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Enterprise content management

Documentum – r_server_version reset to P00 instead of correct patch version

05.03.2022 by Morgan Patou

A few weeks ago, an issue was identified at a customer which would cause the value of “dm_server_config.r_server_version” to be reset to the GA version number (16.4 P00) instead of the currently deployed patch (which is 16.4 P26) and that(…)

Enterprise content management

DctmAPI.awk revisited (part I)

25.02.2022 by Cesare Cervini

In the 2-part blog article Adding a Documentum Extension to gawk, I showed how to extend the gawk scripting language in order to implement the Documentum dmAPI(…)

Enterprise content management

DctmAPI.awk revisited (part II)

25.02.2022 by Cesare Cervini

This is part II of the article DctmAPI.awk revisited. See Part I here. The table presentation can be visually quite rich: it supports row colorization with optional color alternation and gridding, i.e. enclosing the table and(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Alfresco – Removing JMX settings via the AttributeService since the Revert doesn’t work

17.02.2022 by Morgan Patou

At a customer, I recently faced a problem with the JMX settings that couldn’t be reverted. If you already worked with Alfresco, you know that it’s possible to save configurations through the Alfresco Administration Console and that doing so will(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – Applying Content-Security-Policy (CSP) on D2 while using WSCTF plugin

07.01.2022 by Morgan Patou

If you have ever been working on a sensitive Documentum environment (they are all sensitive, are they not?!), you might already have worked on hardening your Web Servers. One of these aspects is to have a specific set of HTTP(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Alfresco – Documents are searchable only after 3min

05.01.2022 by Morgan Patou

I had a case at a customer recently where newly uploaded documents into Alfresco would always be searchable but only after 2min45s to 3min. The environment in question is an Alfresco Content Services 7.1 with High Availability (Repository and Share(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Alfresco – Share Clustering fail with ‘Ignored XML validation warning’, again

30.11.2021 by Morgan Patou

In a previous blog, I mentioned an issue that I faced when upgrading an Alfresco Content Services 5.2 to 6.1 on a VM with no internet access. The solution was simply to change one of the schema(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Alfresco – Custom Share action not working after disabling WebDAV servlet

25.11.2021 by Morgan Patou

On an Alfresco upgrade project I was working on recently, I faced an interesting issue where post upgrade, one of my custom Share action wasn’t working anymore. This action was used to create folder links for use on an external(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Alfresco – ActiveMQ not starting, blocking Alfresco

31.07.2021 by Morgan Patou

As already mentioned in a previous blog, ActiveMQ has been used in the scope of Alfresco since quite some time. Initially, as an optional component but then, it became mandatory. Just like for the Database, if ActiveMQ(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – E_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR on D2-REST Product page related to GUAVA libraries after WebLogic PSU

30.06.2021 by Morgan Patou

At a customer, the D2-REST (16.5.1) application hosted on WebLogic Server 12c started showing 500 Internal Server Errors, after a customer release including many things. The error was rather simple to replicate since opening the D2-REST Product info page was(…)