User Guide

Differences between ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion MX on WebSphere 13
• ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server requires a redirector web application
for RDS access if you do not deploy the ColdFusion MX web application at the / context root.
For more information, see “Using RDS” on page 50.
• ClusterCATS is not available; load-balancing is provided by your application server.
• On WebSphere 4, sandbox security cannot secure Java access to files and network resources.
For AIX
The following features are not supported on AIX:
• Verity search eng ine
• CFX tags written in C++
• CreateUUID uses Java random characters in place of the MAC address
• Crystal Report integration (cfreport tag)
• COM support
• ODBC support
For RedHat
The Verity search engine is not supported on RedHat Linux 8.0.
Differences in directory locations
This section compares directory locations for ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion MX for IBM
WebSphere Application Server.
Note: If you are developing a ColdFusion application on the ColdFusion MX server and you are
deploying it to IBM WebSphere Application Server, also see Chapter 4, “Migrating a ColdFusion
application to IBM WebSphere Application Server,” on page 49.
Location of ColdFusion MX root directory
In the ColdFusion MX server, the default location of the ColdFusion MX root directory, (referred
to as cf_root) is C:\CFusionMX in Windows and /opt/coldfusionmx on UNIX. For a description
of the contents of the cf_root directory for ColdFusion MX, see Installing and Using ColdFusion
MX on the ColdFusion MX Documentation page at www-3.ibm.com/software/webservers/
coldfusionmx/library.html.
In ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server, the location of the ColdFusion MX
root directory, where the ColdFusion web application is installed, differs depending on the
application server.
Note: For a description of the contents of the cf_root directory for IBM WebSphere Application
Server, see Chapter 1, “Directory structure,” on page 11.