An IBM® FileNet® P8 fixed storage area can use the Hitachi Content Platform as the fixed content device for storing content element files. The content can belong to documents from different object stores. In addition, the object stores can belong to different FileNet P8 domains.
The Content Platform Engine component that migrates the content files to the Hitachi device is the fixed content provider.
The content files on the Hitachi device are stored in a directory tree that has a structure similar to a file store directory tree. Use the Hitachi Namespace browser, to manually create the base directory for the directory tree. The directory tree is created automatically by the fixed content provider. The fixed content provider specifies the directory path and name for a file when placing the file on the device.
When object content is deleted from a Hitachi fixed content device, the data on the fixed content device is scrubbed, that is, it is overwritten in a manner that prevents it from being read in the future. For staging area files, data scrubbing occurs in accordance with the delete method that you selected for the storage area. File shredding is the Hitachi equivalent to data scrubbing. For Hitachi device files, when the storage area delete method is Purge or Destroy, Content Platform Engine enables shredding for a file before deleting the file.
Hitachi Content Platform indexing is not used by the Content Platform Engine because direct Hitachi queries bypass the FileNet P8 security model. Hitachi content indexing is turned off by the Content Platform Engine during content creation. When Hitachi content indexing is turned off, the content that is created by the Content Platform Engine on the Hitachi device is not included in the Hitachi index information.