Cleanup Activities

Every time a Control-M/Analyzer mission or rule is activated,

• an entry is made in the Job Activity file and the Report file
• with the activation of a mission, an entry is made in the Active Balancing file

While individual entries may take up little disk space, many entries can be made during a day because many rules and missions are invoked. Additionally, users may concurrently be testing new applications, rerunning rules many times during a day. Further, even one user report can be very large if a rule was executed with a very large input file.

If entries are never deleted from these files, eventually the files will fill up and no new entries would be permitted to the files.

To avoid such unexpected surprises, the New Day Procedure initiates automatic cleanup procedures. These procedures are part of the default New Day Procedure to

• back up the Active Balancing file
• delete unnecessary entries from the Active Balancing file, and compress the file, as discussed in Utility CTBFRM

Additionally, you may want to

• add a step to the New Day Procedure that instructs utility CTBJAFDL to delete unnecessary entries from the Jobs Activity and Report files, as discussed in Utility CTBJAFDL
• include the running of other supplied utilities to check the integrity of the various Control-M/Analyzer files