text: **16.1 Enhanced Retention Management overview**
  
  The Content Manager OnDemand Enhanced Retention Management feature helps you 
  manage and enforce the retention of documents in a Content Manager OnDemand system. In 
  a Content Manager OnDemand system, you retain documents for a specific period. Retaining 
  documents for a certain period is commonly referred to as*retention management*.*Records*
  *management*describes the process of retaining and deleting documents under a set of 
  circumstances that are not necessarily bound by time, for example, until the end of litigation. 
  Consider the following important points when you select the correct retention solution: 
  
  (cid:2) Records management requires that you can control individual documents. Content 
  
  Manager OnDemand manages application groups, not individual documents, and it works 
  with a storage manager to delete (expire) documents. 
  
  (cid:2) Records management requires flexibility in defining when to delete documents. Content 
  Manager OnDemand defines the time to delete applications with fixed time ranges, for 
  example, five years after Content Manager OnDemand loads the documents. 
  
  To overcome these limitations, implement the Content Manager OnDemand Enhanced 
  Retention Management feature. With the Enhanced Retention Management feature, you 
  control individual documents by introducing*holds*. Holds are a way to identify the documents 
  that you want to keep for a period of time. To expire the document, you must remove the hold. 
  Holds give you the flexibility to choose when to delete documents because you control when 
  to remove a hold. You can manage holds through any of the following interfaces: 
  
  (cid:2) Content Manager OnDemand Windows client, Content Navigator, WEBi, the**ARSDOC**
  
  command, or the Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit (ODWEK) Java APIs 
  that are provided by Content Manager OnDemand. 
  
  (cid:2) IBM FileNet P8, when integrated with Content Manager OnDemand by enabling the 
  FileNet Content Federation Services for Content Manager OnDemand feature. Use 
  Content Federation Services for Content Manager OnDemand to federate Content 
  Manager OnDemand repositories, which connect your Content Manager OnDemand 
  content to business processes in the IBM Case Foundation and IBM Enterprise Records 
  features of FileNet P8. 