Enterprise content management

Tracking Logs Inside a Documentum Container (part I)

Containers running under docker can have their stdout observed from the outside through the “docker logs”command; here is an excerpt of its usage: docker logs --help Usage: docker logs [OPTIONS] CONTAINER Fetch the logs of a container Options: --details Show(…)

Documentum – Java exception stack on iAPI/iDQL login

Recently, I was doing some sanity checks on a Documentum Server and I saw a Java exception stack while logging in using iAPI/iDQL to a Repository. It was reproducible for all Repositories. I’ve never seen something like that before (or(…)

Documentum – Connection to docbrokers and Repositories inside K8s from an external DFC Client

How can you connect an external DFC Client to docbrokers and Repositories hosted on Kubernetes Pods? That seems to be a very simple question yet it might prove difficult… Let’s talk about this challenge in this blog and possible solutions/workarounds.

A Ruthless Repository Shutdown Utility, Part II

Stopping the unreachable repositories Suppose that the docbroker has been stopped prematurely and that we want to shut down the repositories but the out-of-the-box dm_shutdown_repository is not effective. Why is it so by the way ? If we look closely(…)

A Ruthless Repository Shutdown Utility, Part I

You have finally completed that migration and need to restart all the Documentum processes. So, you shut down the docbroker and move on to the repositories but then you receive an error message about them not being reachable any more.

Documentum – NoSuchMethodError on setResourceBundle with D2-REST 16.4 on WebLogic

In the scope of an upgrade project, with some colleagues, we have been deploying some D2-REST applications on Kubernetes pods using WebLogic Server. As explained in a previous blog, we first tried to upgrade our D2-REST(…)

Documentum – Cast trouble with D2-REST 16.5.x on WebLogic

In the scope of an upgrade project, with some colleagues, we have been deploying some D2-REST applications on Kubernetes pods using WebLogic Server. At the beginning, we started using D2-REST 16.4 and that was working properly (once the issue described(…)

CMIS – Documentum – How’s it going on?

In a previous blog I talked about CMIS in general and showed you what importance it does have in ECM World. In fact, I already experienced CMIS in a project with Documentum and Alfresco involved! The(…)

CMIS – What importance does it have in ECM World?

As you know, there is a lot of vendors for Enterprise Content Management systems (ECM) and they all have different interfaces. Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a standard for improving interoperability between Enterprise Content Management systems.

Documentum – LDAP Config Object “certdb_location” has invalid value

In a previous blog, I talked about the automation of the LDAP/LDAPs creation. However, the first time that I applied these steps, I actually faced an issue and I couldn’t really get my head around it,(…)