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Practical write-ups on PeopleSoft security auditing, metadata, and operations. Each article stands on its own: the tables involved, the SQL if you want to do it by hand, and where psLens shortens the path.
Solving Duplicate Student Records: How an AI Agent Used psLens MCP to Reverse-Engineer PeopleSoft Name Search Normalization in 3 Minutes
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 in Articles
Duplicate person records (EMPLIDs) are one of the most expensive data-integrity problems in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and HCM. Once a student or employee is assigned two EMPLIDs, financial aid disbursements, enrollment history, transcripts, and …
Tracing Every Place a PeopleSoft Field Is Updated Using an AI Agent and the psLens MCP Server
Friday, October 16, 2026 in Articles
Every PeopleSoft developer and functional analyst has been asked a version of this question: “Where in the system does STDNT_CAR_TERM.TUITION_CALC_REQ get set to 'Y'?” On a traditional codebase stored in Git, ripgrep answers that question …
Connecting AI Coding Agents to PeopleSoft with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Friday, August 14, 2026 in Articles
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PeopleSoft has always been a black box to modern AI coding assistants. Tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Claude Desktop work by reading files on disk, navigating Git repositories, and parsing project trees. PeopleSoft does not work like that. Its …
Why psLens Runs on Go, a Hypermedia UI Stack, and SWS Instead of Living Inside PeopleSoft
Monday, July 13, 2026 in Articles
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When I started building psLens, I was not trying to create another PeopleSoft bolt-on. I wanted a tool that could sit beside PeopleSoft, search metadata fast, run audits, monitor Process Scheduler and Integration Broker, and stay easy to deploy and …
Which Service Operations Can Half Your Users Call?
Tuesday, July 07, 2026 in Articles
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Ask a PeopleSoft security administrator “who can call this web service?” and you will usually get a pause. There is no delivered screen that ranks service operations by how many users can reach them. The grant is buried one level below …
Who Can Access This PeopleSoft Component? The SQL, and the Gotchas
Thursday, July 02, 2026 in Articles
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“Who can get to this component?” is one of the most common questions a PeopleSoft security administrator gets, and PeopleSoft has no delivered screen that answers it in one place. The data lives in three tables, and the joins are easy to …
Your PeopleSoft Nodes Probably Don't Have Passwords
Thursday, July 02, 2026 in Articles
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Here is a finding from a delivered Campus Solutions 9.2 development image: 62 active message nodes, 58 of them with no authentication configured. That is not an unusual environment. It is what delivered images look like, and refreshed non-prod …