This retains scrap analysis records indefinitely. Otherwise these records are deleted according to the cut-off date entered when running any WIP Period End program function that includes a purge option.

This retains non-productive analysis records indefinitely. Otherwise these records are deleted according to the cut-off date entered when running any WIP Period End program function that includes a purge option.

This is the number of months for which you want to retain your labor journals (a minimum of one month). It determines the cut-off date according to which labor posting journals are deleted when running any WIP Period End program function which includes a purge option and also the number of months for which you can reprint the WIP Labor Journal and WIP Labor Distribution.

This is the number of months for which you want to retain your part billing journals (a minimum of one month). It determines the cut-off date according to which part billing journals are deleted when running any WIP Period End program function that includes a purge option and the number of months for which you can reprint the WIP Part Billings Journal and WIP Part Billings Distribution.

This is the number of months for which you want to retain your job amendment journals after a job is completed (a minimum of one month). It determines the cut-off date according to which job amendment journals are deleted when running any WIP Period End program function which includes a purge option. 99 retains the journals indefinitely.

This is the number of periods for which you want to retain your labor distribution entries. When these records have been held on file longer than the number of periods specified here, they are deleted when you run the Purge function of the WIP Period End program. The number of periods specified here also determines the number of periods for which you can reprint ledger distribution entries using the WIP Labor Distribution program. 99 retains this information indefinitely.

This is the number of periods for which you want to retain your part billing distribution entries. When these records have been held on file longer than the number of periods specified here, they are deleted when you run the Purge function of the WIP Period End program. The number of periods specified here also determines the number of periods for which you can reprint ledger distribution entries using the WIP Part Billings Distribution program. 99 retains this information indefinitely.

This allows the system to determine the cut-off date according to which completed jobs must be purged from the system. It prevents operators from specifying a cut-off date in the WIP Period End program. The cut-off date is calculated as the system date aged by the number of days specified at the Number of days field. Completed jobs are deleted only if the value of the job is zero for the current and previous two months.

This is the number of days to use to calculate the cut-off date for completed jobs.

This enables you to archive completed jobs during the purge routine of the WIP Period End program. For all completed jobs that qualify for purging from the system, header details are copied to a work in progress archive file. Archived jobs can be viewed in the WIP Query program.

This additionally archives all the transactions that were posted against a job.

This is the maximum number of jobs allowed per archive file.