Use

You have activated long text logging in your system. The changes to long texts cause a high data load. The majority of changes are not needed, and the unwanted long text logs are therefore deleted at regular intervals (report AUT_DEL or transaction AUT05). You can use the filter for long text logging to exclude a series of long texts from logging, in order to reduce the data load and improve the runtime for deletion of the long text logs.

Prerequisites

You have applied Support Package 08 for component SAP_APPL 470 in your system.

Features

With the filter function for long text logging, you can define in advance whether changes are to be logged for a series of long texts. When you change the long text, the system decides whether the change needs to be logged. This reduces the data load and improves the runtime for deletion of unwanted long text logs.

For performance reasons, the filter function is only defined at text object level. However, you still need to delete long texts regularly, because long texts are only uniquely determined by the text object and text ID. The only case in which you do not need to delete long texts is if you have set a deletion flag for complete text groups in transaction AUT04. (A text group is complete if all the text IDs in it are flagged for deletion and the date and time are standardized for deletion.)

In the transaction Configuration of long text logs (transaction AUT04), you define which text objects you want to write to the filter table. If the filter table is empty, all long texts are logged. You can empty the filter table by choosing  Goto Delete filter table .

Report AUT_DEL contains the indicator Consider filter table . If this indicator is set, the system only deletes the long text logs for long texts whose object is contained in the filter table. According to the configuration, logs for other text cannot exist, and therefore do not need to be deleted.