Middleware Team

Java 1.8 Utility classes: XML, ZIP, BufferedImage and Download

When I write code, I usually need some utility classes to ease the development. So here I will share my most used classes. Hope this will help you as well! XML store and load I strongly use XML for storing(…)

Control-M/EM Unlock and Take ownership of a folder

Introduction Definition of a workspace It is a board letting you create and update folders and jobs, once you work ended and saved into the base the workspace can be deleted. Sometimes when you want to work on a folder(…)

Control-M/EM Update ctmuser & emuser DBO password

Introduction For security purposes we sometimes must update the password of our Control M architecture. This task seems to be easy, but you must be careful to update the passwords wherever they are used. Today we will check how to(…)

Control-M/EM Import/Export Calendar

Control-M: Export/Import Calendars Introduction: What is a Control M Calendar? A Control M calendar is used to schedule Control M jobs that are assigned to him: For example the job named JOB_TEST will be executed depending of the days(…)

Tracking Logs Inside a Documentum Container (part II)

Testing the log watcher This is part II of the article. Part I is here. All the above code has to be included in the entrypoint script(…)

Tracking Logs Inside a Documentum Container (part I)

Containers running under docker can have their stdout observed from the outside through the “docker logs”command; here is an excerpt of its usage: docker logs --help Usage: docker logs [OPTIONS] CONTAINER Fetch the logs of a container Options: --details Show(…)

A Ruthless Repository Shutdown Utility, Part II

Stopping the unreachable repositories Suppose that the docbroker has been stopped prematurely and that we want to shut down the repositories but the out-of-the-box dm_shutdown_repository is not effective. Why is it so by the way ? If we look closely(…)

A Ruthless Repository Shutdown Utility, Part I

You have finally completed that migration and need to restart all the Documentum processes. So, you shut down the docbroker and move on to the repositories but then you receive an error message about them not being reachable any more.

Documentum Administrator in a Container

In article A Small Footprint Docker Container with Documentum command-line Tools, we presented a possible way to containerize the usual Documentum clients idql, iapi, dmawk and dmdocbroker.

A Small Footprint Docker Container with Documentum command-line Tools

The aim here is to have a minimalist container with the usual Documentum clients idql, iapi, dmawk and dmqdocbroker. Documentum Administrator (DA) could also be a useful addition to our toolbox. We will show how to containerize it in(…)