Enterprise content management

Documentum – Deactivation of a docbase without uninstallation

At some of our customers, we often install new docbases for development purposes which are used only for a short time to avoid cross-team interactions/interferences and this kind of things. Creating new docbases is quite easy with Documentum but it(…)

Documentum – Increase the number of concurrent_sessions

In Documentum, there is a parameter named concurrent_sessions which basically defines how many sessions a Content Server can open simultaneously. This parameter is defined in the server.ini file (or server_<dm_server_config.object_name>.ini on a Remote Content Server) of each docbase and it(…)

Documentum – Wrong dfc versions after installation, upgrade or patch

If you are familiar with Documentum or if you already read some of my blogs, then you probably already know that EMC has sometimes issues with libraries. In a previous blog ((…)

Documentum – Thumbnail not working with TCS

A few months ago and right after a migration of around 0.5TB of documents, we enabled the TCS for one of our Application. We were using a Content Server 7.2 P05 with the associated D2 4.5 P03. As already mentioned(…)

Documentum story – Add the Java urandom inside the wlst.sh script to improve the performance of all WLST sessions

WebLogicServer takes a long time (e.g. over 15 minutes) to startup. Can the performance be improved? Using /dev/urandom option in the Weblogic Java Virtual Machine parameters from startup script, can be the solution. In fact, /dev/random is a(…)

Documentum story – How to avoid “DFC_FILE_LOCK_ACQUIRE_WARN” messages in Java Method Server (jms) LOG

After upgrading from 6.7.x to 7.2, the following warning message is logged in JMS log files: com.documentum.fc.common.DfNewInterprocessLockImpl – [DFC_FILE_LOCK_ACQUIRE_WARN] Failed to acquire lock proceeding ahead with no lock java.nio.channels.OverlappingFileLockException at sun.nio.ch.SharedFileLockTable.checkList FileLockTable.java:255) By default ACS and ServerApp dfc.properties are pointing(…)

Documentum story – Authentication failed for Installation Owner with the correct password

When installing a new Remote Content Server (High Availability), everything was going according to the plan until we try to login to DA using this new CS: the login using the Installation Owner (dmadmin) failed… Same result from dqMan or(…)

Documentum story – Download failed with ‘Exceeded stated content-length of 63000 bytes’

At one of our customer, we were in the middle of a migration process of some docbases from 6.7 to 7.2. A few days after the migration, we started seeing some failures/errors during simple download of documents from D2 4.5.

Documentum story – Lockbox file is newer than the active Lockbox library

A few weeks ago at a customer, I was installing a completely new sandbox environment for one of our Application Teams. On this environment, we used a new version stack with the most recent patch set (at that time): CS(…)

Documentum story – Restrict the number of jpeg renditions

As already explained in this blog, we had to remove the PDF renditions for a customer to only keep the jpeg renditions on the ADTS side because(…)