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Workspace FileNet Content Manager (CPE)
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Created on Nov 12, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Improve performance of version deletion for document version series with a very large number of versions

Current Functionality: When a version is deleted through the Content Platform Engine (CPE), the server does the following work for each version:

  1. It locks and fetches the version from the DocVersion table, then looks up replica and federation dependencies.

It locks and fetches the whole version series, to decide whether the version is the last one, which version becomes current, and which is the previous major version.

It checks retention and holds.

It checks for deletion-action PREVENT or CASCADE relationships on the Annotation, Task, Subscription, Thumbnail, DocVersion (by owner document) and Relationship tables.

It checks for event handlers on the deletion event and runs them.

It writes the deletion to the DocVersion table and adds rows to the ContentQueue table.

It commits, then deletes the content asynchronously.

Step 2 is repeated in full for every version deleted, so the cost of each delete grows with the size of the version series. For a series with a very large number of versions, bulk deletion takes an extremely long time. The same behavior occurs with these methods:

  • the Java API, one version at a time

ACCE search with bulk actions

Sweep policy (document disposal)

deleting the whole version series in one operation

In reproduction testing on a 1,000-version series, deleting the superseded versions averaged about 0.6 seconds per version, about 569 seconds in total. A single whole-series delete of only 1,000 versions needed a very large transaction timeout. Rewriting the test to use UpdatingBatch and adding database indexes gave little or no improvement. Batching saves only about 5-10 ms of round trip per call, and the traces showed no slow queries to tune. Tuning Db2 (RUNSTATS/REORG, LOCKTIMEOUT) also made no meaningful difference.

Requested Functionality: Make deletion of versions in very large version series efficient enough for bulk cleanup, for example series of 100,000 or more versions.

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