Tip Of The Week : Data Migration Workbench

Data Migration Workbench facilitates the migration of setup data across environments using Application Data Sets (ADS). Data Migration Workbench provides the ability to move, compare, validate, and merge configuration data. Configuration data includes:

•    Setup data

•    Application data

•    Tools configuration

•    Managed objects

The Data Migration Workbench is designed to manage the complexity of migrating configuration data across multiple PeopleSoft systems. It is very common to have four or more databases in a PeopleSoft environment, including one or more for development, another for quality assurance, as well as the primary production system. PeopleTools migrates managed objects between environments in PeopleSoft projects that are extracted from one database and imported into another, which works well for PeopleTools metadata however it does not handle application configuration data.