Using FileNet Deployment Manager to export other FileNet P8 assets

Use FileNet Deployment Manager to migrate assets that were created with IBM® FileNet P8 tools from the development environment target object store to the target environment object store. These assets are not recognized by Case Builder, but your business processes might use these assets.

About this task

This step is required only if you created additional assets in the development environment target object store by using FileNet P8 tools outside of Case Builder. You can also follow this procedure to move a solution from one development environment to another. For example, complete the procedure if you are a solution provider and you want to move your solution from your development environment to your customer’s development environment.

If you extend your solution with non-case management assets, you must migrate the assets to the target domain by using the appropriate migration tool for that asset. The IT admin and the business analyst must track these extended assets and ensure that they are properly managed. For example, form templates and some assets are stored in the target object store. If the test environment is reset in Case Builder, these extended assets are lost. To preserve extended assets that reside in the target object store you must export the assets to a protected location, such as a removable disk, by using FileNet Deployment Manager, and then import the assets after the next iteration of the solution is deployed.

Procedure

To move additional assets to a another development or production target object store:

  1. Create a list with the description and location of all additional extended assets that are used in the solution design.
  2. See the FileNet Deployment Manager documentation for details on the steps in this procedure.
    Tip: Review these sections:
    • Deploying IBM FileNet P8 applications > Deployment overview
    • Deploying IBM FileNet P8 applications > FileNet P8 assets
    • Deploying IBM FileNet P8 applications > Prepare data for deployment > How to... > Prepare Content Engine data
    • Deploying IBM FileNet P8 applications > Deploy FileNet P8 Platform assets > How to... > Deploy Content Engine > Import converted objects
  3. Create the deploy dataset.
    FileNet Deployment Manager uses the export manifest file to generate a deploy dataset of exported objects.
  4. Create the object store, security principal, and optionally service half maps to capture information from the IBM Business Automation Workflow development, or source, environment.
    Follow all recommendations in the FileNet Deployment Manager documentation, such as making a note of the security principals that are discovered to ensure corresponding administrative groups can be identified in the destination environment.
  5. Use FileNet Deployment Manager to create a deploy package.
    A deploy package is a compressed file of deployable content that can be deployed from FileNet Deployment Manager that is on a different system. When you create a deploy package, you specify its deployable content by selecting a deploy dataset folder that was created by the export procedure in step 3. You also have the option of including the half maps that were created in step 4.