PeopleTools 8.

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Upgrade Musings
David Kurtz
Go-Faster Consultancy Ltd.

david.kurtz@go-faster.co.uk
www.go-faster.co.uk

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 Who am I?
• Oracle DBA • Book
– Independent consultant – www.psftdba.com
• System Performance
tuning
– PeopleSoft ERP
– Oracle RDBMS
• UK Oracle User Group
– Unix SIG
• Oak Table
– www.oaktable.net
– www.baarf.com
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 Resources

• If you can’t hear me say so now.

• Please feel free to ask questions as we go
along.
• The presentation will be available from
• Customer Connection Tech PUG Page
• www.go-faster.co.uk

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 My recent experience
• Financials 8.4 SP0 • No App Change
– No service packs
• PT8.41.06 • PT8.45.10
• Oracle 8.1.7.0.0 • Oracle 9.2.0.5
• Windows • Sun Solaris 9
• Developed own Polish • Base language swap to
translation! Polish

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 Business Drivers

• Handling of Polish characters

– New version of SQR shipped with PT8.44
• Oracle 8i going out of support
– Which doesn’t mean that support washes their
hands of you,
– but there is no error correction.

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 Strategy
• Build a new database on the target
platform/Oracle version
• Oracle export/import sysadm schema
– And another schema for legacy data migration
– 8Gb export in 2Gb parts
• Could have used Data Mover
– But it would have been slower
– Mandatory if changing database platform!

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 PeopleSoft Documentation

• Enterprise PeopleTools 8.45 Installation for

Oracle
– Fairly comprehensive
• Some omissions and inconsistencies
– even fairly comprehensible!
• Enterprise PeopleTools 8.45 Upgrade

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 Configuration
• 4 x 1.25GHz • 4 x 1.25GHz
• 1Gb • 4+Gb

Node
Node Node
Node

Tuxedo
Tuxedo
Web
Web Application
Application DBMS
DBMS
Server
Server Server
Server

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 My personal preference…
• Application Server • Fewer CPUs
– CPU intensive – cheaper /CPU Oracle
– cannot starve DBMS licence
of CPU • Different kernel
– Horizontally scalable configuration
Node
Node Node
Node

Tuxedo
Tuxedo
Web
Web Application
Application DBMS
DBMS
Server
Server Server
Server

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 Unix Kernel Configuration

• On Solaris it is set in /etc/system

• settings recommended in Chapter 6B of

PeopleSoft install guide
– permit 1024 file handles per process
• set rlim_fd_cur=1024
• set rlim_fd_max=1024

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 Unix Kernel Configuration

• settings recommended in PSFT on-line

performance red paper for 8.44
– And further adjusted by me

• Increase IPC message size

• set msgsys:msginfo_msgmax=262144
• set msgsys:msginfo_msgmnb=262144

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 Unix Kernel Configuration

• Increase maximum number of queues

• set msgsys:msginfo_msgmni=1024

• 1 per Tuxedo queue

– So 1 per process type: PSAPPSRV, PSQRYSRV etc.
• 1 per server process
– 3 PSAPPSRVs => 3 queues
• 1 per WSL, WSH, JSL and JSH
• 1 per BBL

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 Unix Kernel Configuration
• Mainly required by Oracle

• set semsys:seminfo_semmns=4096 (max semaphores)

• set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=4096
• set semsys:seminfo_semmni=512 (semaphore sets)
• set semsys:seminfo_semmap=512
• set semsys:seminfo_semume=10
• set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=8
• set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100 (max shared mem segs)
• set msgsys:msginfo_msgtql=1024

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• Oracle 8.1.7.4.1
– Terminal Release
– Went out of support
31.12.2004
– Certified up to PT8.45
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Oracle Versions
• Oracle 9.2.0.5
– Highest version
certified by PSFT
– Security Patch 68?
• 9.2.0.6
– Includes security patch
– Only Some platforms
certified so far
• 10g?
– Not yet certified
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 Oracle Database Creation
• PeopleSoft Database Creation Wizard
– ‘magic’ is about illusions, everything is hidden
– I refuse to use it to create my database because
I can’t see/control what it is going to on!
• PSFT abandoned Oracle DBCA in PT8.4
– It was better because DBA could control it
– Can generate a set of scripts
• Manual scripts are still Oracle 8 oriented

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 Oracle SQL*Net

• Query Kill from PT8.44 requires

SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME
– ps doc says this is seconds, but it is actually
minutes.
– Oracle Metalink note 151972.1: DCD
explained
• BEQUEATH_DETACH=YES
– Oracle Metalink note 74839.1
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 GSC 200723987: SQL*Net Fix

• Application server error on pslibora

• Extra symbolic link on SQL*Net library
– ln -s $ORACLE_HOME/lib32/libclntsh.so.9.0
$ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0

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 Oracle SQL*Net Bug
• Use the 9.2.0.5 client
– Oracle OCI bug fix 9.2.0.2

– Remember to patch the client not just server!

• GSC 200737351
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 Application Designer Projects

• XML from PT8.4x

– XML Very flexible
– Buzzword compliant
– But
• slow to open
• CPU intensive to parse

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 PLTLSCUR upgrade projects

• Relative to 8.40
• PT Upgrade Project
– 35m
• PT ML Upgrade slow
– 3x larger
– 1h25m! (all languages)
– 5000+ fields

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 Unix Installation

• Java Installer
• GUI interface under X-terminal
– Xterminal on the cheap - www.realvnc.org
– Also good across slow network link!
– Same interface as windows
– Same concept as Oracle Universal Installer
• Add /usr/openwin/bin to path
• Set DISPLAY=<IP address>:0.0
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 Notes

• BEA Tuxedo 8.1

– R2 CDs shipped with PT8.45 – RP89
– Win – De-install rolling patch before applying
new RP.
• Weblogic 6.1 from PT8.40
• Weblogic 8.1 from PT8.43/44?
– PIA now under PS_HOME not WL_HOME!

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 Cobol

• Financials uses remote call

– On-line voucher edit and post
– Application server synchronously initiates
Cobol batch program
– So must have Cobol compiler on same OS as
application server

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 Gotchas

• REN server configuration

• PTWEBSERVER operator
• Base Language Swap
• Various process scheduler problems
• PeopleBooks

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 GSC 200761534: REN Sever

• Previously optional
– Now used for standard functionality from 8.44
• Defaults to port 7180
– Specified in psappsrv.cfg
– But also in database
– Changing psappsrv.cfg not enough
– UPDATE PSREN SET PORT_NUM = 7780;

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 GSC 200761492:
PTWEBSERVER user

• User ID used by sign-on panel before sign-

on.
– Put this in in PIA install
• In WebLogic config.xml
• Encrypt PSCipher.sh
– Add user PTWEBSERVER
– PeopleTools Web Server role
– PeopleTools permission list PTPT1500
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 Data Mover Bug

• Base Language Swap

– If date-time field as a part of unique key
– Data Mover strips time portion of data

– Can result in duplicate key error

– Putting date-timestamp in primary key is poor
design

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 GSC 200777344: Process
Scheduler Privileges

• Add ProcessSchedulerAdmin role to user

who starts process scheduler.

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 Process Scheduler

• Additional purge classes in PT8.44

• Remember to set purge settings BEFORE
you start process scheduler

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 Default Process Scheduler
• Defaults in process scheduler page

UPDATE psprcsruncntls
SET servername = ' '
WHERE servername != ' ';

• Assign primary OS and enable load

balancing
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 New process scheduler
functionality
• From PT8.44, it is now possible to have
different elements of a job running on
different process schedulers.
– Eg.
• Cobol process on Unix
– because application server on Unix and remote call
• Crystal report on Windows
– Must leave scheduler name blank
• else will get error on submission

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 GSC 200766251: Processes
remain queued

• Processes remain queued when no server

name in request
– Set blank categories to Default

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 Process Still Remain Queued
when Scheduler is blank - RTFM

• Remember to set process server system

settings
– PeopleTools -> Process Scheduler -> System
Settings
• Assign a Primary OS
• Can also Load Balance to any OS or just Primary
OS

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 Report Repository

• Posting status help separately on

PSPRCSRQST
• Report Node held on
PS_CDM_AUTH_LIST

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 GSC 200780041:
SchedulerTransfer servlet
• SchedulerTransfer servlet for HTTP transfer to
Report Repository
– Even if you use FTP need servlet to verify transfer
(new in 8.44?)
• Servlet was subject of a security alert
– Authentication added
• Set password (any password) on default local node
– PeopleTools -> Integration Broker -> Node Definitions

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 GSC 200728339: Cobol
Compilation

• Need to add /usr/ccs/bin to path

• GSC 16201:
– ignore “01 or 77 level required” errors when
compiling ??C?????.cbl.
– These are copy books and so can be ignored.

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 GSC 200944167: PeopleBooks
• From 8.44 install on Unix
– Batch transfer replaced
– PT8.45 PB can be installed over old application
PeopleBooks
• Collection (for indexing) does not work
– Need to delete srch.js in language subdirectories prior
to new PB installation
• Single Weblogic Server Issues
– PSOL not PORTAL server

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 GSC 200946000: Performance
Monitor

• Allow access to monitor servlet diagnostic

information

• PeopleTools>Web Profile> Web Profile

Configuration>"Profile Name">Customer
Properties
– PPMConsole = true

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 Other Issues
• 200735163 - PeopleTools objects read only in
permission list ALLPAGES – since 8.42

• 200751620 - Crystal Date Format Issue – affects

pt8.42 only, says fixed in 8.43?
– ICE Incident 569443000
– command line parameter -LX0 to Crystal process type
– Fixed the date issue in pt8.45 but not number issue.

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 Side Effects
• PSFT didn’t ship Polish translations for
FSCM 8.4 SP0
– So customer developed their own translations
• PT8.45 does ship with Polish translations
• Decision taken to take ‘vanilla’ PeopleSoft
translations
– Various effects on many application panels
– Eg. Next, Previous, Save buttons etc.

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 Questions?

• How many on PT8.4?

• How many >= PT8.44?
• PT8.45?
• Oracle?
• Oracle 9?
• Oracle 10 (elsewhere)?

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PeopleTools 8.45
Upgrade Musings
David Kurtz
Go-Faster Consultancy Ltd.

david.kurtz@go-faster.co.uk
www.go-faster.co.uk

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