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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 24, 2024

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Need to be able to specify multiple database types when using scripted installation

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CP4BA supports multiple database types (e.g. Oracle, DB2, etc.), but some applications (e.g. ADP) do not support all database types.  My customer mandates Oracle where possible.  This means that when installing both FNCM and ADP, we have to use Oracle for FNCM and DB2 for ADP (ADP does not support Oracle).

The prereq script, however does not support multiple different databases, even when specifying different database types in the properties files.

This results in having to execute the script multiple times with different database types and then merging them together in the final CR.

It also means that when you attempt to validate the properties files, it attempts to validate one of the databases with the wrong driver.  If I ran the prereq script last with Oracle specified as the database type, even after I merge the directory structures together, it will attempt to validate the DB2 database with the oracle jdbc driver and it will fail.

This means that I have to attempt a deployment against databases which have not been validated and that is very error prone.

The installer should be able to use the correct jdbc driver for the type of database specified in the properties file.

Alternatively, all CP4BA components could be required to support the same database types.  This, however, is probably a more difficult task.

Idea priority Medium

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