Introduction

The Repository Interrogation Utility (Repoint) allows a user to navigate repositories, perform a properties dump, view the type tree of a repository, execute API commands and run DQL or xDQL queries. The utility includes some additional features such as integration with the ‘Object Reference Manual’, a listing of SBOs and detection of registered TBOs.

The utlity is available as both a standalone application and an Eclipse plugin. The standalone application can be used without the need to know or install the whole Eclipse IDE.

NOTE: In the Repoint documents, the word ‘type’ refers to a repository type such as ‘dm_sysobject’, ‘dm_user,’ and so on. The word ‘object’ refers to an instance of a ‘type’.

Software Environment

DFC 5.3 and above. Last used on DFC 6.5 SP1.

Eclipse 3.2 and above

JDK 1.4.x and above

Windows 2003

Installation and Configuration

• Unzip the repoint.zip into a convenient location. This should create a folder called repoint
• Double-click on the repoint.exe file to run Repoint.
• If this is the first time you are using Repoint, it will prompt you to configure DFC for use with Repoint. You will need to mention the folder that contains the dfc.jar and the folder that contains the dfc.properties file. At a later time, if you wish to update the DFC configuration you can do so by clicking on ‘Repoint->Update DFC Configuration’.
• The utility uses DfLogger to log errors. You can view the errors by configuring DfLogger to enable logging for the Java package com.documentum.devprog.eclipse. For more details on enabling logging refer to the article Enabling Logging in DFC Applications.

Troubleshooting

Most of the problems that we have encountered are due to missing business object jars in the classpath – either custom ones or the ones distributed by Documentum applications such as Webpublisher. We have tried to reference all the possible Documentum jars from Webtop, Administrator(DA) and Webpublisher in the CLASSPATH variable in the startRepoint.cmd file. A safe approach is to include all the jars in the “Documentum/Shared” folder (i.e. the folder that contains dfc.jar). If you have custom business objects, you will need to add them to the REPOINT_HOME/plugins/com.documentum.dfc/lib folder and then reference them in the REPOINT_HOME/plugins/com.documentum.dfc/plugin.xml file. In the future, we add the ability to configure this using a wizard or a UI dialog.

Logs are available in two places – the REPOINT_HOME/workspace/.metadata/.log file and the location specified in DfLogger configuration for the package com.documentum.devprog.eclipse

You can get more information here:

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-1333

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-1300;jsessionid=BBDFC046F22AD3EEB2475C0669861E9F

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-1301;jsessionid=1D2052A2720085DC161D9ED56041F650