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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 Upgrade – dm_DataDictionaryPublisher with wrong target server

As part of the same migration & upgrade project I talked about in previous blogs already (corrupt lockbox & duplicate objects), I have seen a strange but consistent behavior in each upgrade(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Duplicate JMS and ACS config objects

I have seen several times in the past duplicate JMS and/or ACS objects created by OpenText (and Dell/EMC before) installers. I opened several tickets with the OpenText Support over the past 4/5 years to try to get a reason and(…)

Documentum Upgrade – Corrupt Lockbox with CS 16.4

A couple months ago, I was working on an upgrade project from Documentum 7.x to 16.4. During this upgrade, I faced a few issues so I will try to write some blogs about all that in the coming weeks, starting(…)

Migrating From Oracle Non-CDB 19c to Oracle 20c

By Mouhamadou Diaw With Oracle 20c, the non-multitenant architecture is no longer supported. So, people will have to migrate their databases to container if they want to use Oracle 20c. There are many methods to transform a non-cdb database to(…)

Documentum – Rename of Lockbox on RCS/CFS

As you probably know, Documentum introduced the optional use of a Lockbox since version 7. It was done initially to contribute to the security of the AEK key which is one of the central components of a Content Server. Time(…)

Control-M – Agent Upgrade – Communication Issue

At a customer, we are upgrading Control-M Agents running on Windows/Unix from 9.0.00.400 to 9.0.19.200 using Agent Deployment, an upgrade of one agent fails with error talking about communication issue between Control-M/server and Control-M agent:(…)

WebLogic – Upgrade of Java

If you are used to Java, you probably know that there are really important security fixes published every quarter in the Java Critical Patch Update (CPU) and it’s really important to keep it up to date. It’s always easy to(…)

RMAN catalog upgrade, why, when and how

One of our customer has been initially creating a RMAN catalog on an Oracle database release 12.1.0.2.0 and was now intending to register new Oracle 12.2.0.1.0 databases. Registering the databases will be failing with errors : PL/SQL package RCAT.DBMS_RCVCAT version 12.01.00.02(…)

ODA migration challenges: Non-OMF to OMF + 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4

To do some application and performances tests, I had to copy a database from a third party Linux server to an ODA X7-2M. Looks pretty simple on the paper, but 2 small challenges came into the game. The first was(…)