FileNet P8 Platform, Version 5.2.1              

Limitations on installing in a non-English environment

There are certain limitations on installing FileNet® P8 in non-English environments.

Important: For additional limitations, see the release notes.

Process Task Manager

If Application Engine, Workplace XT, or Content Platform Engine is installed on any operating system other than Windows, Process Task Manager (vwtaskman) takes too long to launch when it is run under a UTF-8 locale using remote CDE shells such as X Window, Exceed, Xmanager, etc). Verify that the X Window application can handle Unicode fonts to fix this problem. Also, verify that any independent software vendor applications are configured correctly. The command-line interface functionality is not affected.

Process Designer

To import a user-defined XSD file that contains non-English characters in Process Designer, run the following command to convert characters to the Unicode encoding format to match an operating system other than Windows Content Platform Engine in a UTF-8 locale, and then import the XSD file into Process Designer.
Java -cp pe.jar filenet.vw.toolkit.utils.FileConverter /in filename 
  /out outfilename

Composite Platform Installation Tool

The Composite Platform Installation Tool, which installs a single-server FileNet P8 environment, is not supported on Simplified Chinese Microsoft Windows 2008 R2.

IBM Case Manager

IBM® Case Manager requires language support on the Content Platform Engine server to support authored language solution templates.

Important: Case Manager Builder displays unreadable characters in Step Editor for double-byte (east Asian) characters. To resolve the problem, install the correct language pack on the Case Manager Builder Server.

IBM FileNet Image Services

In IBM FileNet Image Services, navigate to fn_edit > System Attributes > Client Character Set, enter MS932, and restart the IBM FileNet Image Services service. This configuration setting ensures that Japanese characters in property values are synchronized in both directions between IBM FileNet Image Services and Content Platform Engine.

Rendition Engine

Rendition Engine supports only English and Japanese operating system languages. You can install and run Rendition Engine on any language version of Windows, provided that you set the Windows Region/Language configuration to either English or Japanese.

With one exception, IBM FileNet Rendition Engine supports only the English versions of authoring applications. The exception is that Rendition Engine supports the Japanese versions of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Visio.

For more information, see Microsoft Windows operating system help for further information about adding additional language support.



Last updated: March 2016
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