Application-Specific Features (PM-WOC-MN) 

Use

You can archive maintenance notifications that you no longer need to access directly in the system using the archiving program. The data is written to the archive files and then deleted from the system if the operation was successful.

You can archive and delete maintenance notifications using the archiving object PM_QMEL.

Features

Initial Run

The initial run program prepares the data in the database for archiving. The deletion flags, with which you flagged the objects you want to archive are also assigned the system status MARC (Flagged for archiving) in the initial run program.

The initial run generates a log.

Archiving

The archiving program writes the database tables of the maintenance notifications listed under the object definition to the archive.

When Start automatically is set for the deletion program in the Archiving of Customizing, and a productive mode is selected for the archiving program, the system starts the deletion program in connection with its productive mode. This means that all the data is automatically deleted once it has been successfully archived.

The archiving program generates a log.

Deleting

The deletion program deletes all database records for the maintenance notifications which were successfully archived.

If the deletion program is not called up automatically after the activity Archive has been completed successfully, you must wait until all the archiving is completed. You can process an entire archiving session with all the archive files created or you can select individual archive files for processing.

To avoid problems caused by data inconsistency, you should run the deletion program as near as possible to the archiving program.

The deletion program generates a log.

Displaying

You can display statistical data for the archive file. Choose Evaluate in the initial screen for archiving maintenance notifications.