Configuring your environment graphically with the IBM Business Automation Workflow Configuration editor
The IBM Business Automation
Workflow
Configuration editor is a browser-based interface for configuring
your new deployment environment. You can graphically edit the configuration
properties file that was exported from your source environment by
the BPMConfig -migrate command. After you modify
the properties file in the editor, you can use the BPMConfig
-create command to create a new deployment environment that
is based on the modified file.
Before you begin
Oracle and SQL Server database
JDBC drivers that previously came with Business Automation Workflow have
been removed. If you were using these default drivers, or drivers
located in the
${WAS_INSTALL_ROOT}/jdbcdrivers/Oracle or
${WAS_INSTALL_ROOT}/jdbcdrivers/SQLServer directories,
you must reconfigure your JDBC drivers before migrating. On the Business Automation Workflow deployment
manager and every managed node machine, create a custom directory
for your JDBC driver and copy the required JDBC driver JAR file into
it. For example, you could create the following custom directory:
temp/jdbcdrivers/Oracle
About this task
The following image and corresponding table describe the parts of the
Configuration editor that you interact with when you configure your new deployment environment. For
migration, the title also reflects the source and target product and version.

Label | Part | Description |
---|---|---|
A | Topology | Edit the properties of all available components, such as cells, nodes, and deployment environments. Some properties were automatically modified during export and others require manual input. Components that are incorrectly configured are shaded gray. Properties that have missing or invalid values are surrounded with a red border and are flagged with a red exclamation mark icon. |
B | Security | Edit the properties for LDAP. Edit the customizations from WebSphere® Lombardi Edition files, including Process Admin Console, Workflow Server, and other custom properties. The information that you see on this tab depends on your source configuration. |
C | Performance | Edit the properties for data sources, thread pools, activation specifications, work managers, JVM settings, connection factories, ORB data, web containers, and messaging engines. |
D | CaseManagement | Edit the case management properties. |
E | Summary | Scroll through all available properties before you save the configuration properties file. Make further edits. |
1 | Cell | Edit the cell properties, such as the cell name. Map the cell administrator role to an authentication alias. |
2 | Deployment environment | Edit the deployment environment properties, such as the Business Automation Workflow type. For Workflow Server, you can also change the Workflow Center connectivity properties. |
3 | Databases | Edit the database properties or map database roles to user aliases. |
4 | Deployment manager | Edit the deployment manager properties, such as the host name, node, profile name, and SOAP port. |
5 | Node | Edit the properties for each node, such as the node name, host name, port, and profile name. |
6 | Cluster | Edit the properties for each cluster. |
7 | Cluster member | Edit the properties for each cluster member. |
8 | Aliases | Edit the authentication alias mappings for the deployment environment administrator, database administrator, and other aliases to users and passwords. |
9 | Bus | Edit the bus properties, such as the databases that they refer to. |
10 | Validation messages | Correct incomplete or incorrect properties by clicking the messages in this table. |
Procedure
What to do next
When you start the IBM Business Automation
Workflow Configuration editor, it creates a process
that runs in the current command window. If you close the browser that is running the Configuration
editor, the background process will continue to run. To stop the process, load the following URL in
the browser:
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Pre-19.0.0.1: http://localhost:port_number/bye
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https://localhost:port_number/bye