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Documentum story – Disable PDF automatic generation but allow jpeg

We had a request by a customer where he wanted the pdf automatic rendition to be disabled but keep allowing the jpeg renditions to be used as thumbnails for D2. The pdf is generated by an eternal tool so it wasn’t needed here. Here is what we did: Login to the ADTS server and edit the following file: <CTS_HOME>configCTSServerService.xml For… 

Momentum16 – Day 2 – C6, Load Testing and REST API

So today is the second day of the Momentum 16 in Barcelona and as expected, this day contained many more technical presentations and discussions than the first day. I attended several interesting presentations and hackathon/hands on sessions as well so I haven’t really had time to rest today.   So first thing in the morning, I started with a two… 

Momentum16 – Day 2 – What’s new in Documentum 7.3 ?

As described in my last post related to Momentum 16, I was excited to see the session “What’s new in Documentum 7.3”. Do not worry, I could slept last night. But are my expectations fulfilled?   So yesterday I wrote about PostgreSQL which will decrease the cost of the DB licensing and then your TCO. It seems that based on… 

Documentum story – Documentum JMS Log Configuration

The aim of this blog is to provide you a way to configure the JMS Logs in order to align all applications logging with date information, log rotation and retention. Some changes have to be done on the jboss container as well as on the log4j utility for each deployed JMS applications (acs.ear, serverapps.ear and bpm.ear). General configuration First, go… 

Documentum story – Status of IndexAgent not visible in HTTPS (xPlore)

In one of our project, we were using CS 7.2 P02 (upgraded later with P05) in correlation with xPlore 1.5 P02. With these versions, we wanted to setup the IndexAgents in HTTPS to have a completely secured environment. We choose to follow the xPlore documentation and use the Groovy script that EMC is now providing to facilitate the setup in… 

Documentum story – User gets kicked out of D2 when navigating in D2Config

On a customer site, one of the users complained about being kicked out each time he wanted to create new documents in D2. This issue is happening in a default deployment of D2 and D2Config in a WebLogic Domain.We found out that the user sessions for D2Config and D2 are conflicting together. This issue occurs if D2Config and D2 applications… 

Documentum story – Setup the DSearch & IndexAgent in HTTPS (xPlore)

In this blog, I will show you how to setup the Primary DSearch and IndexAgent in HTTPS for xPlore 1.5. The documentation about that is available on the EMC WebSite as always and the pdf name is: “xPlore 1.5 Installation Guide.pdf”. The reason why I wanted to wrote this blog is because the documentation is not too bad but there… 

Documentum story – Thumbnail Server not starting if docbases are down

In this blog, I will talk about the Thumbnail Server. It’s a component of Documentum that you can install on the Content Server to generate… thumbnails! Basically what it does is that it will work in correlation with the ADTS/CTS in order to generate different kinds of previews of your document. For example jpeg_lres (low resolution) or jpeg_story (StoryBoard). You… 

Documentum story – Attempt to fetch object with handle 3c failed

Some time ago, I was working on the preparation of an upgrade of a Content Server and everything was working fine so I was about to begin but just before that I checked our monitoring interface for this environment to crosscheck and I saw the following alerts coming from the log file of the docbases installed on this CS: 2016-04-05T10:47:01.411651…