Hello world! I’m starting this blog to document, share and consider my time as a new graduate starting with DXC Technology as part of the oracle delivery team. I’ll be covering what I learn, projects I’ve been a part of, and how well I’m finding the experience of joining a massive organisation like DXC.
Over the past few weeks I’ve had all manner of company policy and structure thrown at me, as well as more interesting insights in to Bionix™, Platform DXC and the use of scrum teams to provide agile transformation for businesses in need of a digital upgrade. These opening salvos of information gave way to setting up various systems needed as part of work and HR. The highlight of this was trying to solve why I was blocked from IT support, with the slight hurdle of having no access to IT support… Needless to say it can be a frustrating process at times but it’s to be expected with so many legacy systems from two merged companies. If a silver lining was to be found, it’s taught me the value of why organisations should invest in their IT and not rely on ancient, legacy software.
As well as this, I’ve begun my introductions in to the world of oracle and the financial services it can be applied to. My manager and all-round metal-head Craig Mercer has been taking the time to guide me through oracle financial processes such as P2P (procure to payment) which have so far seemed extremely logical and thought out, especially when oracle cloud is used as part of it. No doubt it’ll start to get more complex and a great deal more confusing as time goes on but for now I feel I’ve been keeping up alright.
Finally, each week I’ll have answers to questions set by my team to test my learning. This weeks can be seen below:
What are the 4 c’s of oracle?
- Chart of Accounts – This is split in to segments for balancing, cost centres and the core accounting with others for any trackable product details required.
- Currency – Set definitions for currencies and their conversions as different currencies may be used between transactions, ledger accounting, generated reports etc.
- Calendar – Ledgers may require different periods of time (accounting calendars) which will depend on the specific needs of the organisation at hand.
- Accounting Conventions – Brought in with release 12, accounting methods are defined at the individual ledger level meaning that for accounts spanning multiple countries, local regulations and standards can be adhered to.
What are the differences between chown, chgrp and chmod?
Chown is a command used to change a files user and the command can only be used by privileged users, for instance gaining access with sudo su.
Chgrp is similar however it will change the files group instead, where a group will be made up of individual users.
Chmod is used to change the permissions of a files user, group and others. It uses a number system where 4 = read, 2 = write, 1 = execute and 0 = no permissions. For instance, if chmod 730 was used the user would be able to read, write and execute the file (4 +2 + 1 =7); the group would only be able to read and execute the file (2 + 1 =3); and any others would have no file permissions whatsoever (0).
Any answers here may not be 100% but are my understanding of the areas after a bit of research (any future grads reading hopefully it helps but don’t take it as gospel!). I’ll hopefully have the next blog out Wednesday and then weekly installments from there.
Thanks for reading
James
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