To start a concurrent program via the Self Service interface, add the function 'Schedule Requests' (FNDCPSRSSSWA) to your menu.

This function can be added in a pure Self Service menu, but also in a forms menu.

This function can be used as a template to start specific concurrent programs, by adding the parameters 'programApplName' and 'programName' to the html call.

Run balances are a new implemention of balance value retrieval, optimized for performance. The old style implementation is also known as run result balances.

To check if your legislation uses the run balances architecture, check the pay_legislation_rules table for the keys 'SAVE_ASG_RUN_BAL' and 'SAVE_RUN_BAL'.

Update recurring and reversal are not compatible. The reversal process inverses only run results, and does not modify the element entries (values, and the column updating_action_id).

A very old enhancement request exists on metalink...

Appraisals within the manager self service model work fine. But now I had to give the HR department read-only access to all published appraisals, excluding the appraisals of HR people.

This can be done through the creation of a security profile, that shows all employees, except the HR emps.

Next, create a new responsibility, based on the manager self service, that is linked to the security profile above. Set the profile option HR_DISPLAY_PERSON_SEARCH to Yes for the responsibility.

As such, Hr people can enter the application with the responsibility above, and they have now the possibility to search for people (and to create an individual people list) within their security profile. Once they found the employee needed, they can view the published appraisals.

The concurrent manager is working fine now. I had to recreate the network 8.0.6 environment (make -f ins_network.mk install), since the lsnrctl executable (amongst others) did not exist.

This recreation of executables gave a terrible list of link errors (undefined reference to `__ctype_b'). After a long search, I found out (www.puschitz.com) that I had to downgrade the glibc libraries to glibc-2.3.2-5.i686.rpm. Once this was done, the make finished well, and up was the concurrent manager.

I really need to control the execution order of concurrent requests. Incompatibility rules work fine, but I need further control. This could be realized through the priority of the request.

This priority can be set through the profile option "Concurrent: Request Priority" (system name: CONC_PRIORITY).

Programmatically, you can set this profile option value via a fnd_profile.put call.

Self Service Version 4 has still the old style appraisals (html generated by plsql). The good thing about it is that it is still very straightforward to tweek the output a little. A few lines of plsql code visualized also the people group in the appraisal html page.

Next problem is that the apps listener is not up. adalsctl exits with status 127. The lsnrctl executable does not exists in the 8.0.6 home.

I have to make them again. I guess something will be wrong with the gnu C compiler version.

The motif libraries were missing. This became a blocking problem when I launched the forms at client side. Frm-92050 was the very message we've got when launching a form.

Look for the missing libraries for the forms server:
ldd f60webmx | grep 'not found'

=> libXm.so.2 not found

Installing the motif libraries from the RH9 distributie. Since this version was too high, I created a symbolic link from the higer libXm to the lower one.

Installing 11.5.9 on Red Hat 9. When starting the Apache server, the libdb.so.3 library could not be found. And he is really not on the system. Extracting compat-db-3.3.11-4.i386.rpm into a tmp directory, and copying that very library into /lib overcame the issue.

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