Application Data Set Overview

Application Data Sets referred to as ADS is the name given to a collection of technology used to migrate application/configuration data between PeopleSoft environments. Application Data Sets is used as part of the Selective Adoption maintenance process and can also be used between two different PeopleSoft applications that have similar data structures.

The three main parts of ADS are:

1. Application Data Set Definitions

   Application Data Set definitions define classes of Application Data Sets. Application Data Set definitions are created and maintained in the Data Set Designer.  Data sets is the technology used to relate data into logical objects to help simplify and improve the process of understanding and migrating changes to the data.

2. ADS projects

   ADS projects convey the data described by Application Data Set definitions.

3. Data Migration Workbench

   Data Migration Workbench or DMW provides the interactive user interface to run ADS operations such as compare and copy, review the compare reports, override merge or copy actions, provide approvals when necessary, as well as create new ADS  projects.