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Status Under review
Workspace Operational Decision Manager
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Add options to the cleanup tool to permanently delete all versions of specific artifacts

Currently, the cleanup tool (/v1/DBAdmin/cleanup REST API) helps reduce the database size when you have multiple versions of specific artifacts (such as DT or Test Suite).

However the latest version and the original version remains in the database and can be restore from the timeline.

This brings two issues:

1) if a customer needs to delete a specific artifacts for legal reason (such as a GDPR request to delete some phone number that are saved in the DTs...)  he cannot.

2) if a customer has only one or 2 versions for his huge DTs or his huge Test Suite, the tool does not help recover database space.

Accordingly, an improvement to the tool, such the ability to flag the artifact for COMPLETE cleanup (for instance when you look at your deleted objects in the Recycle Bin) would be helpful. 
Set the flag to true and when this is the case, the cleanup tool will complete delete the artifact (including the latest versions) if it means the criteria in the cleanup...

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Jan 8, 2026

    Let me add to this idea:
    In his use case, my customer got space errors in his DB2 server. 
    The DC Database was at 48GB

    He deleted lots of Test Suites. 

    Running the cleanup tool with recyclebinMode=true will only delete references to deleted items and will not reclaim database size. He ends up with 10xGB of data in VTCRESOURCE for data that are referenced by nothing visible in DC (including in the recycle bin). What is the purpose of keeping those data if it is not used in DC and is taking huge space (several GB) in the DB ???

    Running the cleanup tool with recyclebinMode=false will also remove non-deleted items (intermediate versions) and this is not acceptable. For instance, customers can have published test suites in public branches for which he needs to keep track of all the changes for auditing purposes (always the case for Insurance and/or Financial companies, you cannot delete stuff easily when it has been published, you need to keep a track record of changes over time), and other test suites in private branches for the developers internal testing purposes that can be deleted.

    Even if this is not part of the cleanup tool, a methodology or tool is needed to remove in the DC DB (or at least replace the content in the column storing the xlsx data by small dummy data to mitigate the space issue) for deleted Test Suite that are not anymore reference in the Recycle bin or in the timeline.

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