E1 Tips & Tricks

EnterpriseOne 8.12 Functionality with Version 8.11 SP1

Background:

In developing the Employee Self-Service user interface without using the portal, the development team had a need to be able to print out an employee’s paystub and have it emailed to them.  The email portion of the process is handled by Optio but before it gets to the Optio server, it needs to be sent to an outqueue on the Enterprise Server.  Because of the flow of the UBE submission application, upon requesting the paystub (UBE) the user is presented with a printer selection verification screen.  It was decided that this screen would be pretty confusing to those employees that do not use EnterpriseOne regularly.  So, the developer found a way around that.  She submitted the UBE using a Named Event Rule (NER). 

Issue:

Because of using the NER to submit the UBE, the Print Immediate parameter in the JAS.INI file doesn’t get read.  This is because it is being submitted by the Enterprise Server instead of the JAS server.  If the job isn’t printed, or sent to an outqueue, then the PDF never gets to the Optio server to be processed and emailed to the user.

Resolution:

After consulting with Oracle Support, we changed the VRVCC3 field of the F983051 to contain a ‘1′ in the record of the UBE Version that we wanted to Print Immediate.  Apparently, this version Print Immediate parameter is used in the 8.12 applications but is also read in the 8.11 SP1 version.

Note: We are using 8.11 SP1 and this solution may or may not work with earlier versions.

Tags: enterpriseone, EnterpriseOne - JAS (Java Application Server), EnterpriseOne - SQLs, IBM i/System i/iSeries/AS400, jas, oracle, ube

July 8, 2008 | EnterpriseOne - JAS (Java Application Server), EnterpriseOne - SQLs, IBM i/System i/iSeries/AS400 | No Comments »

EnterpriseOne Package Build Times

After installing the new IBM hardware, I decided to run a full package build just to get an idea of what the performance improvement was.

So, here are the results:

	Existing Hardware	New Hardware
Client	~4 hours	~5.75 hours
Enterprise Server	~4 hours	~2 hours

Ok, I’m a little confused on the client portion of the build process.  I’m not sure if there was some other process running that slowed some things down or what.

However, I am really liking the Enterprise Server portion of the build.  The new hardware essentially chopped the build time in half.

So, although I need to do some checking on the client part I am really satisfied with the new hardware.

Tags: e1, enterpriseone, esu, ibm, IBM i/System i/iSeries/AS400

July 7, 2008 | IBM i/System i/iSeries/AS400 | No Comments »

EnterpriseOne IBM i Hardware Upgrade

Hooray! The New Hardware Is In! The New Hardware Is In!

Sorry to mutilate a classic line, but…  Hey, this is exciting news.

Our IBM hardware guys put in a lot of hours last weekend and upgraded our Enterprise Server hardware.  Essentially, we doubled processor CPW, tripled RAM & added 1TB of disk.  See the breakdown below:

	Existing Hardware			New Hardware
	System	LPAR 1	LPAR 2	System	LPAR 1	LPAR 2
Chip Set	Power5			Power6
Chip Speed	1.65 GHz			4.7 GHz
CPUs (Active)	2	1.4	.6	3	2	1
CPW System (Active)	6000	4200	1800	13500	9000	4500
CPW Interactive (5250)	3000	2100	900	4500	3000	1500
Memory	20 GB	12 GB	8 GB	64 GB	40 GB	24 GB
DASD - Capacity RAID-5		1848 GB	775 GB		2537 GB	1057 GB

Tags: enterpriseone, ibm, IBM i/System i/iSeries/AS400

July 7, 2008 | IBM i/System i/iSeries/AS400 | 1 Comment »

Good Bye Oracle Application Server. Hello BEA WebLogic Server

With the purchase of BEA, Oracle has unsurprisingly chosen BEA WebLogic Server as it’s application server of choice.

Hope you all have some more budget left for training.

Thanks, JD Edwards Advisor for the news.

Tags: EnterpriseOne - JAS (Java Application Server), jd edwards, oracle, oracle application server

July 4, 2008 | EnterpriseOne - JAS (Java Application Server) | No Comments »

How To Change The Login Screen Image

We are finishing up a project for Employee Self-Service.  Essentially, that means that we are giving employees the option to view their payroll and benefit information online.

This is not new to most larger organizations, but it’s new to us.  Since it is new and there will be employees accessing EnterpriseOne who do not use it for their daily jobs, we wanted to make it look a little different.

One of the things that we wanted to change was the login screen.

The screen shot to the left is the standard login screen for EnterpriseOne 8.11 SP1 using Tools Release 8.96.1.5.

We really wanted to change the Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne logo.  So, I did a little checking on Oracles Support site and found Solution ID: 201052190 (requires login). This solution doesn’t specifically address the login image but it does talk about the disclaimer text at the bottom of the page.  So, it gets you to the right files.

A summary of that solution is that there is a file called html4login.jsp in

[Websphere Install Directory]\installedApps\mdur-ets-ME1WEBNode01\EA_JS_87.ear\webclient.war\share.

That location may be different in your installation.  Also, remember that this is for Tools Release 8.96.1.5.  Anyway, this file has a variable in it called "companyLogoImageURL".  Just point this variable to your image.

Here is the new login screen.  Well, not really, but you get the idea.

Tags: e1, enterpriseone, EnterpriseOne - JAS (Java Application Server), oracle, websphere

July 2, 2008 | EnterpriseOne - JAS (Java Application Server) | No Comments »