WebSphere Portal on z/OS / [Tamas Vilaghy ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vilaghy, Tamas.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web portals.

WebSphere.

z/OS.

Physical Description:

xvi, 348 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Poughkeepsie, NY : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, c2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, tailor, and configure the PTF2 level of WebSphere Portal Server for z/OS product. We discuss architectural, installation, configuration, administration, security and problem determination issues. We show you how to deploy portlets and how to convert a "normal" WebSphere application into a portlet. Some of the key features of the IBM WebSphere Portal offering are that it delivers a single, universal point of access that is integrated, highly customizable and scalable to interact with key applications, content, people, and business processes. Also, it offers numerous portlets for e-mail, calendars, syndicated news, industry applications and many other functions. The WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms includes three editions: Portal Enable, Portal Extend, and Portal Experience. This book covers the WebSphere Portal for z/OS and OS/390 product, which is based on the WebSphere Portal V4.1 Enable edition. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Chapter 1. WebSphere Portal architectures

1.1 WebSphere Portal

1.2 WebSphere Portal Enable

1.2.1 WebSphere Portal for z/OS and OS/390 packages

1.2.2 WebSphere Personalization Server

1.2.3 WebSphere Portal Content Publishing

1.2.4 WebSphere Transcoding Publisher

1.2.5 WebSphere Studio Application Developer and the Portal Toolkit

1.2.6 Summary

1.3 Logical tiers

1.4 Logical architectures

1.4.1 Two-tier logical architecture

1.4.2 Three-tier logical architecture

1.5 Physical architectures

1.5.1 Two-tier physical architecture

1.5.2 Three-tier physical architecture

1.6 Our architecture

1.6.1 Our initial architecture

1.6.2 Our preferred architecture

1.6.3 Our overall environment

1.7 Benefits of having WebSphere Portal on z/OS

Chapter 2. Portal installation

2.1 System prerequisites

2.1.1 Hardware prerequisites

2.1.2 Software prerequisites

2.1.3 Our environment

2.2 What is in the box

2.2.1 SMP/E tape for install on z/OS

2.2.2 CD-ROMs for distributed platform

2.3 Preparing to install

2.4 SMP/E installation

2.4.1 WebSphere Portal Server Enable offering for z/OS

2.4.2 Prerequisites

2.4.3 UNICODE support

2.4.4 Performing the SMP/E installation

2.4.5 Post SMP/E installation

2.5 Configure and install WebSphere Portal Server

2.5.1 Step one: Read the package contents

2.5.2 Step two: Unpack the product files

2.5.3 Step three: Save the log files

2.5.4 Step four: Edit the setup file

2.5.5 Step five: Set up WLM

2.5.6 Step six: Set up RACF

2.5.7 Step seven: Configure LDAP server

2.5.8 Step eight: Configure DB2 for portal

2.5.9 Step nine: Install Portal on WebSphere Application Server.

2.5.10 Step ten: Set up multiple location names (optional)

2.5.11 Step eleven: Start WebSphere Portal

2.5.12 Step twelve: Deploy the base portlets

2.6 WebSphere Transcoding Publisher PTF2

2.7 WebSphere Portal Content Publishing PTF2

2.8 Configuring the HTTP plug-in

2.8.1 Edit HTTP Server httpd.conf file

2.8.2 Create a plugin-cfg.xml file

2.8.3 Modify WebSphere Web container settings

2.8.4 Update Portal redirection mechanism

2.8.5 Test the login redirection

2.9 Installation worksheet

Chapter 3. Development environment installation

3.1 Software provided on CD-ROM

3.2 Portlet development and debugging

3.2.1 Installing the Portal Toolkit with Application Developer

3.3 WebSphere Portal Content Publishing

3.3.1 Installing the WPCP authoring environment

3.3.2 Installing the WPCP development environment

Chapter 4. Portal administration

4.1 Administrative privileges

4.1.1 Delegating administration

4.2 Portal customization

4.2.1 Changing themes

4.3 Adding a new portlet skin

4.3.1 Create the new skin directory

4.3.2 Add the skin to WebSphere Portal

4.4 Adding a new portal theme

4.4.1 Create the new theme directory

4.4.2 Add the theme to WebSphere Portal

4.5 Log Files

4.6 Device support

4.7 Managing Portlets in z/OS

4.7.1 Updating portlets

4.7.2 Installed but not deployed portlets

4.8 Managing the portal environment

Chapter 5. WebSphere Portal in a Sysplex

5.1 Configuring WebSphere Portal in a Sysplex

5.2 Setting up the infrastructure

5.2.1 Sysplex distributor

5.2.2 Cluster addresses

5.2.3 XCF addresses

5.2.4 Static IP addresses

5.2.5 DB2 consideration

5.2.6 Shared HFS

5.2.7 Configuring WebSphere Application Server in a sysplex

5.2.8 Enable LDAP in the sysplex

5.3 Parallel sysplex scenarios and tests.

5.3.1 Sysplex configuration used for the tests

5.3.2 Review of the system components in the sysplex

5.3.3 Parallel processing scenarios

5.3.4 The test cases

5.3.5 Considerations for parallel processing of multiple portal instances

Chapter 6. Portlet development and deployment

6.1 Portlet development

6.1.1 Using Application Developer to develop a portlet

6.2 Portlet development example

6.3 Portlet deployment

6.3.1 Portlet deployment jobs

6.3.2 Directory structure for portlet deployment jobs

6.3.3 The Portlet deployment script

6.3.4 Portlet deployment steps

6.3.5 Verifying deployment

6.4 Portlet deployment examples

6.4.1 Example of installing a portlet using WPACONF job

6.4.2 Example of installing a portlet using WPAConfig

6.4.3 Installing portlets obtained from the Portlet Catalog

6.4.4 Deploy the Hello World Portlet

6.4.5 Accessing CICS from a portlet

Chapter 7. Portal security

7.1 WebSphere Portal security

7.2 Portal security architecture

7.3 Custom User Registry

7.4 How to manage user registrations

7.4.1 User self-registration

7.4.2 Portal administrator defined registration

7.4.3 IBM LDAP Data Management Tool (DMT)

7.5 z/OS LDAP Native Authentication

7.5.1 The scenario

7.5.2 The proposed solution

7.5.3 Steps to implement the solution

7.5.4 Solution verification

7.5.5 Tips for exporting RACF users to LDAP

7.5.6 Mass-exporting RACF users to LDAP

Chapter 8. Problem determination

8.1 Portlet deployment problems

8.1.1 PDD001D - MSG - WP00027E Creation of conversation failed

8.1.2 PDD002D - MSG - IRX0043I Error running WPAConfig, line 524

8.2 SMEUI problems

8.2.1 PDD003I - MSG - BBON0579E Cannot activate conversation

Appendix A. Portal Server environment variables

Appendix B. WPCP environment variables.

Appendix C. RACF userid conversion script

Appendix D. Additional material

8.2.2 Locating the Web material

8.2.3 Using the Web material

8.2.4 System requirements for downloading the Web material

8.2.5 How to use the Web material

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"November 2003."

"SG24-6992-00."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-343) and index.

OCLC:

63167846