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Documentum 6Reviews from Early Adopters

Technology Services Group, Inc.October 10, 2007

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 TSG has access to pre-release version of all Documentum 6 softwareof 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 TSG is upgrading all of their Open Source offerings to run on D6Source 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

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Documentum 6What’s Next to Evaluate?

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