| DESCRIPTION | This option purges entries from the HL7 message files: 773 - HL7 MESSAGE ADMINISTRATION 772 - HL7 MESSAGE TEXT These files contain a record of all outgoing HL7 transmissions and theirstatus. Messages are purged if they are in a certain status and are acertain number of days old. The default parameters (number of days) aretaken from fields in file 869.3, HL COMMUNICATION SERVER PARAMETERS. Thefields should be set such that a balance is struck between the need tokeep disk space from filling up and the need to keep messages around longenough so that they can be investigated in case problems arise.Please see the descriptions of these fields for more information: 41 - PURGE COMPLETED MESSAGES 42 - PURGE AWAITING ACK MESSAGES 43 - PURGE ALL MESSAGES Note that the number of days in field 43 must be greater than or equalto the number of days in field 42, which must be greater than or equalto the number of days in field 41. If any of the fields violates thisrule, then the default values of these fields will be used, instead. To purge entries in an error status, run this option directly and answer'Yes' to the question about purging them. It is recommended that entriesin an error status be reviewed before purging. For this reason, suchmessages are NOT purged by automatically recurring scheduled runs of thisoption. It is recommended that this option be scheduled to run once a day to keepthe files from getting too large. On TaskMan's 'Edit Option Schedule',the TASK PARAMETERS field is ignored. Instead, the parameters are takenfrom the fields in file 869.3, noted above. |