peoplesoft cumulative feature report ptools

8/10/2019 PeopleSoft Cumulative Feature Report PTools

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Product(s)

Accessibility

Accessibility

Accessibility

Application Engine

ApplicationDesigner

ApplicationDesigner

ApplicationDesigner

ApplicationDesigner

ApplicationDesigner


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Application Engine

Application Engine

BI Publisher

BI Publisher

BI Publisher

AutomatedConfgurationManagement


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BI Publisher

Change Assistant

Change Assistant

Change Assistant

Change Assistant

Change Assistant

ComponentInter aces

ComponentInter aces


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lobal !echnology

lobal !echnology

Data Migration"or#bench




Documents !echnology


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Integration Bro#er

Integration Bro#er

Integration Bro#er

Integration Bro#er

P$%n&ision

Mobile ApplicationPlat orm

Mobile ApplicationPlat orm

MultiChannel'rame or#


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PeopleCode

PeopleCode

PeopleCode

PeopleCode

PeopleCodePeopleCode

PeopleCode

PeopleCode

PeopleCode

PeopleCode

PeopleCode

People$o t 'luidser Inter ace



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Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid






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Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid


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Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid


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Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Pi*ot rid

Portal !echnologies

Portal !echnologies

Portal !echnologies

Portal !echnologies


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Portal !echnologies

Portal !echnologies

Process $cheduler

Process $cheduler

Process $cheduler

Process $cheduler

Process $cheduler

+uery


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+uery

+uery+uery

+uery

+uery

+uery

+uery

+uery

,eporting "eb$er*ices


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$+,

$+,

$+,

$earch

$earch$earch$earch

$earch

$earch

$earch

,eporting "eb$er*ices


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$ecurityAdministration



$ecurity

Administration






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$ystem and $er*erAdministration







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!est 'rame or#

!est 'rame or#

!est 'rame or#

!est 'rame or#







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!est 'rame or#

!ree Manager

pdate Manager

pdate Manager

pdate Manager

pdate Manager

pdate Manager

"or#-o !echnology"or#-o

!echnology


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In ./016 you can defne !emporary !ables as !!s in the Application Designer/ !his eature canbe applied to Application Engine programs running in both batch mode and online mode/ !hedata in !! is session specifc or Application Engine programs running in batch mode andtransaction specifc or Application Engine programs running in online mode/ But !!s inonline mode cannot be shared bet een Application Engine programs/ Each ApplicationEngine program has its o n set o !!s/ !here ore6 it is recommended that !!s should notbe used as $hare !ables in online mode/


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BI Publisher reports output as PD' can no be digitally signed hich *erifes the signer sidentity and ensures that the document has not been altered a ter it as created/ Digitalsignatures can be attached to all PD' output and is enabled or both PD' and ,!' templates/

!he Change Assistant user inter ace has been redesigned to simpli y the setup process anda*oid duplicate e ort in defning databases/ !he ne user inter ace uses the People!ools

tangerine color schemeA ter a database has been defned to Change Assistant6 Change Assistant ill retrie*e thedatabase in ormation ithout relying on EM'/


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Application Data $ets are the primary data structures used in Data Migration "or#bench/ !hene eatures in ./01 pro*ide the ability toF% Defne relationships ithin and bet een Application Data $ets to better defne structure/

!hese re erences ha*e properties that determine ho and hen certain processing ill be

done to better edit the data and hen to include related obGects into a proGect/ !hey ill alsoensure that re erential integrity rules are applied/% Defne groups o records and felds ithin an Application Data $et that6 together ith groupproperties6 can be used to defne records and felds that can be sa ely merged or that shouldbe hidden rom compare/% Associate application classes that automatically per orm speciali>ed shape and *aluetrans orms that occur bet een !ools releases hen needed/

!he user inter ace or re*ie ing compare reports has been redesigned to pro*ide summaryin ormation regarding additions6 deletions6 di erences6 same and messages/ sers can drilldo n to *ie the details or each line displayed and decide hether or not to accept theaction/

AD$ defnitions are deli*ered or the ne7t generation People!ools managed obGects li#e Pi*otrids Acti*ity uides6 "or#Centers6 ,elated Content and so on/ !hese AD$s are used orupgrade6 compare6 merge6 and *alidation in :CM acti*ities/ !hese deli*ered AD$ defnitionssupport shape and *alue trans orms hich ma#e it possible to apply updates rom the ./01P M $ource to either an ./0 or ./01 target database/

Data Migration "or#bench is used to migrate People!ools eatures6 such as Pi*ot rids andActi*ity uides6 rom one People$o t instance to another/ In some cases6 code may bere;uired to apply People$o t%deli*ered changes on top o a customer s customi>ations/ A ne

eature ithin Data Migration "or#bench allo s specifc rules to be applied hen migratingdata to enable changes to be applied hile preser*ing customi>ations/

A property has been added to the Document Builder % H$48 page inside the H$48 Detailssection called 9ide Parent 4bGect :abel/ "hen this chec# bo7 is selected the system%generated H$48 does not include the H$48 label (obGect name in the parent document)/ !hispro*ides more -e7ibility to create a third%party H$48 string/ 8ote6 that this option ill beenabled i the People$o t document as created using the Consume "eb $er*ice i>ard inPeople$o t Integration Bro#er/

People!ools ./01 is adding our more pages to support translating defnitions in targetlanguages/ !he defnitions added areF Composite +ueries6 MAP :ayout6 MAP !emplate6 andData $et Defnitions/

People!ools ./01 introduces a aster method to con*ert 4racle databases to nicode/ 4racleDatabase Migration Assistant or nicode (DM ) is a migration tool that pro*ides a completesolution on 4racle databases to con*ert to nicode/ It also pro*ides *alidation to identi y anydata that may ha*e issues con*erting to nicode/


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!he Mobile Application Plat orm deli*ered in People!ools ./01 uses People$o t IntegrationBro#er and ,E$! ser*ices as part o its rame or#/ As a result defning the target location or,E$! ser*ices is mandatory as part o the Integration Bro#er confguration/ And6 hendefning the ,E$! target location6 the de ault local node must be part o the ,E$! ,:/

People!ools is deli*ering a ,emote Intradoc Client (,IDC) target connector to allo users tointeract ith the 4racle "ebCenter Content product/ 4racle "ebCenter Content pro*idesleading edge solutions or all types o content management needs/ It has been chosen as therepository or large data sets or 'usion document disco*ery and trans er/

!o add more -e7ibility in the ,E$! rame or#6 you can assign optional content types andstatus codes to message instances on ,E$! ser*ice operations/ enerated "AD: documentsill re-ect the optional selected *alues6 allo ing consumers to re;uest the content type theypre er/


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!he ne People$o t 8a*igation Bar (also re erred to as 8a*Bar) o ers aster and moreintuiti*e na*igation across the People$o t application/ !he 8a*igation Bar is a ne -uidstructure that is al ays a*ailable as a dynamic indo that slides out rom the side o thepage/ 4n -uid%enabled systems6 the People$o t 8a*igation Bar ill be a*ailable e*en onPeople$o t classic pages6 creating a seamless e7perience or users as they na*igate thesystem/

!he 8otifcation 'rame or# is a mechanism employed by People!ools that updates a idgetin the homepage header/ As data is updated ithin applications6 the notifcation idgetre-ects a sum o all notifcations rom all applications represented in the home page/ It sho susers the number o items that need their attention and enables them to *ie and act onthose items using the 8otifcation "indo/ 'or e7ample6 i an application pro*ides thenumber o outstanding in*oices yet to be appro*ed by the user6 the 8otifcation 'rame or#might be used to update the count dynamically as ne in*oices are generated/

!iles6 also called grouplets6 pro*ide a discrete *ie to a segment o the People$o tapplication/ It is a structure on the homepage that ill help the user na*igate to a -uid page(or e*en a classic page)6 but the tile also can pro*ide *aluable in ormation in its o n right/Designed to be more than a button on a homepage6 the tile le*erages the ability to displaydynamic content rom People$o t6 including *isual content rom People$o t Pi*ot rids6 orother in ormation sources/ A tile on a -uid homepage can be compared to a pagelet on aclassic homepage/

'luid 9omepages are the -uid *ersion o an application home page/ $imilar to the currentportal technology6 the -uid homepage is here a user arri*es a ter logging into the system/

!he -uid homepage brings together in ormation that ill assist a user in understandinghat s happening and hat needs their attention6 hile pro*iding an easy ay or the user tona*igate to #ey parts o the People$o t system/ A system can contain multiple -uidhomepages or di erent uses/ Customers can easily create ne homepages and publishthem to users6 groups o users6 or specifc roles/ End users can create their o n personalhomepages6 here they might associate in ormation o rele*ance or importance tothemsel*es

se the Display Mode section in the $peci y Data Model 4ptions page to speci y a displaymode at the *ie le*el or P$+uery Pi*ot rid models/ !he selected option in this section cano*erride the *ie er that is used or opening the Pi*ot rid *ie /

Beginning rom People!ools ./016 i e7pression is used in the Pi*ot rid model6 then theormula%based e7pression can be used only as a column *alue and no aggregate unctionshould be applied i the aggregation unctions are deri*ed rom the other columns that ma#eup the e7pression/


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Each dimension in the Pi*ot rid model can be associated ith a People$o t $ummer !ree( hich has the tree details associated ith a component)/ !he totals that appear in the Pi*otrid are limited to only the lo est le*el o the tree structure/

!he $catter and Bubble chart types are a*ailable or the Chart 4nly models/ !hese charttypes apply or the classic Pi*ot rid &ie er6 Pi*ot rid 'luid &ie er6 and search pages/


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Application de*eloper can use the Publish as rouplet lin# in Pi*ot rid "i>ard to create thegrouplets that are used in the 'luid mode/ !hese grouplets are confgured to point to the'luid &ie er component or the specifc Pi*ot rid model/

'rom the +uery Manager component6 the Pi*ot rid designer6 application de*elopers6 orreport administrators can use the Publish as Pi*ot rid lin# to access the ,e*ie Pi*ot ridspage/ 'rom the ,e*ie Pi*ot rid page6 they can clic# either the Edit or the Add button toaccess the Pi*ot rid "i>ard J $elect Data $ource page6 here they can add ne Pi*ot ridmodels or update e7isting ones that use the current ;uery as the data source/

In the 'luid &ie er6 you can set the ro %le*el related action or the Pi*ot rid model that hasthe Detail &ie set to rid and :ist/ Each ro o data in the Detail &ie has an Actions optionto per orm the ro %le*el action/ !he grid or list *ie has multiple $elect options6 and theActions button is used to per orm the bul# related action or the selected ro s/ Clic#ing thechart data point or the act in a grid populates the aggregate%related actions/ !he

unctionality or these related actions is similar to that in the classic Pi*ot rid &ie er/"hen you search or e7isting Pi*ot rid models using the Pi*ot rid &ie er search page6 youcan select the $ho All &ie s option to display the de ault and non%de ault *ie s that areassociated ith the Pi*ot rid model/

I the personali>ation *ie s are a*ailable or the current model6 you are able to use the ,esetoption rom the 4ption Menu icon in the Pi*ot rid &ie er page to clear all thepersonali>ations and to reset the Pi*ot rid model to the de ault setting ( ithoutpersonali>ation)/

In a rid and Chart *ie 6 selecting a chart data point displays the detail *ie or the data

point/ I aggregate action is confgured or the Pi*ot rid model6 selecting a chart data pointalso enables you to per orm aggregate related actions/

'luid components should ha*e the real%time search confgured using Pi*ot rid/ !o confgure6application de*eloper can use Pi*ot rid "i>ard to defne Pi*ot rid models by selectingcomponent data source/ !he i>ard creates a ;uery behind the scenes ith the same nameo the component and associates it ith the model/ !his ;uery is based only on the searchrecord o the component/ !he #eys o the search record become the prompts or the model/

In the pre*ious releases6 you ere able to create Pi*ot rid models using Pi*ot rid "i>ardand set P$+uery as the data source/ Beginning rom People!ools release ./016 you are able tocreate Pi*ot rid models using Pi*ot rid "i>ard and set P$+uery or Component as the datasource/


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Pi*ot rid 'luid mode6 or Pi*ot rid 'luid &ie er6 represents the Pi*ot rid models in a touchriendly and responsi*e user inter ace/ All Pi*ot rid models6 including the e7isting Pi*ot ridmodels created in an earlier release and the ne ly%created models6 can be represented in the'luid &ie er component/ !his e7ample sho s the grid and detailed *ie or a Pi*ot ridmodel/ ation ser*ice can per orm authori>ation chec#s or application class%based ser*ices as ell/ Data security chec#s can also be per ormed or i$cript6 pagelet6 andPeople$o t ;uery content types6 ma#ing the implementation o security easier hen bothbasic People!ools security and ro %le*el security are re;uired/

People!ools no pro*ides a greatly e7panded branding rame or# that is po er ul and-e7ible6 bringing the capability o managing the loo# and eel to the People$o t applicationithout re;uiring People$o t Interaction 9ub/ "ith People!ools ./016 many common branding

acti*ities6 including managing content associated ith the o*erall site style6 are noper ormed online rather than re;uiring the use o Application Designer/ In addition6People!ools supports component%based branding6 pro*iding the ability to apply a consistentappearance hen rendering content rom multiple pro*iders on the same page/

"ith the $etup Acti*ity uide "or#Center that is included in People!ools ./016 thede*elopment o acti*ity guide templates and instances becomes easier than it aspre*iously/ !his "or#Center pro*ides a complete step%by%step process or creating6confguring6 maintaining6 and deploying acti*ity guides ithin a People$o t application/


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By building on the sel %ser*ice scheduling eature in People!ools ./016 acti*ity guides can noinclude a batch process as a step/ !his eature enables acti*ity guides to encompass bothtransactional and batch processes in a single guided process/

,elated content data migrated as AD$ obGects bet een People$o t databases in People!ools./0 did not allo customers to preser*e certain common confguration changes they hadapplied on the target databases/ 8o 6 People!ools ./01 enables customers to preser*e theseconfgurations using the compare and copy processes o Data Migration "or#bench/ !hissimplifes the process o ta#ing maintenance on related content data/

People$o t ./01 supports the distribution or trans er o report fles and deleting or purgingdirectories ith '!P$ and $'!P ser*ers/ ,eport 8ode Defnition no has a ne simplifed userinter ace that has a single tab ith dropdo n to select the di erent trans er modes/

Based on the confguration6 users recei*e alert sliding indo s gi*ing the status o theprocess they e7ecute/ !his indo appears dynamically as a slide%in indo at the bottomright in all People$o t pages6 hich sho s the processing status or the confgured states/

!here ould also be a fnal Process $tatus "indo hich gi*es a lin# using hich thegenerated report or the process can be directly opened rom ,eport ,epository/

Partition scheduling pro*ides capability or per orming parallel processing and also orautomation o batch e7ecution o multiple processes/ It helps in aster per ormance bybrea#ing do n a process that or#s on a large data set6 to multiple parallel processes thator# in tandem on smaller datasets/


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All +uery Access $er*ice (+A$) ser*ices are no also a*ailable as ,E$! ser*ices/

"ith People!ools ./016 de*elopers ill use the ne Composite +uery eature (essentially asuperset o the pre*iously pro*ided Connected +uery) to retrie*e multiple le*els o relatedin ormation as a single6 -attened ;uery result6 allo ing or the subse;uent aggregation andtrans ormation o the data/ In addition6 People!ools supports a ne userPeople$o t +uery supports Microso t E7cel 233K and higher *ersions/ As a result6 you can

send more than L1 thousand ro s o ;uery output to Microso t E7cel/

People!ools ./01 adds a 'ind ,e erences lin#6 allo ing a user to determine i a +uery orConnected +uery is used as a data source by another component6 such as anotherConnected +uery6 BI Publisher report6 Pi*ot rid6 $earch Defnition6 or ,$$ 'eed/

People!ools has added an Ad*anced +uery $ecurity option to Application Designer/ !hiseature allo s up to f*e +uery $ecurity ,ecords to be associated ith a single record6including the ability to associate security ith non%#ey felds/ "hile po er ul6 this eature

should be used sparingly because multiple additional Goins ill a ect ;uery per ormance/Beginning rom People!ools ./016 you are able to use the Image ,l lin# in the EditE7pression Properties page to access the $elect a +uery page here you can build ,:s inthe image ,: ormat/

+uery supports the use o image felds in the ;uery defnition/ $etting the Image 'ieldsproperty under the +uery Properties page determines ho these feld *alues are displayed inthe +uery result set/ I the image feld property is set to Image Data6 the image feld *alue(binary image) ill be displayed as an embedded image in the result set hen you run the;uery to 9!M: output ormat/ I you run a ;uery to any other type o ormat ( or e7ample6

?M: or !?!)6 a BaseL1 encoded data string representing the image is displayed instead/"hen setting the property to Image 9yperlin#6 a ,: ill be returned in place o the feld*alue/ "hen accessed6 this ,: ill return the image as an image fle in a ne bro serindo /

+uery prompts can no ha*e de ault *alues6 hich are specifed as constants or by the useo system *ariables such as Date6 Date!ime6 !ime/ Prompts can be set as optional/

!he ,E$! ul ser*ices use the same ser*ice handler classes that are used by the $4AP%based*ersions/ Conditional logic added to the handler classes ill determine6 based on theincoming ,e;uest message name6 hich ser*ice has been in*o#ed and ill respondappropriately/ !he ,esponse message is identical (?M: 'ile) regardless o hether a $4AP or,E$! re;uest as made6 and so the construction o response message remains the same oreither ,e;uest type/ !he ,esponse message ill e*en utili>e the same response messagedefnition and schema/ !he di erences mainly center on ho the re;uest message is parsedor input parameters/ In the case o ,E$! ul re;uest6 the parameters are part o the ,E$! ulre;uest ,:/


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Content in the report repository can no be inde7ed and searched/Images can no appear in search results/

+A$ utili>es the People$o t Integration Bro#er rame or# to implement t o ne synchroni>edcomposite ;uery operations/ Composite ;uery unctionality is accessed through $4APre;uest and response messages/ All +A$ operations ha*e re;uest and response messageschemas defned/ sers can ac;uire message schema by inspecting "$D:/

"ith People!ools ./016 $+, ill create ?M: output fles hen ?M: output fle ormat isspecifed hile scheduling the Gob rom $ystem Process ,e;uests page/$tarting ith People!ools ./016 users in di erent geographical region can generatepersonali>ed $+, reports specifc to the region/

$+, allo s you to print PD' reports that ha*e rich te7t content stored in tables rom longedit bo7es in PIA pages/ Customers can print rich te7t ormatted content ithout ear olosing the ormat ith ;ualifer C4DE%P,I8!E,N9! ith print command/

People!ools ./01 e7tends the $earch 'rame or# or use ith the People$o t 'luid ser

Inter ace6 pro*iding a rich search e7perience that is optimi>ed or small orm actor de*ices6such as tablets and $martphones6 as ell as larger monitorsInde7es built rom fle and eb sources can no be included in the lobal $earch results byselecting the All category

'acets can no be based on numerical and date ranges6 allo ing more ays or users to si tthrough search results

People$o t s lobal $earch eature no supports the inclusion o report contents in thepreparation o global search inde7es/ !his ability allo s users to search or #ey ords in thePeople$o t database and or the search to return results based on report content in the,eport ,epository rather than Gust the People$o t transactional database/ 8ote that i you arein a -uid%compatible bro ser and -uid is enabled6 the end users in classic mode ill see the-uid global search page as opposed to the classic global search page/

!he $earch 'rame or# no e7tends lobal $earch beha*ior to Component $earch or -uidapplications/ "ith People!ools ./016 Component $earch pages ill le*erage Pi*ot ridunctionality6 presenting search results in both *isual charts and columnar lists/ Pi*ot ridsability to drill rom charts as ell as incorporate rich acet and flter unctions greatly

impro*es the e7perience o analy>ing and identi ying target in ormation/ ,elated actions arealso a*ailable across all types o search results/ !hese enhancements are incorporated in-uid pages/ $earch results and interacti*ity in component search are optimi>ed hen *ie edrom a $martphone to impro*e producti*ity and ease o use/ Classic PIA pages continue touse the component search eatures o pre*ious releases/


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In line ith an o*erall 4racle $ecure Confguration Initiati*e6 People!ools ./01 continues toe7pand on its $ecure by De ault installation/ $ecure by De ault is an approach to ensure thatthe application confguration settings adhere to system hardening recommendations/ !hissection describes enhancements deli*ered this release/

Pre*ious releases o the $ecurity Administration documentation described ho to implementOerberos as a des#top single%signon solution/ !he in ormation described as a proo oconcept6 and the solution is not a supported or certifed implementation/

:i#e t o%tier Defnition $ecurity6 PIA%based Defnition $ecurity enables you to create6 copy6and delete defnition groups6 as ell as grant permission list access to defnition groups/9o e*er6 PIA%based Defnition $ecurity pro*ides additional unctionality that is not a*ailablein the t o%tier application/

People!ools has been deli*ering a t o%tier Defnition $ecurity application or securingPeople!ools managed obGects6 such as components6 menus6 pages6 records6 felds6 and so on/Beginning this release People!ools is also deli*ering this unctionality in the People$o t Pure

Internet Architecture/

People!ools has e7tended the $ecurity Authori>ation $er*ice unctionality to confgure ro %le*el security to multiple content types/ In People!ools ./016 ro %le*el security is e7tended toi$cript6 People$o t +uery6 application classes and pagelets that ere pre*iously restricted tocomponent and content re erences only/ !o authori>e ser*ices6 you can associate a securityapplication class to multiple content types on a single page/ !his ill ease the maintenanceand audit acti*ities to confgure authori>ations hen you are reusing a security applicationclass/

!he People!ools security rame or# includes a ne E7ternal Digital Certifcates page tosupport a BI Publisher or People$o t enhancement or creating digital signatures or PD'report output/ !he digital signature *erifes the signer s identity and ensures that the reportoutput has not been altered/ Digital signatures can be attached to all PD' output and isenabled or both PD' and ,!' templates/

!he :DAP section o the psappsr*/c g fle has been modifed to include se*eral parameters toconfgure the connection bet een the People$o t application ser*er and an :DAP directoryser*er/

'or e*ery PIA sign on attempt6 there ill be t o ro sF in ormation about the last success ul

login6 including timestamp and authentication type in ormation about the last ailed attempt6including timestamp6 ailed logic count and authentication type/ !he in ormation is logged inand can be ;ueried rom the P$P!:4 I8A DI! table/ Enhanced login audits are enabled inthe application ser*er confguration fle/


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"ith People!ools ./016 the latest enhancement in*ol*ing P$@94ME6 Portable P$@94ME6 illpro*ide an easier ay to use a pri*ate cloud confguration here multiple applicationinstallations use the same People!ools install/ 9ard%coded paths and symbolic lin#s areremo*ed6 hich ill allo the install o People!ools to be more easily copied to other ser*ers/8I? fle ser*ers can create a mount point to use the installation ith any number oen*ironments/ "ith a single People!ools install being used ith multiple application installs6procuring an en*ironment becomes aster and cheaper/ In addition6 hen it is time to applymaintenance6 it is ;uic#ly per ormed in one place instead o in each separate en*ironment6thus lo ering the total cost o o nership/

Push 8otifcation is an e*ent rame or# that enables People$o t ser*er run time to push datadirectly to People$o t Pure Internet Architecture bro sers/ !his allo s bidirectional ull duple7communication bet een bro ser clients and ser*er runtime/ !he eature allo s defningindi*idual e*ents or group%related e*ents as collections and pro*ides an API to dispatche*ents to bro ser clients/ 8otifcation "indo uses the push mechanism pro*ided by Push8otifcation and collates *arious notifcations generated by the system to the indo/ Itcategori>es notifcations into actions and alerts and allo s actions to be per ormed on thenotifcation items/ Appro*al "or#-o Engine (A"E) and !rigger Business E*ent (!BE) aresome o the unctional areas that ill ha*e their notifcations published to the 8otifcation"indo /

!he Percentage Memory ro th parameter has been remo*ed or People!ools ./01 andreplaced ith a ne approach to recycling ser*er processes/ Enter a memory threshold orrecyclable ser*er processes running ithin the domain/ "hen the ser*er processes e7ceedthe limit6 the system restarts6 or recycles6 them/ !his setting applies to all recyclable ser*erprocesses ithin the domain/

$e*eral ne settings are a*ailable in P$ADMI8 that enable the system to monitor and adGustautomatically a domain s cache hile it runs6 re;uiring no inter*ention rom systemadministrators6 and ithout re;uiring the domain or a ser*er process to be restarted/

"ith People!ools ./016 People!ools ill no longer support descending inde7es on the 4racledatabase plat orm/

"ith People!ools ./016 4racle database customers are able to confgure partitioning oPeople$o t tables as ell as inde7es/ !hese confgurations no longer need to be done outside

o People$o t/ !o establish partitioning defnitions6 a ne Partitioning page is pro*ided in People$o t InternetArchitecture/ 4n this page you can re*ie deli*ered People$o t partition defnitions6 orspeci y table and inde7 partitioning parameters6 generate the partitioning DD: and sa*e theDD: to the People!ools metadata tables/


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Multitenant Database is a ne eature included in 4racle database 2c that pro*ides theability to mo*e pre*iously autonomous databases (such as People$o t application databases)into a single container database instance/ Each database that is plugged into a container stillappears to be uni;ue ho e*er6 se*eral ad*antages are gained/

People!ools ./01 enables potentially signifcant CP sa*ings by using materiali>ed *ie s orthe 4racle database/ Application Designer ill ha*e the ability to declare and defnemateriali>ed *ie s (including the data re resh period) or use ithin People$o t applications/

!he installlocation *alue6 hich in pre*ious releases identifes the P$@94ME *ariable6 hasbeen remo*ed in People!ools ./01 or the copy o the peopletools/properties fle ritten toP$@94ME during installation/ 9o e*er6 the installlocation #ey ill continue to appear in thepeopletools/properties fle that resides in P$@C' @94ME/ !he system generates the *aluehen creating the P$@C' @94ME/

$ourcing this script ill continue to be necessary prior to using any People!ools unctionalityon 8I?/ 9o e*er6 this fle ill no longer contain a hardcoded path to P$@94ME6 hichmeans that the script ill deri*e the location o P$@94ME rom the conte7t in hich it runs/As such6 it is re;uired that the current or#ing directory is P$@94ME prior to sourcingpsconfg/sh/

!he symbolic lin# rom P$@94ME=appser*=psadmin to P$@94ME=bin=psadmin ill no longer becreated at install/ Any e7isting custom scripts in your implementation that in*o#eP$@94ME=appser*=psadmin ill need to be changed to in*o#e P$@94ME=bin=psadmin orin*o#e psconfg/sh prior to in*o#ing P$ADMI8 ithout a ully ;ualifed path name/A ne ProGect menu is a*ailable in the P!' Client6 hich enables you to inspect and maintainthe test contents o an Application Designer proGectChanges to People$o t !est 'rame or# include many usability enhancements or creating6administering6 recording6 and e7ecuting tests/

,eporting enhancements include the ollo ing itemsF% "hen generating P!' PIA reports6 you can speci y a P!' parent older as part o the reportcriteria6 hich enables you to produce reports by older or most reports/% A ne !est Matri7 report6 hich pro*ides in ormation about the hierarchical relationships ora gi*en test6 listing its top le*el parent test6 and all child tests/


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!he current People$o t pdate Image or each application ill be on People!ools ./01/

In the P!' Client !ools menu6 a ne Mass pdate option is a*ailable/ !his eature enablesbul# updates o specifc tests attributes6 across multiple tests/ 'or e7ample6 suppose in a nerelease6 a component name has changed6 and e*ery test you ha*e that re erences that

component must no be modifed in order to e7ecute success ully/ sing the Mass pdatetool6 you retrie*e the impacted tests6 search or steps that include that component andreplace the pre*ious component name ith the ne name/ "hen you use the mass updatetool6 you defne and apply a flter to retrie*e tests that match specifc criteria6 returning theresults in a grid ormat similar to the !est editor6 but including steps or multiple tests/ !hegrid includes t o additional columnsF 'older6 and !est6 so you can identi y hich test thesteps are rom/ 4nce the grid is populated6 you can use a fnd=replace dialog bo7 to searchor specifc test step feld *alues6 modi y the steps6 and sa*e your changes/

$tarting rom release ./016 using the !ree Manager page6 you are able to cut multiple treenodes or tree lea*es using the Cut icon6 and then you use the Paste as $ibling or Paste as

Child icons to paste all cut tree nodes or tree lea*es at once together as children or siblings/People!ools ./01 pro*ides ne eatures that pro*ide the ability or the source and targetPeople$o t systems to be on di erent People!ools *ersions/

Data Migration proGects ha*e been integrated ith P M to create a composite proGect ocustomer%selected units o or# containing DM" proGects and their dependents or AD$ in amanner similar to hat has been done or IDE obGects in ./0 /

!he People$o t pdate Image shared older ill include the supported ./0 4racle ( 2%bit)and People!ools clients6 as ell as the supported ./01 4racle (L1%bit) and People!ools clients/

!he image supports patching People!ools ./0 and People!ools ./01 databases6 and as aresult customers can continue to patch their People!ools ./0 databases ithout upgrading/

!his enhancement utili>es the People!ools $earch 'rame or# and simplifes the ;uerygeneration and confguration o other $E$ related obGects or or#-o / !his enables users tosearch or or#list entries based on application%specifc felds/

!his enhancement pro*ides a ne option in the acti*ity mappings to support rich te7t in !rigger Business E*ent emails/


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