Application integration & Middleware

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(…)

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(…)

Setup an NGINX Ingress Controller on Kubernetes

One of the most important and basic concept in Kubernetes is the Service exposition. How about exposing a Kubernetes Service deployed inside a cluster to outside traffic? Let’s have a look on the different approaches to expose a Kubernetes(…)

Documentum – Some things to take care of when migrating/upgrading

Over the years I have been working with Documentum, I participated in many migrations and/or upgrades. Just like everything else, this obviously builds up some experience but what if you are pretty new to Documentum and it is your first(…)

Documentum – DARs installation fails Java 11

As you probably heard if you weren’t in an underground bunker for the past 2 years, Oracle changed the licensing of the Oracle JDK. If you want to read more about it, there is a good FAQ(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Castor is locked!

One of the best practices while doing upgrade of Documentum is to unlock the various repository objects before starting. This will make sure that if the upgrade process requires an update of some objects, then it will succeed and not(…)