Wondering if any users have an automated process for identifying expired Optim archive files and then deleting them from the Optim directory and the files themselves?
The distributed version of Optim allows for Storage Profiles that then get cleaned up automatically by an Optim Server process once they expire. However, the mainframe version of Optim doesn't have this. You can set a retention period for an archive files via the PARAMETERS associated with the Access Definition, however, Optim doesn't flag these files after the expiration date is met.
We would like to use an automated process for identifying expired files and purging them. The Optim Directory maintenance commands seem really limited here and even using them to find files that are expired (meaning older than today's date) doesn't seem to be a command option.
I have tried using the 'EXPIRE' parameter on the Directory Maintenance to get an archive listing of expired files and it doesn't seem to work as expected since it always returns a listing of
every archive file in the Optim Directory, regardless of whether it's expired or not and regardless of the timeframe/date I enter.
If anyone has some example commands and parameters from the Optim SYSIN DD for identifying and deleting expired files (older than today), I'd greatly appreciate seeing it.
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Keith Tidball
Progressive Insurance
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