FileNet® Image Services and Content Platform Engine can share relational database software that is on a separate remote database server.
For example, instead of having the Content Platform Engine catalog database and the FileNet Image Services catalog database on separate servers, you can have two separate instances of the RDBMS software on one remote database server.
If you install the Content Platform Engine and FileNet Image Services relational databases on the same remote server, install the databases as separate instances. If performance is an issue, place the databases on separate servers.
Oracle instances must be the same base release, although the fourth digit of the release number can be different.
A Microsoft SQL Server instance that is used by FileNet Image Services cannot be shared by the Content Platform Engine server.
A Microsoft SQL Server instance with Windows Authentication that is used by Content Platform Engine servers must have a Content Platform Engine servers group with privileges for the system administrators, security administrators, and database creators roles. A Microsoft SQL Server instance with SQL Server authentication that is used by Content Platform Engine servers must have a user (such as the SQL Login database user) with privileges for the system administrators, security administrators, and database creators roles. These privileges are needed to create an object store successfully.
The Microsoft SQL database must be created with case-sensitive sort order.