Deleting Unused Texts in the Proposal Pool 

Use

The Unused texts function in Proposal Pool Administration enables you to either delete or calculate the volume of unused texts (in other words individual target text proposals) in the proposal pool.

You can use this function to clean up your proposal pools for all source languages and target languages available in your system, and thus improve database performance.

Procedure

  1. Enter transaction /NSTMA in the command field.

    2. This function is performed for all source languages and all target languages. It is therefore irrelevant what you enter in the Source language and Target language fields. Depending on how many languages are translating in your system, running this job is performance intensive.

  2. Choose Organization ® Unused texts.
  3. Under Mode, choose one of the following options:
  1. Enter a comment for this background job.
  1. Choose Check to check the consistency of your entries.

    2. If the message No inconsistencies were found appears, you can schedule the run.

  2. Choose Schedule.

    3. The system displays the dialog box Start Time which offers you further selection options.

  3. Choose Immediate or schedule the job to run at night by choosing Date/Time.

    4. You can also schedule the run to start after a particular job or event, by choosing After job or After event.

    At operation mode refers to daytime or nighttime operation.

  4. Save your entries.

    5. The system displays a dialog box in which you can enter the name of a printer for the output of the log.

  5. Enter a printer name in the Output device field and choose Continue.

    6. The system displays a dialog box in which you can enter a background server on which you want the job to run.

  6. Select a background server and choose Choose.

The system asks you if you want to schedule the job. Choose Yes.

Result

The job is run in the background. You can check its progress by choosing Run administration. When the job as finished a log is output to the output device you selected. The log contains the following information for each target language in your translation system: