Database Management Systems
Configure the connection between IBM® WebSphere® Portal and your database management
system. The Database Transfer configuration option in the Configuration Wizard assigns users and
permissions, creates databases, obtains support for database collation,
and transfers your database.
DB2: Database transfer
Your portal is installed with an Apache Derby
database. The database that is immediately available for use is good for demonstration and portlet
and theme development environments. Otherwise, you must configure portal to use a production-level
database. Use the Configuration Wizard to transfer the data and configure a new
database server.
IBM DB2 for i: Database transfer
Your portal is installed with an Apache Derby
database. The database that is immediately available for use is good for demonstration and portlet
and theme development environments. Otherwise, you must configure portal to use a production-level
database. Use the Configuration Wizard to transfer the data and configure a new
database server.
DB2 for z/OS: Database transfer
Your portal is installed with an Apache Derby
database. The database that is immediately available for use is good for demonstration and portlet
and theme development environments. Otherwise, you must configure portal to use a production-level
database. Use the Configuration Wizard to transfer the data and configure a new
database server.
SQL Server: Database transfer
Your portal is installed with an Apache Derby
database. The database that is immediately available for use is good for demonstration and portlet
and theme development environments. Otherwise, you must configure portal to use a production-level
database. Use the Configuration Wizard to transfer the data and configure a new
database server.
Oracle: Database transfer
Your portal is installed with an Apache Derby
database. The database that is immediately available for use is good for demonstration and portlet
and theme development environments. Otherwise, you must configure portal to use a production-level
database. Use the Configuration Wizard to transfer the data and configure a new
database server.
Manual Steps: Database Transfer option in the Configuration Wizard
The database transfer option in the Configuration Wizard
includes manual steps. Some manual steps include scripts for you or
your database administrator to run. For reference only, you can see
the manual steps in this section of the product documentation. Use
the Configuration Wizard to complete the deployment configuration.
The wizard generates specific instructions and scripts based on your
unique input.
Oracle: Creating JCR table spaces (Automatic Storage Management)
If you configured your database with Automatic Storage Management, you might need to
perform additional manual instructions to create JCR table spaces when you use the Database Transfer
option in the Configuration Wizard . If you select the option to let the
wizard create your database schemas and assign permissions, you must perform the steps in this topic
after you run the setup database script.
Assigning custom table spaces
You cannot use the Database Transfer option in the configuration
wizard to assign custom table spaces on your database server. You can perform manual steps to assign
custom table spaces.
DB2: Enabling support for high availability data replication
Optional: To prevent data loss on DB2® ,
modify the JCR schema to support high availability data replication (HADR).
Connecting to existing database domains
View the steps to share a database domain between two separate WebSphere Portal instances (instance1 and instance2 ),
where instance2 is connected to an instance1 database
domain.