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WCMConfigService.properties is the main configuration file for IBM® Lotus® Web Content Management™ (LWCM) in the IBM® WebSphere Portal Server. Developers and system administrators will often need to access this file to modify various configuration properties for LWCM. WebSphere Portal Server must be restarted for changes in the file to take effect.
File Location
The WCMConfigService.properties file can be found at:
<wp_profile>/PortalServer/wcm/shared/app/config/wcmservices directory
Versioning
It is important to be aware that the content versioning strategy is always on by default, which means that a version is recorded any time a user makes a modification to an item in LWCM. By changing the default versioning strategy, you can improve system performance and reduce the amount of resources used by the system.
Following is an example of the default Versioning stanza from the WCMConfigService.properties file:
I recommend that you set all attributes in this stanza to manual instead of always. In this way, users can still create versions on-demand, but versions will not be created every single time a user edits an items. This is especially important in early phases when developers are usually making frequent changes.
Reducing the number of versions that are recorded for items will reduce the overall data stored in the Java Content Repository (JCR; the database LWCM items). It can also have a minor impact on the amount of memory used by your servers. But most importantly, it can improve syndication performance and here's why...
When setting up a syndicator, you have the option to syndicate All items or only Live items from a given library. If you choose All items, versions will be replicated also. Versions of items are retrieved individually as separate documents; the URL used by the syndication engine includes a version number. Thus, if you reduce the number of versions that get replicated in syndication, you will reduce the traffic between the syndicator/subscriber pair and help ensure that syndication finishes faster.
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