New whitepaper: Oracle9iAS Best Practices

Check out the newly published whitepaper on Oracle9iAS Release 2 best practices:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias/ohs/collateral/r2/bp-core-v2.PDF
Ashesh Parekh
Oracle9iAS Product Management

Carl,
There is really no set number or best practice for the number of segments. It is driven by the needs of your organization based upon reporting requirement, collective bargaining agreements, the degree of organizational change occurring within the enterprise, etc. I do believe that "less" segments usually makes more sense from a maintenance and ease of use perspective. Jobs are available across the Business Group, unlike positions, which are subordinate and specific to jobs and organizations...so you'll be maintaining less of them (hopefully).
Regards,
Greg

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Once you have DNS working, then you can start configuring your other services. Time Machine should be pretty simple. A share point will be created automatically for you. But before you get here, I would encourage starting Open Directory. Don't do that until DNS is right and you pass the sudo changeip -checkhostname test.
R-
Apple Consultants Network
Apple Professional Services
Author, "Mavericks Server – Foundation Services" :: Exclusively in the iBooks Store

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I'm a RH novice who needs to create a V1.1 doc based on the
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Nowadays, much video content will never be broadcast, CRTs are disappearing, and it's easy to post HD video on places like YouTube and Vimeo. As a result, we often see lower thirds and other text really close to the edge of the frame, as well as widespread use of thin (not bold) fonts. Even major broadcast networks are going in this direction.
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Quoted for stonedposting.
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Best Practice - Changing description for Org Unit/Position or creating new?

Hello Freinds,
I just want to know from your experience what's normally practiced in your implementations for OM :-
For scenarios where there is a need to change the description of a particular org unit or position, do u
1. just change the description effective a particular date (to maintain history) or
2. put an end date to those objects and create new ones ?
Solution 1 is quick and easy, but in IT0001 the description displayed is as on start date of that infotype which is normally a date prior to the change in desc of those objects. As a result this infotype keeps displaying old description.
Is there any way to change this display to show the current description instead of the description as on start date of this infotype ???
Solution 2 calls for a lot of related activities, say if i create a new org unit and delemit the old one - then i have to move all the sub org units and positions into this new one ... which is quite time consuming and doesn't really seem practical.
How do u manage such scenarios ?
Thanks
Allen

We use option #1, although I am not sure this is best practice. Using option 1 for positions makes it challenging when it comes to reporting on length of time in position. We frequently have the scenario where a person is reorged not because they applied for another position, but just because the big wigs want to move around the chess pieces. In these cases we simply modify the position attributes and then run a PA action. Then if you run a query and use the standard delivered Length of time in position field, it appears as if the person has been in the same position for years (which they have), but their position has been retitled, re-graded, and re-orged numerous times. This makes it very difficult to get to an employee's length of time in their role.
This is a great discussion question I hope more people respond with what they do and why.

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