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Configuring My webMethods Server to Use MySQL
 
Configuring My webMethods Server to Use MySQL Enterprise Edition
Configuring My webMethods Server to Use MySQL Community Edition
To use My webMethods Server with MySQL, you must install the server with the embedded database, and then manually switch to the MySQL database before starting My webMethods Server for the first time. For more information about installing My webMethods Server, see Installing Software AG Products.
You must configure the mode of the MySQL database before starting My webMethods Server for the first time. The MySQL modes that My webMethods Server requires are ANSI_QUOTES and PIPES_AS_CONCAT.
When using My webMethods Server with a MySQL database, deploying .war files might fail. If such an issue occurs, increase the values of the following parameters in the MySQL configuration file, and restart the MySQL database server.

innodb_buffer_pool_size = 5G
innodb_log_file_size = 80M
max_allowed_packet = 24M
For more information about configuring MySQL, refer to the MySQL documentation.