External Purge

In addition to the default purge process, which is automated, you can run an external purge process manually from a command line.

Important: IBM recommends that you not run External Purge and the default purge at the same time, because of risks to your data integrity.

External Purge includes the following features:

Uses a configurable number of threads to allow for scaling.
Runs in a separate JVM from the engine and adapters.
Can run when the ASI nodes are down if the database is available.

Note: For a Docker-based Sterling B2B Integrator installation, when you run the purge command, the business processes are not purged in the Sterling B2B Integrator user interface.

To prevent this issue, you must run the Docker container, where the external purge utility is running, and the database with same timezone.