Defining document storage management

The document storage management definitions determine where and when IBM® Content Manager OnDemand stores documents and how it maintains them.

When you load a document into Content Manager OnDemand, you assign it to an application group. The application group is the last document storage management component that you define, because it requires storage set and migration policy definitions, which you must create first. The application group identifies the storage set and determines where documents should be loaded. You assign each application group to a storage set. You can load documents onto disk, onto archive media, or onto both disk storage and archive storage. The disk storage manager maintains documents on disk. The archive storage manager maintains documents on archive media. The archive storage manager uses a migration policy to determine where to store documents and how long to maintain them. After a document ages for the specified number of days, the migration process can move it from disk to archive storage.

This chapter refers to the Content Manager OnDemand Archive Storage Manager (ASM) as the storage manager for your Content Manager OnDemand data. However, Tivoli® Storage Manager can be enabled to be used in addition to, or in place of ASM on your IBM i server. See Using Tivoli Storage Manager as a separate storage manager for more information on using the Tivoli Storage Manager.