Content Platform Engine V5.2.1
introduces new features and other administration enhancements.
Enterprise-wide features
- Administrative tools
- Administration Console for Content Platform Engine is the
administration tool of choice for Content Platform Engine. Enterprise Manager, Style Template Manager,
and the ImpExpCmdTool are no longer installed with Content Platform Engine. For information about
how to access Style Template Manager and the ImpExpCmdTool to complete
tasks in Content Platform Engine V5.2.1,
see Installing tools for managing publish style templates
and creating add-on features for Content Platform Engine 5.2.1.
- Enhancements to Administration Console for Content Platform Engine
- Running the administration console from IBM® Content Navigator
- You can run the administration console for Content Platform Engine
from IBM Content Navigator by configuring
it as a feature on an IBM Content Navigator desktop.
For more information, see Configuring the administration console as an IBM(r)
Content Navigator desktop feature.
- Read-only access to Administration Console for Content Platform Engine
- You can restrict access to Administration Console for Content Platform Engine for specified users
at both the domain and object store level. For more information, see Limiting
administrative access.
- Expanded site administration
- You can access object stores and storage areas from a site. Previously,
administrators accessed only content cache areas, index areas, and
virtual servers within an individual site.
- API component download
- You can use the administration console to download API components.
You can use these API components to build version-compatibility checks
and automatic updates into client applications that use the Content
Engine Java™ API or Process Engine Java API. For information about
how to download the components, see Downloading
API components. For information about the client download service,
see Content Platform Engine Client Download Service Developer's
Guide Overview.
Content-related features
- Multiple database column indexing
- Administrators can use the administration console to create indexes
on multiple database columns, with an ascending or descending sort
order. There is also an option for choosing no sort order, which means
the columns become INCLUDE columns on DB2® and SQL Server. (Previously, only a single
column was indexed by using the Content Engine Java or .NET API and only an ascending sort
order was supported.)
Also, the index can be configured in a case-insensitive
manner by using the Content Engine Java or
.NET API. By using the administration console, the index is automatically
created in a case-insensitive manner for databases that support LOWER() (Oracle
and DB2 10.5 and later), if
the database is not already using a case-insensitive collation.
You
can find this new indexing feature in Administration Console for Content Platform Engine by opening the object
store, and then navigating to . Pick the table
definition that you want to index, and then use the Index tab
of the resulting page.
- Improved subscription and notification support
- You can create subscriptions from the Subscriptions folder and
specify a class from the New Subscription wizard. A subscription is
created for the specified class. For more information, see Creating
a subscription.
Client applications can implement subscriptions and notifications
for events that occur on documents and folders within an object store.
Do not install the subscription and notification add-ons unless there
is a client application that can use this feature.
- Advanced storage areas
Advanced storage areas provide high availability content storage
and disaster recovery through use of replication and replica repair.
An advanced storage area supports heterogeneous storage devices. The
OpenStack cloud storage and file system device storage can be used
in an advanced storage area. An advanced storage area exists as a
peer of the other storage area types that can be set on an object
store: database, file system, and fixed content storage. You can
move data between an advanced storage area and the other types of
storage areas. And as with these other storage area types, you can
assign advanced storage areas to storage policies.
For more
information, see Advanced
storage areas.
- Content Platform Engine server communication
Content Platform Engine server communication enables
cross-site replication for an advanced storage area without the requirement
to mount any file system directories across the WAN between sites. Content Platform Engine server communication
is typically configured by using Administration Console for Content Platform Engine.
- New fixed content devices
Support has been added for new EMC fixed content devices: Atmos and Isilon.
Fixed content devices are typically configured by using Administration Console for Content Platform Engine.
- Background search sweeps
- You can create and run a background search sweep. These sweeps
have two main purposes:
- To allow time-consuming queries to be conveniently run.
- To produce search results that facilitate report generation.
The query syntax for background search allows parameter variables
and the mapping of items in the SELECT
clause to search result properties. For
more information, see Generating background search results.
- Custom sweeps
You can create a custom sweep that operates as a background
task on the server and passes retrieved instances to an action handler
for processing. You can apply filter conditions to the sweep to narrow
the scope of the retrieved instances. For more information, see Creating
custom sweeps.
- SMTP server configuration
An SMTP server can be configured at any of the domain hierarchy
levels. For workflow notifications, the SMTP server can also be configured
for a specific workflow system.
- Improved object store reassignment
- The operation to reassign an object store has been improved to
ensure that all items that share a database connection object are
reassigned in a single operation.
You can use two new options, Remove
from source domain after reassignment and Reassign
associated isolated regions and event export stores, to
request the reassign operation to reassign all items that share a
database connection and remove those items from the source domain
global configuration data, thus ensuring integrity between the source
and destination FileNet® P8 domains.
For
more information, see Reassign object stores validation.
Process-related features
- Improved globalization support for workflows
- The XLIFF file is now stored in the workflow system database.
You can use Administration Console for Content Platform Engine to
register your XLIFF files. The method
of deploying the PEAuthoredNames.jar file in Workplace and Workplace XT web applications has
been deprecated.
- Case-insensitive searches for queue, roster, and log entries
- You can enable or disable case-insensitive searches for an isolated
region (Oracle and DB2 10.5
and later). When the case-insensitive search feature is enabled, any
new indexes that are added to the existing queue, roster, or log tables
automatically include the lower() operation in each string column
key of the index. New roster, queue, and log tables within the region
include the lower() operation in the string keys of the indexes.
- You can enable or disable case-insensitive searches from the Administration Console for Content Platform Engine or through the Content
Engine Java or .NET API.
- Running the Process Designer and
Process Tracker applets from IBM Content Navigator
- In IBM Content Navigator, you
can add a menu option for Process Designer.
For more information, see Configuring the Process applets to run from IBM Content Navigator.