You can configure IBM Maximo and MAS so that it stores attachments in a Simple Storage Service (S3) cloud object storage.

This is the best option when migrate from EAM to MAS.

In order to migrate your environment to use S3, it is necessary to:

1) create a bucket in a service cloud in order to store your data.

2) setup Maximo application to use S3

3) restart Maximo

4) migrate files from NFS storage to S3

Setup Maximo application to use S3

1) setup Maximo application to use S3

a. Login into Maximo

b. Go to System Properties Application

c. Change configurations

Caption text
Header text	Header text
mxe.cosaccesskey	This value is the access_key_id described in the bucket.
mxe.cosendpointuri	This value is the use-geo endpoint address: https://s3.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud
mxe.cosbucketname	This value is the name defined in the bucket.
mxe.cossecretkey	This value is the secret_access_key described in the bucket.
mxe.attachmentstorage	com.ibm.tivoli.maximo.oslc.provider.COSAttachmentStorage Once this value is set, traditional doclinks will no longer work. To revert, this property must be removed and the server restarted.
mxe.doclink.doctypes.defpath	cos:doclinks\default
mxe.doclink.doctypes.topLevelPaths	cos:doclinks
mxe.doclink.path01	cos:doclinks=hostname/DOCLINKS
mxe.doclink.securedAttachment	True

3) restart Maximo