Portable PS_HOME in People Tools 8.54

Ø  PeopleTools 8.50 provided the ability to split the PS_HOME directory contents into three different places:

• PIA_HOME: Contained the J2EE deployment, equivalent to the former PS_HOME/Webserv directory.

• PS_CFG_HOME: Contained logs, traces and search indexes. Basically, any file created, modified or deleted at run time.

• PS_HOME: contained the binaries and external programs such as Crystal Reports. Cobols and SQRs.

Ø   PeopleTools 8.52, together with the PeopleSoft 9.1 applications, introduced a new directory:

PS_APP_HOME: This directory contained exclusively the application binaries and external program files, leaving PS_HOME just for the specific PeopleTools files. This approach allowed a simpler maintenance of the product. For instance, you could use the same PS_HOME for both PeopleSoft HCM and FSCM, keeping the specific application files in their own PS_APP_HOME directories. This way, when you applied a PeopleTools patch on PS_HOME, it would be available for all applications.

Ø   PeopleTools 8.53, The natural evolution of PS_CUST_HOME to Clearly Identify your Customizations. This new directory was meant to hold all the customized external files. This helped not only in maintaining PS_HOME and PS_APP_HOME almost read-only (they would be updated only by PeopleTools or application upgrades),but also to clearly identify the customizations, which is a tremendous gain when performing an application upgrade.

And now... Portable PS_HOME

PeopleTools 8.54 has gone a step further in simplifying the maintenance of the PeopleSoft installation. One of the issues.

we still faced with PS_HOME is that we could not move it to a different directory without facing issues, as there were some symbolic links and files containing absolute directory references within it. In the latest PeopleTools release, all symbolic links were removed, and all the directory references are relative,  not absolute. This allows the system administrator to easily move the directory to another location, or even to another server. Actually, you may not even need to move it. Just mounting the PS_HOME directory installed in one server into all the different PeopleSoft servers would make the trick, so you only need to apply changes in a single place.

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Manoranjan