Managing and Deleting Persistent Data Sets within IBM InfoSphere Datastage

Data Sets sometimes take up too much disk space. This technote describes how to obtain information about datasets and how to delete them.

 

Data sets can be managed using the Data Set Management tool, invoked from the Tools > Data Set Management menu option within DataStage Designer (DataStage Manager in the 7.5 releases.) Alternatively, the 'orchadmin' command line program can be used to perform the same tasks.

The files which store the actual data persist in the locations identified as resource disks in the configuration files. These files are named according to the pattern below:

descriptor.user.host.ssss.pppp.nnnn.pid.time.index.random

Commands to delete files in &PH& directories in IBM InfoSphere DataStage

How should we manage cleaning up the &PH& directories for my DataStage projects? Can the process be automated?

Files in the &PH& directories under DataStage project directories store runtime information when jobs are run and need to be cleared out periodically.

 

Steps :

To clear the &PH& directory from within DataStage: