Archiving Objects in Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA)

Definition

Logical objects made up of database data that is linked through a business process. Archiving objects use a write program to read this data from the database and write it to archive files. After archiving the corresponding delete programs delete the data from the database.

Use

Choose Start of the navigation path Accounting Next navigation step Controlling Next navigation step Profit Center Accounting Next navigation step Environment Next navigation step Archiving. End of the navigation path From here, you can call the following functions.

Structure

EC_PCA_ITM : The archiving object used as of SAP R/3 4.6.A in Profit Center Accounting to archive line items .

EC_PCA_SUM : The archiving object used as of SAP R/3 4.6.A in Profit Center Accounting to archive totals records .

PCA_OBJECT : The archiving object used as of SAP R/3 4.6A in Profit Center Accounting to archive lines items and totals records . As of SAP R/3 4.6A the use of this archiving object is restricted.

Note Note

You can use archiving objects EC_PCA_ITM and EC_PCA_SUM in Information Lifecycle Management . You must have activated the corresponding business functions to do this. The system then also shows the ILM Actions group box. You can use these actions to carry out archiving, for example, where the retention periods stored in the Information Retention Manager can be evaluated. Additionally, you can create snapshots (copies) of data or destroy data that matches the requirements. For more information, see ILM Enhancements for Data Archiving , ILM Actions in the Write Program .

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Programs

The write program supports the ADK interruption concept, meaning that you can interrupt the write phase and continue it at a later point in time. For more information, see Interrupting and Continuing Archiving Sessions .

The delete program comes with the standard variants SAP&PROD (production mode) and SAP&TEST (test mode). For both the write session and the delete session a progress message is updated regularly in the job log and in the dialog (status line).

For general information about data archiving, see Introduction to Data Archiving .