Create and configure the Purge App job to periodically remove index, email, reporting, and Process Workflow Controller (PWC) job and task instance data, and detail database tables (if any) from your application database. Running this job frees up space on your database server.
You may also need to run a Purge App job to eliminate index references to historical statement data to prevent it from being included in summary page information.
Purge App also purges any sub-document index data when purging the data for its parent, or root document.
Warning: Once you run a Purge App job, the data deleted will no longer be available for statistical reporting.
When you configure a Purge App job, you specify settings for the four production tasks that run sequentially in the Purge App job:
· Task 1: PurgeIndexData – Purges records from the index, detail, annotations, and dispute tables that have a date processed older than the number of days you specify. See PurgeIndexData Task.
· Task 2: PurgeEmailData – Purges information from the dynamic mail queue table. This table grows rapidly if you run Email Notification jobs. See PurgeEmailData Task.
· Task 3: PurgeActivityData – Purges user and system activity data. See PurgeActivityData Task
· Task 4: PurgePWCData – Purges job and task instance data. These tables grow rapidly if you run statement-based processing jobs, such as the Report job. See PurgePWCData Task.
Note that you do not need to publish files for a Purge App job.
1. On the Main Console, click the application name, listed under Applications in the table. The Edit Application screen appears.
2. Click Add New Job. eaDirect displays the Create New Job screen.
3. Enter a meaningful name for the Purge App job. The job name must start with an alpha character. The rest of the characters can be alphanumeric and can contain underscores, but no spaces.
4. Select job type Purge App. (You do not publish files for a Purge App job.)
5. Click Configure Job and Continue. eaDirect displays the Purge App job configuration screen.
6. For each task, enter a value appropriate for your application and database:
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0 |
Purges all information up to midnight of the current date |
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1 |
Purges all information up to midnight of the previous day |
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>1 |
Purges all information up to midnight of the (relative) day specified (limit is 3650 days, or ten years) |
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-1 |
Do not purge. Choose this option if you do not want to purge this task data from the Index table when you run the Purge App job. |
7. When finished entering configuration parameters, click Submit Changes and Schedule. eaDirect submits the job configuration parameters and displays the Schedule screen. You can schedule the Purge App job later.
8. Click Main Console.