IBM FileNet P8 Platform 5.5.x Building and Configuring an Object Store

Course Overview

This course provides technical professionals with the needed skills to build and configure an object store. It teaches you how to work with an IBM FileNet Content Manager repository.

The course begins with an introduction to IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation. You learn about IBM FileNet Content Manager container environment, features, and architecture. You create an object store in Administration Console for Content Platform Engine and configure it in the IBM Navigator administration desktop to make the repository accessible to business users.

You learn how to create storage areas and storage policies to store the repository content. You define choice lists and property templates to use it for the object classes metadata. You define custom Document classes and Folder classes to organize the documents. This course introduces security concepts for the IBM FileNet P8 assets. You create events and subscriptions to initiate your custom code or actions that are invoked when you create or modify the repository objects.

You use Content Services GraphQL to retrieve, create, and edit the Content Platform Engine objects.

Target Audience

This course is intended for administrators and solution builders of IBM FileNet Content Manger who want to build and configure object stores.

Course Objectives

• Learn about IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
• Understand the FileNet Content Platform Engine architecture
• Build an object store
• Configure an object store to access it from the IBM Navigator Desktop
• Create file storage areas, storage policies, and advanced storage areas
• Define choice lists and property templates
• Create custom Document and Folder classes
• Identify security access issues
• Modify the direct security of an object and default class permissions
• Manage Subscriptions with Event Actions
• Use Content Services GraphQL API to retrieve, create, and update Content Platform Engine objects

• Exercise 1. Exploring FileNet P8 Platform
• Exercise 2. Building an object store
• Exercise 3. Managing Storage Areas
• Exercise 4. Creating and modifying property templates and classes
• Exercise 5. Configuring security for IBM FileNet P8 assets
• Exercise 6. Implementing Events and Subscriptions
• Exercise 7. Working with Content Services GraphQL

Course Content

• Course introduction
• Unit 1. Introduction to IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
• Unit 2. IBM FileNet P8 content services containers
• Unit 3. Introduction to IBM FileNet P8 Platform
• Unit 4. Organizing the content across the enterprise
• Exercise 1. Exploring FileNet P8 Platform
• Unit 5. Object stores
• Exercise 2. Building an object store
• Unit 6. Storage Areas
• Exercise 3. Managing Storage Areas
• Unit 7. Property templates and classes
• Exercise 4. Creating and modifying property templates and classes
• Unit 8. IBM FileNet P8 Security Essentials
• Exercise 5. Configuring security for IBM FileNet P8 assets
• Unit 9. Events and Subscriptions
• Exercise 6. Implementing Events and Subscriptions
• Unit 10. Working with Content Services GraphQL
• Exercise 7. Working with Content Services GraphQL

Course Prerequisites

• Familiarity with the content management concepts
• Basic knowledge of Linux operating system
• Understanding of Containers and Kubernetes