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Stat 6.1 - System Administration Guide

Overview of Stat Administration Administrative Utilities Stat Security General Maintenance Tables
System Maintenance Service Domain Maintenance Department Maintenance Issue Tracking Maintenance Country Maintenance Customer Maintenance Object Type Maintenance PeopleSoft Environment Connection Maintenance Pre/Post Migration Steps Parameters Oracle Applications Configuration Oracle Applications Connection Maintenance Generic Application Connection Maintenance Schema Object Parameters Maintenance Data Object Maintenance PeopleSoft Search Configurations Stat Report Definition Maintenance Version Control Management Connection Maintenance
Service Domain-Specific Maintenance Configuring the Stat Central Agent Email Configuration Object Security Appendix: Sample Service Domain Configuration Appendix: User Class Rights Appendix: Creating a Staging Database Appendix: Database Tuning Appendix: Oracle Applications File Type Directory Appendix: Ports and Firewalls Appendix: Stat Web Services Appendix: Troubleshooting Chart Appendix: stat.conf Configuration Appendix: Custom Report Files

Setting Up Migration Approval Lists

If an environment requires the approval of certain users before an archive set can be migrated into it, you can specify who these users are in the Migration Approval List tab. To open this window, select the environment and click App Options in the Generic Application Connection Maintenance table. Stat activates this tab only if the Req. Migr. Approval option has been selected for the environment.

When setting up a migration approval list, you can include different approver groups, including individual users and entire user classes or a combination of the two. The approval of any user or user class that you add to a list can be either required or optional.

Approval requirements that involve multiple approver groups or that can be satisfied in more than one way are defined using AND and OR operators. As you add approver groups using AND and OR operators, Stat displays the list as a tree structure and in the form of a SQL statement at the bottom of the window.

For example, let’s say a migration to a particular environment in the Financial Services service domain can be approved in one of two ways:

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By a certain user AND at least one user in the Administrator user class
OR
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By at least two users in the Fin Developer user class

In this case, your approval list would look like this:

To further illustrate, let’s say that the migration must be approved by:

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Two users, one of whom is required
AND
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At least one user in the Administrator user class OR at least two users in the Fin Developer user class.

In this case, the approval list would look like this:

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NOTE: Migration approval lists closely resemble status transfer approval lists and the procedures for defining them are much the same. For more information on migration approval lists, see Setting Up Transfer Approval Lists .

It is recommended that before setting up a migration approval list, you have a basic idea of what approver groups (users and user classes) you want involved in the approval process as well as the relationships between these groups, which you define using AND and OR operators. For example, if the approval of one or more approver groups are required, you would begin the approval list with the AND operator. If, however, the approval of only one of two or more approver groups are required, you would begin the list with the OR operator.

To set up a migration approval list:
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Do one of the following:
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Click AND if the approval of one or more approver groups are required
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Click OR if the approval of one of two or more approver groups are required
The operator icon is added to the approval list diagram.
2
Click on the AND or OR operator icon you just added.
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TIP: The icon background appears blue when selected and changes to gray when other fields or action buttons are activated. As long as the background of the operator icon is blue or gray, then approver groups and other operators can be attached to the operator.
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In the Service Domain field, select the service domain that you plan to associate the environment with in the Generic Application Migration Path Maintenance table.
4
In the Approver Type field, select the approver group you want to add to the list.
Options include User and User Class.
When adding approvers, be aware of the following:
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Although you can add any user or class to an approval list, be aware that only users that have access to an environment and the selected service domain (as defined in the User Maintenance table) will be able to approve a migration into that environment or receive email notifications regarding their pending approval. If an approver does not have access to the environment, the migration cannot be approved until either the user is granted access to the environment or the migration’s approval requirements are overridden by another user with proper security rights. For this reason, it is recommended that you first verify users have access to a particular environment and service domain before adding them to an approval list.
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Adding individual users to approval lists could create problems if those same users are later inactivated or have their service domain and environment access restricted. For this reason, it is recommended that you add user classes to approval lists rather than individual users whenever possible.
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Users assigned to a migration approval list must have the user class rights to operate in the same change management module in which the migration takes place. Also, you can assign user class rights that enable users to migrate objects regardless of approval status and also to approve migrations on the behalf of other users.
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In the Approver Name field, select the name of the user or user class you want to add.
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In the Required field, select Required if the approval is required or Optional if it is not required.
The Required option means that the individual user and every member of the user class must approve the migration. Optional means that the individual user’s approval is not required, whereas for user classes, it means that the approval of only a specified minimum number of users within that class is required.
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If you selected User Class in the Approver Type field and Optional in the Required field, specify the minimum number of users in that class who must approve the migration in the Number field.
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Click Add.
The approver is added to the tree structure under its approver group label and the initial AND or OR operator. Required approvers are displayed in bold.
At this point, how you proceed depends on the different approver groups you want to add to the list and how you want to define the relationships between these groups using AND and OR operators.
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(Optional) Do the following to add additional AND or OR operators to your approval list:
a
Depending on the relationship between approver groups in your list, select the operator icon to which you want to attach additional operators.
b
Click AND or OR.
c
Repeat as necessary to add more operator icons to the approval diagram.
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(Optional) To add additional user classes, select the appropriate operator icon in the approval diagram and repeat steps 4 through 8.
When you the first add an individual user to an approval list, Stat automatically creates the ad hoc group “users” in the approval diagram and attaches it to the appropriate operator icon. All subsequent users you add to the list must belong to this group.
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TIP: In a scenario in which you want to create approval relationships between multiple user approver groups, you may consider adding users to new user classes or queues created expressly for this purpose.
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(Optional) To add additional users, select the “users” group and repeat steps 4 through 8.
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(Optional) Do any of the following to edit the diagram as needed:
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To change an operator from AND to OR or from OR to AND, right-click on the icon.
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To change the Required status of an approver, right click on it in the diagram. This changes required user classes to optional with 1 minimum user approval.
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To change the minimum number of user approvals in an optional user class, double-click on the group label and specify the minimum number of user approvals you want.
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To move approver groups or entire operator relationships, click and hold on the group label or operator icon and drag and drop to a different operator icon in the diagram.
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To delete approver groups or entire operator relationships, click and hold on the group label or operator icon and drag and drop to the Trash Can icon.
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Click OK or Apply.

Copying Generic Application Environments

If you need to define a generic application environment that closely resembles an existing generic application environment, you can save time by copying the definition of the existing environment and editing the copy as needed. When you copy a generic application environment, all the information gets copied over, including file locations and migration approval lists.

To copy a generic application environment definition:
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In the Generic Application Environment Connection Maintenance window, select the environment definition you want to copy. Then click Copy.
Stat prompts you to specify an environment code and short description.
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Specify the environment code and short description. Then click OK.
3
Edit the new generic application environment definition as needed.

Schema Object Parameters Maintenance

Oracle and SQL Server database schema objects include a set of predefined true/false parameters that are executed before the definition of the object is captured in Stat. You can change the true/false values of these parameters in the Schema Object Parameters Maintenance table.

The ability to change default schema object parameter values is controlled by the following user class right:

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Schema Object Parameters - Edit

The Schema Object Parameters Maintenance table is displayed in a standard maintenance window. To open this window, select Maintenance | General | Schema Object Parameters.

The Schema Object Parameters Maintenance table lists each parameter by DDL type and name. The Default Value column indicates whether a particular parameter is true or false by default. To change the value of a parameter, select its corresponding check box in the Param Value column to make it true, or de-select it to make it false. Then click OK or Apply.

Data Object Maintenance

Data objects are user-defined or third party data sets developed for specific application environments. You can configure Stat to support data objects by defining in the Data Object Maintenance table the tables and table keys that make up the definition of these objects within their native environment. Data objects can be locked, archived, and migrated just like the proprietary objects already supported by Stat.

Data objects are specific to the change management module that they are defined for. This means that data object types supported in one change management module are not supported in the other modules. To avoid confusion, data object types for PeopleSoft, Oracle Applications, and generic applications are defined and maintained in separate tabs on the Data Objects Maintenance window. The maintenance procedures for all three are the same.

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NOTE: Data objects are currently supported only in environments running on Oracle.

The Data Object Maintenance table is displayed in a standard maintenance window. To open this window, select Maintenance | General | Data Objects.

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