Enterprise content management

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(…)

Ansible Custom Interactive Dynamic Inventory

When working with an Ansible dynamic inventory, you may want to update it from your playbook on the fly. For instance, you may want to create a server and then install an application on it without calling a second playbook(…)

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(…)

Enhancing idql/iapi with rlwrap (part II)

This is Part II of a tour of rlwrap for idql/iapi. For Part I, please follow the link here. Enhanced output visualization This is one rlwrap’s most fantastic enhancement. It is not that different from what I suggested(…)

Enhancing idql/iapi with rlwrap (part I)

The rant I have a confession to make: I’m obsessed with idql/iapi. These tools so central to Documentum administrative tasks are so lame for interactive work that they have probably disgusted more than their share of administrators. The problem is(…)

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(…)

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(…)