hi there,

This is your friend from CompShack.com and I have been asked the following and it sounds like a PSadmin question. Do you think you can jump in and help?

"As we apply Tax Updates using patches,I would like to know the process..........i.e,We have steps like compare pre-compare,executing DMS and copying binaries and then clearing CACHE(FILE) bringing up servicesand last running sample reports.
From these i would like to know the process which is happening in the backend."

Thanks!

Hello Friend:

Excuse me as I was held up with the work for the last two days and could not respond earlier. I do have a document that I put to gather sometime ago, which I go through before each tax update for me to remember. I would be glad to share it.

This covers almost all the aspects of Tax update process. Of course, as you know, each tax update is different and the main document for each tax update is the installation document which is provided with each tax update. This will help the team to make sure that nothing is missed.

Here is the link for the document and click here for the post.

This is perfect. And don't worry about the time it took to reply. We are all in the same boat :)

Thanks for the document and the post link. I will be crediting you for the response on my site and will refer Admin questions to your site!

If you ever need help in answering a question, you know I own you one now. Thanks again and have a great weekend.

Thank you and sure I will seek your help when I need. Thanks again.

Is it better to use ChangeAssist to apply tax or apply them manually?

I personally apply tax updates manually if I have a few environments to apply like 4 or 5.

Some larger companies have about 10 to 15 environments for differnt projects in progress at the same time. If you found no errors in using ChangeAssist in the first two environments, it takes lesser time to apply on rest of them.

I prefer to apply them manually only for tax updates. But other upgrades like service pack I would recommend to use Change Assist as they have hundreds of dms scripts to run and projects to copy, which becomes almost impossible to apply them manually. There are more chances to make mistake to apply manually rather than using ChangeAssist. Also it helps not to babysit them.

Using ChangeAssist will decrease the upgrade downtime considerably compared to the old method of doing upgrade manually.

Oracle/PeopleSoft recommends to use the change assist for all including tax update. It is individual choice.