Moving from IBM CommonStore to IBM Content Collector

IBM® CommonStore is the predecessor of IBM Content Collector. There are two CommonStore product installations, namely IBM CommonStore for Lotus® Domino® and IBM CommonStore for Exchange Server.

To move from archiving using IBM CommonStore to archiving using IBM Content Collector, you can either install Content Collector on the existing CommonStore server, or install Content Collector on a separate server. The necessary CommonStore parts are replaced by Content Collector Legacy Support.

To verify the Content Collector installation and move Content Collector to production before shutting down the existing CommonStore installation, you can also install Content Collector on a separate server and add the CommonStore configuration that is required for legacy support manually without deleting IBM CommonStore. This allows you to verify the Content Collector installation and move it to production before shutting down the existing CommonStore installation.

When you move from archiving using CommonStore to archiving using Content Collector, the two systems with their archived content cannot be merged automatically. This is because the underlying data models of the archived content differ. The only way that the archived content can be merged is by retrieving the CommonStore documents, removing the CommonStore archiving properties from these documents, and rearchiving these documents by using Content Collector.

After installing Content Collector, you can use all of the functions available in Content Collector on new documents. A subset of the functions on the documents that were archived using CommonStore is also available for use. This subset of CommonStore functions that is available in Content Collector to access archived documents in Content Collector is called IBM Content Collector legacy support. The documents that were archived using CommonStore are referred to as legacy messages in IBM CommonStore for Exchange Server, or legacy documents in IBM CommonStore for Lotus Domino. When referring to both installations, legacy document is used for legacy document and legacy message.