Indexing FileNet® P8 databases can improve the performance of IBM® FileNet P8.
Consider creating database indexes when you want to improve the performance of the FileNet P8 database.
Documentation data tables that have information about database indexes are used throughout the performance tuning topics so that you can create performance enhancing database indexes on one (single) or more (multiple) database columns.
In documentation, these indexes are typically referred to as “single-property indexes” and “composite-properties indexes”.
Each table is introduced by a short summary that describes why the index is beneficial. Each table also includes the following information.
Custom properties are easy to identify because they always have a prefix of either “uxy” or “uvxyz” attached to the beginning of the property name (where “ xy” and “vxyz” are automatically generated prefixes that help to identify a custom property).
Use IBM Administration Console for Content Platform Engine to create single-property indexes, unless the indexes are for a FileNet P8 system property. If an index is for a FileNet P8 system property or more than one property, use the database management software to create the index. Use the Microsoft SQL Profiler, the Oracle Statspack, Oracle ADDM, or the DB2® Design Advisor to identify extra properties (columns) that you want to index.