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Delivers Next-Generation Risk-Based Access Management to Protect Against Online Security Threats and Insider Fraud
"With organizations increasingly using access management solutions to improve their security, it is important to distinguish between typical access management offerings and adaptive access management," said Amit Jasuja, vice president, Oracle Identity Management. "Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g R3 delivers dynamic context-aware data, such as geographic location data, that profiles behavior in real-time to detect and mitigate risk whereas traditional access management software is limited to providing static information such as a user's role and privileges."
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Microsoft, Oracle get busy plugging security holes
October 20, 2008 (Computerworld)
Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. each dropped a bevy of software patches on their users last Tuesday, with Microsoft issuing 11 updates to plug a total of 20 security holes and Oracle releasing 36 separate fixes.
Oracle, which issues its patches quarterly, released a smaller-than-usual -- though still plentiful -- number of fixes last week. Of the 36 flaws that were patched, 11 can be exploited remotely, the company said.
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Rimini Street Announces Delivery of Tax and Regulatory Updates for PeopleSoft HCM and Campus Solutions
Industry's Fastest "Legislature-to-Live" Update Delivery Cycle Now Includes Regulatory Support for PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Product Line
Black LogoLast update: 9:43 a.m. EDT Oct. 20, 2008 LAS VEGAS, Oct 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including Oracle Corporation's Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards software and SAP AG software, today announced its Tax & Regulatory Update HCM2008-E was delivered to clients today and its Campus Solutions Update SA100002 was delivered to clients on October 10, 2008. Like all previously delivered Rimini Street tax and regulatory updates, Rimini Street delivered both HCM2008-E and SA100002 for PeopleSoft products ahead of Oracle's own planned release date for its equivalent updates.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Helpful SAP links
http://wiki.ittoolbox.com/index.php/Country_Version_India_-_An_Overview - good for all working in India for sure.
http://www.sapsecurityonline.com/ - good for basis, abap and HR folks. In general all other areas can also be read.
http://www.configuration-workgroup.com
http://www.easymarketplace.de/online-pdfs.php - although an older version, provides all sap documentation online.
http://solutionbrowser.erp.sap.fmpmedia.com - provides wonderful functionality details by each release.
http://www.sapfans.com - good forum and knowledge repository
http://www.erpgenie.com/sapfunc/index.htm - good knowledgebase on SAP functional and technical content.
http://www.sap-img.com/index.htm - outdated, but has some good knowledge content for beginners
Ofcourse - http://help.sap.com - should always be a bookmark for every SAP Consultant.
Send Anything to the Report Repository
| Send Anything to the Report Repository | |
| Written by Brent Martin | |
| Friday, 12 September 2008 | |
| Have you ever had a report that wasn't generated in PeopleSoft but you wanted to put it in the report repository so that your PeopleSoft users could see it with their other reports? Or have you ever wanted a single SQR to generate multiple reports, with different security for each? Well, in PeopleTools 8.4x or later it's as easy as using the delivered POSTRPT_DMN. POSTRPT_DMN is an app enging program that watches for XML files in a particular directory. If it finds one, it will parse the XML parameters to determine the directory where the report file(s) are stored, the report's security, title, and other important info. Then it'll use the PostReport PeopleCode class object to post the report to the report repository. So there are two steps to setting making this work: 1) Configuring the POSTRPT_DMN and set it to run on a regular basis; and 2) Stage your report on the process scheduler server and create the XML file in the directory that POSTRPT_DMN is watching. Here's how it's done: Configuring POSTRPT_DMNFirst, set up your process scheduler environment to specify which directory you want POSTRPT_DMN to monitor. Assuming you don't want to customize the process, you'll need to set the PS_FILEDIR environment variable to be the high level directory where you want to watch for XML files. If you like the default directory of $PS_HOME/appserv/prcs/ As delivered, POSTRPT_DMN looks for files under $PS_FILEDIR/reports. So make sure you create this directory, and plan to put your XML files there. Next, you'll want to set up Process Scheduler to run the POSTRPT_DMN program as a PSDAEMON process every 5 minutes. The steps are: 1. Go to PeopleTools, Process Scheduler, Daemon Group. Before the daemon process will be activated, you need to bounce the Process Scheduler. Now, every 5 minutes, a POSTRPT_DMN Daemon will wake up and look for new XML files. If it finds one, it’ll publish the files to the report repository based on the file’s parameters. Then it will delete the temporary directory you created, and replace the contents of your XML file with the word “Done”. If something goes wrong the files will remain unchanged and the daemon will try again in 5 minutes. If you're wondering if the daemon process is really working, you can go to Process Monitor on the Servers tab. Click Details next to the server that should be running it. Then click the Message Log. If it's working you should see heartbeat messages and POSTRPT_DMN messages. You can also look at the log file in the $PS_HOME/appserv/prcs/ Staging Report FilesNow let's give our new Daemon process something to do. First, create a directory to contain the reports that our XML control file will point to in the next step. Then put one or more reports into that directory. Obviously it doesn't matter how reports get into the directory, they could be created via SQR or FTP'd from another application. Then create an XML control file containing the necessary XML flags. An example is below. Technically the filename doesn’t matter just so it ends in .xml (lower case), but to make it logical I usually name it the same as the directory created in the previous step, except I add the xml extension. Put it in $PS_FILEDIR/reports
Make sure PRCSNAME is a valid process name defined in PeopleSoft. PRCSTYPE needs to be a valid process type as well. CONTENT_DESCR can be anything (not sure about special characters like single quotes or XML delimiters). Report Path should be the full path to the directory you created in the first step. DISTID can either be a valid user ID, or a valid role – specify which in DISTIDTYPE field. This will represent which users can see the report in Report Manager. Feel free to include as many AUTHORIZED_LIST tags as you need. Troubleshooting
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Peoplesoft Advisor Webcasts September 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Peoplesoft Advisor Webcasts September 2008
PSChange Impact Analyzer (PSCIA) is a powerful Tool that shows the far reaching effects that even one small change to a PeopleSoft object can have. PSCIA is designed to help developers and designers assess these effects before they make their changes, thereby providing everyone downstream - QA, Documentation, and most of all our Customers- with a better product experience.
Date: September 18, 16:00h CET, 10:00 a.m. US Eastern
Duration: 60 min.
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Working Effectively With Support
Learn how to save time and work effectively with Oracle PeopleSoft Support. Obtain details on leveraging your support investment and customer best practices. Understand support terminology, tools, and the escalation process.
Date: September 11, 16:00h CET , 10:00 a.m. US Eastern
Duration: 60 min.
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Change Assistant
Change Assistant for PeopleSoft Enterprise can enable you to assemble and organize the steps necessary to apply patches and fixes for your PeopleTools maintenance updates. Change Assistant also helps automate the application of change packages to ensure your systems have the latest maintenance software, and can do so with dramatic improvements compared with manual processes.
Date: September 16, 16:00h CET , 10:00 a.m. US Eastern
Duration: 60 min.
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Setup Manager
Setup Manager is a tool that helps you implement PeopleSoft applications by using a project and predefined tasks to produce a setup task list that is specific to your implementation project.
Date: September 17, 16:00h CET , 10:00 a.m. US Eastern
Duration: 60 min.
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Peoplesoft Advisor Webcasts September 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Peoplesoft Advisor Webcasts September 2008
PSChange Impact Analyzer (PSCIA) is a powerful Tool that shows the far reaching effects that even one small change to a PeopleSoft object can have. PSCIA is designed to help developers and designers assess these effects before they make their changes, thereby providing everyone downstream - QA, Documentation, and most of all our Customers- with a better product experience.
Date: September 18, 16:00h CET, 10:00 a.m. US Eastern
Duration: 60 min.
Enroll
Working Effectively With Support
Learn how to save time and work effectively with Oracle PeopleSoft Support. Obtain details on leveraging your support investment and customer best practices. Understand support terminology, tools, and the escalation process.
Date: September 11, 16:00h CET , 10:00 a.m. US Eastern
Duration: 60 min.
Enroll
Change Assistant
Change Assistant for PeopleSoft Enterprise can enable you to assemble and organize the steps necessary to apply patches and fixes for your PeopleTools maintenance updates. Change Assistant also helps automate the application of change packages to ensure your systems have the latest maintenance software, and can do so with dramatic improvements compared with manual processes.
Date: September 16, 16:00h CET , 10:00 a.m. US Eastern
Duration: 60 min.
Enroll
Setup Manager
Setup Manager is a tool that helps you implement PeopleSoft applications by using a project and predefined tasks to produce a setup task list that is specific to your implementation project.
Date: September 17, 16:00h CET , 10:00 a.m. US Eastern
Duration: 60 min.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Why Outsourcing Might Be Smart
08.20.08
Why Outsourcing a Might Be Smart
This headline, sent to me by a colleague, appeared in a recent issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Should You Outsource Your Company Blog?" Like most questions addressed in communications, marketing and other similar fields, the answer is -- Maybe. It depends.
1. If the company doesn't have a communications or a marketing department, maybe you should.
2. If the company doesn't have an executive spokesperson with the time, maybe you should.
3. If the company's Legal and/or HR departments need to approve outgoing comments, maybe you should, but only if those departments get out of the way. Otherwise, don't do a blog.
Or maybe not. And here are the arguments, as I understand them, against outsourcing the company blog. The point of blogging is:
1. Having an authentic voice.
2. Giving customers a personal connection to the company.
3. Ghostwriters do neither.
Well, pardon me, but who do you think writes executive speeches, letters from the CEO, and all those personal words to shareholders one finds in the Annual Report, and web site content, and most of the pithy executive quotes found in newspapers? Guys and gals such as me. I also write and manage several company blogs, who are my clients. As the period on the sentence, none of those things are done without interviewing executives and employees, studying the company and its customers, and, finally, getting approval from the company spokesperson for everything I write.
Would it be better if someone from the company wrote the blog? Maybe, maybe not. When work is outsourced, the consultants often have more influence over the executives and more freedom from message management. And if we're fired, we haven't lost our jobs, just a job. We don't have the pressure of saying what we think the company wants to hear, at least many of us don't. More important, key inhouse staff are focusing on their other jobs and responsibilities, while gaining the outsider points of view and expertise, which are then translated into blog posts.
So, there you have it. One consultant's take on outsourcing blogging. Not right. Not wrong. It just depends.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Serious fault with PeopleSoft Performance Monitor fixed in PeopleTools 8.49.14
Serious fault with PeopleSoft Performance Monitor fixed in PeopleTools 8.49.14
In PeopleTools 8.49, PPM has a serious fault. It is very similar to scenario reported for PeopleTools 8.44 in GSC Solution 200769188: PerfMon: Too many httpd processes spawned/sockets opened when using PerfMon.
"When a 404 is returned from the monitor server the calling agent code only checks the HTTP return code but does not flush the input stream. This causes the connection to remain open until the GC finally closes the input steam which closes the open connection. This is easily detected by the increasing list of sockets in CLOSE_WAIT state [, as reported by netstat]. On NT there is no hard limit on file descriptors and therefore a crash is not noticed. On Unix platforms this can cause the process to run out of file descriptors before the JVM GC has a chance to run and free up the sockets."
Hence, when running the application server on Unix, you will reach a point where JSH processes cannot open new ports and PIA users can receive the 'Application Server is Down' message. So, this can cause the system to become unavailable until the application server is rebooted. To prevent this occurring, the PPM must be deconfigured. The Monitor URL should be set to 'NONE'.
According to PeopleSoft Global Support this problem will be resolved in PeopleTools 8.49 patch 14.
(Source: David Kurtz @ The Peoplsoft DBA Blog)
Monday, July 28, 2008
Oracle packs SOA in PeopleSoft tools upgrade
Posted on ZDNet News: Jul 17, 2006 6:57:00 PM
Oracle on Monday launched PeopleTools 8.48, an upgrade designed to offer Web services functionality and serve as an entry point into Oracle's Fusion Middleware.
PeopleTools 8.48 is designed to enhance users' ability to support the use of Web services and tie in both custom and legacy applications with PeopleSoft enterprise software.
Oracle's latest PeopleSoft tools upgrade also is designed to allow users to certify their tools with Oracle's Fusion Middleware--part of the company's major Fusion initiative, which aims to meld the technology of its various acquisitions into a new architecture.
When used in conjunction with Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Portal, PeopleTools is designed to serve as a point of access for all enterprise applications. In addition, Web services created from PeopleTools' Service Designer and Integration Broker can be automated and orchestrated via Oracle's Fusion Middleware BPEL Process Manager.
Among other new tools included in the launch is PeopleSoft Change Impact Analyzer, designed to allow customers to study the effect of prospective changes to their applications. Also, Oracle XML Publisher is now integrated into PeopleTools, increasing the number of options for customized reports.
The updated PeopleTools will expand its support to SQL Server 2005, Linux on IBM zSeries for PeopleTools Application Engine and PeopleTools Process Scheduler, and Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9.
Monday, July 7, 2008
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