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.
Before you begin
Notes:
- Release data cannot be shared between separate WebSphere Portal instances. Also, if Web Content Manager is installed, the JCR domain cannot be shared.
- You can share only the WebSphere Portal Version 8.5 data.
- The entire set of database properties that are specified in the file wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine/properties/wkplc_dbomain.properties must be valid for the current configuration of all database domains. If you plan to connect or transfer a single database domain, you must modify only the database properties for that domain before you run the connect-database or database-transfer tasks.
Warning: The connect-database
configuration task does not preserve customizations to the data sources for the WebSphere Portal databases. If you previously tuned your data sources for
the WebSphere Portal databases, make a note of the settings, run
connect-database, and reapply the tuning after you run the
configuration task.