IBM CommonStore email item types cannot be enabled using afuEnableItemType

Item types with a document data model cannot be enabled for indexing using the IBM Content Collector afuEnableItemType indexer tool.

Symptoms

If you enable an IBM Content Manager item type with a document data model using afuEnableItemType, the following error message is displayed:
The data model of the 'xxx' item type is of type 'UNKNOWN'. 
This data model is not suppported by the indexer.
The 'xxx' item type cannot be enabled to be used by the indexer

Causes

When an email item type is created manually for use in IBM CommonStore, specific attributes, for example CSMailboxid, are not mandatory in the item type definition. As a consequence, when these item types are used in IBM Content Collector, the indexer is not able to identify if these item types support indexing or not, and stops processing immediately.

Resolving the problem

In order to process these item types, the environment variable AFU_INDEXER_USE_IT_CS_GENERIC must be defined for all indexer for text search tools. If the environment variable AFU_INDEXER_USE_IT_CS_GENERIC is set to 1 or true, the indexer for text search tools will recognize the item type as being a generic IBM CommonStore email item type and will be enabled to process it.

User response: For details on using the AFU_INDEXER_USE_IT_CS_GENERIC environment variable, see Text indexer environment variables.