Understanding the Purge Process for Statements and Delinquency Notices
When you consider statement or delinquency notice information to be obsolete, you can purge it. The Statement/Notification Purge program removes statement and delinquency notice records from the F03B20 and F03B21 tables. The system does not write purged information to another table for archiving. If you want to retain purged information, keep a backup of the tables before purging them.
The system purges both statement and delinquency notices unless you specify a notification type in the data selection:
To purge statements only, use the notification type ST.
To purge delinquency notices only, use the notification type DL.
The system purges records based on the values in the Purge Date processing option and Number of Months processing option. This ensures that the system purges the correct information. If these two processing options are not used in conjunction with each other, the system reads the oldest value (either the date in the Notification Date processing option or the value in the Number of Months processing option) to purge the fewest number of records.