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Documentum – Impact of Java 17 and JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS

If you are familiar with Java, you probably know that starting with JDK 9, you may need to add some “–add-exports” or “–add-opens” parameters to the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS. This is the Strong Encapsulation, which started with(…)

HowTo – Enable & Disable traces on Documentum

If you are here, I assume you are looking for some ways to enable traces on Documentum. There are already a few blog posts here and there showing some information but Documentum being what it is, i.e., a quite(…)

Documentum – SSL Certificate based secure communication setup

Around four years ago, I did a few presentations, here, in Switzerland about “Security & Documentum”. In there, I talked about a lot of different subjects related to both security and Documentum (you guessed it…) like: ciphers, SHA, FIPS &(…)

DctmAPI.py revisited

2 years ago, I proposed a ctypes-based Documentum extension for python, DctmAPI.py. While it did the job, it was quite basic. For example, its select2dict() function, as inferred from its name, returned the documents from a dql query into(…)

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.

Documentum – Automatic/Silent registration & approval of DFC Clients

In the past several months, I have been working extensively with several other colleagues on a migration of Documentum from VMs to K8s pods. We have been doing/using silent installations for several years already but there were still several manual(…)

Documentum – Fixing issues with the D2 Privileged Client utility

In a previous blog, I talked about the D2 utility that can be used to automate the registration, approval and global management of the DFC Client IDs and Privileged Clients. The instructions I gave were the(…)

Documentum – DFC traces setup & investigation

When working with Documentum, you will most probably have to enable the DFC traces one day or another and then work with these traces to analyze them. The purpose of this blog is simply to show how the DFC traces(…)

Documentum – Wrong dfc versions after installation, upgrade or patch

If you are familiar with Documentum or if you already read some of my blogs, then you probably already know that EMC has sometimes issues with libraries. In a previous blog ((…)