Enterprise content management

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(…)

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(…)

Documentum – D2-REST Privileged Client utility 16.7+ fails with class not found

In previous blogs, I already talked about how to fix issues with the D2 Privileged Client utility (for 16.4.0, 16.5.0 and 16.5.1) as well as how to execute/use this utility for automatic/silent(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Switch from Lockbox to AEK key

As you probably know already, Documentum removed the support for RSA Libraries and RSA Lockbox starting with Documentum version 16.7. This means that if you are planning to upgrade to 16.7 or higher versions, you will first need to remove(…)

Documentum Upgrade – dm_DataDictionaryPublisher with wrong target server

As part of the same migration & upgrade project I talked about in previous blogs already (corrupt lockbox & duplicate objects), I have seen a strange but consistent behavior in each upgrade(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Duplicate JMS and ACS config objects

I have seen several times in the past duplicate JMS and/or ACS objects created by OpenText (and Dell/EMC before) installers. I opened several tickets with the OpenText Support over the past 4/5 years to try to get a reason and(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Corrupt Lockbox with CS 16.4

A couple months ago, I was working on an upgrade project from Documentum 7.x to 16.4. During this upgrade, I faced a few issues so I will try to write some blogs about all that in the coming weeks, starting(…)