Transcript Monitoring Strategy

Documentum 6
Reviews from Early Adopters
Technology Services Group, Inc.
October 10, 2007
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D6 Timeline
• PREPP (Pre-Release Program)
– Software available June 6
• RSP (Rapid Success Program) for D6
SP1
– Participant Planning Jul 20 – Dec 3
– Standard Execution Dec 3 – Apr 30
– Extended Evaluation Aug 31 – Sep 15
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D6 Timeline
• D6 Released August 31!
• Upcoming Target Release Dates
– D6 SP1 -> before 2007 year end (12/3)
• Includes Composer Eclipse IDE
– TaskSpace (Transactional Content
Management solutions) -> early Q4
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Documentum PREPP
(Pre-Release Program)
TSG has access to pre-release version
of all Documentum 6 software
• Migration Strategy
– Upgrade client applications first
– Repository configurations can be ported
between v5.3 and v6 repositories using
latest release of Application Builder
– Windows server can run different versions
of DFC on same server (new in D6)
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Documentum PREPP
(Pre-Release Program)
• WDK Application Install
(Webtop, DA, Web Publisher, DCM)
– Requires 2 GB RAM on server per WDK
installation
– Requires access to D6 Global Registry
Content Server
– New Supported Platforms
• i.e. Tomcat 5.5, WebLogic 9.2, WebSphere 6.1
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Documentum PREPP
(Pre-Release Program)
• Content Server Upgrade
– Options for Upgrading
• In place upgrade of all components (Database,
Operating System, Content Server)
• Install D6 on new hardware with latest OS, DB,
etc. and migrate content into new D6 repository
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Documentum PREPP
(Pre-Release Program)
• Content Server Upgrade
– JMS runs on BEA, not Tomcat
– Rebuild Full Text Index (Pre- 5.3 SP2)
– New Supported Platforms
• i.e. Windows Server 2003, Solaris 9 / 10, Linux
4 / 9 / 10
• i.e. Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2000 / 2005
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Documentum RSP
(Rapid Success Program)
TSG is upgrading all of their Open
Source offerings to run on D6
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Upgrading Custom DFC Applications
• Update deployment package to include
DFC 6 jar files (No longer depends on
DMCL installation)
• Java 1.5 Required by Newer Version of
Apache Tomcat
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Migrating Webtop Customizations
• Custom WDK folder can be migrated to
D6, however new D6 features may drive
necessary updates to customizations
– D5 action pre-conditions vs. D6 presets
– No streamline view in D6
– Overriding entire configurations in D5 vs.
Modifying configurations in D6
– D6 Right click and Hot Key support
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Migrate Webtop Customizations
• Compare XML Configurations – D5.3
Migrate Webtop Customizations
• Compare XML Configurations – D6
Webtop Customization Example
• Update any configuration node
overwritten by your customizations
• Verify no changes to Java methods or
JSP pages being overridden
– Menubar.jsp
– Snowbound Integration
• Determine whether to take advantage of
any new features
Webtop Customization Example
• Determine whether to take advantage of
any new features
– Additional configuration tags available with
D6
– Change component scope/pre-conditions
to presets
Documentum 6
What’s Next to Evaluate?
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Composer Eclipse IDP
• 10/1 through 11/16: Develop Documentum
application on new Composer IDE
Other New D6 Enhancements
• Documentum Foundation Services
– Documentum Web Services can not be created
from POJOs
– How hard is it to utilize existing home grown
Documentum web services with new DFS
architecture?
• Full Text Index Enhancements
• BOCS
• Forms Builder
Other New D6 Enhancements
• How Can New Aspect Object Model
Architecture be integrated into existing
Documentum environments?
• Task Space
– Not Yet Released
Contact Info
• Gretchen Sunko
Technology Services Group
gsunko@tsgrp.com