Obsolete criteria examples

This following are examples of how the sweep utility applies the obsolete criteria to determine whether various jobs are obsolete.

The following values apply to all examples in this section:

• SMART Folder G has the following two RBCs:
  • RBC A: ACTIVE_FROM Not defined; ACTIVE_TILL September 12, 2016
  • RBC B: ACTIVE_FROM September 11, 2008; ACTIVE_TILL October 28, 2016
• The obsolete day of the user is September 20, 2016.

  For the obsolete day of the user, RBC A is obsolete and RBC B is active, according to the above.

EXAMPLE 1:

Job 1 belongs to SMART Folder G and has RBC A. ACTIVE_FROM is not defined for Job 1.

ACTIVE_TILL is defined for Job 1 for October 1, 2016. The relationship between Job 1 and its RBCs is AND.

Result: Job 1 is obsolete.

EXAMPLE 2:

Job 2 belongs to SMART Folder G and has RBC B.

ACTIVE_FROM and ACTIVE_TILL are not defined.

The relationship between Job 2 and its RBCs is OR.

Result: Job 2 is active.

EXAMPLE 3:

Job 3 belongs to SMART Folder G and has RBCs A, B, and C.

RBC C was deleted from SMART Folder G, but Job 4 still has it.

ACTIVE_FROM and ACTIVE_TILL are not defined.

The relationship between Job 3 and its RBCs is AND.

Result: Job 3 is active, while RBC C is ignored.

General notes

The following notes may be applicable to the features described in this section:

• The sweep utility searches for obsolete jobs and folders on the Control-M/EM side only. It does this by scanning the Control-M/EM database. Any obsolete jobs or folders that are found are deleted from both the Control-M/EM and the Control-M/Server databases. It is therefore recommended that the folders are synchronized in the Control-M/EM and Control-M/Server databases before activating the sweep utility.
• The sweep utility supports only Control-M for z/OS versions 6.1.00 and 6.2.00.
• To delete obsolete folders or jobs a user requires FULL permissions for the specific folder.
• If you want to override any CORBA default parameters for the sweep utility, make the changes under "Sweep" in the CORBA configuration file ($HOME/etc/domains/config.xml).