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Adding a Documentum Extension to gawk, part I

Recently, I was searching my NAS for some files which, to end this intolerable suspense, I did not find but on the other hand I did stumbled across a couple of interesting dmawk scripts I wrote for on customer more(…)

Adding a Documentum extension into python

Many years ago, out of frustration by the poorness of scripting tools in Documentum, I realized a Documentum binding for python using the distutils and I remember how easy and straightforward it had been, even for someone not really into(…)

Configuring WebLogic Server 12.2.1.3 Diagnostics Framework policies and actions

Configure a Policy-action (new name for watch-notification) to send a JMX notification when the monitored WebLogic Server is having stuck threads or high memory usage. We will use a simple JMX notification listener program which can process WLDF JMX notifications.

idql and its column output

idql and its column output A few days ago, I was reading an interesting blog from distinguished colleague Clemens Bleile with the title “sqlplus and its column output” (link here https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/sqlplus-and-its-column-output/) and I(…)

Another surprising journey in Documentum-land

The journey begins In a VM Oracle VirtualBox with Centos Linux 7.0, you install Documentum v7.3 and create a docbase dmtest with its schema in a database on another VM running Oracle Linux. You start the newly created docbase and successfully(…)

Error accessing D2: Error while fetching repositories

After patching our D2 we ran into an error we never had before. After all, it’s only a patch. But as you know, patching D2 means recreating the war file and deploying it again. As well as setting(…)

Error starting D2 4.5 on Tomcat 8 No class found: JSAFE_SecureRandom

When installing D2 and launching the tomcat server you can have an error on a missing lib: JSAFE_SecureRandom. Here’s the trace you can have: 2018-01-17 17:32:19 [DEBUG] [localhost-startStop-1] - c.e.c.d.contents.D2FileCleaningTracker : Init D2FileCleaningTracker with /pkgs/dms-tomcat/D2_TOMCAT_HOME/temp/D2FileCleaningTracker_D2.ser 2018-01-17 17:32:20 [ERROR](…)

How to rename an existing Fusion Middleware WebLogic Domain

Some times it happens that we need to rename an existing fusion Middleware WebLogic domain. I was asked to do such on a Fusion Middleware Reports & Forms environment. I took some time to check how this can be(…)

Documentum xPlore: Tuning of JVM for high throughput and low CPU usage

Sometimes you have java processes or even jboss servers using a lot of CPU. In my example I had an xPlore dsearch server using like 98% of the cpu. When using jconsole and jvisualvm I figured out the garbage collector(…)

Documentum xPlore: Several ways to start an Index Agent

In order to start index agents, you have several ways, depending on how you need to start them. 1. Use the documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot. If you setup start_index_agents=T in the server.ini, the job will be called when the docbases are(…)