The IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager can operate in aligned and unaligned mode.
In both aligned and unaligned modes you can use an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager management class to apply retention to content objects. This also prevents automatic deletion of the object by the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager fixed content device. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager management class is defined on the associated fixed storage area.
RETINIT=EVENT
RETVER=0
RETMIN=actual retention period
Tivoli Storage Manager has built-in functionality to automatically delete content objects after the retention period of the management class they relate to has expired. Therefore, in order for Content Platform Engine and FileNet® P8 applications to retain control over the deletion of content objects they own, and to preserve the referential integrity of the system, Tivoli Storage Manager automatic deletion must be inhibited. To that end, the content engine leverages the Tivoli Storage Manager event-based retention activation mechanism only at delete time.
Retention is enforced by the Content Platform Engine and is applied to content objects based on the Tivoli Storage Manager management class. The retention setting for the document can be set to any valid value. The retention setting of the objects in Tivoli Storage Manager is not updated when the retention setting for the document on the content engine is altered.
RETINIT=EVENT
RETVER=0
RETMIN=0
If the values for RETVER
or RETMIN are not set to 0, the content engine ignores the setting when checking in documents.
However, the content engine prevents document deletion until the Tivoli Storage Manager retention period on the content objects has expired. In
addition, the content of the document cannot be moved to another storage area until the
retention period has expired.