Configuring an external Content Platform Engine

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After creating your deployment environment, you can configure IBM® Business Automation Workflow to work with an existing external Content Platform Engine system by using new object stores.

Restriction: IBM Business Automation Workflow Enterprise Service Bus does not include an embedded Content Platform Engine or IBM Content Navigator, and you cannot configure a Content Platform Engine or IBM Content Navigator for Enterprise Service Bus.

If you created your deployment environment using the BPMConfig command with the property template file in install_root/BPM/samples/config/externalcpe, the internal Content Platform Engine and embedded document store were not configured.

About this task

Use an external Content Platform Engine under the following conditions:
  • You have an existing Content Platform Engine that you want to use with IBM Business Automation Workflow.
  • You want to keep artifacts such as documents and cases that will persist longer than six months.
  • You intend to use Content Platform Engine for documents besides cases and processes.
  • You plan to use case management heavily.

Procedure

To configure the external Content Platform Engine, see Configuring a new external Content Platform Engine or Configuring an existing external Content Platform Engine.