Thursday, November 15, 2007

Change Impact Analyzer - PsCIA

PeopleSoft Change Impact Analyzer (PsCIA) is a tool to evaluate the effect of changes you make on your installation. PsCIA can monitor the impact a Change Package has on your instance... Also, it can moniotr the impact from other changes such as customizations...

PsCIA helps you understand the impact of specific changes you plan to make during an application upgrade.

PsCIA displays several views of analyses in tabular and text views.

PsCIA is delivered with a set of RULES (Typically written in SQL… also includes some rules written in Java) that are used to determine the relationships between definitions.

You can add custom rules to the rules files to assess the impact of additional relationships.

  • PsCIA runs on Windows
  • PsCIA can be installed as a standalone application, or as a part of PeopleTools Installation, or as a part of Change Assistant (PsCA) installation
  • JDBC Drivers must be installed for connectivity to your database platform
  • PsCIA uses Type 4 JDBC drivers by default
  • JDBC Drivers can be obtained from your RDBMS vendor's website.
Installing Change Impact Analyzer: Execute \setup\PsCIA\setup.exe

Configuring Database Connectivity:

Configuring Rules Files:

Running the PeopleCode and File Pre-Processors:

Setting Report Options:

Using Change Impact Analyzer:

Using the Rules Editor:

Detailed documentation is available in PeopleTools 8.48 PeopleBook. There is a complere 90 odd pages book available for PsCIA. www.peoplesoft.com


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