Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide
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Introducing the PeopleSoft Adapter
This chapter provides an overview of the PeopleSoft Adapter and its requirements:
Overview
The PeopleSoft module of Cisco Workload Automation (CWA) works with the PeopleSoft Process Enterprise Scheduler
to enhance PeopleSoft usability and integrate seamlessly with Enterprise Scheduling.
to enhance PeopleSoft usability and integrate seamlessly with Enterprise Scheduling.
CWA’s PeopleSoft adapter appears in CWA as PeopleSoft connections. You create PeopleSoft jobs and schedule them
to run on PeopleSoft process servers that you defined in the CWA
to run on PeopleSoft process servers that you defined in the CWA
PeopleSoft Connection Definition
dialog.
When a PeopleSoft job is ready to run, CWA’s PeopleSoft adapter tells the PeopleSoft Process Enterprise Scheduler to
launch each process in the job. The adapter uses the standard
launch each process in the job. The adapter uses the standard
PSPRCSRQST
table that the PeopleSoft Process
Enterprise Scheduler uses to launch processes. By querying and updating information in this and related tables, CWA
controls how processes are executed within the PeopleSoft environment.
controls how processes are executed within the PeopleSoft environment.
You can also invoke PeopleSoft from Scheduler to add and edit process definitions and run controls for which you have
privileges through authorized PeopleSoft operator IDs.
privileges through authorized PeopleSoft operator IDs.
Terms to Know
Access ID
–
In the PeopleSoft environment, an access ID is a user with access to the PeopleSoft database. There
is usually one access ID dedicated to tools administration. For example, in an PeopleSoft database environment, this
id is often known as the
id is often known as the
SYSADM
user.
Job
–
A PeopleSoft job in CWA is a collection of one or more PeopleSoft processes. The processes that make up a
job can be of the same or different types.
Note:
The concept of a job in PeopleSoft is different from the one used in CWA. In this documentation, where there
is a reference to a “PeopleSoft job”, it specifically means a CWA job defined to run processes on a PeopleSoft
process server.
process server.
Mapped Drive
– A mapped drive refers to mapping a Windows drive letter to a network file system. The network
drive becomes a virtual hard drive for the computer that has mapped to it. The drive letter is included when referring
to the network drive in a path from the perspective of the machine that has it mapped.
to the network drive in a path from the perspective of the machine that has it mapped.
Process
– A PeopleSoft process is a single program or executable, for example, an SQR report.
Process Scheduler
– Native PeopleSoft job scheduling facility.