The procedure history retention policy determines how long to retain historical information about procedure runs that completed, completed with errors, or that failed or were canceled and have been acknowledged.
Environments configured with application groups use procedures to control operations such as starting, ending, or switching. History information for a procedure includes timestamps indicating when the procedure was run and detailed information about each step within the procedure. The policy specifies how many days to keep history information and the minimum number of runs to keep. You can specify a different number of runs to keep for switch procedure runs than what is kept for other types of procedures.
Each procedure run is evaluated individually against the policy and its history information is retained until the specified minimum days and minimum runs are both met. When a procedure run exceeds these criteria, system cleanup jobs will remove the historical information for that procedure run from all systems. The values specified at the time the cleanup jobs run are used for evaluation.
To change the procedure history retention policy for the installation, do the following:
From the command line type SETMMXPCY and press F4 (Prompt).
Verify that the value *INST is specified for the Data group definition prompt:
Press Enter to see all the policies and their current values.
Locate the Procedure history retention policy. The current values are displayed. Specify values for the elements you want to change.
To accept the changes, press Enter.