Unified Messaging partition deletion is supported via the command line and via XML Provisioning. These methods to delete a partition should only be used for partitions created with the addPartition command or with the XML Provisioning interface, and should NOT be used to delete partitions created with mcit.

Deleting a partition using the delPartition command:

Use the delPartition command to delete a partition. It can be found in $CUR_DIR/ca/IMC_Admin_dir/utils.

The syntax of delPartition is:

  delPartition -u partition -v partition_name

For example to delete a partition named IC_crew:

  delPartition -u partition -v IC_crew

The alternative (but now deprecated) syntax of delPartition is:

  delPartition -u department -v partition_name

Example:

  delPartition -u department -v IC_crew

Deleting a partition using the XML Provisioning interface:

This message allows a partition to be deleted within Unified Messaging. A single message may contain one or more partitions to be deleted and each is considered a separate transaction.

Example DeletePartition request message to Unified Messaging

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<ProvisioningRequest xmlns="http://www.ibm.com">

    <MessageHeader>

        <MessageId>12345</MessageId>

        <Security userId="id" password="pw"/>

        <Sender name="YourCompany"/>

        <TimeStamp> 2002-08-12T12:00:00</TimeStamp>

        <MessageType version="1.0">DeletePartition</MessageType>

    </MessageHeader>

    <MessageBody>

        <DeletePartition>

        <Attribute name="partition" value="Sales"/>

        </DeletePartition>

        <DeletePartition>

        <Attribute name="department" value="Sales"/>

        </DeletePartition>

    </MessageBody>
</ProvisioningRequest>

Example DeletePartition response message from Unified Messaging

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<ProvisioningResponse>

    <MessageHeader>

        <MessageId>12345</MessageId>

        <Security userId="id" password="pw"/>

        <Sender name="MC"/>

        <TimeStamp> 2002-08-12T12:00:00</TimeStamp>

        <MessageType version="1.0">DeletePartitionResponse</MessageType>

    </MessageHeader>

    <MessageBody>

        <Successes>

            <Partition name="Sales" description="Sales Description"/>

        </Successes>

        <Errors>

            <ErrorRecord>

                <ErrorCode>RP002</ErrorCode>

                <ErrorMessage>Partition already exists</ErrorMessage>

                <DeletePartition>

                    <Attribute name="department" value="Sales"/>

                </DeletePartition>

            </ErrorRecord>

        </Errors>

    </MessageBody>
</ProvisioningResponse>

Error codes and messages

Error Code	Message
RP001	Invalid partition name
RP002	Partition not found
RP003	This Partition is being used by some other object
RP004	Failed to delete partition due to internal Unified Messaging error

Note:

The default XML Schema Description (as of fixlevel 4.2.0.156) has a error in the definition of the DeletePartition type where it expects two parameters instead of one. To fix this, open the $CUR_DIR/ca/IMC_XMLProvisioning_dir/XML_Provisioning_Interface_Schema.xsd file in your preferred text editor, and change the definition for "DeletePartitionType" (by default, this should begin on line 451 of the file) so that the element definition's minOccurs and maxOccurs parameters are “1” instead of “2”.