Activating Data Aging Objects

You have to activate data aging object to be able to use them for data aging.

Before you can apply data aging to your data, you need to activate the data aging object provided by the SAP application. After the data aging object has been activated, you can use it in a data aging run. For the activation, the following conditions must be fulfilled:

  • The data aging object contains all of the tables intended for data aging (defined and delivered by the SAP application).
  • Tables must be assigned to a partitioning object (delivered by the SAP application).
  • You can also assign tables to a partitioning group (optional).
  • The data aging object is consistent.
  • Enhancement spots are defined for data aging objects (delivered by the SAP application). However, entering enhancement spots is optional.
You can now activate the data aging object.
  1. To do so, select transaction Data Aging Objects (transaction DAGOBJ).
  2. Select the data aging object that you want to activate.
  3. Now choose Activate.
If necessary, you can deactivate the data aging object. For example, if you want to make a change to a data aging object, you need to deactivate it first.