Controlling retention of repository elements

Retention of the statistics catalog entries that are created by each analysis process can be controlled by managing these entries as discussed in the next section.

BMC recommends that you keep retention parameters synchronized between these two elements to prevent confusion when retrieving statistics from the repository. If the parameters for these elements are not synchronized, the following considerations apply:

• If the statistics catalog entry is present after the statistics data set has been deleted or is not available, the following items can be produced from the information that is stored in the repository statistics catalog entry:

  • Area Summary Report

  • Abbreviated version of the Free Space Analysis report

  • Information stored in the History File.

    For more information, see the Fast Path/EP Series Reference Manual documentation .

• If the statistics catalog entry has been deleted, but the statistics data set is available, the catalog entry can be recreated. For more information, see Adding statistics catalog entries.