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Technical insights and project experiences

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Tracing Every Place a PeopleSoft Field Is Updated Using an AI Agent and the psLens MCP Server

A short announcement pointing to our new psLens walkthrough: how an AI coding agent used the psLens MCP server to find every PeopleCode event, App Package, App Engine, record default, and COBOL SQL statement that sets STDNT_CAR_TERM.TUIT_CALC_REQ to 'Y'.

Oct 16, 2026
psLens PeopleSoft Strategy
Pulling File Attachments Out of the PeopleSoft Database

A look at PeopleSoft's FILE_ATTDET_SBR attachment storage and an example of extracting and reassembling files with SQL and Go.

Oct 6, 2026
Architecture PeopleCode
Connecting AI Coding Assistants to PeopleSoft with the psLens MCP Server

A short announcement pointing to the new psLens MCP article: how the embedded Model Context Protocol server connects Claude Code, Cursor, and Claude Desktop to PeopleSoft metadata, security, and operational data.

Aug 14, 2026
psLens PeopleSoft Strategy
Understanding Why AI Development Struggles with PeopleSoft

Exploring the challenges of applying AI code generation to PeopleSoft's database-centric architecture and why iteration loops break down.

Jul 17, 2026
PeopleSoft Strategy PeopleSoft AI

Recent Knowledge Base Updates

Deep dives, quick references, and tutorials

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Export Project Item List to Markdown

A SQL to pull a list of project items for a given project.

Apr 30, 2026
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Proxy-Credential User Switching in Signon PeopleCode

A pattern for letting a trusted backend service mint a PS_TOKEN for a specific end user without ever seeing that user's password. Uses only documented PeopleSoft APIs — and should only be granted to extremely privileged service accounts.

Apr 28, 2026
PeopleCode Security Integration
Component Interface Quality Audits

The following SQL queries can be used to audit Component Interfaces for common quality issues related to menu registration, item property names, and collection names.

Apr 23, 2026
Component Interface
The 10-Step Process for Developing PeopleSoft Component Interfaces

A battle-tested 10-step workflow for PeopleSoft Component Interface development — from evaluating the requirement through production-ready code.

Apr 19, 2026
Component Interface
Component Interface Error - Unknown key of uninstantiated object some-record-name.some-field-name (91,16)

A weird invalid CI state that is not surfaced with standard CI audits and checks.

Mar 17, 2026
Component Interface
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Integration Broker - The Missing Manual

A resource for the community available online for reading. It is a comprehensive guide to understanding and using Integration Broker effectively. We cover topics such as message routing, service operations, and error handling.

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