Enterprise content management

DctmAPI.awk revisited (part I)

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(…)

DctmAPI.awk revisited (part II)

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(…)

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

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(…)

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

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(…)

Alfresco – Documents are searchable only after 3min

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(…)

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

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(…)

Alfresco – Custom Share action not working after disabling WebDAV servlet

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(…)

Alfresco – ActiveMQ not starting, blocking Alfresco

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(…)

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

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(…)

Documentum – dmqdocbroker/iapi/idql not working because of dbor.properties.lck

Have you ever faced an issue where dmqdocbroker, iapi, idql and the likes aren’t able to communicate at all with any Docbroker (connection broker)? Here, I’m not talking about potentially wrong hostname, port or connect modes, which might prevent you(…)