Archiving Workflow with SARA; WORKITEM_WRI and WORKITEM_DEL

I have been manually running the write and delete steps to archive completed workitems. I am now ready to set these jobs to run on a schedule through SM37. The write worked fine and created four archive files. However, the scheduled delete job only processed the first file. How can I define a scheduled job for the delete to use all files generated from the scheduled write job? I will not know how many archive files will be written. I just want the scheduled delete job to use them all.
Thanks

Hello Cliff,
Problem could be that your deletion job was stopped or terminated because of various reasons.
You have to Run the deletion program once again for the archive session number. You have to get 4 deletion joblog and spool list for all the 4 archive files created.
Schedule delete job:
SARA > Delete > Select the Archive Session Number
Maintain Spool and Time > execute
Note: 1. Session number contains all the archive files created.
2. There is no problem in your setting of deletion program because already one archive file was deleted successfully.
Thanks,
Ajay

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