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Documentum – IndexAgent can’t start in normal mode

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(…)

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

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(…)

Documentum – Custom facets not showing up after full reindex?

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(…)

PostgreSQL 14: Allow CLUSTER, VACUUM FULL and REINDEX to change tablespace on the fly

It is a common misunderstanding that VACUUM FULL saves you from running out of disk space if you already have space pressure. Running a VACUUM FULL temporarily requires at least double the space, as the table(…)

Documentum DM_SYSOBJECT_E_NO_BROWSE_ACCESS No browse access for sysobject with ID

When upgrading you may get this specific issues if you are trying to edit content or create new documents. We got it when creating a new document in a specific folder, D2 told us that the folder doesn’t exists and(…)

DynamoDB PartiQL – part II: SELECT

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post I insertd a few rows in a Demo table using the SQL-like new API on DynamoDB. I checked my items with a SELECT but was limited in(…)

Documentum Administrator plugins installation not possible

In some customer’s contexts you cannot install whatever you want. For policy reasons, or security. And documentum components really love to install client softwares to interact with them. In this blog we will discuss about the Documentum Administrator tool and(…)

Documentum CTS reinstallation failing Null Pointer

I went into an issue by a customer were I had to upgrade in place the CTS. When you have to upgrade a CTS on the same server you first have to uninstall the old version in order to install(…)

Ansible Custom Interactive Dynamic Inventory

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(…)

PostgreSQL 14: Add the number of de-allocations to pg_stat_statements?

In the last post we had a look at an interesting patch (schema variables) that is currently waiting to be committed for PostgreSQL 14. Another patch, that currently is in the same state is named(…)