IBM ECM server

The FNP8 CPE and ICN applications represented the ECM system used in the case study.

FNP8 CPE addressed the enterprise content and process management requirements, while ICN is a Web client that provided a console for working with the contents of FileNet® repositories.

Table 1. ECM virtual machine resources
ECM virtual machine
30 virtual CPUs
20GiB memory
10GbE LAN via VSWITCH
1 x DASD Model 27 for Linux™ - 4x HyperPAV aliases directly attached
6 x 100GiB FCP attached SCSI disks for FileNet CPE storage area
2 x 256GiB FCP attached SCSI disks for backup purposes
Table 2. ECM virtual machine software
Software Service level
SLES11 for z Systems™ (64-bit) Service Pack 3 (SP3)
IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment (64-bit) v8.5.5 Fix Pack 3 (8.5.5.3)
IBM WebSphere SDK for Java™ Technology Edition 7 v7.0.7.0
IBM FileNet CP Engine v5.2.1
IBM Content Navigator v2.0.3
IBM Spectrum Scale™ v4.2.0.0