Deleting the end of support date for software components

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9.2.11 Available from 9.2.11.

You use the DELETE operation on the sam/software_components/software_component_id/component_lifecycles/ element to remove the end of support date for a software component.

Permissions

User You must be an Administrator or have the Manage Catalogs permission to use this API.

Resource URL

https://hostname:port/sam/software_components/software_component_id/component_lifecycles

Resource information

Table 1. Resource information
Operation details	Description
HTTP method	`DELETE`
Request headers	`Accept-Language` (optional) Use: Used to negotiate the language of the response. If this header is not specified, the content is returned in the server language. Values: `en-US` (only English is supported) `Token` Use: Used to authenticate REST API requests. The header is required when you set the value of the api_token_in_url_enabled parameter to false. Otherwise, you can specify the token in the request header or in the URL. For more information, see: Authenticating REST API requests. Values: an alphanumeric string that is generated in License Metric Tool
Request format	`application/json`
Response headers	`Content-Type` Use: Specifies the content type of the response. Values: `application/json` `Content-Language` Use: Specifies the language of the response content. If this header is not specified, the content is returned in the server language. Values: en-US, …
Response format	`application/json`
Response codes	`200 – OK`

Example conversation - clearing the end of support date for a software component

To retrieve information about the software component ID for which you want to clear the end of support date, perform the following steps:

To remove the end of support date, use the following DELETE request.

Request

DELETE https://hostname:port/sam/software_components/software_component_id/component_lifecycles

Request header

Accept: application/json 
Accept-Language: en-US
Token: <token>

Response

200 - OK