This section tells you how to move general cost objects off the database when you no longer need them.
Deleting test data
To delete the test data, go into Customizing for Product Cost Controlling and choose
The program deletes general cost objects for which no actual costs were posted and no hierarchy relationships were maintained.
Delete production data
Production data is deleted in Archiving. Choose
.Archiving is carried out in two steps.
The selected general cost objects are archived.
The data is deleted from the system.
This ensures that data is not deleted from the database until it is actually present in the archive.
Archiving can only be carried out as a background job. You use a variant for the archiving program to determine which data is to be archived and whether the data is to be deleted from the database.
You can select general cost objects for archiving with the following parameters:
Controlling area
Cost object category
Name of cost object
Generate Archive starts a function that reads the archived data and deletes it from the database if necessary.
See also:
For more information, see the document BC Application Data Archiving .