Infrastructure at your Service
A few months ago day, as I was writing the documentation for a monitoring probe, I suddenly realized that that probe, along with others I wrote during that time to monitor Documentum installations, had all a big, unexpected flaw. Indeed, it struck me that if it hang for some reason while running, it could stay there well after the next monitoring cycle had begun, which could too be affected by the same problem, and so…
Some time ago, a colleague asked around if someone knew a way to automatically request a rendition right after a document was checked in. This looked like a trigger to me and TBOs are here for that, right ? Sure but there was an additional condition: it should be set up by an administrator from the idql command-line tool as no programming was possible at that time on that system. Given that this tool, along…
Welcome to part III of a three-part article on extending gawk with a SQLite binding. Part I is here. Part II is here. In this final part, I’ll explain succinctly the code that was listed in part II. This part is best read while having Part II opened in another browser window. sqlite_gawk.c Line 48: All the operations on a database requires a handle that is initialized once the database is successfully opened. The handle…
A few days ago, as I was preparing a dmawk script for a presentation, I stumbled against another unexpected error. The script was attempting to connect to a docbase by providing a docbase name, a user name and a password. But before that, it tested whether a password was provided as a command-line parameter (I know, this is not very secure but it was for demonstration purpose only); if not, it prompted for one using…
In my previous blog “idql and its column output”, see link here, I provided a small awk filter to reflow the idql output’s columns by wrapping their content around. Later I came of thinking that it could be useful to be able to truncate the columns instead, in order to have an even compacter output. A shorter, denser table can certainly help is some cases, such as when a quick overview of a query’s result is…
This is part II of the article “Adding a Documentum Extension to gawk”. You can find Part I here Before we can test the extension, we need a test program and some helper functions for comfort. Let’s prepare them. o Move back to the dmgawk directory and edit DctmAPI.awk, the wrapper functions; $ cd ../../.. $ pwd /home/dmadmin/gawk $ vi DctmAPI.awk o Cut and paste the lines below: @load “dctm” # provides high-level function to do Documentum…
Recently, I was searching my NAS for some files which, to end this intolerable suspense, I did not find but on the other hand I did stumbled across a couple of interesting dmawk scripts I wrote for on customer more than 20 years ago. Some statements looked a bit odd, e.g. access to elements from multi-dimensional arrays such as “a[i1][i2]”, or “delete A” to empty an array (instead of the well-known awk idiom split(“”, A))….
Many years ago, out of frustration by the poorness of scripting tools in Documentum, I realized a Documentum binding for python using the distutils and I remember how easy and straightforward it had been, even for someone not really into these things on a daily basis. Recently, I wanted to reuse that work but couldn’t find the source files, not that they were many, but I did not want to do it over again. Finally,…
idql and its column output A few days ago, I was reading an interesting blog from distinguished colleague Clemens Bleile with the title “sqlplus and its column output” (link here https://blog.dbi-services.com/sqlplus-and-its-column-output/) and I said to myself: the lucky Oracle administrators and developers have sqlplus, a rather good, out of the box command-line tool to talk to their databases. What equivalent tool do we have with Documentum ? Well, we have mainly idql, which, to put…
The journey begins In a VM Oracle VirtualBox with Centos Linux 7.0, you install Documentum v7.3 and create a docbase dmtest with its schema in a database on another VM running Oracle Linux. You start the newly created docbase and successfully connect locally to it from within iapi or idql. You smile with satisfaction and go on. It’ll be a walk in the park, you think. In another VM, a client, running under Ubuntu 16.0.3 (you…
