This topic applies only to the IBM Business Process Manager Advanced configuration.

Deleting BPEL process instances using Business Process Choreographer Explorer

Process templates can be modeled so that process instances are not automatically deleted when they complete. You can explicitly delete these process instances after they complete.

Before you begin

To delete a process instance, you must be a process administrator or system administrator. However, if Business Flow Manager is using the alternative process administration mode that restricts process administration to system administrators, then only users in the BPESystemAdministrator role can perform this action.

The process instance must be in the finished, failed, terminated, or compensated state.

About this task

Completed processes instances are automatically deleted from the Business Process Choreographer database if the corresponding property is set for the process template in the process model.

You might want to keep process instances in your database, for example, to query data from process instances that are not written to the audit log, or if you want to defer the deletion of processes to off-peak times. However, old process instance data that is no longer needed can impact disk space and performance. Therefore, you should regularly delete or archive process instance data that you no longer need or want to maintain. Make sure that you run this maintenance task at off-peak times.

You can delete completed process instances using either Business Process Choreographer Explorer, for example, to delete individual process instances, or the deleteCompletedProcessInstances administrative script to delete several process instances at once. Alternatively, you can archive completed process instances in the Business Process Archive database.

In Business Process Choreographer Explorer, complete the following steps to delete a process instance.

Procedure

Display the process instances that you administer.
Click Administered By Me under Process Instances in the Views tab navigation pane.
Select the process instance that you want to delete and click Delete.

Results

This action deletes the selected process instance from the database.