1. Update/Upgrade Strategies Tracking PeopleSoft Patches@UCF Panel on Update/Upgrade Strategies Session #5322 - Wednesday 9:15am Bradley Smith University of Central Floria

2. 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

3. 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

4. Saving of Web Page via Netscape

5. Saving of Web Page via IE5

6. Converting Web Page To Import/Merge File

7. AWK program

8. Microsoft Access Database

9. Run Access Macro to Import/Merege Data

10. Results of Macro Run

11. Patch Database - Patch Order

12. Next Patch to Install

13. Copy Clipboard to Search Box

14. Select Resolution Information

15. Save Patch files to Network Drive

16. Create New Directory with Patch as Directory Name

17. Save all files into that directory

19. Directory List of Network Drive

20. Support Programs to Track PeopleSoft Changes

21. Example of how support program work

22. Using RCS to view changes

24. 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

25. Where to get the software http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~brad/HEUG2001 http://www.csuohio.edu/PSHEUG email: brad@mail.ucf.edu Panel on Update/Upgrade Strategies Session #5322 - Wednesday 9:15am Bradley Smith University of Central Floria