Unavailability Purge

The Unavailability Purge allows you clean up unavailability records from year to year. It is important you do not keep more than a year's worth of history of unavailability records. A large unavailability file will slow down dispatching in the Automated Dispatch System. These records can be moved into a history file if you want to preserve a history of the data purged.

End Date

• Enter a date as (YY)YYMMDD. All unavailability records ending before the date specified will be purged.

Employee Categories

• Enter up to 10 Categories to purge.

Create History File   

• Enter 'Y' to move the purged unavailability records to the history file.

Perform File Reorg   

• Enter 'Y' to reorganize and optimize the unavailability file after completing the purge. Enter 'N' to bypass the reorganization.

Minimum Disk Space

• This is the minimum amount of disk space that must be available in order for the reorganization to occur. If the entered minimum space does not exist on the disk, the program will abort after the purge without optimizing the file. The reorganization requires about 1½ times the original size of the file to work.

Alternate Disk

• This is the alternate disk to perform the reorganization in the event there is not enough space on the device where the file is located. Note: This is only the disk and directory, Not the filename. Leave this field blank to use your login disk and directory.