Documentum – DOCUMENTUM_SHARED is dead?
In June last year, I did my first manual installation (so without docker) of Documentum 16.4 and I was testing it with PostgreSQL. I quickly realized that there were some changes in Documentum and,...
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What to do in case all active Documentum jobs are no more running ?
The application support informed me that their jobs are not running anymore. When I started the analysis, I found that all activated jobs did not start for a few weeks. First of all, I decided to work...
View ArticleDocumentum – D2+Pack Plugins not installed correctly
In a previous blog, I explained how D2 can be installed in silent. In this blog, I will talk about a possible issue that might happen when doing so with the D2+Pack Plugins that aren’t being installed,...
View ArticleDocumentum – Encryption/Decryption of WebTop 6.8 passwords ‘REJECTED’ with...
Recently, we had a project to modernize a little bit a pretty old Documentum installation. As part of this project, there were a refresh of the Application Server hosting a WebTop 6.8. In this blog, I...
View ArticleDocumentum – Large documents in xPlore indexing
Documentum is using xPlore for the Full Text indexing/search processes. If you aren’t very familiar with how xPlore is working, you might want to know how it is possible to index large documents or you...
View ArticleDocumentum – Usage of K8s Services to install Documentum?
In the past several months, we have been extensively working on setting up a CI/CD pipeline for Documentum at one of our customer. As part of this project, we are using Kubernetes pods for Documentum...
View ArticleDocumentum – FQDN Validation on RCS/CFS
In a previous blog, I talked about the possible usage of K8s Services in place of the default headless/pod name and the issues that it brings. This one can be seen as a continuation since it is also...
View ArticleDocumentum – Beware of long hostnames for the Docbroker
Recently, I’ve been facing an issue more and more frequently where a Repository cannot register itself to a local/remote Docbroker. The root cause of the issue is simply that the hostname used for the...
View ArticleDocumentum – Fixing issues with the D2 Privileged Client utility
In a previous blog, I talked about the D2 utility that can be used to automate the registration, approval and global management of the DFC Client IDs and Privileged Clients. The instructions I gave...
View ArticleDocumentum – Automatic/Silent registration & approval of DFC Clients
In the past several months, I have been working extensively with several other colleagues on a migration of Documentum from VMs to K8s pods. We have been doing/using silent installations for several...
View ArticleDocumentum – Automatic/Silent creation of LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Objects
If you have been working with Documentum, then you probably already created/configured an LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Object (or several) so that your users can be globally managed in your organization....
View ArticleDocumentum – LDAP Config Object “certdb_location” has invalid value
In a previous blog, I talked about the automation of the LDAP/LDAPs creation. However, the first time that I applied these steps, I actually faced an issue and I couldn’t really get my head around it,...
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CMIS – What importance does it have in ECM World?
As you know, there is a lot of vendors for Enterprise Content Management systems (ECM) and they all have different interfaces. Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a standard for...
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Documentum – FT – XQuery is very useful
At a customer we encountered some issues with FT Search after documents migration. In fact, some documents were not indexed correctly or partially indexed, the need was to know which documents are...
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Documentum – FT – FTIntegrity Tool
FTIntegrity is used to verify indexing after migration or to get a status after a normal indexing. The tool is a standalone Java program that verifies all types that are registered in the...
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CMIS – Documentum – How’s it going on?
In a previous blog I talked about CMIS in general and showed you what importance it does have in ECM World. In fact, I already experienced CMIS in a project with Documentum and Alfresco involved! The...
View ArticleDocumentum – MigrationUtil – 5 – Change Installation Owner
The Documentum installation owner is the operating system user that owns the server executable and other related files along with the OS process when the server is running. It is originally determined...
View ArticleDocumentum – Cast trouble with D2-REST 16.5.x on WebLogic
In the scope of an upgrade project, with some colleagues, we have been deploying some D2-REST applications on Kubernetes pods using WebLogic Server. At the beginning, we started using D2-REST 16.4 and...
View ArticleDocumentum – NoSuchMethodError on setResourceBundle with D2-REST 16.4 on...
In the scope of an upgrade project, with some colleagues, we have been deploying some D2-REST applications on Kubernetes pods using WebLogic Server. As explained in a previous blog, we first tried to...
View ArticleDocumentum – Connection to docbrokers and Repositories inside K8s from an...
How can you connect an external DFC Client to docbrokers and Repositories hosted on Kubernetes Pods? That seems to be a very simple question yet it might prove difficult… Let’s talk about this...
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