CTDRETC – Control-D report retention

The CTDRETC utility provides retention control of Control-D reports. For example, a customer can preserve Control-D reports, exempting them from being deleted from the Control-D for z/OS repository, even though their retention period has expired.

Retention control is useful for customers in special situations, such as if a company is obliged to keep all data that is relevant to a case that is under debate in court,   although it is passed the expiration dates of the relevant reports.

Currently the report retention period is defined in the migration and backup mission definitions. The clean-up utilities (CTVCLMIG and CTDCLHST) delete the reports whose retention period is expired. The CTDRETC utility enables retention control of migrated or backed-up Control-D reports.

The CTDRETC utility enables the customers to

• preserve migrated and backed-up reports selected according to various selection criteria
• free preserved reports selected according to selection criteria
• delete selected report entries even though their retention period is not yet expired
• change the retention period of selected reports
• print information about the retention of selected reports and datasets