Archiving – Processing Variants: Transaction Data (CA-AUD) 

Use

The archiving program writes the database records of the archiving object PLM_AUD to the archive.

Prerequisites

Before you start the archiving run, you have marked the audit components for archiving using preprocessing.

Procedure

...

       1.      Choose Tools ® Administration ® Administration ® Data Archiving.

       2.      Enter the object name PLM_AUD on the initial screen for archive management and choose Write.

       3.      Enter a report variant on the Create Archive Files screen. If no variants are available, choose Maintain to create the required variant. If you select the Detailed Log checkbox on the selection screen, a log line appears for each archived audit component.

       4.      Edit the Start Date and the Spool Parameters. You use the spool parameters to control the print output of the archiving log that has been created.

       5.      Choose Execute on the initial screen.

       6.      In the Job Overview, you can see information regarding the status of the archiving job and you can display the log when the job has been completed.

If you maintain Start Automatically in archiving-object-specific Customizing for the deletion job, the deletion job is started automatically after archiving and you do not have to trigger the Delete step manually, as described below.

Result

The data of the selected audit components is archived.

The archiving program creates a normal or a detailed log.

If the deletion run is not started automatically, you must start it manually.