Using an activity might be slower and more resource-intensive, but it helps ensure database integrity, handles errors, and causes internally maintained Index- instances to be deleted appropriately by Declare Index rules.

You can use the standard activity Log-.TrimLog to purge instances of one concrete class derived from the Log- base class, retaining instances less than N days old, where N is a parameter to the activity. This activity records the number of records trimmed in the Pega log file.

The Pega-RULES agent normally runs the standard Code-.SystemCleaner activity once each day for housekeeping tasks. You can add a similar activity to another agent in your application to purge outdated information and recover table space. Make sure that the new agent has access to the appropriate ruleset versions, and do not purge records that are referenced in other tables.

Work item purging

Work item details are stored as rows of many different tables. To purge work items, it is important to remove all the pieces, and to remove only those work items that are not active.

Case archiving and purging

For case items, use the case archival feature.

For more information, see Improving performance by archiving cases.