PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft Red Papers:

Check out the following 2 Red Papers on Customer Connection:

Oracle Database Vault for Enterprise Tools 8.46 and Higher

This Red Paper discusses the guidelines on how to implement Oracle Database Vault in a PeopleSoft environment, including installation, configuration, and known limitations.
Much of the information contained in this document originated within PeopleSoft Development in collaboration with some of our big customers and is therefore based on "real-life" customer use cases encountered in the field. Although every conceivable problem that one could encounter is not covered in this document, the issues that appear are the problems that prove to be the most common.

Clustering and High Availability for Enterprise PeopleTools 8.4x

This Red Paper is a practical guide for technical users, installers, system administrators, and programmers who implement, maintain, or develop applications for your PeopleSoft system. In this Red Paper, we discuss guidelines on how to build a fault tolerant PeopleSoft Online Transaction environment, including PeopleSoft Internet Architecture and Portal. The clustering architecture ensures that the deployed PeopleSoft system has no single point of failure and that the system can operate uninterrupted in an event of a HW/SW failure.

White Papers

Integrated Talent Management: Extending the Value of a Strategic Framework (PDF)

Check this latest Whitepaper on Oracle’s integrated talent management framework that solves immediate people-problems while establishing a foundation for resolving critical issues on an ongoing basis. Some of the key issues addressed include driving productivity and profitability, maintaining alignment with business objectives and optimizing overall organizational performance. Native integration and a single data source equip HR with consistent employee data and information, enterprise-wide line-of-sight visibility and insight for decision-making. The framework also solves the plethora of technology problems that plague organizations with a heterogeneous mix of vendors.

Metalink Outage Coming This Weekend

There is a Metalink outage coming this weekend. Oracle Priority Service customers, please contact your SDM if you have critical operations planned for the outage period so we can make special arrangements for you. Thanks!

MetaLink Outage Planned for Weekend of April 4, 2008

A two-part MetaLink outage is planned for Friday April 4, 2008 starting at 9:00 PM Pacific Time (Saturday April 5, 4:00 AM GMT/UTC) for system maintenance.

Starting at 9:00 PM Pacific Time (Saturday April 5, 4:00 AM GMT/UTC), Oracle's internal ticketing system will be temporarily taken out of service for system maintenance. During this time, MetaLink's Service Request (SR) functionality will be disabled. This means that you will not be able to report new SRs or update existing ones using the MetaLink interface. SR query and other associated reporting functions will also be unavailable. All other MetaLink functionality will remain unaffected during this time.

All MetaLink functionality will be inaccessible from 10:00 PM - 1:30 AM Pacific Time (Saturday April 5, 5:00 AM GMT/UTC). We encourage you to plan accordingly and to download any patches or other information that you may need ahead of time. Please write down your CSI number so that you will have it available if you need to call. Although internal systems will be available, telephone hold times may be elevated as customer traffic is directed to phone support.

For urgent issues during the outage please call your local Oracle Support center. Phone numbers globally may be found on the Oracle Support Services Global Contacts Directory page.

		Partial Outage - Service Request Functionality Unavailable	Complete MetaLink Outage
Scheduled Start		Friday, April 4, 2008 / Saturday April 5, 2008	Friday April 4, 2008 / Saturday April 5, 2008
GMT/UTC		Saturday 4:00 AM	Saturday 5:00 AM
Orlando		Friday/Saturday 12:00 Midnight	Saturday 1:00 AM
San Francisco		Friday 9:00 PM Pacific	Friday 10:00 PM Pacific
London		Saturday 5:00 AM	Saturday 6:00 AM
Bangalore		Saturday 9:30 AM	Saturday 10:30 AM
		Duration: 1 Hour	Duration: 3.5 Hours

Thank you in advance for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience.
The MetaLink Team

Infogram Weekend Edition: Chinese Business, Humor

Chinese Business: Changing Markets

I was watching the Antiques Roadshow the other night and had an epiphany about the Chinese economy. The show was set in San Antonio, and a lady had brought in a nice set of four porcelain decorative panels in faux-teak frames. Her father had bought the items back in the 50's when he was stationed in Hong Kong. They cost him a few hundred dollars back then, quite a bit of money at the time. The appraiser worked through various aspects of the pieces, the subject, the frame, the quality of work on the border, and determined that they weren't 18th century pieces as it may have seemed at first glance, but made in the 1920s. This is usually the point in Antiques Roadshow where the appraiser gently breaks the bad news: 'And if they were 18th century they'd be worth XYZ. But these late pieces...and then the bad news'. Or even worse, 'well, they're fakes'. Not this time. He said that until quite recently the pieces wouldn't have fetched much money, but that the Chinese market for such items was very hot, especially items from the 1920s, and the set was worth $40,000. The owner was floored; I was floored. I'm sure she was expecting to be told that they were worth a few thousand dollars, or perhaps even anticipating the disappointment of finding out they were worth those same few hundreds now as then. Nope. Different world Different market.

For me it showed that the Chinese economy has two key elements at work right now: disposable wealth and pride in Chinese culture.

There is a growing trend to restore the massive losses inflicted on Chinese traditional buildings and cultural items by the Cultural Revolution. The human impact of the Cultural Revolution was the real tragedy, the lives lost and the lives ruined. Chinese society is trying to work out why such excesses happened. But there was also a tremendous swath of devastation to the physical culture of old China. Old books were burned, temples, pagodas and city walls torn down with complete abandon, and many valuable items were smuggled out of the country, quite a few of them ending up in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan.

Now that China has started to acquire large cash reserves (and we are talking about national savings in the trillions of dollars), art investment is one area where we can expect to see grow steadily, even as the slowing American economy hurts the production facilities in China.

Granted there is a new and very powerful wave of destruction for the remaining old buildings now; this time to make way for ambitious modern projects in China's large cities. The last of the old tradition courtyard residences in Beijing are coming down, sometimes whole neighborhoods at a time, victims of merciless commercial modernization now just as they were subject to Marxist anti-cultural warfare a few decades ago. But more and more wealthy Chinese are funding projects to restore (and digitize) ancient libraries, rebuild ancient buildings and restore the ones that remain.

It's hard to predict what will happen to the Chinese economy over the next few years. There have been many ambitious projects and initiatives that are now proving harmful (the Three Gorges Dam project, for instance, which is likely to be an expensive cause of regret for many years to come). The Chinese market economy is very young, even if the country itself is steeped in antiquity, and a young economy has to make many mistakes before it finds its long-term formula for success. An ancient Chinese book describes it with an image of a young fox crossing a frozen stream: 'The young fox wets its tail'. A mature economy (usually) takes less risk and thus avoids 'getting its tail wet.'

In the meantime, look around the attic. Your Chinese antiques may just help out if your 401k is in retreat.

Musical Humor

The Presurfer blog found this remarkable piece of musical athletics coming to us from an unknown corner of the Korean entertainment world. As he says, watch the drummer.

Internet Seminar

Internet Seminar

Colorcon Success Story
Are process industry regulatory compliance requirements eating up your bottom line?

Siebel

Siebel Unleashed:
Check this site for some cool ‘how-to’ tips for Developers.

Siebel for Dummies
Another Blog on Siebel and Oracle. It has got some nice posts on PL-SQL and Oracle.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

End of Premier Support for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.9 - Mark your calendars!

If you are currently on this release you would have received a letter from Oracle as a reminder to the upcoming expiration of Premier Support and start of Sustaining Support for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.9. The key items in this letter are:
1. Premier Support for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.9 ends on September 18, 2008.
2. Premier Support for Tax, Regulatory and Legislative issues ends on September 18, 2009.
3. Tools release 8.97 will be the last certified Tools release for 8.9

Important information available on Customer Connection:
1. Solution 201063018 posted on Customer Connection includes an FAQ link and a copy of the letter.
2. Frequently Asked Questions lists specifics on accepted SAR dates, V&V certifications and general guidelines.
3. Lifetime Support Policy details out Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards product support time frames.
4. Solution also posted on the EnterpriseOne Knowledge Browser.
5. Home page article posted on Customer Connection for the next few weeks.

Hyperion

Check out the latest articles on Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 like Enabling Multi-User Development(MUD) for repositories; Merging Repositories - Substitute for Import From Repository - 2 way Merge with No Parent; and others. Click here for the latest blog from Venkatakrishnan J