Where are the definitions that make up a PeopleSoft Application stored?
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SYSTEM CATALOG
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PEOPLETOOLS TABLES
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APPLICATION TABLES
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PEOPLETOOLS CATALOG
PeopleSoft Application definitions (records, pages, menus, etc.) are stored in PeopleTools tables, which are system tables that store metadata about application objects. Application Tables store actual business data, and System Catalog is a database-specific concept.
PeopleSoft application metadata — record, field, page, and component definitions — is stored in a special set of system tables known as the PeopleTools tables, which the runtime engine reads to render pages and enforce business logic. Actual application data instead lives in application tables, and there is no 'PeopleTools Catalog' or generic 'system catalog' in this architecture that holds these definitions.