IBM CMIS supports only Federated Repositories.

IBM CMIS and FileNet Content Engine can have the same LDAP server.

The IBM FileNet P8 and IBM CMIS Platform uses LDAP-based security and also supports Java 2 security.

Use the IBM WebSphere Application Server administrative console for the Content Engine server to ensure that the following settings match on both (CMIS and P8 Content Engine) application servers.

1) User filter

2) Group Filter

3) User ID map

4) Group member ID map

5) Certificate map mode

6) Certificate filter

Use the IBM WebSphere Application Server administrative consolefor the Content Engine server to ensure that only the following settings match on both CMIS and FileNet Content Engine application servers.

1) Primary administrative user name.

2) Automatically generated server identity.

Binary-code point sort order. Case sensitive, for use with 1252 Character Set.

Dictionary order, case sensitive, for use with 1252 Character Set (or any case-sensitive SQL Server collation).

Dictionary order, case-intensive, for use with 1252 Character Set (or any case-intensive SQL Server collation)

Dictionary order, case-intensive, accent-intensive, kana-intensive, width-sensitive (or any case-intensive SQL Server collation).

Read permission on the /tmp directory.

Membership in the appserver_admin_group.

Read permission to the directories:

file storage areas, index areas, and content caches.

Read, Write and Execute permissions to the device or location where:

Content Platform Engine is to be installed.

The application server instance/domain/profile has been installed.