Help needed to run dmclean method

Hi Everyone,

I am very new to Documentum. Please help me on this issue. In our application we have deleted many old documents to retain the space but the space was not reclaimed. I understand that only by deleting the objects will not delete the object. After deleting the objects we have to run dmclean method. I have tried to run dmclean method in the above two ways.

1) using DQL,

EXECUTE do_method WITH method = 'dmclean', arguments = '-no_note -no_acl'

2)using API,

apply,session,NULL,DO_METHOD,METHOD,S,dmclean,

ARGUMENTS,S,'-no_note -no_acl'

But the dmclean is not running. I checked the Result.dmclean file under temp directory which will be created whenever the dmclean is run. This file has only the below content,

# Opening document base gedms...
# Open of document base failed.

I also checked whether dmclean.txt file has been created under the path "/System/Sysadmin/Reports/" but i dont find any such file under this path. I dont know why the dmclean is not running. Whether i have to check any other things before running dmclean. please guide and help me on how to run dmclean successfully.

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Comments

msroth

You need to change the clean_now parameter to TRUE, otherwise the job only provides a "report", as you have discovered. See the article on "Seven Jobs Every Developer Should Know and Use" for more details.

sbickle

The best way to run dm_clean is from the job manager in Documentum administrator. Its often best to run admin methods via the Job Manager as this will enable you can see if it is running and access the report when it is complete.

Steve

Ananyo

I completely agree with Steve.But before running the job make sure that you have "%DOCUMENTUM%/dba/log/<docbase ID>/sysadmin" folder present in the content server(if not then create the sysadmin folder within %DOCUMENTUM%/dba/log/<docbase ID>/). The DMClean report is physically present inside this folder only.

Francois Dauberlieu

Actually, that wouldn't be in the Docbase, that would be on the content server

My 2 cents

Ananyo

Thanks Francois for the correction.