Gérard Wisson

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(…)

Documentum upgrade project: D2-Client and missing icons

The new D2-Client does not correctly display the icon for some formats. This usually happens when the icon.css is not up to date based on the content format in the repository. The solution is to find these formats and update the(…)

Documentum upgrade project: D2-Client, facets and xPlore

To enhance the search capability we had to configure xPlore to use the new customer attributes as facets and configure D2 to use the default and new facets. Configuring xPlore to use facets with the customer attributes Stop the Index(…)

Documentum upgrade project – ActiveX and D2-Client 3.1Sp1

This is another blog posting an our Documentum upgrade project. This time, the following issue occured: the ActiveX could not be installed using the D2-Client. We had to access the D2-Config url to have it installed. For a normal user,(…)

Documentum upgrade project – Documentum Administrator and ACS

After having installed the Documentum Administrator, one of our test was to open a document. When I opened one for the first time the content was empty although I knew it contained text. But the correct content was well displayed when I(…)