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Tracing PeopleSoft Application Engine

Application Engines are PeopleSoft’s way to tie SQL and PeopleCode into a powerful processing engine which can run synchronously as well as in batch mode. App Engines are well structured and easy to debug. In this post will see how TRACE an App Engine program.

PeopleSoft Component Interface

PeopleSoft Component Interface

PeopleSoft Component Interface (CI) exposes a PeopleSoft Component for synchronous access to other applications written in PeopleCode, Java or C++. We can consider CI as the means by which PeopleSoft enforces encapsulation by limiting external access to just what is made available through the CI and nothing more.

Dynamic Call-Section

Dynamic call-section in Application Engine

Often, business logic requires us to call different sections based on occurrence of certain conditions in different scenarios and that too from the same call-section. To enable this kind of logic, we will have to make the call-section dynamic. This is how we can do it.

PeopleSoft Data Mover

PeopleSoft Data Mover

PeopleSoft Data Mover, as the name suggests, is a PeopleTool that is used to import / export data between databases. Apart from this, Data Mover can be used for a variety of functions.

Peoplesoft Component Buffer

PeopleSoft Component Buffer

Component Buffer is the area in the memory that stores data associated with the presently active component. When a page in any component is opened, the system retrieves all of the data records for the entire component and stores them in one set of record buffers, organized by scroll level and then by page level.

PeopleSoft Application Engine

PeopleSoft Application Engine is a PeopleTool used to carry out background SQL processing. Application Engines are neatly structured into blocks and offer an alternative to writing COBOL or SQR programs for background SQL processing. Application Engine has five types of programs. We can specify the type in the Program Properties dialog box for your program definition.

PeopleSoft Search Record

A search record is a very import part of the component processing. In this post, I will tell you what its relevance is and how making changes to a search record can affect the search page.

Approval Workflow Engine

PeopleSoft AWE – Approval Workflow Engine

PeopleSoft Approval Workflow Engine (AWE) is a recent entrant into the PeopleTools family – introduced only in 8.48 AWE provides capabilities for creating, running, and managing approval processes within PeopleSoft…. Read more »

PeopleTools 7 loading

PeopleSoft 7.0

I was going through my archives and found these screenshots of PeopleTools 7.02 signon window, the loading screen and PeopleSoft 7.0 application – this was from the time when PIA… Read more »

PeopleTools 8.50

People Tools 8.50 – First Look

It has been a long time! I was looking for something big to come my way to resume blogging about PeopleSoft. And this evening it just happened… yes, got a… Read more »