Prerequisites

Before you use the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for PeopleSoft, verify that your system has the required software. Also, you must perform operations such as creating the connector's user account, mapping an environment variable, and generating PeopleSoft APIs. This section describes:

Required software for using the connector

To access a designated Component Interface and its underlying PeopleSoft business logic, the connector requires two layers of PeopleSoft API classes. Before you use the connector, install the following:

Important:
For installation prerequisites specific to your integration broker, see the For more information on installing the connector component, refer to the Implementation Guide for the WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker, or, the WebSphere InterChange Server System Installation Guide for Windows, or for Unix.

Required operations for installing the connector

This section describes required operations that must be performed before you use the connector:

Creating a user account in PeopleSoft

Before installing the connector, you must create a user account in the PeopleSoft application. The account:

Configuring time-out for the user account

Because the connector uses the Component Interfaces (and the Component Processor on the Application Server) to insert and extract business objects from the PeopleSoft database server, the Application Server must be running. If the user account times out, the Component Processor closes, and the connector logs an error message every time it attempts to access the PeopleSoft system (that is, at every poll, at every create, at every retrieve, and at every update).

To configure the user account to never time out, do the following:

  1. In the PeopleSoft application, select PeopleTools from the Go menu option.
  2. Select Maintain Security from the PeopleTools menu option.
  3. Select Permission Lists from the Use menu option.
  4. Select Sign-On Times from the Permission Lists menu option
  5. From the list of permissions, select the one affiliated with the connector's user account.
  6. On the General tab, select Never Time-Out, and select Can Start Application Server, if not already selected.

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