Archive Routing (new) 

Technical Data

Function is	New
For Release	Software Component ·        SAP NetWeaver ·        Release: 2004s
Assignment to Application Component	BC-CCM-ADK  Data Archiving
Country Setting	Valid for all countries

Use

With SAP NetWeaver 2004s you can use Archive Routing to create specific rules and conditions for routing archive files to specific content repositories. A content repository can be determined on the level of organizational unit (for example company code) or time related criteria (for example fiscal year).

Before Archive Routing it was only possible to specify a single content repository per archiving object. To change content repositories, you had to change the Customizing settings manually. Due to the growing number of legal requirements, companies, especially those with an international presence, are forced to keep archived data separately, for example, to meet different retention periods required for different documents, lines of business or countries.

In this context, Archive Routing offers more flexibility and automization. The rules and conditions are entered in Customizing, and then serve as a basis for determining the content repository to which archive files are routed during an archiving session. Although you can enter more than one content repository in the rules, you can only target one content repository per archiving session.

Effects on System Administration

Define the rules in Archive Routing as precisely as possible, so that ALL the data intervals you need to archive are covered. It is not possible to set up a general rule that covers all "left over" data (data that was not covered by the rules). This means that if your rules do not cover all the data you need to archive, some data may remain in the system unarchived.

Effects on Customizing

The routing rules and conditions are entered in Customizing under Customizing  ® Archive Routing. If no rules were entered, the system determines the content repository as before. The conditions can be simple or complex and it is possible to have one or more rules per archiving object, with one or more conditions. How complex the rules and conditions are, depends on how specific the criteria has to be, according to which your data is organized into separate content repositories.

During the archiving process the rules are checked twice: once during the write job and again during the storage phase. Here it is important to point out that to determine the content repository, Archive Routing does not use the actual contents of the archive files, but rather the selection criteria entered in the variant of the write program. When entering the selection criteria in the variant it is important to make sure that the set of data covered by the selection criteria of the variant falls AT LEAST into the set of data covered by the rules (it does not have to be exactly the same, but at least a subset). If this is not the case, the archiving session is terminated before the write job begins.

See Also:

For more information on Archive Routing see the SAP Library under SAP NetWeaver  ®  Solution Life Cycle Management  ® Data Archiving  ®  Introduction to Data Archiving  ® Customizing  ® Archiving-Object-Specific Customizing  ® Archive Routing.