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Portal, V6.1

 

Sharing Customization domain data

When migrating from IBM WebSphere Portal V6.0.1.1 or V6.0.1.3, you share the Customization database domain between the earlier portal installation and the new portal installation. To enable sharing, connect to the Customization database domain in the earlier portal installation before you run the migration tasks.

If the new portal installation uses the same DBMS as the earlier portal, use the same database driver to connect to the earlier portal's Customization database domain. For example, if you configured the new portal's release domain to use DB2 with a DB2 Type 4 driver, and the earlier portal's Customization database domain also uses DB2, use a DB2 Type 4 driver to connect to the earlier portal's Customization database domain. If the new portal uses Oracle for the release domain and the earlier portal's Customization database domain uses a different DBMS such as DB2, you do not need to use the same database driver to connect to the earlier portal's Customization domain.

The entire set of database properties specified in the file WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine/properties/wkplc.properties must be valid for the current configuration of all database domains. If you plan to connect or transfer a single database domain, you should modify only the database properties for that domain before running the connect-database or database-transfer tasks.

  1. On the new portal, locate and update the files listed below to reflect a connection to the WebSphere Portal Version 6.0.1.1 or 6.0.1.3 customization domain.

    • WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine/properties/wkplc.properties

    • WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine/properties/wkplc_comp.properties

    • WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine/properties/wkplc_dbtype.properties

    Use the earlier portal installation's properties files as a reference to determine the appropriate values.

  2. Change to the WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine directory and then enter the following commands to validate the configuration properties:

    Operating System Command
    Windows

    ConfigEngine.bat validate-database-driver -DTransferDomainList=customization
    ConfigEngine.bat validate-database-connection -DTransferDomainList=customization

    UNIX

    ./ConfigEngine.sh validate-database-driver -DTransferDomainList=customization
    ./ConfigEngine.sh validate-database-connection -DTransferDomainList=customization

    i5/OS

    ConfigEngine.sh validate-database-driver -DTransferDomainList=customization
    ConfigEngine.sh validate-database-connection -DTransferDomainList=customization

  3. Connect WebSphere Portal V6.1 to the earlier customization domain:

    Operating System Command
    Windows ConfigEngine.bat connect-database -DTransferDomainList=customization
    UNIX ./ConfigEngine.sh connect-database -DTransferDomainList=customization
    i5/OS ConfigEngine.sh connect-database -DTransferDomainList=customization

  4. Verify that the new portal server starts.

 

Parent topic

Preparing for migration