Clear Batches Not Working

When I right click on a batch in the Web UI and click Clear Batches, the record gets update with QueuedToClear but nothing ever happens. I've done some reading on the internet an am able to manually clear things using the mdm.udpStagingClear stored procedure and writing SQL to purge the staging table. I've really two questions:

1. Is this a known bug or installation issue? (I've already tried restarting service broker per one post.)

2. Is there an easier way to automate the batch clearing? I'm trying to develop a robust ETL process around MDS but this seems rather cumbersome.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ted

Ted Stillwell