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Category: PeopleTools

  • PeopleSoft Timeout Problems in 8.50 – 8.52

    There have been several PeopleSoft Timeout problems that have impacted various levels of 8.50, 8.51, and 8.52.  Indications are all these problems are fixed now.  According to Oracle, the code has also been fixed in 8.50.25, 8.51.17, 8.52.07, and 8.53.  I’m sure a new problem will pop up at some point though. The first problem…

  • Determining psjoa.jar Version

    I recently answered a question on the OTN forums that I thought was interesting and figured I’d detail it a little further here.  Someone was using psjoa.jar to interface with a remote PeopleSoft system and wanted to verify what PeopleTools version a specific psjoa.jar file was from.  First a little background on psjoa.jar.  This file…

  • PeopleSoft Unified Navigation with PeopleSoft Applicatations Portal / Interaction Hub

    With Portal 9.1 Feature Pack 1, which was released just over a year ago, came a new feature I finally got the chance to use. Unified Navigation. In this post I’ll walk through setting this up in one of my demo environments. Using the Unified Navigation WorkCenter makes configuring this feature pretty easy to set up. …

  • PeopleTools 8.53 released

    I must have missed it earlier this month but I see Oracle has finally release PeopleTools 8.53. It looks like upgrade templates are available as well. Here are some of the things I saw in a brief glance at the release notes (I’ll read them in more detail later). A bunch of this was announced…

  • When PeopleSoft Cache goes Bad

    In general Cache is a good thing, but sometimes things go wrong. I usually try to avoid clearing cache unless I have a real reason. In my experience clearing cache without reason usually only adds to the end users perception that PeopleSoft is a slow painful application to work with, and we know PeopleSoft gets…

  • Return of the “ptcommonobj is undefined”

    I previously wrote a post about getting the error “ptcommonobj is undefined” in the web browser and having modal windows, search look-ups, and other things not working in PeopleSoft. Well not so long ago this struck me again. This time though no PeopleTools upgrades had occurred and there was no proxy or caching devices between…

  • Why you should have different local node passwords

    I was doing an assessment of a Peoplesoft installation recently when I noticed that the node passwords were the same across all environments of the same application type. While this might not seem like it is a big deal, it can open up a production environment to unauthorized access or accidental data entry. If this…

  • Creating a Custom PeopleSoft Sign On Page

    Creating a Custom PeopleSoft Sign On Page

    I had a few spare cycles the other day and decided I’d make the PeopleSoft Sign On page look a bit more attractive.  So here’s a run down on what I did.  All these changes are made in the signin.html. I placed a high res image as the background. It’s setup to resize to 100%…

  • Cannot establish HTTP connection

    Recently I had a problem with a WebEx PeopleSoft setup.  Users testing in a development environment were reporting they got the following error “Cannot establish HTTP connection (158,2842)”.  I tried pinging one of the external nodes used for WebEx.  I also received “Cannot establish HTTP connection”.  The URL defined on the node looked OK, and…

  • PeopleTools 8.52 Upgrade

    Here are my notes on a recent PeopleTools 8.52.07 Upgrade from 8.51.03 on Finance 9.1 This was on Linux ====== PREP WORK====== Download Tools media unzip all media chmod 755 tuxedo10gR3_64_Linux_01_x86.bin & jrockit-jdk1.6.0_20-R28.1.0-4.0.1-linux-x64.bin * tuxedo for 8.52 is same version as 8.51 * jrockit for 8.52 is older than version I used for 8.51 *…