Documentum lifecycles are time consuming functions since they require a call out to the Java Method Server to perform their actions. We recently ran into an issue on a project where the lifecycle actions were taking an inordinate amount of time. We did some investigation along with our client and discovered an OS setting in […]
Documentum Search Application Performance Tuning – Part 1
Typically Documentum users will have heard Ed speak at Momentum or EMC World in the past in regards to system performance and Documentum. For this post, we are going to take a different approach and talk about Documentum Search APPLICATION Tuning for system and USER performance. All of the concepts relate to our Alfresco and […]
Documentum 6.5 Upgrade – Character Encoding Issues
Special Note: Anyone that is planning an upgrade from Documentum 5.3 to 6.5 should look closely at this note as some types of upgrades (clone or in-place) could result in content that was retrievable from 5.3 not being available in 6.5. This post was developed based on recent work for a major pharmaceutical client. The client, […]
Documentum Health Check
For many clients, one of our first projects is a Documentum Health Check. This is typically a 2-3 day project where one of our technical architects will visit onsite to review all the different components of the Documentum environment. We encourage this type of project as it allows us to be more pro-active with identifying […]
Flex Applications and Security Constraints
To give an update on the Active Wizard Enhancements we were working on last month, we recently finished up all development and testing of the Flex-based checkin/checkout interface against Documentum. We delivered to our client this week, but I wanted to share some of the challenges we ran into, specifically related to running an application using Flash.
D6.5 Upgrades and Complex Passwords
Recently a client that uses Documentum WebPublisher went live with a D6.5 SP2 upgrade. All the appropriate planning was done in preparation for the launch as detailed in this prior post. The upgrade in the development environment exposed some updates that needed to be made to supporting DFC based applications, but the upgrade process itself […]
Documentum Upgrade: Impact on e-Signatures
As TSG continues to help clients upgrade their Documentum environments to 6.5, support for e-Signatures has required special attention on several of our projects. We thought we’d share a few of our lessons learned below. Lesson Learned #1: Customization is Required to Support e-Signatures on Linux and HP-UX Platforms e-Signatures are NOT supported by EMC […]
Documentum Application Builder vs. Documentum Composer
First released with Documentum 6, Documentum Composer is a “unified development platform for assembling, configuring, and deploying EMC Documentum applications.” Currently on version 6.5 SP3, Composer is meant to be a Documentum Application Builder replacement. Although Documentum is trying to move away from Application Builder and into Composer, Application Builder is still available for use […]
Documentum Transformation Services (DTS) – Alternative Approaches with Adobe LiveCycle and OpenOffice
Since the very first Momentum (1996 in a very windy Miami), the Documentum user community has pushed for a more reliable means to convert mostly Microsoft office documents into PDF. Back then, during a wrap-up luncheon, the feedback on AutoRender ( a previous incarnation of DTS) was anything but positive. Similar to some complaints today, […]