Settings for Delete Program (SAP Library

Settings for Delete Program

Use

Here, you specify several parameters for the delete program.

Features

You can set up a test run variant by modifying the parameters accordingly. A test run variant does not delete data from the database.

You can set up a live run variant by modifying the parameters accordingly. A live run variant deletes the archived data from the database.

Delete program variants are client-specific. Consequently, you must make the variant settings in all the clients for which you want to carry out archiving sessions.

When archiving for the first time using a selected archiving object, the relevant test run and live run variants for the delete program must be fully maintained. Check whether both variants exist. Note especially, that if a live variant is not available, data is not deleted form the database when the delete program is run.

As a part of the delete job, you specify when the delete program is to be run in the background.

If you activate the Not Scheduled radio button, the delete program is not run automatically. Instead, you can run the program at any time after archiving.

If you activate the Start Automatic. radio button, the delete program is run automatically immediately after archiving. However, if it was specified in Customizing that the file storage is to take place before the delete phase, the delete program is not started until the file has been stored. See also Archive File Size.

This radio button is of interest primarily if you want to save the archive files before the delete run. If there is a long time period between the write run and the delete run, there is a danger that the data could be changed before deletion, which means that the data in the archive and in the database are no longer the same. The delete run should therefore be carried out as soon as possible after the write run.

Since Before Images has been deactivated for the rollback segments, there ought to be enough space available (Oracle’s Rollback Tablespace).

If you activate the After event radio button, the delete program is run automatically once a specific event has occurred. You select the relevant event by using the input help for the Event field. If an event requires that a parameter be set (an argument), enter the required parameter in this field. A parameter qualifies an event. See also Background event.

After the completion of all delete jobs for an archiving session, the ADK issues the event SAP_ARCHIVING_DELETE_FINISHED. The event number is the number of the archiving session. You can use this event for event-driven scheduling of accumulated archiving jobs. and the automatic backup of archive files using external tools.

You can use transaction SM62 to display and maintain events.

You can use the Build index indicator to specify whether an index is to be constructed for a particular archiving object. The index enables you to access specific data objects from the archive file.

We recommend that you use the single document access function in the Archive Information System (SAP AS).