Documentum Housekeeping Jobs

Hello readers,

Sometimes when we develop applications with Documentum the repostory/docbase gets corrupted and unusable. To fix this Documentum has a couple of special jobs.

Please read this very well written whitepaper "Seven Jobs Every Documentum DeveloperShould Know and Use" from M. Scott Roth.

Kind regards, Marcus

Restarting tomcat application server

Hello readers,

While developing with Taskspace I find myself often restarting tomcat on Windows.
A quick method to do this is a BAT file to also clear the cache folders.
Below you will find the script.

@echo OFF
:stop
@echo stopping service
sc stop tomcat6
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 20 -w 1000 > nul
sc query tomcat6
find /I "STATE"
find "STOPPED"
if errorlevel 0 goto start
goto stop
:start
@echo removing work
rmdir /S /Q "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\work"
@echo removing temp
rmdir /S /Q "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\temp"
@echo making new temp dir
mkdir "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\temp"
@echo removing presets
rmdir /S /Q "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\documentum\presets"
@echo removing cache
rmdir /S /Q "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\documentum\cache"
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3 -w 1000 > nul
@echo starting service
sc start tomcat6

Kind regards, Marcus

Disabling e-mail notifications

Hello readers,

The Documentum Content Server will send e-mail notifications for certain events by default. To turn off all e-mail notifications you just have to add or adjust one setting in the "$DOCUMENTUM\dba\config\documentum\server.ini" file.

mail_notification = F

Restart the repository for the change to take effect.

Kind regards, Marcus