Purge Activity

The Purge activity allows you to delete historical data and record versions. This activity is a long-running activity and consumes significant resources in the database and Application Server.

It purges historical data based on a specific retention criteria, which is specified using RetentionUOM and RetentionUnits. Only redundant data is removed. Any records not associated with the history and corresponding synchronization records are also deleted.

Note: Version V1 of the repository record is never deleted. Records in the Master Catalog Table (MCT) match the History except that version V1 is always retained. A specific version for synchronization data is not retained.

A purge log file is created which includes details such as the enterprise (specific or all), catalog (specific or all), credentials that are used, objects that are deleted, name of the FILELIST file and so on.