature Packs

digitaleagle Great Links, Uncategorized 2 Comments

I just watched the presentation on Feature Packs:

PeopleSoft Apps Strategy Blog: More About PeopleSoft Feature Packs

This article is a follow up from a first article that lists some of the new features provided via feature packs.

The one thing that I learned is that Feature Packs are more for people installing new versions of PeopleSoft whether a new customer converting to PeopleSoft or an existing customer upgrading to the latest version.  If you are keeping current on bundles you also get the new features.

So, the important thing in my opinion is to create a business process that can quickly install and test the bundles so that you keep your system updated.  This allows you to both avoid problems by getting fixes in and allows you to take full advantage of system with the new features.

Step By Step: PeopleTools 8.51 Upgrade (Part 1)

digitaleagle PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, PeopleTools, Uncategorized 20 Comments

I wanted to test drive the new PeopleTools 8.51, and I decided to try it in a copy of my personal HCM 9.0 Environment.  In addition, I thought this would make a great Step-By-Step article.  Please comment on anything you see that I missed.

To do this, I am following the “Enterprise PeopleTools 8.51 Update” document from Oracle.

Just to give you an idea of what I have running — this is an image with PeopleTools 8.49.12.  It already has WebLogic, PIA, the app server, and batch server running fine.

This first part is just preparing for the upgrade.

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PSTREEDEFN Error

digitaleagle Troubleshooting, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Today, I ran into an error importing a PeopleTools tree into an instance of PeopleSoft.  Probably, the problem was that I was using an old version of PeopleTools (8.46).

If this were a production system, the fix would be to upgrade PeopleTools to 8.51.  But, this is for testing purposes, and I kind of want to keep the old version so that I can make sure things run with it.

Here is the error message that I received from Data Mover:

SQL error. Stmt #: 0  Error Position: 0  Return: 1400 - ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("SYSADM"."PSTREEDEFN"."PT_ALLVALUEAUDOPT")

With all that said, you probably don’t want to follow these directions.  (This is a don’t try at home moment.)  I don’t even know why I am posting this.  Maybe it will help some one with SQL syntax or something.  Most likely, I will need it again for a later update into this same instance.

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