OpenText™ Document Pipelines

Release Notes
20.2

Product Released: 2020-04-01

Release Notes Revised: 2020-03-266

Contents
1.1 Release Notes revision history .................................................................................................. 3
3.1 Packaging and delivery information .......................................................................................... 4
3.2 Related documentation .............................................................................................................. 4
4.1 Supported systems .................................................................................................................... 4
4.1.1 Prerequisites ................................................................................................................. 4
4.1.2 Supported platforms ..................................................................................................... 5
4.2 OpenText product compatibility ................................................................................................. 6
4.3 High availability deployments .................................................................................................... 7
4.4 Component name and filename in the COMMANDS file .......................................................... 8
4.5 Tiff2MTiff DocTool – Supported Formats ................................................................................... 8
4.6 Language support ...................................................................................................................... 8
5.1 Installation notes ........................................................................................................................ 9
5.1.1 Silent installation ........................................................................................................... 9
5.1.2 Installation of Document Pipeline Base ........................................................................ 9

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1 Introduction
These Release Notes provide an overview of Document Pipelines 20.2, including new features,
delivery information, and supported platforms.

OpenText recommends that you read these Release Notes in conjunction with the documentation
included with the software package. If any conflicts exist, the Release Notes supersede the other
documentation.

We also recommend that you check OpenText My Support (https://support.opentext.com) for any
patches or documentation updates that may have been posted after the initial release of this product.

1.1 Release Notes revision history

Revision date Sections revised Description of revisions

2020-04-01 First Release All New Content

2 About Document Pipelines

This section provides an overview of Document Pipelines 20.2.

Document Pipelines are basic components in document-processing software and are used to ingest
metadata and content into an application while performing certain additional tasks. Document
Pipelines are the framework for application-specific pipelines.

An important principle for all Document Pipelines is that processing is always transactional. That
means that the processing status of the document is always defined – either it has been processed by
a specific DocTool or not – and no documents can get lost.

This document covers the following pipelines and components:

• Document Pipeline Base

• Document Pipeline Info
• Document Pipeline Perl
• Document Pipeline Remote Interface
• Document Pipeline for SAP
• Document Pipeline for Doculink
• Document Pipeline File Archiving
• Document Pipeline CMIS

3 Packaging and documentation

Downloads and documentation for Document Pipelines are available on OpenText My Support
(https://support.opentext.com).

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 Note
Documentation that is installed with the product or packaged with the
product download is current at the time of release. Documentation
updates made after a release are available for download on OpenText
My Support (https://support.opentext.com).

3.1 Packaging and delivery information

The software and documentation for Document Pipelines includes:

• Document Pipeline for SAP

• Document Pipeline for windows
• Document Pipeline for Linux
• The software can be downloaded from the Knowledge Center:
https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/77676842

• Documentation on Document Pipelines is available under:

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Open/77676669

3.2 Related documentation

For additional information about Document Pipelines, or for supplemental information about related
products, refer to the following documents, which are available on OpenText My Support
(https://support.opentext.com).

4 Supported environments and compatibility

This section provides details about supported platforms, systems, and versions.

4.1 Supported systems

4.1.1 Prerequisites
4.1.1.1 Java environment

Oracle Java 8 JRE or JDK (64-bit) version 1.8.0_72 or later

Oracle Java 11 JDK (64-bit) version 11.0.1 or later (with 16.2.2)

OpenJDK 11 (64-bit) version 11.0.1 or later (with 16.2.2)

Note
Download location for OpenJDK:
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/JDKUpdates/JDK11
u
If other distributions are used then it needs to be
confirmed that these distributions are identical to the
distribution within http://openjdk.java.net

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4.1.1.2 Windows

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 is installed.

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2013 for R3DocTool.

4.1.2 Supported platforms

Document Pipelines support the following operating systems:

Operating system1 - 64-bit Processor

Microsoft Windows 10 x86-64

Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 or later x86-64

Microsoft Windows 8.1 x86-64

Microsoft Windows 8 x86-64

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 x86-64

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 x86-64

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x86-64

Oracle Linux 6 x86-64

Oracle Linux 7 x86-64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86-64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 x86-64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 x86-64

Novell Suse Linux SLES 12 x86-64

IBM AIX 7.1 Power

1Pure IPv6 environments are not supported on any OS. In mixed IPv4/IPv6 environment IPv4 needs to take
precedence over IPv6.

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4.2 OpenText product compatibility
This section provides details about which versions of other OpenText products are compatible with
this release of Document Pipelines 20.2.

Note
For the latest compatibility information for OpenText products, refer to the
Compatibility Matrix (https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/matrix) on
OpenText My Support.

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4.3 High availability deployments
To achieve high availability with Document Pipelines, there are two options possible: Virtualization,
e.g. VMware HA (high availability), active-passive cluster. Contact OpenText Professional Services to
find the optimal approach for your requirements.

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4.4 Component name and filename in the COMMANDS file
4.4.1.1 Component name

Unicode characters are supported. For further information, see the Knowledge Base entry “Forbidden
characters for filenames” (https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/62988621). Trailing blanks are not
allowed for component names.

4.4.1.2 Original filename

ASCII characters are supported only.

Example: COMP offerソ噂欺圭申.fax FAX offer.fax

4.5 Tiff2MTiff DocTool – Supported Formats

Input format: TIFF

Compression (supported): LZW,

Huffman RLE,
JPEG (in TIFF),Macintosh PackBits,
Group 3 Fax Encoding,
Group 4 Fax Encoding,
none

• JPEG in TIFF is supported (24-bit color depth)

• Annotations (mark ups) and forms are NOT supported.

• MTIFF document size is limited to 2 GByte.

4.6 Language support

Document Pipelines is currently localized in the following languages. Future releases may add
additional languages.

Component Languages

EN DE JA FR IT ZH ES RU

Document Pipeline B

UI = user interface only

B = both user interface and online help

5 Installation and upgrade notes

This section provides additional installation and upgrade information, including related or third-party
product information and any required critical patches.

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5.1 Installation notes
Before you install Document Pipelines, review these additional installation notes and verify related
product or third-party product requirements.

5.1.1 Silent installation

Silent Installation for Document Pipelines is supported on Microsoft Windows platforms only.

Document Pipelines can be installed silently, using the msiexec program. For a description of the
silent installation, see: https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/15806655.

Note: Silent installation is not supported for Document Pipeline for Content Server because the
configuration information cannot be provided during silent installation.

5.1.2 Installation of Document Pipeline Base

Installation of Document Pipeline Base will install DocTools which are used by several application
specific Document Pipelines. This makes it easier for different applications to use the same DocTool.
As long as the application specific pipelines are not installed, the DocTools will be shown as
terminated in the spawncmd command.

6 Known issues
The following known issues exist in this release.

Issue name Issue description

Use of DPinfo in When running Document Pipelines in environments without an Archive

environments without Server, the DPinfo tool can only be used for monitoring. Administrative
Archive Server commands via DPinfo are not supported. For administrative
commands, the command line tool dpctrl has to be used.

Starting Document In order to start the Document Pipelines processes (i.e. call script
Pipelines processes (UNIX spawner start), the root user is required.
only)

IPv6 support Using numeric IPv6 addresses instead of host names is not
supported. It must be ensured that host names are resolved to IPv6
addresses and that reverse lookup works properly.

In IPv6 environments, the following variable must be set in

<Base pipeline config directory>/COMMON.Setup:
DSH_USE_IPV6=yes

AS-16540 DocTool Tiff2Mtiff does not support storage tiers in COMMANDS file

Patches for Document Pipeline Perl must not be uninstalled on

AS-4219
Windows platforms.

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7 Contact information
OpenText Corporation
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Waterloo, Ontario
Canada, N2L 0A1

OpenText My Support: https://support.opentext.com

For more information, visit www.opentext.com

Copyright © 2020 Open Text. All Rights Reserved.

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Disclaimer
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Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the features and techniques presented in this publication. However, Open Text Corporation and its affiliates accept
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