16.4

Documentum Upgrade – Castor is locked!

One of the best practices while doing upgrade of Documentum is to unlock the various repository objects before starting. This will make sure that if the upgrade process requires an update of some objects, then it will succeed and not(…)

Documentum Upgrade – dm_DataDictionaryPublisher with wrong target server

As part of the same migration & upgrade project I talked about in previous blogs already (corrupt lockbox & duplicate objects), I have seen a strange but consistent behavior in each upgrade(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Duplicate JMS and ACS config objects

I have seen several times in the past duplicate JMS and/or ACS objects created by OpenText (and Dell/EMC before) installers. I opened several tickets with the OpenText Support over the past 4/5 years to try to get a reason and(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Corrupt Lockbox with CS 16.4

A couple months ago, I was working on an upgrade project from Documentum 7.x to 16.4. During this upgrade, I faced a few issues so I will try to write some blogs about all that in the coming weeks, starting(…)

Documentum – xPlore installer refuses to start because of ‘Multiple launches’

While working with xPlore, you might have faced before a message saying that an xPlore installer refused to start because it is not allowed to run multiple instances at the same time. This could have happened while running any installer:(…)

Documentum – DA fail to load if accessed after D2 because of ESAPI

In some specific cases, you might have faced an issue where Documentum Administrator is loading properly but then suddenly it’s not working anymore and all you did in between was accessing D2. I don’t remember seeing that before DA 16.x(…)

Documentum – Rename of Lockbox on RCS/CFS

As you probably know, Documentum introduced the optional use of a Lockbox since version 7. It was done initially to contribute to the security of the AEK key which is one of the central components of a Content Server. Time(…)

Documentum – NoSuchMethodError on setResourceBundle with D2-REST 16.4 on WebLogic

In the scope of an upgrade project, with some colleagues, we have been deploying some D2-REST applications on Kubernetes pods using WebLogic Server. As explained in a previous blog, we first tried to upgrade our D2-REST(…)

Documentum – DOCUMENTUM_SHARED is dead?

In June last year, I did my first manual installation (so without docker) of Documentum 16.4 and I was testing it with PostgreSQL. I quickly realized that there were some changes in Documentum and, unfortunately, I don’t believe that it’s(…)