What does it mean that X_O_PURGE_HHMM and X_O_PURGE_CYCLE are incompatible?

Products

• CA Automic Dollar Universe

Issue/Introduction

As per DU 6.10 documentation (DU - Maintenance Purging in Area it state that "X_O_PURGE_HHMM and X_O_PURGE_CYCLE are Incompatible".

What does the incompatibility mean?

What should be configuration to setup cyclical purge?

Environment

Release : 6.x

Component : DOLLAR UNIVERSE

Resolution

Please find answers to queries raised.

What does the incompatibility mean?

• The statement PURGE_CYCLE and PURGE_HHMM are incompatible can be decoded as that both values if set will not be considered in conjunction.
• The preferred or one with higher preference among PURGE_CYCLE and PURGE_HHMM is PURGE_HHMM. It means that if *PURGE_HHMM is used purge cycle is set to one day as default. It will ignore any value of *PURGE_CYCLE, set by user.
• The either of the two mentioned configuration should be set and should be used singly.

What should be configuration to setup cyclical purge?

To configure cyclical purge you can use configuration like below

<var id="X_O_PURGE_HHMM">16:00</var>
 <var id="X_O_PURGE_CYCLE">---:--:--</var>