Gérard Wisson

Redhat Forum 2018 – everthing is OpenShift

I had an exiting and informational day at Redhat Forum Zurich. After starting with a short welcome in the really full movie theater in Zurich Sihlcity, we had the great pleasure to listen to Jim Whitehurst. With humor he told(…)

Momentum16 – Day 2 – What’s new in Documentum 7.3 ?

As described in my last post related to Momentum 16, I was excited to see the session “What’s new in Documentum 7.3”. Do not worry, I could slept last night. But are my expectations fulfilled?   So yesterday I wrote(…)

Documentum story – User gets kicked out of D2 when navigating in D2Config

On a customer site, one of the users complained about being kicked out each time he wanted to create new documents in D2. This issue is happening in a default deployment of D2 and D2Config in a WebLogic Domain.We found(…)

Documentum story – Jobs in a high availability installation

When you have an installation with one Content Server (CS) you do not take care where the job will be running. It’s always on your single CS. But how should you configure the jobs in case you have several(…)

Documentum story – How to display correct client IP address in the log file when a WebLogic Domain is fronted by a load Balancer

The Load Balancers do not provide the client IP address by default. The WebLogic HTTP log file (access_log) does not provide the client IP address but the Load Balancer one. This is sometimes a problem when diagnosing issues and(…)

Documentum story – dm_LogPurge and dfc.date_format

What is the relation between dfc.date_format and dm_LogPurge? This is the question we had to answer as we hit an issue. An issue with the dm_LogPurge job. As usual once a repository has been created we are configuring several Documentum(…)

Documentum story – Build and manage a Documentum Platform

Documentum story. What is behind this story? Normally I should write Documentum Platform story. Indeed dbi services is involved to build and manage a worldwide Documentum Platform. Our part covers all middleware components related to the infrastructure excepting the(…)

Documentum story – D2EventSenderMailMethod when multiple Documentum repositories are used.

When several repositories are accessed through the same Java Method Server (JMS), it might be needed to have a different dfc.properties parameters for the D2EventSenderMailMethod depending on the repository. This can be issued using an external Java call to(…)

EMC World 2015 – Day 3 at Momentum

In this post I would like to relay some advices around the upgrade to Documentum 7.2 I have got in the session from Patrick Walsh about “What’s New, what’s Next: EMC Documentum Platform”. With Documentum 7.2 the processes for the(…)

Documentum upgrade project – from FAST to xPlore

We planned to do our full production upgrade in a weekend – and one part was the replacement of FAST by xPlore. As we had to index more than 10 millions objects, we had to find a solution where the(…)