Deleting Jobs

Deleting a job can have the following effects:

To delete a job, do the following:

  1. Click the Jobs tab. Enterprise Manager displays the Job Activity page. You can also access the job system through links provided on many Enterprise Manager pages. Note that the jobs displayed may depend on the link you clicked; for instance, if you click a link from a particular home page, the list will be filtered for certain job status for that target.

    Enterprise Manager displays the Job Activity page.

  2. On the Job Activity page, select and delete the job you wish to delete from the system.

    For more information, click Help on the Job Activity page.

You can also delete a job from the Job Run Detail page or the Job Execution Detail page.

To delete a library job, do the following:

  1. Click the Jobs tab. Enterprise Manager displays the Job Activity page.

  2. Click Job Library.

    Enterprise Manager displays the Job Library page.

  3. On the Job Library page, select the job in the Results section, then click Delete.

    For more information, click Help on the Job Library page

Usage Tips

To delete a job, you must have the Full access right for the job, or you must be the job owner or a Super Administrator.

For information about Enterprise Manager's default purge policy, refer to the "Management Repository Default Aggregation and Purging Policies" section of the Maintaining and Troubleshooting the Management Repository chapter of the Enterprise Manager Advanced Configuration guide.

Enterprise Manager has a default purge policy for jobs that deletes all finished jobs that are older than 30 days. For more information about the jobs purge policy (including information about changing it), see About the Jobs Purge Policy.

Related Topics

About Job Executions and Runs

About Job Status

About Job Types

About Jobs

About Blackouts

About Steps

About the Jobs Purge Policy

Creating and Editing Jobs

Deleting Jobs

Filtering the List of Jobs

Single vs. Multiple Execution Runs

Viewing Job Results

Working with Multi-Task Jobs

Working with OS Command Jobs

Working with SQL Script Jobs

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