Purging task output

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Helpful folks,

I have tasks defined in Task Center, on UDB V8.2 on Windows, that
accumulate output at a rapid rate, and manually deleting them via the
Journal is an arduous task. So to speak.

Is it safe to simply run a job that deletes directly from this table
using appropriate criteria? Would that take care of my problem?

delete from TOOLS.MDTHISTOR YTY00 where taskname00 = 'Proliferating
Job'

Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Sean