Objectives of this white paper

IBM® ECM solutions use analytics to provide access to content and documents for the right people at the right time, thereby helping customers to make better decisions. An optimized performance of ECM solutions can better handle the vast amounts of content and documents that are typically involved.

The ECM solution implemented for this case study runs in a virtualized environment on the IBM z Systems™ platform with several layers of performance tuning: starting with the z Systems™ hardware, z/VM® hypervisor, Linux™ operating system, and ending with ECM applications.

In particular, the multi-node ECM solution with a shared FileNet® P8 File Storage Area requires a reliable parallel filesystem with good performance, such as IBM Spectrum Scale™.

One of the major objectives for this case study was to demonstrate the significant advantages of running IBM ECM and Spectrum Scale on Linux on z Systems.