Enterprise content management

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,(…)

Documentum – Automatic/Silent creation of LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Objects

If you have been working with Documentum, then you probably already created/configured an LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Object (or several) so that your users can be globally managed in your organization. There are several compatible LDAP Servers so I will just(…)

Documentum – Automatic/Silent registration & approval of DFC Clients

In the past several months, I have been working extensively with several other colleagues on a migration of Documentum from VMs to K8s pods. We have been doing/using silent installations for several years already but there were still several manual(…)