Maintaining Change Assistant for Non-PUM Enabled Updates

Periodically, Oracle provides patches for PeopleTools that supply fixes to critical defects. With each PeopleTools patch version, Oracle provides the following updates in executable format:

Executable	Description
version.exe For example, 85014.exe	Contains all current fixes to the entire PeopleTools product, including those fixes to the software update technology, which includes Change Assistant and all environment management elements (agents, hub, and so on).
version-PSCA.exe For example, 85014-PSCA.exe	Contains only the current fixes for Change Assistant and all environment management elements (agents, hub, and so on). The software update technology runs independently from the rest of PeopleTools. Important: This only applies to non–PUM enabled applications.

Executable

Description

version.exe

For example, 85014.exe

Contains all current fixes to the entire PeopleTools product, including those fixes to the software update technology, which includes Change Assistant and all environment management elements (agents, hub, and so on).

version-PSCA.exe

For example, 85014-PSCA.exe

Contains only the current fixes for Change Assistant and all environment management elements (agents, hub, and so on).

The software update technology runs independently from the rest of PeopleTools.

Important: This only applies to non–PUM enabled applications.

Note:

If you install a complete PeopleTools patch, you do not need to apply the -PSCA patch individually. Apply the -PSCA patch individually only if you are running non- PUM enabled applications and interested in just the fixes for the software update tools and not the fixes for the entire PeopleTools product.

The -PSCA patch enables you to apply only the latest fixes to Change Assistant and the environment management framework without applying the latest full PeopleTools patch. By doing so, you can avoid the regression testing that typically occurs after applying a full PeopleTools patch.