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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 8, 2019

Enable purging data from transaction tables directly, instead of first purging to history

We currently have userexit purgeOrderToExternalDataStoreUE for purgeOrder. This was provided by IBM on our request. We are using this currently in production. This only covers orders and its related entities, but not shipments, receipts, work orders etc. Let me know if you need more information

What is your industry? Retail
How will this idea be used?

The purge process does not purge fast enough when compared to creating the data- as a result a lot of data gets piled up in the tables. Direct purge for orders to external source from main tables has helped us in reducing the db footprint. We would like the same functionality on Shipment , work order and Receipt