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Dctm – Upgrade from 23.4 to 25.4 fails with DM_SERVER_E_SOCKOPT

Since its release in Q4 2025, I have worked on several upgrades from 23.4 to 25.4. The first one I worked on was for a customer using our own custom Documentum images. If you have followed my posts for(…)

Dctm – Oracle DB permissions on recent versions

If you have been running Documentum on Oracle in the past, you might have noticed that recent versions of Dctm requires more Database permissions to be able to perform an install/upgrade. This blog will just be a quick one(…)

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(…)

Documentum – Detect a Repository parent process being killed

There could be several reasons why a Linux process gets killed. Of course, it could be someone using the kill command but, in this blog, I will talk about the Kernel Panic triggered by the Operating System in case(…)

Setup a AlmaLinux 8 Repository Server

This Blog is about to setup a AlmaLinux 8 Repository Server including EPEL and RPMFusion. Many people whould complain that it will be the same than RHEL 8, but is is not, there are some differencies between AlmaLinux,(…)

Setup a RHEL 8 Repository Server

This Blog is about a own Repository server for RHEL 8, Blogs for Repository Server for AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, OpenSuse LEAP, SLES 15 and Debian 11 will follow. The base is a minimal installation.I have added(…)

Documentum – Beware of long hostnames for the Docbroker

Recently, I’ve been facing an issue more and more frequently where a Repository cannot register itself to a local/remote Docbroker. The root cause of the issue is simply that the hostname used for the projection to the Docbroker is too(…)