Configuring a retention period for historical data
To comply with data retention policies, you can configure a retention period for the history of master data. Some customers might see the History Retention tab for configuring the retention period.
You can set the retention period for historical data up to a maximum of seven years. Historical data that's older than the retention period is permanently deleted and can't be restored. For example, if you set the retention period today to one month, all historical data older than 31 days is purged. You can still access data from the past 31 days.
Note: Informatica requires that you set the retention period for the development environnment to one month and the QA environment to three months.
When you save the configuration, a purge job is created. The job permanently deletes historical data of business entity records, hierarchies, and relationships that exceeds the specified retention period.
You can monitor the status of the purge job on the My Jobs page.
Configuring the retention period for historical data
You can set the retention period for historical data up to a maximum of seven years.
When a job is running to permanently delete historical data, you can't save changes to the history retention configuration.
1Click Global Settings > History Retention.
2In the Retention Period column, select the number of years and months.
Note: One month is 31 days.
3Click Save.
4In the History Retention dialog box, click Save.
A history record purge job is created to permanently delete historical data that exceeds the specified retention period. You can monitor the status of the job on the My Jobs page. For more information about monitoring jobs, see Monitoring jobs.