Documentum

Connecting to Repositories with the Same Name and/or ID

A rare but recurrent issue that customers sometimes encounter is to how to connect to each one of distinct repositories with the same name or same docbase id, or even both if one repository is a clone of the other(…)

dctmping, A Documentum Repository Checker Utility

When working with containers, the usual trend is to make them as compact as possible by removing any file or executable that is not used by what is deployed in it. Typically, interactive commands are good candidates not to be(…)

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 &(…)

Documentum – Configuration of an IDS Target Memory/RAM usage on Windows

A few months ago, I had to work on a Windows Server to setup an IDS Target. The installation and configuration of the target wasn’t that different compared to a Linux host, so it wasn’t difficult at all (if you(…)

Documentum – RCS/CFS Upgrade in silent fails with IndexOutOfBoundsException

Several years ago, I wrote a series of blogs regarding the silent installation of Documentum Components, including for a RCS/CFS (HA part of a Repository). In there, I described the process and gave an(…)

Documentum – IDS on Windows Server not able to start with error 31: device not functioning

Documentum Interactive Delivery Services or IDS is a Documentum product that can be useful to publish some documents to an external web server or something similar. It usually works rather well, even if there hasn’t been much changes in the(…)

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(…)

A Simple Repository Browser Utility

A few weeks ago, as the final steps of a cloning procedure, I wanted to check if the cloned repository was OK. One of the tests was to peek and poke around in the repository and try to access its(…)

Documentum – D2 doesn’t load repositories with “Unexpected error occured”

I had a case today where all Documentum components were up and running, including D2 but while accessing its login page, the repositories wouldn’t appear and a message “An unexpected error occurred. Please refresh your browser” would pop-up in the(…)

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(…)