Enterprise content management

A quick repository creation utility (part I)

How to create a documentum repository in under a minute. The seed docbase approach, The prerequisites.

A quick repository creation utility (part II)

How to create a documentum repository in under a minute. The global_parameters file.

A generic jdbc tester (part I)

A generic utility to test JDBC connections to any RDBMS or no SQL data source whose JDBC drivers are provided. Listing, PostgreSQL, Oracle Thin.

Documentum – xPlore PrimaryDsearch not responding to curl/wget/browser requests anymore

A few weeks ago, I faced an issue at a customer where xPlore PrimaryDsearch would stop responding to curl/wget/browser requests from time to time. The impacted environments were containers (pods) hosted on Kubernetes. At this customer, we were in progress(…)

Documentum – How to easily remove duplicated xPlore queue items

Documentum is usually working pretty well with xPlore when it’s about managing its queue on well configured environments and/or with “simple” repositories. Basically, as long as you do not only have very big/complex documents (e.g.: 500Mb excel files with hundreds(…)

OpenText World 2022 – Day3

The Great Reunion as named by OpenText was really GREAT and today was the last day :( As there was less sessions for me I took more time today to discuss and exchange with different participants from OpenText, Customers, and(…)

OpenText World 2022 – Day2

Here we are at the end of the second day at OpenText World 2022 in Las Vegas, this day was as intense as the first, with a lot of news. Let's share with you an overview of my day there.

OpenText World 2022 – Day1

You know: What happens in VEGAS stays in VEGAS ;) But come on let's break this rule the time to write this blog, because what happened in the first day in OpenText World 2022 deserve an exception!(…)

Documentum – RCS/CFS Upgrade fails due to missing dm_filestore

At a customer having a lot of Documentum environments, I recently faced an interesting issue while upgrading an RCS/CFS to 20.2. The same could potentially reproduce during a standard installation of a RCS/CFS, under certain circumstances (in case there are(…)

Documentum – Detect a Repository parent process being killed

There could be several reasons why a Linux process gets killed. Of course, it could be someone using the kill command but, in this blog, I will talk about the Kernel Panic triggered by the Operating System in case it(…)