VISTA Plus for MPE Administrator's Guide

Chapter 4
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2. GENERATION
The Generation entry point overrides generation numbers assigned to reports. The number you
enter here will be used instead of the number defined in the Archive Rules window under Report
Maintenance. The generation number entered overrides generation numbers assigned to each
report within the folder.
Stop! Entering a value of zero (0) will remove all reports in the folder.
For example:
: RUN VISTACLN.PUB.NETBASE,GENERATION
Enter folder fileset to remove reports from: TESTFD1.ARCHIVE
Enter Default Number of Generations or // to cancel: 5
Process folder - > TESTFD1.ARCHIVE
10 Reports removed from folder TESTFD1.ARCHIVE
3. NAME
The Name entry point overrides generation numbers assigned to a specific report name and allows
all reports with the same name to be treated as a group, regardless of where they were created.
A case in which this option would be useful is where you have many reports with the same name,
but they were created by different jobs or in different accounts. In this situation, treating the reports
with the same name as a group allows you to remove all reports in the group except the (n) number
of the most recent reports created.
Stop! Entering a value of zero (0) for generations will remove all reports in the folder
which match the report name.
For example:
: RUN VISTACLN.PUB.NETBASE,NAME
Enter folder fileset to remove reports from: TESTFD1.ARCHIVE
Enter Name of Report to remove or // to cancel: TEST
Enter Default Number of Generations or // to cancel: 2
Process folder - > TESTFD1.ARCHIVE
1 Report removed from folder TESTFD1.ARCHIVE