In a Documentum upgrade project from 20.x to 23.4 earlier this year, I faced an issue which prevented the installation/upgrade of D2. The problem was located inside the D2-DAR while it was trying to update the workflow trackers, which failed because of an ORA-01427 error. The exact error displayed was this one: Before that happened, I successfully upgraded 7 or…
As part of the same migration & upgrade project I talked about in previous blogs already (corrupt lockbox, duplicate objects & wrong target_server), I have seen a very annoying and, this time, absolutely not consistent behavior in some upgrade from Documentum 7.x to 16.x versions. The issue or rather the issues I had was that random DAR files were not…
Beginning of this year, we were doing our first silent installations of the new Documentum stack. I already created a few blogs to talk about some issues with CS 7.3 and xPlore 1.6. This time, I will talk about xCP 2.3 and in particular the installation on a CS 7.3. The Patch of xCP as well as the patch for…
In a previous blog (click here), I presented a common issue that might occur during the installation of some DARs and how to handle that with what Documentum provides but there are some limitations to that. Indeed the script repositoryPatch.sh is pretty good (except the small bug explained in the other blog) but its execution is limited to only one…
During a recent project at one of our customers, we often saw the message “Unexpected errors occurred while installing DARs”. In our case, this message happened when installing, migrating or upgrading a docbase on an already existing Content Server. We never saw this message during the first initial phase of installation of our repositories but we started to see it…
