Documentum

Documentum – xPlore online rebuild stopped because of “immense term”

In relation to my previous blog about custom facets not showing up after full reindex, a customer was doing a migration that just completed. After the full reindex, there were no facets because of what I(…)

Documentum – Custom facets not showing up after full reindex?

Beginning of the year, while performing a migration from a Documentum 7.3 environment on VM to Documentum 16.4 on Kubernetes, a customer had an issue where their custom facets weren’t showing up on D2 after a full reindex. At the(…)

Documentum DQMan for repositories 16.7 and after

You may have noticed when upgrading your documentum infra that after 7.3 the DQMan utility from FME is no more usable (you get a red cross without any warnings on the screen). In this blog I’ll show you(…)

Documentum – Some things to take care of when migrating/upgrading

Over the years I have been working with Documentum, I participated in many migrations and/or upgrades. Just like everything else, this obviously builds up some experience but what if you are pretty new to Documentum and it is your first(…)

Documentum – DARs installation fails Java 11

As you probably heard if you weren’t in an underground bunker for the past 2 years, Oracle changed the licensing of the Oracle JDK. If you want to read more about it, there is a good FAQ(…)

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 – Change/Rename of LDAP Config object

Using an LDAP Server with Documentum (or any ECM for that matter) is pretty common to avoid managing users locally. In this blog, I wanted to talk about something that isn’t very common and that is the change of an(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Missing DARs after upgrade

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(…)

Documentum – D2-REST Privileged Client utility 16.7+ fails with class not found

In previous blogs, I already talked about how to fix issues with the D2 Privileged Client utility (for 16.4.0, 16.5.0 and 16.5.1) as well as how to execute/use this utility for automatic/silent(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Switch from Lockbox to AEK key

As you probably know already, Documentum removed the support for RSA Libraries and RSA Lockbox starting with Documentum version 16.7. This means that if you are planning to upgrade to 16.7 or higher versions, you will first need to remove(…)