When PeopleSoft Windows client processes, such as
the Application Designer, make a three-tier connection, they connect to the
application server; each application server process has already made a two-tier
connection to the database when it was started.
Any process wishing to connect to the database must identify itself with a PeopleSoft user or operator ID. The purpose of the signon processing is to securely validate that the PeopleSoft operator, authenticated by password, is permitted to access the PeopleSoft database. When a PeopleSoft Windows client process is started, a signon dialog box is presented. This signon dialog box can be suppressed if the signon options are supplied as command-line options, as follows:
pside.exe -ct ORACLE -cd CS90 -co PS -cp PS
