EDS service, how to provide external data when using Content Navigator

According to the official IBM redbook related to Content Navigator, the External Data Services (a.k.a. EDS) is “an interface that IBM Content Navigator provides to access data from external data sources. EDS can be used to define field validation criteria, prefill the field values, or other custom properties for existing repository metadata during delivery or change of documents or folders.”. Actually, this is a more powerful aplication service than that.

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Upgrading from DB2 9.7 to DB2 10.5

Today, I was confronted to a specific problem related to FileNet. When adding lots of properties / class definitions, and creation new property definitions to all my class definitions, FileNet (version 5.2.1 fix pack 6) just returns me an aggressive FNRCD0022E: DB_ROWLENGTH_LIMIT_EXCEEDED, which means that the table just exceeded the maximum size allowed (c.f. this IBM thread). After some research, it appears that this bug is resolved in DB2 version 10.5, so I had to upgrade my environment !

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