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 BAW 8.6.9.25000 startup fails with FNRCE0057E E_READ_ONLY at UpdateRuntimeUserMembership (external CPE)

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Shehan Bandaranayake posted 05/30/26 11:08 PM

Hi all,
hoping someone has seen this before.
Environment:

  • BAW 8.6.9.25000 on WAS 8.5.5.29, single-cluster Process Center DE
  • External CPE + ICN on a separate cell (WAS 8.5.5.27 ND, CPE/ICN in their own clusters)
  • bpm.de.useExternalCPE=true, bpm.de.useExternalNavigator=true
  • setBPMExternalECM was run during install (trace confirms getExternalECMType=NEW_EXTERNAL_OBJECT_STORE)
  • ECM technical user BAWADUAT mapped to EmbeddedECMTechnicalUser role
  • DB2 backend, AD for LDAP
  • Fresh install — never worked end to end

The Issue

Every BAW startup throws this:

WSVR0501E: Error creating component null [class ApplicationServerImpl]
Caused by: com.filenet.api.exception.EngineRuntimeException: 
  FNRCE0057E: E_READ_ONLY: The method failed because an object or property is read-only.
   at com.filenet.apiimpl.core.ListImpl.checkUpdate(ListImpl.java:744)
   at com.ibm.bpm.embeddedecm.cases.instance.impl.UpdateRuntimeUserMembership.run(...)
   at com.ibm.bpm.embeddedecm.internal.EmbeddedECMConfiguration.updateBPMRuntimeUser(...)
   at com.ibm.bpm.embeddedecm.internal.EmbeddedECMConfiguration.validateAndCreateDefaultConfiguration(...)
   at com.ibm.bpm.embeddedecm.init.EmbeddedECMInitializerComponentImpl$2.run(...)

Has anyone hit FNRCE0057E E_READ_ONLY at UpdateRuntimeUserMembership during BAW startup against an external CPE where permissions were already correctly granted?

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