1. User Developed Tools Something Old, Something New Something Borrowed, Something Blue Bradley Smith Assistant Director University of Central Florida http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~brad

2. W4 - Bradley Smith2 University of Central Florida 30,000+ Enrolled students 400,000+ PeopleSoft logins Oracle Database UNIX/NT Process Schedulers UNIX Application Servers IIS5 (Windows 2000) Web Server Peopletools 7.62 Student Admin 7.6

3. W4 - Bradley Smith3 Something New Emailing Crystal Reports output via NT Process Scheduler Batch Loading of Photos Pushing SQR’s/Crystal’s to Process Scheduler Revision Control of HTML Access Files Process Summary Report Creating HTML access enabled users

4. W4 - Bradley Smith4 Something New Management of direct access to PeopleSoft tables One solution for check printing issues

5. W4 - Bradley Smith5 Emailing Crystal Reports output via NT Process Scheduler Allows users to run crystal reports without having Crystal Reports installed Crystal Report output is emailed back to the user as an attachment in Microsoft Word format Allows Crystal Reports to be automated via process scheduler Source is provided - Microsoft C 6.0

6. W4 - Bradley Smith6 NT Process Scheduler & Crystal Reports Installation –Edit source, Compile install binary & blat.exe change *blat to reflect your environment change *blat_error to reflect your environment –Change Crystal Reports process definition Need to change process type definition for new executable –See web page for word document show all that is needed

7. W4 - Bradley Smith7 Batch Loading of Photos No delivered PeopleSoft method SQR’s can’t handle jpg files easily data type is a longraw makes SQL unusable Wrote program in ‘C’, using Oracle OCI libraries

8. W4 - Bradley Smith8 Batch Loading of Photos Installation –Edit/Change Source to fit your needs Program takes input from a file –one person/entry per line –format is “SSN”,”JPEGFILENAME” Program Usage -f inputfilename -u sysadm -p password -d database

9. W4 - Bradley Smith9 Batch Loading of Photos Program Flow –Reads datafile –Looks up EMPLID via SSN –Deletes current record, because of longs you can not do an update –Inserts new picture file –repeats

10. W4 - Bradley Smith10 Pushing SQR’s/Crystal’s to Process Scheduler Multiple Process Schedulers on multiple machines WorkStation

11. W4 - Bradley Smith11 Pushing SQR’s/Crystal’s to Process Scheduler Program Features –Drap/Drop –While running reuses same password –Configurable Installation –Only a binary & and a INI file that gets created –Setup of hosts/directories Written Clarion for Windows

12. W4 - Bradley Smith12 Pushing SQR’s/Crystal’s to Process Scheduler

13. W4 - Bradley Smith13 Revision Control of HTML Access Files Features –Allows test/production to be read-only and have revision control –Does recursive file date/time compare –Configurable with different source and target directories –Permanently/Temporarily disables moving of files –uses freely available RCS tools

14. W4 - Bradley Smith14 Revision Control of HTML Access Files Installation –one binary & INI file that holds configuration –setup of source/target directories

15. W4 - Bradley Smith15 Revision Control of HTML Access Files

16. W4 - Bradley Smith16 Process Summary Report SQR the runs nightly to produce a report that shows process scheduler activity

17. W4 - Bradley Smith17 Process Summary Report

18. W4 - Bradley Smith18 Process Summary Report Installation –Import into AUD Database project: CF_MOD2124_PRCS_SUMMARY_RPT.DAT –Look at objects begin copied - may not want to copy menu –Copy project to development –Create table, fix menu, give security –Place SQR on server

19. W4 - Bradley Smith19 Process Summary Report

20. W4 - Bradley Smith20 Creating HTML access enabled users Delivered method uses Application Engine, hard to debug, difficult to change Wrote an SQR to create/enable operator ids –creates users based on relationships with institution. –Sets up values for opr_def_tbl_cc, and security for student admin –finds manually added operators and makes them web enabled

21. W4 - Bradley Smith21 Creating HTML access enabled users Installation –Import App Designer Project into AUD –Enable/Disable upgrade elements and copy to development. –Enable security of new menu item –Edit SQR to local needs –Place SQR on server Enjoy!

22. W4 - Bradley Smith22 Management of direct access to PeopleSoft tables Issues –User offices have their own programmers and want to write SQR’s because Crystal isn’t powerful enough. –Since these SQR’s are outside your control, you want to make sure that the SQR’s don’t do incorrecting updating/deleting and such of records. –Giving out sysadm password is impossible.

23. W4 - Bradley Smith23 Management of direct access to PeopleSoft tables Solution –set of PeopleSoft panels that allow you to setup Oracle roles which allow direct access to PeopleSoft tables the PeopleSoft login –Permissions include Select, Delete, Update, and Insert –Decentralize report writing

24. W4 - Bradley Smith24 Management of direct access to PeopleSoft tables Installation –Import App Designer Project into AUD –Enable/Disable upgrade elements and copy to development. –Create new tables –Enable security of new menu item Gotcha –ALTER/CREATE VIEW - looses permissions, have an SQR (in progress) for nightly runs

25. W4 - Bradley Smith25 Management of direct access to PeopleSoft tables

26. W4 - Bradley Smith26 One solution for check printing issues Issues –SQR graphic format depends on SQR output format –Use of MICR font requires graphics to be in HPGL format Solution –Program that converts PCX format files into HP Soft Fonts to be down loaded to printer.

27. W4 - Bradley Smith27 One solution for check printing issues Features –Can read/write soft font files created by program. –Saved file ready to be sent directly to printer, no translation needed, contains all the PCL commands to save font. We place the font file on the UNIX server and modified prcs_sqr to download the file to the printer before running the SQR

28. W4 - Bradley Smith28 One solution for check printing issues Features (cont’d) –Soft font file can hold more than 1 bitmap image. –Program tells you what the escape sequence you need to use in your SQR program to be able to access the bitmaps.

29. W4 - Bradley Smith29 One solution for check printing issues

30. W4 - Bradley Smith30 One solution for check printing issues do Declare-Printer-Check ! do Format-Check-Name-Address !print the company and bank information and the check number let #row = 67 columns 2 ! !!!! Print -image print ucf seal Insert code here ! print-image refund-logo (#row,1) ! !!!! Print -image print ucf Logo Insert code here encode ' &lO (s1P (1025V (s100Tm (0U' into $prtseal print $prtseal (#row,1) How the SQR works

31. W4 - Bradley Smith31 Something Old UNIX Process Scheduler Email/FTP Mod/Issue - Project Request System Revision Control for SQR’s All presentations available on website

32. W4 - Bradley Smith32 UNIX Process Scheduler Email/FTP Sends email back to user with output/logfiles as attachments. Allows for sending or getting datafiles via FTP before and after SQR’s run Pretty easy and painless to implement

33. W4 - Bradley Smith33 Mod/Issue - Project Request System Tracks issue requests, Modification requests and project request moves Has email ability Tracks objects moved Allows for other support documents to be included

34. W4 - Bradley Smith34 Revision Control for SQR’s/COBOL Benefits/Features –Tracks both locally written and PeopleSoft delivered –Uses RCS - freely available –BAT programs to help automate moving of locally written SQR’s and when PeopleSoft patches are applied

35. W4 - Bradley Smith35 Something Borrowed SQR Viewing Program –written by: Scott Sills –edit zsqr.bat to your own needs (I install it in the sendto Folder)

36. W4 - Bradley Smith36 Something Borrowed WWW Interesting Links –Yahoo Fans http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peoplesoft-fans/ –Slerp http://www.slerp.com –PeopleSoft Fans http://www.peoplesoftfans.com

37. W4 - Bradley Smith37 Something Borrowed –PeopleSoft Pros http://www.peoplesoftpros.com/discussion/ –SQR Users Group - http://www.sqrug.com/ –Ray Ontko & Co. - http://www.ontko.com/sqr/

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39. W4 - Bradley Smith39 Conclusion HTTP://higheredsig.cua.edu/ (attendees may download HEUG2002 presentations from the archives at this location) HTTP://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~brad brad@mail.ucf.edu