Delivery Manager Tool - Add package - PeopleSoft - Unable to find the vendor Peoplesoft in the list of vendor specific repository

Description

After copying the contents of folder ToBeInstalledInSCDFPlugins to the <Delivery_folder>\plugins folder, Peoplesoft is not present in the list of vendor specific repository as shown below

Figure 1

Observed in CAST AIP
Release
Yes/No
8.0.x (tick) 
7.3.x(tick)
7.2.x(error)
7.0.x(error)
Observed on RDBMS
This section is not applicable for this page(DMT)

 

RDBMS
Yes/No
Oracle ServerNA
Microsoft SQL ServerNA
CSS2NA
CSS1NA
Step by Step Scenario
  1. Install the PeopleSoft Language Pack 5.0 version

  2. Copy the contents of folder ToBeInstalledInSCDFPlugins to the <Delivery_folder>\plugins folder
  3. launch the DMT
  4. Try to add package and see that Peoplesoft is missing from the list of vendor specific repository
Action Plan

The issue occurs because the contents need to be unzipped as well after copying.

  1. Unzip the files inside the plugin folder using any tool like 7zip to get directory structure
    <Delivery_folder>\plugins\dmtcastpeoplesoftdb2extractor-1.0.dmtplugin
    <Delivery_folder>\plugins\dmtcastpeoplesoftextractor-1.0.dmtplugin
    <Delivery_folder>\plugins\dmtcastpeoplesoftoracleextractor-1.0.dmtplugin
    <Delivery_folder>\plugins\dmtcastpeoplesofttechno-1.0.dmtplugin
  2. Then try adding the package, you will be able to find PeopleSoft in the list as shown below

Figure 2

Impact on Analysis Results and Dashboard

Analysis - N/A Dashboard - N/A

Notes/comments

This documentation issue is planned to be fixed in PeopleSoft 5.0.1 version

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