Archive for August, 2006

Common Financials Terms Used

 Pre-encumbrance: Amount that you expect to spend, but which you have no legal obligation to spend. A requisition is a typical pre-encumbrance transaction.
 Encumbrance: Amount that you have a legal obligation to spend in the future. Issuance of a purchase order to a vendor is a typical encumbrance transaction.
 Planned: A free-form non-actuals amount. [...]

Exporting Compare Reports to Excel

I felt that having upgrade compare reports produced in CSV or HTML format was a greatest help to the entire team. It will be very easy keep track of decision made for each and every object and possibly put some comments about the upgrade action taken.
You need tweak the regedit setting on the PC where [...]

Improving the System Performance by Enabling Server Cache

With PeopleTools 8.4 and higher PeopleSoft delivered a great feature to improve the online performance, which is shared caching. This will eliminate the unnecessary caching and trips to the database.
Without enabling the shared cache,  application server domain will create separate cache file for each process. With shared cache enabled all the user processes will share [...]

A Dozen steps for a Smooth PeopleTools Upgrade

These are the 12 basic successful steps I followed for all my PeopleTools upgrades. I thought it may be useful for some body.
Overview
Peopletools upgrade involves upgrading your existing PeopleTools to a latest version of PeopleTools.
Procedure

Backup your existing File Servers and configurations.
Take a backup of existing file servers; take a backup of all your configuration files [...]

Installing PeopleSoft 7.5 Single User edition on Windows 2000

I know lot of my friends had this problem but I never put focus into this until my wife asked me to inslall for her. I thought that she was also doing some mistake and I can do it, unfortunately I got the same issue. There I started to put my brain to work. First [...]

PeopleSoft Service Pack Application Upgrade Notes

I followed the following steps at one of my client for a service pack upgrade. The way you do the service pack upgrade varies from installation to installation, but the methodology would be same. From my experience whole service pack upgrade usually  takes any where [...]