Obsolete criteria

The following describes the criteria used by the sweep utility to determine whether a job or folder is obsolete.

If the ACTIVE_TILL parameter is specified the following elements are considered as obsolete:

• A regular job, which is not part of a SMART Folder, is considered as obsolete if the following is true:

  ACTIVE_FROM < ACTIVE_TILL and ACTIVE_TILL < obsolete date.

• A RBC is considered as obsolete if:

  ACTIVE_FROM < ACTIVE_TILL and ACTIVE_TILL < obsolete date.

• A SMART Folder is considered as obsolete if:

  All of its RBCs are obsolete (the relationship between the RBCs is always OR).

• A regular folder is considered obsolete if:

  All the jobs in the folder are obsolete.

• A job that is part of a SMART Folder is defined as obsolete if one of the following conditions is true:
  • the SMART Folder is obsolete
  • it satisfies the obsolete criteria according to its own ACTIVE_TILL/ACTIVE_FROM and has no RBCs
  • it has RBCs and is considered as obsolete according to the following table:

  Relationship	Job (ACTIVE_TILL/ ACTIVE_FROM)	RBC (ACTIVE_TILL/ ACTIVE_FROM)	Result
  AND	Obsolete	Obsolete	Delete job
  AND	Obsolete	Active	Delete job
  AND	Active	Obsolete	Delete job
  AND	Active	Active	Job is active
  OR	Obsolete	Obsolete	Delete job
  OR	Obsolete	Active	Job is active
  OR	Active	Obsolete	Job is active
  OR	Active	Active	Job is active
  AND	Not defined	Obsolete	Delete job
  AND	Not defined	Active	Job is active
  OR	Not defined	Obsolete	Job is active
  OR	Not defined	Active	Job is active