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Delta Dump

A delta dump is made of all user changes since the last time a delta or full dump was made. This dump presents the current state of each record modified since the previous delta or full dump identifies the record as deleted, if the user or the account no longer exists.

With PeopleSoft HRMS, there is a pre-defined message (PERSON_BASIC_SYNC) that publishes every change made to the user data records. Use the PeopleSoft Integration Broker to publish these changes to a local XML file. This XML file can then be loaded by Bulk Load Client. A sample message file (for example peoplesoft1.xml) comes with the installation and is located under the "samples" directory. This file contains a sample message for PERSON_BASIC_SYNC.

Note: PERSON_BASIC_SYNC publishes every change made to the user data record to its own file, so there could be many files to load.

A message definition is created that publishes all the changes made since the last full or delta dump into one single file. For additional assistance with how to create the custom message, refer to Oracle Support.