How to purge Info Steward job history?

[former_member366064]

We've been running Info Steward for a few years now, and we are accumulating a fair amount of job history.  This includes the rule score calculation jobs, as well as the internal utilities such as Purge and Calculate Scorecards.

While the Purge job appears to trim the Info Steward results in the repository, it doesn't appear to include the job history itself, which just seems to grow and grow.  There isn't anything useful to me in knowing that a job completed or failed over a year ago.  How do I purge these various forms of job history?

I can go into each job or utility history listing, and delete jobs one-by-one.  It takes 10 or more seconds to delete one and refresh the list.  The history list won't let me select more than one at a time.  Obviously this is a silly way to clean out old job history.

What is the proper efficient way to do this?  Thanks for any help or advice.

[former_member655569]

Hi Alan,

You can select multiple tasks and delete them from IS tasks tab. It will wipe out all the jobs and history.

You may want to take backup of task(job) name and scheduled timings.

You will have to recreate all the tasks and schedule them again.

Thanks,

Dhareppa

[former_member204223]

Hi Allen,

If you go into the CMC>Information Steward then highlight Metadata Management the click on the actions drop down. You'll see the limits option appear. More than likely the delete excess instances isn't checked. Check it and make the amount to 50 instances or whatever you want.

By default this isn't checked. Depending on how much history you have. Will determine how long it takes to clear up. So check it every day to see if it's going away or not.

Thanks,

BW

[former_member366064]

Wow, I never would have thought of looking there!  Indeed, it was not checked on.  I'll try that and see how it works.  Thanks!

[former_member187605]

In case you won't notice any difference: exactly the same option exists under Data Insight (because you mentioned "Purge and Calculate Scorecards", I am assuming you're not using Metadata Management)!

[former_member204223]

You're correct Dirk, Either one will clean up the purge and others. Under applications>Information Steward>manage utilities. I figured that's what Allen was referring to. Thanks for point out the other spot.

BW

[former_member366064]

Yes, I found "Limits" under both Data Insight and Metadata Management.  (In our case, we aren't using Metadata Management; just Data Insight.  Data Insight did already have it checked on.  Metadata management did not, so I enabled it also just in case.)

Unfortunately, it's been two days and I haven't seen any reduction in the job histories for InfoSteward Purge, Calculate Scorecard, or rule scoring task jobs.

Is there another place these may roll up to; some higher-level Data Services or Info Platform Services purge job that needs to be enabled or scheduled?

Thanks for the help!

Here is my Data Insight limit at 90:

Info Steward purge utility history with over 500 instances:

Rule scoring task history with over 500 instances:

[former_member204223]

Allen,

You have the correct ones for this application. Take a look at the last entry and note the date on it. Then come back and look in a few days to see if it's still the last one. I have seen this take some time for companies that have many pages of history.

It'll work. Unless you really have an issue. In that case you'd need to log a ticket with the admin team.

Thanks,

BW

[former_member366064]

OK, I'll give it a few more days and check back.  Thanks for the help!

[former_member366064]

It's been about a week now, and no improvement.  A new entry is added daily for the jobs, but no old jobs are being removed.  I'll open an SAP support ticket next.

[former_member204223]

That would be the way to go.