http://www.peoplesoftguys.com Tricks & Tips from PeopleSoft ERP Professionals Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:45:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know this sounds little stupid for some people, but for some people this is helpful. I know one guy who gets confused all the time with these two terms and comes and asks me all the time. I thought I would list these here and ask him to remember ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/02/22/difference-between-custom-objects-and-customized-objects/ The following are the common AR Transaction tables PS_ITEM  - Item related information will be stored. PS_GROUP_CONTROL – Groups related information will be stored PS_PENDING_ITEM  - Pending items related to pending group will be stored. PS_ITEM_DST - Accounting information related to a pending group will be stored. PS_PENDING_DST - Accounting information related to a posted ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/02/22/peoplesoft-ar-transaction-tables/   PeopleSoft change assistant is a standalone application delivered with PeopleTools 8.4x onwards. PeopleSoft change assistant can be used for applying patches and fixes for maintenance updates. PeopleSoft change assistant grabs all the required information from the Environment Management Hub and uploads it to the PeopleSoft customer connection site. With this environment ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/02/22/peoplesoft-change-assistant/ Recently I wrote the following UNIX command line code to delete the older files in report repository and log files. I thought it might be useful for some one. Reports Delete find /psreports/PSPROD/* -type d -prune -mtime +15 -exec /bin/rm -R {} \; The above command will delete all the directories under /psreports/PSPROD ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/02/21/unix-commands-to-delete-older-files/ PeopleSoft Data Mover issues COMMIT statements after most successful SQL commands, except for EXPORT and IMPORT commands. But for EXPORT and IMPORT commands, PeopleSoft Data Mover issues a COMMIT after each record. With IMPORT commands you can associate a  SET COMMIT n command, which will perform a COMMIT after the ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/02/17/commit-statement-usage-in-peoplesoft-data-mover/ ENCRYPT_PASSWORD  Encrypt one or all user passwords defined in PSOPRDEFN table.   Example: ENCRYPT_PASSWORD ROGERS; EXPORT  EXPORT command will be used to export the data from a table or a join of tables and store the result set in a file. You can use the generated export file as input for migrating data to ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/02/17/peoplesoft-data-mover-commands/ You can connect to PeopleSoft data mover in two modes depending on the previlages that your user id has. The following two are the modes that you can connect to the data mover. Regular mode. Most of the time you connect using this mode. To sign in to the data mover in ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/02/17/peoplesoft-data-mover-operating-modes/ I'm currently leading a project for a public sector client and we needed to perform a data conversion of legacy data from SBT system into PeopleSoft financials and supply chain system. The approach I designed to bring the data into the PeopleSoft system is Export the data from SBT system (Which is in ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/02/07/conversion-of-sbt-to-peoplesoft-88-fscm/ Before you kill any service you need to identify the service to be killed. Find out from the database which pid is stuck  or go to /psappsrv and run the psadmin to take a look at the server status to see which query is not idle Go to /psappsrv location type psadmin and hit enter select your ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/02/02/killing-a-long-running-tuxedo-service-or-a-query/ Oracle plans to acquire BEA Systems a middleware developer for $8.5 billion in a cash deal, the company announced Wednesday. Under this deal, which is expected to close by the middle of the year 2008, Oracle agreed to pay nearly $19.38 per share. That purchase price is above Oracle's initial offer of $17 a ... http://www.peoplesoftguys.com/2008/01/19/oracle-to-buy-bea-systems-for-85-billion-in-cash/