Moving Data to a Standalone System

When you use PeopleSoft HCM, your data is automatically accessible to Pension Administration. Personal and dependent data, payroll data (hours, earnings, and contributions), and action and reason histories are all present. If you modify the database and must retrieve data from a field that you created, a database alias can retrieve that information.

When you use Pension Administration as a standalone system, you also install portions of other PeopleSoft applications. Tables and pages for Human Resources, Benefits Administration, and Payroll for North America systems are included in the standalone Pension Administration. However, you do not have the processing modules for these applications. Although you can store and retrieve data, you do not have other functionality offered in these applications.

If you use Pension Administration as a standalone system, you probably have another human resources system. You must transfer data from that system to the PeopleSoft HCM tables. Although everyone should transfer certain information, such as date of birth and date of hire, most of the data that you transfer depends on the data needed for your plan.

Load external data at the time that you run a calculation to ensure that the most current data is available. To load external data for every employee and every calculation, put a user code module directly into the calculation jobstream. If you must load external data only occasionally, use the check box on the calculation page to indicate whether to run the load process.

Alternatively, you can periodically transfer data to Pension Administration so that you do not have to load data at calculation time.