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Oracle FAST=TRUE in sqlplus? Some thoughts about rowprefetch

During my time as a Consultant working on Tuning Tasks I had the feeling that many people think that there is an Oracle-parameter “FAST=TRUE” to speed up the performance and throughput of the database calls. Unfortunately such a parameter is(…)

Documentum – Java exception stack on iAPI/iDQL login

Recently, I was doing some sanity checks on a Documentum Server and I saw a Java exception stack while logging in using iAPI/iDQL to a Repository. It was reproducible for all Repositories. I’ve never seen something like that before (or(…)

Documentum – Connection to docbrokers and Repositories inside K8s from an external DFC Client

How can you connect an external DFC Client to docbrokers and Repositories hosted on Kubernetes Pods? That seems to be a very simple question yet it might prove difficult… Let’s talk about this challenge in this blog and possible solutions/workarounds.

WebLogic Server – Automatic/Silent setup of a SAML2 SSO

In a previous blog, I explained how it is possible to create an LDAP/LDAPs Authentication Provider on WebLogic. My initial goal wasn’t just to setup an LDAP/LDAPs on WebLogic Server. That was only a first step(…)

WebLogic Server – Automatic/Silent creation of an LDAP Authentication Provider

In a previous blog, I explained how it is possible to create an LDAP/LDAPs connection from a Documentum Content Server automatically/silently (without any need for a GUI). So I thought I would do the same thing(…)

One Host, multiple PostgreSQL Clusters – Monitoring using EDB PEM

At a customer we implemented the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager. As they run multiple PostgreSQL cluster on one server, they wanted, for sure, to monitor all the cluster using PEM. This blog should give you a short guidance on(…)

A Ruthless Repository Shutdown Utility, Part II

Stopping the unreachable repositories Suppose that the docbroker has been stopped prematurely and that we want to shut down the repositories but the out-of-the-box dm_shutdown_repository is not effective. Why is it so by the way ? If we look closely(…)

A Ruthless Repository Shutdown Utility, Part I

You have finally completed that migration and need to restart all the Documentum processes. So, you shut down the docbroker and move on to the repositories but then you receive an error message about them not being reachable any more.

Jenkins X ecosystem: Kaniko as image builder

For a few months now, we started a huge project at a customer; build a complete CI/CD platform for Documentum. The final goal is to create a CI/CD process for platform and software delivery to reduce as possible the delivery(…)

JBoss EAP 7 – Domain Architecture Understanding

I already talked about the domain creation in a previous blog, it is nice to start with but of course not enough if you want to understand the domain architecture, its components, and how they are(…)