Middleware Team

Documentum story – HA configuration best practice

We went to a performance issue and some failed failover regarding the content server and the JMS. Thus we asked EMC for recommendations and it seems that the configuration can be slightly different than the official documentation. Here are the(…)

Initiate a local GIT repository in command line

Objective of the document is to describe how to start manually with command lines a development project, from an existing GIT repository. Usage of GIT protocol for software development empowers projects team management. It is intended to ease(…)

Documentum Administrator UCF Troubleshooting

Maybe you had some issues with UCF in DA as me. I had this for no reason since few days at a customer. The problem was that we use SSL with DA and the Unified Content Facilities (UCF) wasn’t happy(…)

Java reflection: Get classes and packages names from a root package within a custom URLClassloader

I have got a case for which I needed to use a custom Classloader, in order to find the list of classes and packages available across several software plugins materialized by a set of jar files. These jar files(…)

Documentum Multiple ADTS: Switching rendition queue

As part of my previous posts about having 2 rendition servers for one docbase (see below), I’ll show you how to simply switch a rendition queue item to the other server – http://dbi-services.com/blog/documentum-multiple-adts-ratio-of-rendition-creations-between-instances-part-1/ –(…)

Upgrading to 7.2 created a new ACS. How to remove it and test it?

I had this strange behavior that once upgraded from 6.7 to 7.2 a new ACS was created. I think it’s because the current ACS name didn’t fit the new ACS name pattern. Well it’s not a big issue to have(…)

PKI – SSL certificates management with Java keytool and OpenSSL

In this blog, we will cover all steps to enable SSL encryption for a particular server. The procedure described here applies mostly for Java based servers and applications, with usage of a keystore. In the case the organization(…)

xPlore list all ids from xhive

I went into a case that I found a kid of ‘Ghost’ index which I may present in another blog. But to summarize I had to get the full list of indexes from the xPlore server. The problem is(…)

Java: Cannot delete file?

You may once went into the struggle to delete a file in java? So do I… I went so mad when I figured out that my files were still present even after a file.delete() or file.deleteOnExit(). It always(…)

ADTS missing profiles

He he, long time no see, ADTS… It has been a long time I didn’t go into trouble with ADTS. As the new 7.2 ADTS is pretty well constituted this time the issue came from me, I admit. Once upon(…)