Preparing the databases

The databases that you prepare before deployment are determined by the optional applications you want to include. For any IBM FileNet® Content Manager Deployment, you must prepare databases for the Global Configuration Database and at least one object store.

About this task

When configuring or provisioning your database server, make sure that the database server or service is in the same data center or cluster as your Cloud Pak for Automation deployment. For operational and performance reasons, it is important that there is little latency between the applications or containers and the database server.

Procedure

To prepare your database:

Follow the steps for your database type:
Database type Configuration steps
Db2 Use the following information to prepare your Db2 environment:
  1. Create a Content Platform Engine user for Db2 for Linux®, UNIX, and Windows.
  2. Prepare the Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows server
Oracle Use the following information to prepare your Oracle environment:
  1. Create a Content Platform Engine database user for Oracle.
  2. Prepare Oracle server
 New in 20.0.3  Microsoft SQL Server Use the following information to prepare your Microsoft SWL Server environment:
  1. Creating a Content Platform Engine database user for SQL Server
  2. Preparing Microsoft SQL Server
 New in 20.0.3  PostgreSQL

For more information about your PostgreSQL database, see Setting up a PostgreSQL database for Content Platform Engine.