iapi

Documentum – Login through OTDS without oTExternalID3

As you might know, Documentum “deprecated” (in reality disabled completely) the different Authentication Plugins that were bundled with a Documentum Server. That means that with recent versions of Documentum, you cannot login to your LDAP-managed account anymore without having configured(…)

HowTo – Work with files in Documentum iAPI

As part of my daily work at our Documentum customers, I often have to work on files like creating some dummy documents, retrieving the content of a specific document on the file system, etc… Documentum does that well internally and(…)

Documentum – dmqdocbroker/iapi/idql not working because of dbor.properties.lck

Have you ever faced an issue where dmqdocbroker, iapi, idql and the likes aren’t able to communicate at all with any Docbroker (connection broker)? Here, I’m not talking about potentially wrong hostname, port or connect modes, which might prevent you(…)

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(…)

Documentum – Java exception stack on iAPI/iDQL login

Recently, I was doing some sanity checks on a Documentum Server and I saw a Java exception stack while logging in using iAPI/iDQL to a Repository. It was reproducible for all Repositories. I’ve never seen something like that before (or(…)

Documentum – Unable to install xCP 2.3 on a CS 7.3

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(…)

Documentum story – Attempt to fetch object with handle 3c failed

Some time ago, I was working on the preparation of an upgrade of a Content Server and everything was working fine so I was about to begin but just before that I checked our monitoring interface for this environment to(…)

Documentum story – IAPI login with a DM_TICKET for a specific user

During our last project, one of the Application Teams requested our help because they needed to execute some commands in IAPI with a specific user for which they didn’t know the password. They tried to use a DM_TICKET as I suggested(…)

Documentum: some useful queries (DQL/IAPI)

In this blog post I want to sharing some useful DQL and IAPI queries that I am using all the time. They are more dedicated to Documentum support/debug and grouped by components. In order to use them, I recommend Qdman:(…)