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Application & Business Support, the shadow team

dbi services is well known for its high level expertise in technical topics such as Databases or Middleware but not only!  We also have a dedicated team, Application and Business Support, to support our customers in turning their projects into success.   I’m part of this team since almost 8 years  mainly working as a Service Delivery Manager for a huge… 

Ways to improve your SharePoint Intranet

World today is changing in companies using different path to get better communication with their staff, to boost productivity, improve the effectiveness of the strategy and business direction. SharePoint has become a reference’s tool regarding this point, however, many organizations still struggling to get the most out of the features it offers and find it difficult to increase adoption. In… 

Documentum Administrator does not display the correct “Index Agent” status

At one of my customers, I experienced a problem with the Documentum Administrator (DA), which did not display the correct Index Agent status. In this blog post, I will explain how I found the source of this problem and of course also how I solved this issue. But first, some background facts: The Documentum Administrator (DA) is displaying “not responding”… 

Oracle WebLogic 12.1.2 – new features

The new Oracle WebLogic Sever 12c (WLS 12.1.2.0.0) was released on 11 July 2013. Since I read lots of documents, announcements, and information regarding this new version, I want to inform you about some new features that have an impact and/or changed my daily work as a WebLogic Server administrator. Some general information Here are a couple of new features… 

Configuring the JBoss server to use SSL for Documentum DFS

To be compliant with the customer’s security rule, I had to configure SSL for a JBoss application server that holds the Documentum Foundation Services (DFS). I used the following procedure: 1. Generate a keystore Change it to a temporary location, e. g. /var/tmp/SSL: keytool -genkey -dname “cn=dms.test.org, ou=DEV, o=NICE, l=Delemont, s=Switzerland, c=CH” -keyalg “rsa” -validity 730 -alias tomcat -keysize 2048 -keystore… 

WebLogic: Using a WLST script to find a specific word in an object

On a WebLogic Server, I had to write a WLST script to find the current number of consumers accessing a specific JMS Queue destination as this is not monitored by Oracle Grid Control 11g or Oracle Cloud Control 12c. Knowing only the short name of the queue, I uses a regular expression in my WLST script to find the needed… 

Migrating to Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.2.0

I recently upgraded from Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.1.0 to the most recent version 12.1.0.2.0. This document describes the migration procedure and the different problems encountered. The first point to know when you are about to upgrade an existing Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c is that Oracle Installer will create a new Middleware home. Thus, you will need to have… 

Oracle APEX 4.2 HTML 5 item types

In this blog, I will explore the HTML 5 new item type features of Oracle APEX 4.2. The objective is to use the new number, e-mail, phone number and url html 5 item type and the native browser validation capability. I have created a new database application with the theme 25 which fatures responsive design principles (auto adjusts to the… 

Oracle Apex 4.2 now released

Oracle Apex 4.2 is now available on the Oracle Website. It is available since 12 october 2012. This new release comes with new features briefly described in this blog posting. First of all, here are the new features delivered by the Apex 4.2 release. HTML 5 and CSS 3 improvements: Relooking of all the administration workspace Html 5 charts Html… 

Java Virtual Machine Diagnostics: Starting/stopping JVMD manager

Although the managed server on which Java Virtual Machine Diagnostics (JVMD) manager is deployed is configured to use the the Node Manager like OMS and admin server, it is not started automatically with OMS. In this post, I will describe how to start JVMD manager automatically when the physical server boots. To implement the script, several steps have to be executed: Creation… 

Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore

The Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore and we have the following job status: The job object indicated the job was in progress. In this blog posting, I will describe how to analyze and solve this issue. Analysis The Index Agent does not start automatically when the repository is started although the option start_index_agents = T in server.ini is…