How to enable CMIS on Documentum

Question

I want to use CmisSync to synchronize Documentum folders/documents, so I must enable CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) in Documentum.

• The Installation Notes and Readme don't even mention CMIS.
• It does not seem to be enabled by default, as the CMIS URL http://localhost:8080/cmis/resources/ returns error 404 even though the REST URL is working correctly.

QUESTION: How to do enable CMIS in Documentum?

Environment:

• Documentum Developer Edition 7.1 (I am not an EMC paying customer, so I use that because it is the only version which is freely downloadable)
• CentOS/Postgres

Answer 1

First, you have to find emc-cmis.war.

Once you have it, put it in the web application server that already contains your dctm-rest.war (present by default), and put emc-cmis.war besides it.

Tomcat (for instance) will automatically extract it into an emc-cmis folder besides the WAR. In my limited experience I have seen a case where the emc-cmis folder contained another emc-cmis folder that contains WEB-INF/etc, in such a case remove the extra level.

Within the emc-cmis folder, there should be a dfc.properties that you will need to modify, here is an example:

dfc.data.dir=/home/dmadmin/dctm/product/7.1/dfc_shared
dfc.tokenstorage.dir=/home/dmadmin/dctm/product/7.1/dfc_shared/apptoken
dfc.tokenstorage.enable=false
dfc.docbroker.host[0]=demo-server
dfc.docbroker.port[0]=1489
dfc.session.secure_connect_default=try_native_first
dfc.globalregistry.repository=MyRepo
dfc.globalregistry.username=dm_bof_registry
dfc.globalregistry.password=password

Any Documentum server contains a lot of dfc.properties that you can get inspiration from.

Then restart Tomcat, or the whole Documentum, and open http://localhost:8080/emc-cmis/main , this page should show up:

The URLs are:

• REST: http://localhost:8080/emc-cmis/resources/
• Web Services: http://localhost:8080/emc-cmis/services/RepositoryService?wsdl

More information: https://www.emc.com/collateral/TechnicalDocument/docu57844.pdf

Answer 2

Have you tried to check if you can access the CMIS installer in subscribenet. For development purposes you can download the CMIS war from the trial section in subscribenet and deploy it on the VM.

How To Find The CMIS war File

Navigate to Documentum download center and select "Content Server" to download, you will get a list of resources to download where CMIS.war is included.

Have A Look Here Too About CMISSync

• https://community.emc.com/message/825802#825802

Sources

• https://community.emc.com/people/Julien.Fontaine/blog/2013/06/11/cmis--does-it-work-and-how
• https://community.emc.com/thread/162817?start=0&tstart=0