Usage Use the Planning Server page to change Planning server templates.
These templates enable you automatically to transfer the transaction data and plan parameters directly to the Planning engine to generate and analyze your plan.
Object Name RUN_PLS10010
Navigation Plan Production, Process Production Plan, Process, Production
Options to create a template and set up its parameters. You use the Planning Server Definition page to create permanent server templates. You can define a template only temporarily by using the Planning Server page.
Access Requirements
Enter a Run Control ID. Process
Name
PLPPCL, PLPPCTL, PL_LOAD, PLS1000, PLS9000
Process Type SQR, PSJOB, Application Engine
Production DataLink - Planning Server page
You can temporarily change which host machine or database you are linked to. For example, you might have established a test database or a different set of data that you work with. Using this page, you can change among your host machines without navigating to the Define Business Rules option, where you also define server settings. To access the latter page, use the following link: Planning Server Definition page.
You use Planning server templates to define how and where the Supply Chain Planning server is installed and runs. The Planning server definition enables you automatically to transfer the transaction data and planning parameters directly to the Planning engine to generate, analyze, and maintain your planning data model.
These templates make it easy for you to change which Planning server you are linked to. For example, you might have a test model established on one server and a production model defined on another machine and server. You can also establish logical definitions of Planning servers for use by PeopleSoft Enterprise Planning, Production Planning, and Order Promising. As you work with your plans, you select a server by only its template name rather than having to establish all the technical Planning server information each time you use a plan.
You can link to a server either by using the Planning Server group box to select the server or by completing fields on this page. The Planning server is also available on the Planning Scorecard page and can be selected directly from there.
Planning Server
When you want to change a template temporarily, the Server Template Name identifies the template.
Host
To establish a link between PeopleTools and the Planning engine, use the Host Name field to define the machine or device that runs the Planning server. The value you enter must represent a valid host machine. These values aren’t established as part of your PeopleSoft application installation or maintenance, so make sure that you type the name as it corresponds to the host machine.
Use the Host User Name field to define a valid user on the host machine you entered. If you use File Transfer Protocol routines to copy files to and from the Planning server and a password is required, you need to enter that password in the Host Password field. When you type the password, wildcard characters appear in the field instead of the password.
Select the Platform on which the Planning server is running. You can select either PSNT (for Windows NT machines) or PSUNX for (UNIX machines).
Server
Type the Server Name to define the logical name that has been given to the Planning server.
Planning server names are established when you start a Planning server and specify the -id
parameter.
If the -id parameter wasn’t specified, the default server name is “Server.” These values aren’t established as part of your PeopleSoft application installation or administration, so make sure you type the name as it corresponds to the host machine. Server names are case-sensitive.
The Timeout (Seconds) field defines how long you want the connection to a Planning server to wait before automatically timing out when you retrieve or update information in the Planning server. This means that PeopleSoft Production Planning searches this amount of time before returning an incomplete operation message. For example, the system may have lost its connection to the server, found no rows of data, or couldn’t connect to the server. The time is entered as a number of seconds.
The User Name defines a unique ID used to access the Planning server if the Server has been set up to use security. Enter the Server Password established for the user name. Use the Port field to define a valid port to use to connect to the Planning server.
Use the Load Command Files From field to define the path to the location of the data model command files on your network file system so that the Planning server can access them. In most cases this is a path on the host machine where the Planning server runs. If you are using a shared file system between Process Scheduler and the Planning server, this path can be the same as the path used during the DataLink process for creating the command files.
with a forward slash (/) for Unix or a back slash (\) for Windows NT. Otherwise, the file transfer won’t take place.
For example, a Unix path name would look like this: /data/command/ A Windows NT name would look like this: \data\command\
After you build and define your planning model using the Production DataLink, you can generate a master or material plan using the Generate Plan process. Typically, the master or material plans are automatically created as a part of the DataLink process. The Generate Plan option enables you to rerun any of the solvers after you have made manual changes to the plan using the master plan, material plan, or capacity plan workbenches.
The generation process overrides any values that you have set up for solvers in the Planning server while making it possible to run a plan specifically for master- or material-planning items. To invoke the process, you use buttons to start the solver that you want to run.