The IBM FHIR Server supports hard delete using the custom FHIR Operation Framework. The operation is called $erase; you can always read the design document.
The IBM FHIR Server has support for exporting and importing Bulk Data using extended operations for Bulk Data $import, $export and $bulkdata-status, which are implemented as Java Maven projects. The IBM FHIR Server uses JSR252 JavaBatch jobs running in the Open Liberty Java Batch Framework. The IBM FHIR Server supports storage providers S3 (aws-s3,ibm-cos), File System (file), and now Azure (azure-blob). I recently implemented support for the Azure Blob Service in IBM/FHIR Pull Request #2413. The code that supports the Azure client uses the OK Http library and not Netty to communicate with the backend. The storage provider is implemented…
I’ve been debugging a drop tablespace issue on Db2 – IBM/FHIR: 2354. The core issue was a timing problem with lots of partitions dettaching. This adds a delay to the dropTablespace so the async operation can complete, and cleanly exit with a specific error code so downstream consumers can work around the issue.