Update/Upgrade Strategies

Tracking PeopleSoft Patches@UCF

Panel on Update/Upgrade Strategies

Session #5322 - Wednesday 9:15am

Bradley Smith

University of Central Floria

Tracking PeopleSoft Patches@UCF

• Keep a Microsoft Access database that holds which patches we have applied and when

• Updated via saving PeopleSoft’s own web page and running a program that collects the needed information from that page and merging with Access database

• Use a collection of programs to track COBOL, Datamover, SQR’s, and SQC’s files

Tracking PeopleSoft Patches@UCF

• Bundle many PeopleSoft Patches together.– Apply patches individually to DMO database– Insert Projects in to ‘BIG’ project.– Apply ‘BIG’ project to local databases

Saving of Web Page via Netscape

Saving of Web Page via IE5

Converting Web Page To Import/Merge File

AWK program

Microsoft Access Database

Run Access Macro to Import/Merege Data

Results of Macro Run

Patch Database - Patch Order

Next Patch to Install

Copy Clipboard to Search Box

Select Resolution Information

Save Patch files to Network Drive

Create New Directory with Patch as Directory Name

Save all files into that directory

Save all files into that directory

Directory List of Network Drive

Support Programs to Track PeopleSoft Changes

Example of how support program work

Using RCS to view changes

Using RCS to view changes

Sofware Needed• Gnu AWK

• RCS - Revision Control System, originally developed at Purdue on UNIX. I have a version which was ported to NT

• WinRCS - Windows Interface to RCS

• Microsoft Access

• IE5/Netscape 4.6

• UCF locally written .BAT programs

Where to get the software

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~brad/HEUG2001http://www.csuohio.edu/PSHEUG

email: brad@mail.ucf.edu

Panel on Update/Upgrade StrategiesSession #5322 - Wednesday 9:15am

Bradley SmithUniversity of Central Floria