diff --git a/fhir-bulkimportexport-webapp/pom.xml b/fhir-bulkimportexport-webapp/pom.xml
index 6afc0b4f4ff..9837188de9c 100644
--- a/fhir-bulkimportexport-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/fhir-bulkimportexport-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
                     <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
                     <artifactId>fhir-core</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>          
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
diff --git a/fhir-config/src/test/resources/fhirConfig.json b/fhir-config/src/test/resources/fhirConfig.json
index a8cef150524..c35b62f0a51 100644
--- a/fhir-config/src/test/resources/fhirConfig.json
+++ b/fhir-config/src/test/resources/fhirConfig.json
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@
             "truststoreLocation":"resources/security/fhirTruststore.jks",
             "truststorePassword":"change-password"
         },
-        "validation":{
-            "userDefinedSchematronEnabled":true
-        },
         "virtualResources":{
             "enabled":true,
             "allowableResourceTypes":[
diff --git a/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant1/fhir-server-config.json b/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant1/fhir-server-config.json
index 3550f86ccaa..71be64889bf 100644
--- a/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant1/fhir-server-config.json
+++ b/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant1/fhir-server-config.json
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"__comment": "FHIR Server configuration for mythical tenant id 'tenant1'",
 	"fhirServer": {
-		"core": {
-			"userDefinedSchematronEnabled": true
-		},
 		"searchParameterFilter": {
 			"Observation": ["subject",
 			"patient",
diff --git a/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant1/schematron/patient.sch b/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant1/schematron/patient.sch
deleted file mode 100644
index c373aa7a445..00000000000
--- a/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant1/schematron/patient.sch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<sch:schema xmlns:sch="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" queryBinding="xslt2">
-  <sch:ns prefix="f" uri="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
-  <sch:ns prefix="h" uri="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/>
-  <sch:pattern>
-    <sch:rule context="//f:Patient[./f:meta/f:profile/@value='http://ibm.com/fhir/profile/acme-sample']">
-      <sch:assert test="exists(f:extension[@url='http://ibm.com/fhir/extension/acme-sample/study_ID'])">acme-sample-1: Patient must have a study ID specified.</sch:assert>
-    </sch:rule>
-  </sch:pattern>
-</sch:schema>
diff --git a/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant2/fhir-server-config.json b/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant2/fhir-server-config.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 44e043d5505..00000000000
--- a/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant2/fhir-server-config.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "__comment":"FHIR Server configuration for mythical tenant id 'tenant2'",
-    "fhirServer":{
-        "core":{
-            "userDefinedSchematronEnabled":false
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant2/schematron/.empty b/fhir-server/liberty-config-tenants/config/tenant2/schematron/.empty
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d..00000000000
diff --git a/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/fhir-server-config.json b/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/fhir-server-config.json
index 20190f31b90..1074a3a78a2 100644
--- a/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/fhir-server-config.json
+++ b/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/fhir-server-config.json
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
         "core": {
             "truststoreLocation": "resources/security/fhirTruststore.jks",
             "truststorePassword": "change-password",
-            "userDefinedSchematronEnabled": false,
             "tenantIdHeaderName": "X-FHIR-TENANT-ID",
             "datastoreIdHeaderName": "X-FHIR-DSID",
             "jsonParserLenient": false,
diff --git a/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/schematron/.empty b/fhir-server/liberty-config/config/default/schematron/.empty
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d..00000000000