PeopleSoft Planned Features & Enhancements (Spring 2026)
by PeopleSoft Released the “Planned Features and Enhancements” today. Looks like we’re getting some cool tools!
Author: Randall Groncki
Oracle ACE ♠
PeopleTools Developer since 1996
Lives in Northern Virginia, USA
Insights 05: Index Patterns
In PeopleSoft Insights, an Index Pattern tells OpenSearch Dashboards which data indexes you want to work with. It’s also where you can format how data fields are displayed, and create scripted fields for calculated values
PeopleSoft HCM PUM54 OCI Insights Fails
The Insights server in the OCI Marketplace HCM PUM54 image fails due to a bad parameter in the opensearch-dashboards.service file
Insights 04: Extract Data to Insights
Scheduling Search Indexes moves our data from PeopleSoft to OpenSearch. Once OpenSearch has ingested that data, we can then use it in our Visualizations.
Insights 03: Search Objects
PeopleSoft Search Objects define and control datasets in OpenSearch
Insights 02: Data & Query
Part 2 of our PeopleSoft Insights Series
How to create a PSQuery to Extract Insights Data.
Insights 01: Terms
Your team needs common, concise terms when designing Insights Dashboards. Calling everything a “widget” creates misunderstandings and slows progress.
This post is a dictionary and reference of proper terms when working with PeopleSoft Insights Dashboards
Insights 00: A Plan
I’m creating a series of short posts on PeopleSoft Insights.
It would be nice to know where we’re going, how to get there, and we need some common language.
Oracle / PeopleTools / SQL
Comparing NULLs in Oracle SQL
Nulls are special in Oracle SQL – we can’t directly compare them since they won’t equal anything including themselves.
Use Oracles NVL() function to compare fields that may contain Null values
PeopleSoft PUM: Map the Tools_Client folder
You’ve successfully installed your PeopleSoft PUM. Now map to the PUM’s /tools_client/ folder and install the latest PeopleTools on your local machine.
Bloom’s Logical Fallacy Field Guide
It’s part of our job, everyday, not only work, lead and convince others about our ideas and goals, but to evaluate these goals, plans and ideas of everyone around us. ERP systems are never a result of one person’s edicts.
AI is taking all our jobs tomorrow! (maybe not)
An excellent article about the real historical pace of technical adoption. So how does our PeopleSoft skills fall into this?