Morgan Patou

Documentum – dmqdocbroker/iapi/idql not working because of dbor.properties.lck

Have you ever faced an issue where dmqdocbroker, iapi, idql and the likes aren’t able to communicate at all with any Docbroker (connection broker)? Here, I’m not talking about potentially wrong hostname, port or connect modes, which might prevent you(…)

Documentum – SSL Certificate based secure communication setup

Around four years ago, I did a few presentations, here, in Switzerland about “Security & Documentum”. In there, I talked about a lot of different subjects related to both security and Documentum (you guessed it…) like: ciphers, SHA, FIPS &(…)

Documentum – Configuration of an IDS Target Memory/RAM usage on Windows

A few months ago, I had to work on a Windows Server to setup an IDS Target. The installation and configuration of the target wasn’t that different compared to a Linux host, so it wasn’t difficult at all (if you(…)

Documentum – RCS/CFS Upgrade in silent fails with IndexOutOfBoundsException

Several years ago, I wrote a series of blogs regarding the silent installation of Documentum Components, including for a RCS/CFS (HA part of a Repository). In there, I described the process and gave an(…)

Documentum – IDS on Windows Server not able to start with error 31: device not functioning

Documentum Interactive Delivery Services or IDS is a Documentum product that can be useful to publish some documents to an external web server or something similar. It usually works rather well, even if there hasn’t been much changes in the(…)

Documentum – D2 doesn’t load repositories with “Unexpected error occured”

I had a case today where all Documentum components were up and running, including D2 but while accessing its login page, the repositories wouldn’t appear and a message “An unexpected error occurred. Please refresh your browser” would pop-up in the(…)

Documentum – IndexAgent can’t start in normal mode

Everybody familiar with Documentum knows that just starting the JBoss/WildFly hosting an IndexAgent isn’t really enough to have the indexing working: the IndexAgent must be started from the UI (or via DA or via the job or via iapi or(…)

Documentum – xPlore online rebuild stopped because of “immense term”

In relation to my previous blog about custom facets not showing up after full reindex, a customer was doing a migration that just completed. After the full reindex, there were no facets because of what I(…)

Documentum – Custom facets not showing up after full reindex?

Beginning of the year, while performing a migration from a Documentum 7.3 environment on VM to Documentum 16.4 on Kubernetes, a customer had an issue where their custom facets weren’t showing up on D2 after a full reindex. At the(…)

Solr Sharding – Shard creation

I wrote this blog in conjunction with the one about the Solr Sharding – Concepts & Methods a year ago and it was 95% completed but then I had other stuff to do and just forgot(…)