About the IBM FileNet P8 Connector

The BA Insight IBM FileNet connector enables you to extract content and security from your FileNet system for searching and migration.  

Types

The connector uses either direct database calls or the FileNet web service API to index your data.

Direct DB Access Version (for Oracle and MS-SQL databases) 

  • This version connects directly to your FileNet database.
  • By enumerating data directly from the database we are able to index larger sets of data and check for changes more rapidly.
  • For configuration instructions, see IBM FileNet P8 Connector for Oracle and MS-SQL

API Version

  • This version of the FileNet Connector allows you to connect to FileNet directly via the published FileNet API's.
  • Use this version only in situations where direct database access is forbidden, as it is more limited in features than the Direct versions.
  • For configuration instructions, see IBM FileNet P8 Connector - API Version

FileNet Content Manager Connector

BA Insight IBM FileNet Content Manager Connector enables SharePoint, as well as other portal users, to securely search for content stored in FileNet repositories. 

Features

  • Access to content is determined by security established in FileNet, ensuring that your content is safe when accessed through any other portal as it is directly within FileNet.
  • This capability makes SharePoint Search, Azure Search, and Elasticsearch true Enterprise Search.
  • The FileNet Connector lets you extract content and security from your FileNet System for searching and migration purposes.
  • This Connector uses direct database calls to Oracle and MS-SQL in order to index your data.

This version connects directly to your FileNet database. By enumerating data directly from the database, you can index large sets of data and rapidly check for changes.

The following functionalities are supported for both MS-SQL and Oracle:

  • Retrieve Metadata
  • Retrieve content from the database and file system
  • Records Manager support: This Connector can retrieve the metadata of records that are assigned to an item. For detailed info about records, go to the IBM Knowledge Center.
  • Additional properties retrieving:
    • Subscriptions: A subscription defines what conditions are required in order for an event action to take place. The subscription includes the class or instance upon which the event acts and also the workflow. For more information, continue with Work with subscriptions 
    • Annotations: An annotation object represents incidental information that can be attached to an object for the purposes of annotating or footnoting that object. You can associate annotations with custom objects, documents, and folders (Containable objects). For more information, continue with the Annotation.
  • Direct Security Processing: Processing security that is assigned directly to item. For more information, go to Object Security.
  • Inherited Security Processing: Processing security coming from parent folder. For more information, go to Configure security inheritance.
  • Proxy Security Processing: The content engine provides extensible security parent relationships by means of the Security Proxy Type property placed on the metadata of custom object-valued properties. For more information, continue with Understanding Security Inheritance.
  • Template Security Processing: A security policy serves as a collection of security templates, each of which contains a predefined list of permissions, or Access Control Entries, that can be configured to apply to a document, custom object, or folder. For more information, continue with  Security policies.
  • Marking Security Processing: Markings allow access to objects to be controlled based on specific property values. For more information, continue to Markings overview.