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Installing the Agent for People Soft (UNIX) - Details

This document guides you through the new installation of a PeopleSoft agent.


1. Installing the AE Interface 

The complete installation process of the AE interface is described in a separate document.

AE's interface is required in order to use bind variables.

 2. Adjusting values in the field OUTDESTTYPE (PeopleSoft)  
Value Active Eff Dt Long Name Short Name
0 01.01.1899 Any Any
1 01.01.1899 (None) NONE
2 01.01.1899 File FILE
3 01.01.1899 Printer PRINTER
4 01.01.1899 Window WINDOW
5 01.01.1899 Email EMAIL
6 01.01.1899 Web WEB
7 01.01.1899 Default DEFAULT
3. Transferring the Agent's tar file to the host and unpacking it
4. Adjusting the Agent's configurationA set of constituent components that make up a system. This includes information on how the components are connected including the settings applied. file

The psjoa.jar file's content was changed as of People Soft version 8.54. Some Java classes are missing from it. They may be found in the People Soft 8.54 Internet Architecture installation in the following directory:

<PS_HOME>\webserv\peoplesoft\applications\peoplesoft\PORTAL.war\WEB-INF\classes

You have to add the psjoa.jar and the missing classes to the CLASSPATH of the following components:

  1. People Soft Agent (to enable job execution)
  2. UserInterface (to order to be able to use FORMS, when defining People Soft Jobs).
5. Creating the start script

set +vx
UC4_ROOT=$HOME
UC4_BIN=$UC4_ROOT/bin
UC4_TEMP=$UC4_ROOT/temp
#
JAVA_DIR=/opt/java1.3/jre/lib/PA_RISC2.0
UC4_LIB=$UC4_ROOT/lib
export SHLIB_PATH=$JAVA_DIR/classic:$JAVA_DIR:$UC4_LIB
echo "SHLIB_PATH ----> '$SHLIB_PATH'"
#
#PS_HOME=<Home directory of PeopleSoft>
export PS_SERVDIR=$PS_HOME/appserv/HR800/prcs/PSHR800
echo "PS_SERVDIR ----> '$PS_SERVDIR'"
#
nohup $UC4_BIN/UCXJPSX > $UC4_TEMP/UCXJPSX.log 2>&1 &

6.

Using ERP Forms (optional) 

7.

Shortening the interval for checking tasks in PeopleSoft

8.

Editing ERP Login

9.

Defining operator IDs in AE

10.

Testing the PeopleSoft connection

11.

Functional test

12.

Entering the Agent's start script for system start

13.

Configuration for using bind variables (optional)

14.

Configuration for using the RemoteTaskManager (optional)