Implementing for multiple environments

Erik H — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 21:04:57 -0000

Hi John

I agree that it is probably a good idea to keep your FIN and HCM systems separate (just install the tool twice, in different folders).

I would advise against configuring different branches for the various environments. This is how it used to work, with Subversion-style branches (similar to different folders, not branches in the Git sense), I've kept that option when I introduced the 'ancestor' setup, but you'll get a better sense of your code's history without it.

For your configuration, check out 'sample_for_Git_DecodePC.properties'. The relevant lines will be something like

gitbase=HCM
ancestor=PRD
processPRD=ProcessToGit
ancestorPRD=DEMO
processDEMO=ProcessToGit

This will result in a single tree of your code in Git. The point of the 'ancestor' lines is that if you start customizing some Oracle-delivered code (in DEV, of course), the tool will first retrieve and commit the DEMO and PRD versions. That way, the Git history will allow you to compare your modifications to the original code. Some users seem to want to submit all delivered PeopleCode to their repository, but there's no need...

Once you've configured the .properties file, you may want to run the tool with the 'custom' option, in order to get all your customizations into the repository.

If you want to process your UAT and TST environments as well, you may use gitbaseUAT / gitbaseTST lines to create separate trees. Not sure if you need to process them - after all, you are (hopefully) not doing any coding in these environments.

Implementing for multiple environments

John Bush — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 22:45:58 -0000

Hi Eric,

I can see the properties file which seems to give you the option for a production and UAT environment.

I am working with both FIN and HCM databases, and I would like to track Demo, Production, UAT, Test, and Development environments. So I need to keep FIN and HCM completely separate, and I believe would want different branches with ancestors for the 5 environments. Do you have any example properties files for how to code that? Say my databases are FINDMO, FINPRD, FINUAT, FINTST, and FINDEV. I'm trying to understand the relationship between all of the parameters.

Just FYI, I'm using SQL Server and GIT.

Any direction would be apprecited.

John

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Jonathan Rehm — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 05:16:25 -0000

Awesome! I look forward to giving this a try tomorrow. It's a different approach than I took, and cleaner than the "custom-since-last-time" command that I created. Thanks for your great support.

I'm sure you're most comfortable with SVN, but I really love git because it does make it so easy for collaborators to help out without having commit access to the main repository.

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Erik H — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:55:48 -0000

The requested functionality is already available - I coded it weeks ago but forgot to release it; will do it now. Sorry about that. I believe I'd need to grant you access to the project's SVN repo if you want to submit code, but maybe it's not necessary anymore.

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Jonathan Rehm — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:18:21 -0000

I'm not familiar with how SourceForge works (I use Github and Bitbucket most of the time): is it possible to send a pull request? Because I've added this functionality and would like to have you take a look.

Warning message parsing PeopleCode

Erik H — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 02:00:53 -0000

That appears to be a new byte code - the second time in four years that a new code pops up. What tools/application versions are you using?

Unfortunately, I don't seem to have access to any environment with a page called PT_SEARCHPAGE, and I've never run into this error myself, so it's a bit difficult for me to reverse-engineer what the code stands for.

Could you please compare the plain-text PeopleCode (as shown in App Designer) with what the tool produces, in order to deduct what the code represents?

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Erik H — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 15:06:56 -0000

No, it's not possible currently. I'll build it into the next release.

There's a downside to using this combination, though - if you've customized some delivered code and a bundle wipes out that change, you won't see that reflected in your version control system.

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Jonathan Rehm — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:34:57 -0000

Is it possible to combine "custom" with the "since" operators? We have Decode PeopleCode running as a nightly cron job to export our work, and that works great until we apply a bundle. If I don't remember to disable the job or change the last-time.txt value before the bundle is applied, we get an enormous amount of PeopleSoft delivered changes that I don't care to track.

I haven't found anything in the README or other discussion threads that make it seem like this is possible. The closest is setting "oprid", but that's the inversion of what I'd like. I don't want to make a feature request until I know the option does not already exist. I've tried the following commands and they both ignore the second option (the first retrieves all custom definitions, and the second picks up "PPLSOFT" changes):

DecodePCODE.bat custom since-last-time
DecodePCODE.bat since-last-time custom

Any help is most welcome!

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