How to monitor PeopleSoft process scheduler for availability?

There are many approaches to monitor the PeopleSoft process scheduler. One of the options that come to mind is to have a script running on the OS hosting the process scheduler to monitor the OS process. But having process schedulers running on multiple OS (PSUNX and PSNT) will need development of scripts running on both servers.

My preferred method is to use the below SQL to monitor all the process schedulers running on the database.

SELECT A.SERVERNAME, B.XLATSHORTNAME,B.FIELDNAME,B.FIELDVALUE,TO_CHAR(B.EFFDT,’YYYY-MM-DD’)

FROM PSSERVERSTAT A, PSXLATITEM B

WHERE B.EFFDT =

(SELECT MAX(B_ED.EFFDT) FROM PSXLATITEM B_ED

WHERE B.FIELDNAME = B_ED.FIELDNAME

AND B.FIELDVALUE = B_ED.FIELDVALUE

AND B_ED.EFFDT <= SYSDATE)

AND B.FIELDNAME = ‘SERVERSTATUS’

AND B.FIELDVALUE = A.SERVERSTATUS

Depending on the results of the above SQL you can trigger an email notification or any other form of action.

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PeopleSoft Hot keys

We all probably know that “CTRL J” hot key gives us the system information. But did you know that there are a lot more available. But you do not have to trouble your brain to remember them, simply press navigate to a search or transaction page and invoke hot key “CTRL K” to get all the information. Below are the results from PeopleSoft “CTRL K“.
Accessing your application using the keyboard
Keyboard navigation is controlled by Hot keys and Access keys .

List of Hot Keys
Alt 1– Executes different buttons depending on the page type

> Save button on the Toolbar in a page
> OK button on a secondary page
> Search or Add button on a Search or Lookup page

Alt 2 — Return to Search
Alt 3 — Next in List
Alt 4 — Previous in List
Alt 5 — Valid Lookup Values
Alt 6 — Related Links
Alt 7 — Insert Row in grid or scroll area
Alt 8 — Delete Row in grid or scroll area
Alt 0 — Refreshes the page by invoking the Refresh button on the Toolbar
Alt . — Next set of rows in grid or scroll area [e.g., Alt period]
Alt , — Previous set of rows in grid or scroll area [e.g., Alt comma]
Alt /– Find in grid or scroll area [e.g., Alt forward slash]
Alt ‘ — View All in grid or scroll area [e.g., Alt prime]
Alt — Toggle between Add and Update on the Search page [e.g., Alt backslash]
Ctrl J– System Information
Ctrl K> — Keyboard Information
Ctrl Y>– Toggle menu between collapse and expand.
Ctrl Tab> — Toggles focus through the frame set
Enter >– Invokes the following buttons where present: OK, Search, Lookup
Esc >– Cancel

List of Access Keys
Alt 9> — Takes you to the Help line
Alt >– Takes you to the Toolbar [e.g., Alt backslash Enter]
Ctrl Z> — Takes you to the Search box of the Menu

Menu Access KeysThe Ctrl Z combination will focus your cursor onto the menuing system. From there, you can use your tab key (or shift-tab to reverse direction) to navigate through the menu hierarchy.

About Access keys and Hot keys
>   An Access Key is an Alt key combination that moves focus to a specified field on the current page.
For example, Alt moves focus to first button on the Toolbar. Then pressing the Enter key would invoke that action. Or, you may use the Tab key to move you to the next Toolbar button.
>   A Hot Key performs an immediate action. For example, when focus is in a field that has lookup processing, Alt 5 invokes the Lookup page without having to press the Enter key.

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How to make a PeopleSoft PRIVATE query PUBLIC?

Sometime back I had a ticket asking me to make a PRIVATE query PUBLIC. The query was created by a superuser who had quit the company and whose OPRID was deleted. Here are the SQL’s you need to execute if you need to make a PRIVATE query PUBLIC using a data fix. The other straightforward alternative is to log on as the owner of the PRIVATE query and save as PUBLIC (which is not applicable in this case).

Ps_query_private_to_public1

 

UPDATE PSQRYBIND SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

UPDATE PSQRYBINDLANG SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

UPDATE PSQRYCRITERIA SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

UPDATE PSQRYDEFN SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

UPDATE PSQRYDEFNLANG SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

UPDATE PSQRYEXPR SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

UPDATE PSQRYFIELD SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

UPDATE PSQRYFIELDLANG SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

UPDATE PSQRYRECORD SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

UPDATE PSQRYSELECT SET OPRID = ‘ ‘ WHERE OPRID = ‘NPAI’ AND QRYNAME = ‘HX_CUSTOM_QUERY’;

Ps_query_private_to_public

Note:
Understanding how PeopleSoft differentiates PRIVATE versus PUBLIC query should help you resolve various similar requests like a few mentioned below.
- Create a PUBLIC query clone of the PRIVATE query
- Rename a PRIVATE or PUBLIC query
- Delete a query

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PeopleSoft Process Monitor Run Status

PeopleSoft Process Monitor Run Status

Ever had trouble identifying the runstatus in PSPRCSRQST table with what it meant. Run the following SQL to determine what it means.

SELECT C.FIELDVALUE, C.XLATLONGNAME, C.XLATSHORTNAME,C.FIELDNAME,TO_CHAR(C.EFFDT,’YYYY-MM-DD’)

FROM PSXLATITEM C

WHERE C.EFFDT =

(SELECT MAX(C_ED.EFFDT) FROM PSXLATITEM C_ED

WHERE C.FIELDNAME = C_ED.FIELDNAME

AND C.FIELDVALUE = C_ED.FIELDVALUE

AND C_ED.EFFDT <= SYSDATE)

AND C.FIELDNAME = ‘RUNSTATUS’

AND C.EFF_STATUS = ‘A’

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LifeSaver of the Week – 4

UNIX command for the PS DBA – find

In several of my previous projects, we used to get 4-5 tickets per week because of space related issues. Finally we implemented automated scripts to take care of this issue. The PS_HOME and psreports are the two main directories which have to be monitored for space growth. Below I explain the relevant examples of the UNIX command “find” that you can use to build your shell script. of Peoplesof

find $PS_HOME -name ‘*.AET’

The above command will recursively find all files with .AET extension residing in the PS_HOME directory.

find $PS_HOME -name ‘*.AET’ -mtime +1

The above command will recursively find all files with .AET extension and older than 1day in the PS_HOME directory.

find $PS_HOME -name ‘*.AET’ -mtime +1 -exec gzip {} ;

The above command will recursively find all files with .AET extension, older than 1day and will gzip the file in the PS_HOME directory.

find $PS_HOME -name ‘*.AET’ -mtime +1 -exec rm {} ;

The above command will recursively find all files with .AET extension, older than 1day and will remove the file in the PS_HOME directory.

find $PS_HOME -name ‘*.AET’ -size +10000000c -exec gzip {} ;

The above command will recursively find all files with .AET extension, greater than 10MB in sizeand will gzip the file in the PS_HOME directory.

You can replace AET with trc or out or log as appropriate

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