IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) 18.0.0.1 - Fun with Context Roots and Deployment Environments

During a recent build of a BAW 18.0.0.1 environment, I saw this: -

CWMCB0195E: The source file of the copy operation does not exist (/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01/config/cells/PCCell1/applications/CaseBuilder_AppCluster.ear/deployments/CaseBuilder_AppCluster/CaseBuilder.war/WEB-INF/cbConfig.properties).
The 'BPMConfig.sh -create -de /home/wasadmin/BAW18001_Advanced-PC-ThreeClusters-DB2.properties' command failed. For more information, see the log file /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/logs/config/BPMConfig_20181017-171418.log.

whilst creating the Deployment Environment using the BPMConfig script: -

/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/BPMConfig.sh -create -de ~/BAW18001_Advanced-PC-ThreeClusters-DB2.properties

The difference between this and many other builds was that I'd over-ridden the Context Root for the various BAW applications within the DE properties file - BAW18001_Advanced-PC-ThreeClusters-DB2.properties - via this line: -

bpm.de.contextRootPrefix=/corporate/secure

Typically this is left as-is meaning that the applications have the default Context Root e.g.

https://domain.com/ProcessCenter

https://domain.com/ProcessPortal

https://domain.com/bpc

https://domain.com/navigator

etc.

whereas I wanted to amend these to: -

https://domain.com/corporate/secure/ProcessCenter 

https://domain.com/corporate/secure/ProcessPortal 

https://domain.com/corporate/secure/bpc 

https://domain.com/corporate/secure/navigator

Thankfully this has been addressed by an iFix for BAW: -

JR59780

Having downloaded this from IBM Fix Central, I checked the content of the fix: -

/opt/ibm/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools/imcl listAvailableFixes com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85_8.6.10018001.20180628_0740 -repositories /mnt/BAW18001/Fixpack/8.6.10018001-WS-BPM-IFJR59780.zip

8.6.10018001-WS-BPM-IFJR59780_8.6.10018001.20180911_0132

and then installed it: -

/opt/ibm/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools/imcl install 8.6.10018001-WS-BPM-IFJR59780_8.6.10018001.20180911_0132 -repositories /mnt/BAW18001/Fixpack/8.6.10018001-WS-BPM-IFJR59780.zip -installationDirectory /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/

Installed 8.6.10018001-WS-BPM-IFJR59780_8.6.10018001.20180911_0132 to the /opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer directory.

Once this was applied, we're good to go :-)

PS For the record, BAW is a combination of IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) 8.6, plus various Enterprise Content Management (ECM) capabilities, including Filenet Content Platform Engine (CPE) and IBM Content Navigator (ICN).

Also, for the record, this is what I now have installed: -

/opt/ibm/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools/imcl listInstalledPackages

com.ibm.cic.agent_1.8.9001.20180709_1302
com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85_8.6.10018001.20180628_0740
com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85_8.5.5014.20180802_1018
8.6.10018001-WS-BPM-IFJR59569_8.6.10018001.20180829_1311
8.6.10018001-WS-BPM-IFJR59780_8.6.10018001.20180911_0132
8.6.10018001-WS-BPM-IFJR59939_8.6.10018001.20180905_0257
8.6.10018001-WS-BPMPCPD-IFPD59569_8.6.10018001.20180829_1322