Archiving of Payment Specifications

In order to reduce the load on your database, you can archive payment specifications.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable under Start of the navigation path Business Transactions Next navigation step Payments End of the navigation path , you have defined the residence time for payment specifications and activated the archive information structure for the payment specification archive.

The prerequisites for archiving are described in the documentation of report RFKKINDPAYAR01.

Features

You can reduce the burden on your database at any time by archiving payment specifications that you no longer need online. These data records are then deleted from the database and written to an archive file.

Note for Integration with SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management

The current archiving object is integrated with SAP NetWeaver ILM.

If you have configured SAP NetWeaver ILM and this archiving object accordingly, the write program that generates the archive files displays the ILM Actions group box. In this group box, you can choose one of the following radio buttons:

Archiving
Snapshot
Data Destruction

For more information, see the documentation for these radio buttons in the system and in the application help for SAP NetWeaver ILM.

Activities

You archive (and also delete) using the SAP standard tools for archiving, the Archive Development Kit. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Periodic Processing Next navigation step Archive Data Payment Specifications End of the navigation path . You go directly to transaction SARA.

The archiving object for payment specifications is FI_MKKIP. The associated programs are:

RFKKINDPAYAR01: FI-CA Archiving: Payment Specifications (Write)
RFKKINDPAYAR02: FI-CA Archiving: Payment Specifications (Deletion)
RFKKINDPAYAR03: FI-CA Archiving: Payment Specifications (Reload)

For more information, see the report documentation.