Application integration & Middleware

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(…)

Oracle GoldenGate 19c: Cannot register Integrated EXTRACT due to ORA-44004

The global_name in an oracle database has a direct impact on the Golden Gate Extract process registration we need to do when we create an Integrated Extract. In my example below, I use Oracle GoldenGate MicroServices architecture but the same(…)

Documentum – Change/Rename of LDAP Config object

Using an LDAP Server with Documentum (or any ECM for that matter) is pretty common to avoid managing users locally. In this blog, I wanted to talk about something that isn’t very common and that is the change of an(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Missing DARs after upgrade

As part of the same migration & upgrade project I talked about in previous blogs already (corrupt lockbox, duplicate objects & wrong target_server), I have seen a very(…)