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PeopleTools 8.45 Upgrade Musings

David KurtzGo-Faster Consultancy Ltd.

[email protected]

www.go-faster.co.uk

PSFT Tech PUG 10.1.05 www.go-faster.co.uk 2

Who am I?

• Oracle DBA– Independent consultant

• System Performance tuning– PeopleSoft ERP

– Oracle RDBMS

• UK Oracle User Group – Unix SIG

• Oak Table– www.oaktable.net

– www.baarf.com

• Book– www.psftdba.com


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


My recent experience

• Financials 8.4 SP0– No service packs

• PT8.41.06• Oracle 8.1.7.0.0• Windows• Developed own Polish

translation!

• No App Change

• PT8.45.10• Oracle 9.2.0.5• Sun Solaris 9• Base language swap to

Polish


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.


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!


PeopleSoft Documentation

• Enterprise PeopleTools 8.45 Installation for Oracle– Fairly comprehensive

• Some omissions and inconsistencies

– even fairly comprehensible!

• Enterprise PeopleTools 8.45 Upgrade


Configuration

• 4 x 1.25GHz• 1Gb

• 4 x 1.25GHz• 4+Gb

NodeNode

Web Server

Web Server

NodeNode

Tuxedo Application

Server

Tuxedo Application

ServerDBMSDBMS


My personal preference…

• Application Server– CPU intensive

– cannot starve DBMS of CPU

– Horizontally scalable

• Fewer CPUs– cheaper /CPU Oracle

licence

• Different kernel configuration

NodeNode

Web Server

Web Server

Tuxedo Application

Server

Tuxedo Application

Server

NodeNode

DBMSDBMS


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



• 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



• 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



• 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


Oracle Versions

• Oracle 8.1.7.4.1– Terminal Release

– Went out of support 31.12.2004

– Certified up to PT8.45

• 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


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


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


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


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


Application Designer Projects

• XML from PT8.4x– XML Very flexible– Buzzword compliant– But

• slow to open

• CPU intensive to parse


PLTLSCUR upgrade projects

• Relative to 8.40

• PT Upgrade Project– 35m

• PT ML Upgrade slow– 3x larger– 1h25m! (all languages)– 5000+ fields


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


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!


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


Gotchas

• REN server configuration

• PTWEBSERVER operator

• Base Language Swap

• Various process scheduler problems

• PeopleBooks


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;


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


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


GSC 200777344: Process Scheduler Privileges

• Add ProcessSchedulerAdmin role to user who starts process scheduler.


Process Scheduler

• Additional purge classes in PT8.44

• Remember to set purge settings BEFORE you start process scheduler


Default Process Scheduler

• Defaults in process scheduler page

UPDATE psprcsruncntlsSET servername = ' 'WHERE servername != ' ';

• Assign primary OS and enable load balancing


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


GSC 200766251: Processes remain queued

• Processes remain queued when no server name in request– Set blank categories to Default


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


Report Repository

• Posting status help separately on PSPRCSRQST

• Report Node held on PS_CDM_AUTH_LIST


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


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.


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


GSC 200946000: Performance Monitor

• Allow access to monitor servlet diagnostic information

• PeopleTools>Web Profile> Web Profile Configuration>"Profile Name">Customer Properties– PPMConsole = true


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.


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.


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 KurtzGo-Faster Consultancy Ltd.

[email protected]

www.go-faster.co.uk

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