Category: Environment

  • 8.54 PreRelease Notes Available

    The PeopleSoft Technology Blog has announced the availability of the PreRelease notes for 8.54: Some observations as I skimmed the document are: Oracle Linux 6, Win 2012, and Win 2012 R2 support added, Win 2008 (R1 not R2) dropped Client OS Windows 8.1 added, Windows 7 (32 bit) dropped WebLogic 12.1.2 added, 10.3.6 dropped Oracle…

  • PeopleSoft TEMP/TMP Directories

    In PeopleTools 8.53 Oracle has changed how the TEMP and TMP environment variables are handled.  They are taking the responsibility of setting these out of the Admins hands.  In the past we set these as environment variables perhaps in the shell profile or psconfig.sh.  When we configured the app server / process scheduler these settings…

  • Webserver detected with incorrect Version of JDK

    Now that PeopleTools 8.53 is out, I’ve seen people that are doing PIA installs posting about this problem a few places. Webserver detected with the incorrect version or JDK or no JDK found. Please try again, The required JDK is version 1.7 The only  reason I’ve seen so far for this error is the value…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Environment, Environment, Environment

    I’ve seen truck loads of environment problems over the years.  This one was one of the more recent ones.  We start out with reports failing to post with the following error in the PSDSTSRV log. PostReport](3) PSJNI: Created a Java VM instance PostReport](1) PSJNI: Java exception thrown: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file PostReport](3)    …