Application integration & Middleware

Documentum upgrade project: Wrong icons in D2 search results with xPlore

After migrating from “Fast” to “xPlore” Documentum full-text search engine, our team discovered wrong icons in D2 search results. Documents in checked-out state continued to be displayed with the normal icon, even if xPlore indexed attribute value for “r_lock_owner”.

Documentum upgrade project: ADTS local user or domain user?

ADTS local user or domain user: Which user should I choose as the installation owner? This question is important if you are installing a new Advanced Document Transformation Services (ADTS).  You can opt for a domain user in order to(…)

Documentum upgrade project – from FAST to xPlore

We planned to do our full production upgrade in a weekend – and one part was the replacement of FAST by xPlore. As we had to index more than 10 millions objects, we had to find a solution where the(…)

SQL Server 2014 Tips: Create indexes directly via CREATE TABLE

This week, I discovered a new enhancement which is not hidden but not really visible in SQL Server 2014. Among Hekaton and other new features in SQL Server 2014, a little option appears in table creation.8-O On the(…)

SQL Patch: Another way to change the plan without changing the code

Recently, at a customer site, I faced a performance issue. However, as often the statement is embedded in the application so it’s not possible to rewrite the query. In this blog post, we’ll change the execution plan to solve the(…)

Java get Class names from package String in classpath

As a Java developer you probably used to know about reflexion. However, in order to keep your software architecture flexible, some functionalities are sometimes not provided out of the box by the JVM. In my particular case, I(…)

Documentum upgrade project: D2-Client and missing icons

The new D2-Client does not correctly display the icon for some formats. This usually happens when the icon.css is not up to date based on the content format in the repository. The solution is to find these formats and update the(…)

SQL Server 2014: classic commit vs commit with delayed durability & I/Os

When you learn about SQL Server, you will often hear that a commit transaction is a synchronous operation and that you can trust it. In this blog post, I will provide some details about what we mean by synchronous(…)

Documentum upgrade project: D2-Client, facets and xPlore

To enhance the search capability we had to configure xPlore to use the new customer attributes as facets and configure D2 to use the default and new facets. Configuring xPlore to use facets with the customer attributes Stop the Index(…)

OAM 11gR2PS2 series – Introduction

In this blog post, I will share my experience acquired on a customer interesting challenge which was a critical mission. The mission was not as easy as expected. On my side, all troubles that could happen to migrate an entire(…)