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Configure the Business Space component using PMT

You can configure the Business Space component as part of your IBM BPM profile by using PMT.

You can start pmt.sh after product installation. In addition, you can use pmt.sh capabilities from the command line by using manageprofiles.sh parameter -configureBSpace after product installation. In both situations, Business Space is installed with the same database product as the database product you designate for the IBM BPM common database. If you selected a database that is not supported with Business Space, pmt.sh configures Business Space with the IBM DB2 Express database.

If you use manageprofiles.sh, follow the manageprofiles documentation for your business process management product. Review the following considerations for using manageprofiles:

• If you use Oracle or SQL Server on a stand-alone server, create the database manually instead of using the -dbCreateNew parameter.

• If you have a remote database in a clustered environment, create the database manually, copy over the generated scripts to the remote machine with the database, and run the scripts from that location.

For dmgr and custom profiles, you can use the administrative console or the Deployment Environment Configuration wizard. If you use pmt.sh to create a dmgr and custom profiles (managed nodes) with the Deployment environment profile creation option, Business Space is configured automatically with your deployment environment, but you must manually run scripts to configure the database tables.

For more advanced configuration options on a stand-alone server profile, use pages on the administrative console to configure Business Space.

For example, if you want to designate a data source that is different than the database you selected for your profile (the IBM BPM common database), use the administrative console to configure the Business Space component.

Procedure

• For a stand-alone server, start pmt.sh, select the Stand-alone server profile option and complete the following steps.

  1. Complete the Profile Creation Options page. The Business Space component is configured with your product data source.

  2. When you designate the host name for your profile, use a fully qualified host name.

  3. On the Database Design page, you have the option of using a database design file that you have created using the database design tool that contains all database configuration for your product, including the Business Space database configuration. For more information about database design files, see Create a Business Space database design properties file.

  4. Complete the profile creation using PMT. The Business Space component is installed. It is configured for the same database product that you designated for the IBM BPM common database (or with DB2 Express if the database product is not supported).

  5. If the database is remote, configure the database tables after running pmt.sh.

• For a deployment environment, start pmt.sh, select the Deployment manager profile or Custom profile option and complete the following steps.

  1. On the Profile Creation Options page, select the Deployment environment option to configure each profile with customized configuration values and use it in a deployment environment based on a supplied pattern.
  2. Follow pmt.sh steps to create a dmgr profile and custom profiles (managed nodes).

  3. After all the custom nodes are federated, run scripts to configure the database tables manually.

What to do next

If your product database is an Oracle database, the Business Space component is configured with pmt.sh or manageprofiles.sh to use the same database, with the default schema IBMBUSSP, and the default password that you enter during profile creation.

If you want to use a different password for the IBMBUSSP user name, use the administrative console to update JDBC Resources:

1. Find the data source jdbc/mashupsDS.
2. Modify the value of the authentication alias to make it match the password of the Business Space schema name.
3. Save your changes and restart the server.

Before using Process Portal, set up security that you need to use with the Business Space component and the widgets that your team is using.

Tip: The Business Space component uses a proxy component to connect to your REST services. In some cases, if REST services are not responsive, you must update the connection timeout settings to your REST services, depending on the performance of the REST service servers. See Changing the timeout settings for the Business Space Ajax proxy.

Configure the Business Space component for Process Portal

Related tasks:
Enabling security for the Business Space component
Configure the Business Space component and registering REST endpoints on the administrative console
Configure the Business Space component as part of the Deployment Environment Configuration wizard
Configure the Business Space database
Set up security for the Business Space component and Process Portal
Create database design files for DB2
Create database design files for Oracle
Create database design files for DB2 for z/OS
Create database design files for SQL Server
Enabling coaches and forms for running Human Task Management widgets in Business Space
Create a Business Space database design properties file