Heap Size for Change Assistant

My use of Change Assistant has increased while doing regular PUM updates in 9.2 environments. I've recently realized how to change the heap size for the Change Assistant and have seen improvement in performance. In my case I set the maximum heap size to 2048. Here's how I did it.

1) Right click on the CA desktop shortcut and choose Properties

2) In the Target text box append -Xmx2048m to the end. It will look like this:

PSAdmin.io

I've recently discovered a very cool community PeopleSoft resource. It's called psadmin.io (http://psadmin.io/).  Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson do a great job of podcasts pertaining to all things PeopleSoft. There is even a quickstart DPKcourse as well as a community forum. I would encourage everyone to check it out.

Tools 8.55 Change Assistant improvements

The last PUM upgrade I did using the new Change Assistant in tools 8.55. I discovered a couple new features that I really like with this version:

1) The ability to have multiple versions of CA installed. The setup program will now prompt if you want to replace or install a new version. This is nice because you will no longer have to have different versions on different machines

2)The ability to export and import configuration settings. Once you have environments setup in one CA instance you can create a zip file and then reimport those later or use with a different version.

Installing PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Image 16 on VirtualBox Part 1

This is the first HCM image PeopleSoft has delivered on PeopleTools 8.55. This image also uses Deployment Packages (DPK). The DPK contains all required software (database, application server, web server and client software), pre-installed and patched. I will detail my installation steps:

1    1)Navigate to the Oracle PUM HCM homepage (Doc ID 1641843.2) and download the VirtualBox image files into a directory on your local computer.

  

  

      2) Unzip the first file HCM-920-UPD-016-OVA_1of15.zip. This will create a setup folder in the same directory.

3    3) You will now need to run the Powershell script, psft-dpk-setup.ps1 located in the setup folder.

    

      4)Open the Powershell program and navigate to the setup folder. (In my case it was E:\VirtualMachines\HCMPI016).

      5) Run the script ./psft-dpk-setup.ps1. In some cases you may have to run the following command,Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted, if you receive an error when trying to run the script. The script will extract all the files and then prompt for options

      6)The script will prompt for more options and then automatically start VirtualBox and continue installation.

      7) Enter the root password – This will be used later

     8) If you enter a hostname, use lowercase.

      9)  Once the DPKs are extracted the database, web server, application server and samba share will be configured and the process will be complete.

1    10)You can log in as the root user and type ifconfig to confirm your IP Address

     11) You can now navigate to the URL http://192.168.56.101:8000/ps/signon.html using your browser.

SAML overview

I've been researching SAML integration with PeopleSoft. If you are new to SAML, this is a pretty good high level overview from the guys at Centrify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9BpeOmuEz4