Scheduling Preprocessing Program 

Prerequisites

You are in the Archive Administration: Initial Screen (transaction SARA), and the name of the object name appears in the Object Name field.

Preprocessing programs prepare the data in the database for archiving. The archive files are not accessed. Preprocessing is not usually necessary.

Procedure

  1. Choose Preprocessing.
    This takes you to the Schedule Background Job screen.
  2. Choose a variant using input help. If there are no existing variants, choose Variants to create an appropriate variant.

    3. You can only use a variant in one job. Otherwise, data could be archived more than once. If you use a variant again, a dialog box notifies of this. Choose Jobs with selected variant to access the overview of all jobs that already have variants created. In the job overview, you can delete jobs using a specific variant.

  3. Maintain the Start Date and the Spool Parameters.

    4. The Archive Directory function enables you to establish how much free memory space there is in the current object-specific archive directory.

  4. You have now entered all the data required for the background job. Choose Create Job to create the job.