Content Platform Engine
V5.2.1 introduces new features and other enhancements for deploying
applications. These changes apply to both the FileNet® Deployment Manager user interface and the
command-line interface.
- Improved migration and deployment model
- The documentation for the migration and deployment of FileNet P8 applications and data
has been improved. Additional information more fully describes the
application migration and deployment model. The procedures for implementing
the application migration and deployment model by using the FileNet Deployment Manager tool have been clarified
and streamlined. Enhanced information is also available for products
and assets that must use other tools for all or part of their migration
and deployment processes. New information about the use of FileNet Deployment Manager to migrate data has been
added.
FileNet Deployment Manager supports
workflow system configuration assets and thus reduces the number of
tools that are required for migration and deployment of an application
that is based on Content Platform Engine.
Metadata from the global configuration data, object store, and workflow
system can be placed into a single deployment package, making it easier
to migrate and deploy application assets together.
For more
information, see Workflow system assets.
- Managing source and destination differences
- More detailed information is available on the changes that were
or will be made to the destination system when a deployment data set
with object store assets is imported:
- Import options can be preconfigured and saved, and then reused
for multiple operations. By doing so, operations can be performed
with a consistent set of options.
- The existing import operation captures finer detail on differences
between assets in the destination FileNet P8 domain and the assets
in the deployment data set. This capture includes the values of all
properties that are different and a complete audit of new objects,
including their properties.
- The import operation can be run in an "audit only" mode,
allowing the differences to be captured without making any changes
to the destination environment.
- Detailed audit reports of all properties for objects that are
modified or created can be generated at any time.
For more information, see FileNet(r) P8 asset
deployment.
You have more control when class definitions on the destination
system will not match those on the source system after import due
to the removal of property definitions. More control is provided by
an import option to remove property definitions from the destination
environment that were deleted from the source environment class definitions.
You might use this option if you previously imported class definitions
into the destination environment, and then modified those class definitions
at the source to remove some property definitions. When you perform
another import into the destination environment, you want those property
definitions that were removed from the source environment to also
be removed from the destination environment. For more information,
see Import options.
- Adding assets to an export manifest by using an SQL search
- You can locate object store assets to add to an export manifest
by using either a saved search that was previously created by using Administration Console for Content Platform Engine or by directly entering
a SQL query, Retrieved assets can be selected from the query results
or a new option allows for all assets that are returned by the search
criteria to be added to the export manifest. For more information,
see Adding assets to an export manifest by using a SQL search.
- Import and export support for additional assets that are managed
by an object store
- Class definitions that are based on the Abstract Search Results
base class
- Background Search Template definitions and supporting constructs
- Background Search Results class definitions
- Search Function Definition
- Email templates (derived from the Email Services Extensions add-on
classes)
- Sweep management class definitions and objects, including sweep
actions, sweep policies, queue sweeps, and sweep target class definitions.
- IBM® Content Navigator entry templates
- Mapping of advanced storage areas
- Mapping of connection points
For more information, see Object store assets.
- Updates to the FileNet Deployment Manager command-line
interface
- The following commands have been added:
- RetrievePrincipalInfoFromLDAP
- RetrievePrincipalInfoFromDeployDataSet
- RetrieveObjectStoreInfoFromDomain
- RetrieveObjectStoreInfoFromDeployDataSet
- RetrieveServiceInfoFromDeployDataSet
- RetrieveInfoFromEnvironment
- CreateEnvironment
- ReassignObjectStores
- MapData
- ConvertDeployDataSet
- AnalyzeDeployDataSet
- ExportDeployDataSet
- ImportDeployDataSet
- CreateDeployPackage
- ExpandDeployPackage
The following commands have been deprecated:
- CEExport
- CEImport
- ConvertCEExportXML
- ConvertPEExportXML
- RetrieveObjectStoreInfo
- RetrieveObjectStoreInfoFromCEDeployDataSet
- RetrievePrincipalInfoFromCEDeployDataSet
- RetrievePrincipalInfoFromLDAP
- RetrievePrincipalInfoFromPEConfigExportXML
- RetrieveServiceInfoFromCEDeployDataSet
- RetrieveServicesFromPEConfig
- ValidateCEExportXML
- ValidatePEConfigData
- AnalysisReportFileName
- analysisFailuresLimit
- importUpdateOption
- importCreateOption
- ValidationOutput
For more information, see Deployment operation files.