Application integration & Middleware

How to migrate Oracle Reports to Oracle BI Publisher ?

According to the Oracle Lifetime Support Policy , Oracle is not planning any functional enhancements for Oracle Reports in its terminal release, or any subsequent releases. Oracle Fusion Middleware 12cR2 (12.2.1.3.0) will be Oracle Reports terminal release. Oracle Report(…)

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(…)

Migrate Oracle Database 9.2.0.6 to Oracle 19c using GoldenGate

When a customer wanted to take the challenge to migrate an oracle database 9.2.0.6 (the prehistory in the Oracle world) to Oracle 19c using Oracle GodenGate, I saw more problems than add value for different reasons:  Oracle 9.2.0.6 database is(…)

pg_auto_failover: Failover and switchover scenarios

In the last post we had a look at the installation and setup of pg_auto_failover. We currently have one primary cluster and two replicas synchronizing from this primary cluster. But we potentially also have an issue(…)

JBoss EAP 7 – Domain Configuration

In a previous blog I talked about the domain creation, we saw at the end that some server groups and servers are created by default which usually are not what we need. Through this blog, I(…)

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(…)

Using LDAP resolved connection descriptor in WebLogic JDBC data sources.

I got the question if it is possible to have a the WebLogic JDBC Data Source to be resolved by an LDAP entry. The answer is yes; since WebLogic 12.2.1.3 a JDBC connection pool URL declaration can point to an(…)

How to declare TNS entries in Oracle Unified Directory (OUD)

Using a LDAP server to store the TNS connection strings can be a single point of declarations for all client tools. Note that it can be a single point of failure too, thus, a High Availability LDAP configuration is recommended(…)

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(…)