Expanded Retention Option › Writing ERO Table Statements › The Keyword DELETE

The Keyword DELETE

Use DELETE to specify that when the ERO retention TOTAL criteria expires, the report is deleted (and does not revert to the control of the CA View initialization parameters NGENT).

Syntax:

DELETE

If PRETAIN=TABLE, DELETE is not required and reports are deleted when they expire from the table. DELETE does not affect disk retention. (When disk retention criteria expire, the SYSOUT goes to initialization parameter NGENT control, unless PRETAIN=TABLE.)

We recommend that you specify PRETAIN=TABLE to make the ERO table a single point-of-control.

Considerations:

• If you specify MARK (or POPT=M), marked reports are assigned the retention specified in the ERO table entry.

  Unmarked reports are considered expired; therefore, they are deleted during the first standard backup cycle following their archival to CA View.

• If you specify LAST (or POPT=L), the retention specified in the ERO table entry is assigned to the last report in the generations being processed.

  The copies that precede the last copy in the generations being processed are considered expired; therefore, they are deleted during the first standard backup cycle following their archival to CA View.