Hi,

We are using EMC centera in our project to store the data. We have our application to access centera using Centera API's. Currently we are implementing one new feature to delete the data from the centera even before the retention period has expired. Since it is not possible to delete the data from the BLOB, we are trying to delete the entire CLIP using the Centera API method FPClip_AuditedDelete()/FPClip_Delete()(We don't know which method is preferable). Before calling this deletion method, we have to set the retention hold to false using a method FPClip_SetRetentionHold()(reference from centera API reference guide). But we are not sure about this and this will work fine for all the centera editions. We have the following queries. It will be helpful if you give the response for all our queries as soon as possible.

• It will be helpful to us if you could provide a sample piece of code to implement this feature.
• Are there any settings to be changed in order to enable deletion?
• We are using public centera to test our implementation. Is possible to delete a clip from public centera? If this is not possible can we get some other centera access credentials to test out implementations.

Regards,

Murali