Archiving Shipments (SCM-EWM-TM)

Definition

Archiving object TM_SHP for archiving and deleting shipments.

Structure

Tables

SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) uses the archiving object TM_SHP to archive data from the following tables:

Table	Description
CDCLS	Cluster Structure for Change Documents
CDHDR	Change Document Header
CDPOS_STR	Additional Change Document - Table for Strings
CDPOS_UID	Additional Table for Inclusion of TABKEY > 70 Characters
STXB	SAPscript: Texts in non-SAPscript Format
STXH	STXD SAPscript Text File Header
STXL	STXD SAPscript Text File Lines

Programs

The following programs are available for TM_SHP:

Program	Function
/SCTM/R_SHP_ARCHIVE_WRITE	Write
/SCTM/R_SHP_ARCHIVE_DELETE	Delete
/SCTM/R_SHP_ARCHIVE_RELOAD	Reload

Prerequisites for writing shipments

If the following prerequisites are met, the system can archive a shipment:

The document was in the database for the duration of the residence time.
The document has the status Transportation Completed.

Variant Settings for Writing

You can specify planned shipments or final shipments as the selection criteria. For more information about variant maintenance, see SAP Library for SAP NetWeaver at http://help.sap.com/nw Information published on SAP site . In SAP Library, choose Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver Next navigation step SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability Solution Lifecycle Management by Key Capability Data Archiving Data Archiving in the ABAP Application System Data Archiving with Archive Development Kit (ADK) Executing Data Archiving Variant Maintenance for Archiving Jobs End of the navigation path .

Integration

Display Function for Archived Shipments

You can use the following field catalog and archive information structure to access archived shipments using the Archive Information System:

Field catalog SAP_TM_SHP
Archive information structure SAP_TM_SHP

For more information about the Archive Information System, see SAP Library for SAP NetWeaver at http://help.sap.com/nw Information published on SAP site . In SAP Library, choose Start of the navigation path SAP NetWeaver Next navigation step SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability Solution Lifecycle Management by Key Capability Data Archiving Data Archiving in the ABAP Application System Data Archiving with Archive Development Kit (ADK) Archive Information System End of the navigation path .

ILM-related Information for TM_SHP

Archiving object TM_SHP is connected to the ILM object TM_SHP.

The ILM object TM_SHP also has the ILM constants LAST_CHANGE_DATE and START_RET_DATE as available time references. LAST_CHANGE_DATE and START_RET_DATE are mapped to the field CHGTST (Changed At) in the archiving structure /SCTM/ARCH_SHP_HEADER_STR. You can display the archiving structure /SCTM/ARCH_SHP_HEADER_STR in transaction AOBJ.

The ILM object TM_SHP is assigned to the policy category RTP (Retention Rules).

Checks of TM_SHP

For ILM actions Archiving and Data Destruction, the preprocessing program /SCDL/BO_ARCHIVE_STD checks the following:

The completion status of the PDOs
The residence time of the PDOs

For ILM actions Archiving and Data Destruction, the write program does not perform any business or technical checks during document selection. Only documents with archive status X are selected.

For ILM action Snapshot, it is not necessary to do any business checks.