PeopleSoft Application Engine Preface

This PeopleBook describes PeopleSoft Application Engine.

PeopleSoft Application Engine

PeopleSoft Application Engine is designed to help you develop, test, and run background SQL processing programs. This PeopleBook explains the concepts and advantages of PeopleSoft Application Engine, how to develop Application Engine programs in PeopleSoft Application Designer, how to run and debug programs, and the use of the special tools to maintain your programs.

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Note. DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS is the official IBM name for the DBMS. In the current PeopleTools release, PeopleSoft no longer supports the OS/390 operating system, only z/OS, its replacement. For the sake of brevity, this PeopleBook sometimes refers to DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS as DB2 z/OS, and it sometimes refers to DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows as DB2 UNIX/NT.

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