Installation

Prerequisites

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Windows

dqMan OpenText Documentum Edition is officially supported on Windows 64-bit operating systems.

Operating system:

Microsoft® Windows® version 10 or later and Windows® Server 2016 or later (64-bit only, 32-bit versions are not supported!)

OpenText Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC):

Documentum 16.4 - 16.7 requires DFC 16.4 with latest patch - DFC 16.7

Documentum 20.x - 24.x requires DFC 20.x - DFC 24.x

Java:

Oracle Java SE JDK or supported OpenJDKs (64-bit only, 32-bit versions are not supported!)

all versions officially supported by the target Documentum Content Server version and DFC

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Linux

Although there is no native Linux build of dqMan, it is possible to run the Windows version of dqMan on Linux using Wine. This section describes a verified configuration and the steps required to successfully launch dqMan on a Linux environment.

dqMan on Linux was tested using Wine versions 9.0 and 11.0. Testing was performed on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS.

Environment Setup

  • Install Wine Install the latest stable Wine release for your distribution.

  • Prepare Java Runtime Copy a compatible Windows 64-bit JRE/JDK into a local folder.

  • Copy Documentum DFC Place the Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC) for your repository version in a subfolder, ensuring that the correct dctm.jar and native libraries are present.

  • Copy dqMan Package Place the standalone Windows dqMan package into a working directory.

Documentum Configuration

Create a directory for dfc configuration, then ensure dfc.properties and any repository mappings are correctly set under the 'config' directory.

Launching dqMan

dqMan is distributed as a portable application packaged as a ZIP file. The ZIP file can be extracted anywhere on the installation machine. The folder where dqMan is extracted to can have any name, as per the user's preferences.

Windows

Please note that deploying the application to the default Program Files folder may require administrative permissions; this is standard Windows behavior when deploying any files to the Program Files folder and not specific to dqMan.

Linux

When running under Wine, dqMan remains a Windows application. All dependencies (Java, DFC) must be Windows builds and accessible within the Wine environment.

From the directory where dqMan.exe is located, run: wine dqMan.exe

Wine will start the dqMan UI. On first run, expected log/output appears in the Wine console review for missing dependencies (e.g., missing DLLs) and install via winetricks if necessary.

Command line parameters

You can use the following command line parameters in dqMan:

For login:

  • -r<Repository>- Autoconnect to the supplied repository. The repository name must be given in the same format dqMan is configured to use. If fully qualified server names are activated, repository names need to match this format.

  • -u<Username> - A valid username to log in with

  • -p<Password> - The password for the user.

  • -disablelogin - Disable login to new repositories. Multiple sessions are allowed to the same repository.

Profile management:

  • -profile <index|name> - Start dqMan with a custom Java & DFC profile by specifying a profile index number or profile name

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See Java & DFC Profile Management for detailed information on managing and loading custom profiles via command line parameters

Other parameters:

  • -f<Filename> - The full name (including path) to a scriptfile can be supplied to open this at startup. The scripttype (API or DQL) is determined by the file extension. If the filename contains spaces, it must be enclosed by double quotes”.

  • -execute - If a file is loaded using –f<filename>, it can be executed immediately. This function also needs valid login informations passed with the command line.

    When the execution is finished, dqMan will be closed.

Glossary and Terms

Term
Explanation

ACL

Access Control List

DQL

Documentum Query Language

API

Documentum API command language/syntax

DFC

Documentum Foundation Classes

CS

Documentum Content Server

OT

OpenText (Documentum vendor)

DB

Database

SQL

Structured Query Language

fme

fme AG (dqMan vendor)

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