Utility Usage Guidelines

Absence Management provides a suite of integrated tools for implementing and maintaining the elements that define your absence rules. You can use these utilities to view the relationships between elements, package and move elements and data between databases, and delete elements. When implementing your absence system, you can use the utilities to move all or selected rules that you've created and tested into your production database. In an existing system, these utilities streamline the process of introducing new rules, installing system updates, and moving processing results and absence data to other databases.

Here are some guidelines for using the utilities:

• Operations involving the utilities can have a significant impact on the system, so anyone using these tools must be very familiar with Absence Management.

• Source and target databases must use the same PeopleTools release.

  The source and target databases used by the non-rule packager must share the same base language.

• Do not change the PIN_CODE in the Absence Management language table (GP_PIN_LANG).

  Doing so can affect your ability to move elements.

• The utilities shouldn't be used during an absence run or while online work is being performed, but rather after business hours.

• You can import only one package at a time.

  WARNING:

  Attempting to import more than one package at a time could result in the loss of critical data.