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Chapter 10: Parameter Editor Commands › DELETE/HISTORY

DELETE/HISTORY

This command deletes a history file descriptor from the parameters file.

Format

DELETE/HISTORY name

Parameter

name

The history file descriptor name is a 1 to 20-character alphanumeric string that represents an archiving scheme for history files.

Description

The DELETE/HISTORY command deletes a history file descriptor from the parameters file. Performance Agent requires you to delete any history files generated by that definition before you delete the history file descriptor.

  1. Use the ADVISE COLLECT SHOW STATUS CPD command to determine the disk and directory location for data and history files.
  2. Identify the data and history files associated with the history file descriptor.
  3. Delete the files using the DELETE/CONFIRM command.
  4. Delete the history file descriptor.

Example

$ ADVISE COLLECT SHOW STATUS CPD 
$ DIRECTORY $DUA1:PSDC$*_%%-%%%-%%%%_%%-%%%-%%%%.PEAKLOAD;* 
$ DELETE/CONFIRM $DUA1:PSDC$*_%%-%%%-%%%%_%%-%%%-%%%%.PEAKLOAD;* 
$ ADVISE/EDIT 
PSDC-EDIT> DELETE/HISTORY PEAKLOAD

This command deletes the history files and the history file descriptor named PEAKLOAD.