IBM System Dashboard for Enterprise Content Management, Version 5.0.0.2

Location of the PchConfig.properties file

When the Listener is instantiated, the IBM® System Dashboard for Enterprise Content Management attempts to locate the PchConfig.properties configuration file and if it is found, the contents of the file are processed. If the PchConfig.properties configuration file cannot be located, default values are assigned to the configuration parameters.

Locating the file for use with the C++ Listener

The process for locating the file on a Windows platform for use with the C++ Listener API is as follows:

  1. The listener first determines if the filenet.pchconfig environment variable is defined. If the variable is defined and its value is not the empty string, then the value of the variable is considered to be the complete path to the location of the configuration file.
  2. If the filenet.pchconfig environment variable is not defined, or its value is the empty string, then the IBM System Dashboard for Enterprise Content Management searches for the configuration file in the current directory.
  3. If the configuration file is not located in the current directory, then if the HOME environment variable is defined, the configuration file is searched for in that directory.
  4. If the configuration file is not located in the directory specified by the HOME environment variable, and if the PATH environment variable is defined, then each semicolon-separated directory is searched for the file.

Locating the file for use with the Java Listener

The process for locating the file on a Java™-enabled platform for use with the Java Listener API is as follows:

  1. The Listener first determines if the filenet.pchconfig Java system property is defined. If the property is defined and its value is not the empty string, then the value of the property is considered to be the complete path to the location of the configuration file.
  2. If the filenet.pchconfig property is not defined, or its value is the empty string, then the Listener searches for the configuration file in the directories specified by the user.home, user.dir, and java.home Java system properties, in that order.
  3. If the configuration file is not located in any of those directories, then the directories specified in the CLASSPATH variable are searched.


Last updated: March 2016
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