Documentum 5.3 - Pick up Column Changes

DavidHaveman

Hello,

we altered our dm_format_s table to support mime types longer than 64 characters and cannot get our Documentum instance to see this change,

we have allready tried:

bouncing the database

bouncing the content server / clearing cache

bouncing the application server / clearing cache

using the "Documentum Repoint Plugin" with Eclipse

we also ran the dataDictionary job after each step thing

Does anyone know what else we can do?

Thanks

DCTM_Guru

Changing the underlying database table is NEVER recommended.  As you have seen already, these changes are not recognized by Content Server.  You can try creating a custom dm_format type and extending attribute length, but I cant guarantee that this will fix your problem.

BTW - MIME type field is 256 char.  The format name field is 64 chars and this is internal to Documentum, so you can create abbreviated name (<64 char) and have no impact external to Documentum.