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Enterprise content management

A Simple Repository Browser Utility

09.12.2020 by Cesare Cervini

A few weeks ago, as the final steps of a cloning procedure, I wanted to check if the cloned repository was OK. One of the tests was to peek and poke around in the repository and try to access its(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – D2 doesn’t load repositories with “Unexpected error occured”

29.11.2020 by Morgan Patou

I had a case today where all Documentum components were up and running, including D2 but while accessing its login page, the repositories wouldn’t appear and a message “An unexpected error occurred. Please refresh your browser” would pop-up in the(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – IndexAgent can’t start in normal mode

29.11.2020 by Morgan Patou

Everybody familiar with Documentum knows that just starting the JBoss/WildFly hosting an IndexAgent isn’t really enough to have the indexing working: the IndexAgent must be started from the UI (or via DA or via the job or via iapi or(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – xPlore online rebuild stopped because of “immense term”

27.11.2020 by Morgan Patou

In relation to my previous blog about custom facets not showing up after full reindex, a customer was doing a migration that just completed. After the full reindex, there were no facets because of what I(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – Custom facets not showing up after full reindex?

27.11.2020 by Morgan Patou

Beginning of the year, while performing a migration from a Documentum 7.3 environment on VM to Documentum 16.4 on Kubernetes, a customer had an issue where their custom facets weren’t showing up on D2 after a full reindex. At the(…)

Cloud

Ansible Custom Interactive Dynamic Inventory

25.11.2020 by Nicolas Penot

When working with an Ansible dynamic inventory, you may want to update it from your playbook on the fly. For instance, you may want to create a server and then install an application on it without calling a second playbook(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Solr Sharding – Shard creation

22.11.2020 by Morgan Patou

I wrote this blog in conjunction with the one about the Solr Sharding – Concepts & Methods a year ago and it was 95% completed but then I had other stuff to do and just forgot(…)

Enterprise content management

Enhancing idql/iapi with rlwrap (part II)

05.10.2020 by Cesare Cervini

This is Part II of a tour of rlwrap for idql/iapi. For Part I, please follow the link here. Enhanced output visualization This is one rlwrap’s most fantastic enhancement. It is not that different from what I suggested(…)

Enterprise content management

Enhancing idql/iapi with rlwrap (part I)

05.10.2020 by Cesare Cervini

The rant I have a confession to make: I’m obsessed with idql/iapi. These tools so central to Documentum administrative tasks are so lame for interactive work that they have probably disgusted more than their share of administrators. The problem is(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – Some things to take care of when migrating/upgrading

14.07.2020 by Morgan Patou

Over the years I have been working with Documentum, I participated in many migrations and/or upgrades. Just like everything else, this obviously builds up some experience but what if you are pretty new to Documentum and it is your first(…)