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.