Enterprise content management

Connecting to a Repository via a Dynamically Edited dfc.properties File (part I)

Now that we have containerized content servers, it is very easy, maybe too easy, to create new repositories. Their creation is still not any faster (whether they are containerized or not is irrelevant here) but given a configuration file it(…)

An exotic feature in the content server: check_client_version

A few months ago, I tripped over a very mysterious problem while attempting to connect to a 7.3 CS docbase from within dqMan. We had 3 docbases and we could connect using this client to all of them but(…)

What to do in case all active Documentum jobs are no more running ?

The application support informed me that their jobs are not running anymore. When I started the analysis, I found that all activated jobs did not start for a few weeks.

Documentum – DOCUMENTUM_SHARED is dead?

In June last year, I did my first manual installation (so without docker) of Documentum 16.4 and I was testing it with PostgreSQL. I quickly realized that there were some changes in Documentum and, unfortunately, I don’t believe that it’s(…)

Documentum – FT – Document not found using search from D2

At a customer, I received an incident saying that on D2 a document is found by browsing and not found using normal search. The root cause seems to be easy: The Document isn't indexed?! Not really, you will see it(…)

Documentum – Delete Remote Docbase – Strange behavior

In the previous blog I showed you how to decommission a remote Content Server by deleting remote Docbase(s) and Docbroker(s). In fact, when I tried to delete remote Docbases I encounter a strange behavior, and it(…)

Documentum – Remote Content Server Decommission

I already experienced the installation of a remote Content Server but it was my first decommissioning, and as usual the decommission is faster than the installation ;) by the way, read this blog if you missed(…)

Documentum – RCS/CFS installation failure

A few weeks ago, I had a task to add a new CS into already HA environments (DEV/TEST/PROD) to better support the load on these environments as well as adding a new repository on all Content Servers. These environments were(…)

How to stop Documentum processes in a docker container, and more (part I)

Ideally, but not mandatorily, the management of Documentum processes is performed at the service level, e.g. by systemd. In my blog here, I showed how to configure init files for Documentum under(…)

How to stop Documentum processes in a docker container, and more (part II)

ok, Ok, OK, and the docker part ? In a minute. In part I of this 2-part article, we showed how traps(…)