Re: Julian Day/Date Formatting

[Peter Clark <PGCLARK@VAC-ACC.GC.CA>]

Ben,

PeopleSoft develops its suite of application reports with whatever version of 
SQR is available at the time. Each version of PeopleSoft will naturally have 
changes ... new columns, new tables, new business functionality, etc. ... and 
the delivered suite of reports will reflect those changes and will have been 
developed with whatever version of SQR was current at the time.

People who have upgraded to the latest and greatest version of PeopleSoft will 
no doubt have the latest and greatest version of SQR. The fault is not 
PeopleSoft's, but users who, for whatever reason (usually cost since the latest 
flavour of PeopleSoft is ungodly expensive) have not been able to "keep up".

There would also be licensing and support issues to be concerned about if 
things weren't kept in synch between the two products (PeopleSoft users 
"purchase" their SQR licenses thru PeopleSoft).

I hope that this explanation of some business realities in the ERP world is 
helpful to you.


>>> Ben Le <ble@PCC.EDU> 2001/05/14 2:20:05 pm >>>
Peter,
If this is the case then PeopleSoft is not doing its job in providing
flexibility of applications/software maintenance and upgrade. As I
understand from Brio, SQR 6.1.4 version is for PeopleSoft users in
particular. However, It can be used in any applications. I am an
Oracle/Banner developer. I just upgraded to SQR 6.1.4 from 4.3.1(without
changing the codes, old SQR commands work with new version of 6.1.4) and am
very pleased with 6.1.4.

At 01:44 PM 5/14/01 -0300, you wrote:
>Ben,
>
>PeopleSoft users of SQR are pretty well locked into whatever version of
>SQR that PeopleSoft supports for any given version of PeopleSoft. This is
>done to ensure that the suite of PeopleSoft reports delivered will work as
>advertised.
>
>Peter
>
> >>> Ben Le <ble@PCC.EDU> 2001/05/14 1:16:07 pm >>>
>Linda,
>SQR 4.3.5 is kind of old. Do not upgrade to 4.3.5, should go direct to
>6.1.4. Just a suggestion!