Application integration & Middleware

Oracle Internet Directory or Oracle Access manager 12.2.1.4 fails to install on Red Hat Linux8

Recently I had to install Oracle Internet Directory (OID) and Oracle Access Manager (OAM) both in 12.2.1.4 on a Red Hat 8 for new QA and PRODUCTION environments. The installation of the OID 12.2.1.4 failed on packages prerequisites check. It(…)

A web-based MBean Navigator for Oracle WebLogic wlst

Back in the days of WebLogic v8.x, when BEA still owned it and wlst wasn’t the official scripting tool yet, the unofficial wlshell and wlshell Explorer tools were available along with the official command-line tool weblogic.Admin. wlshell was a Windows(…)

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(…)

Oracle Data Integrator Cloud

Data and applications integration is always a technical challenge for most of the companies. All data integration tool ensures that information is timely, accurate, and consistent across complex systems. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is different than traditional data integration tools(…)

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(…)