Archiving (SAP Library - Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX))

Archiving

Use

You have the possibility to archive and then delete business partners. In this way the volume of data is reduced and performance is improved.

For more general information on archiving, see Introduction to Data Archiving.

Prerequisites

In the Archive Retrieval Configurator (transaction SARJ) you activate the archive information structure, CA_BUPA_ALL, supplied by SAP or you define your own.

This is necessary in order to receive information about the archived business partner data after the archiving process. In the Business Partner dialog, you can see this information in the menu via Environment -> Archived Data.

Check the correctness of the system settings for archiving in the SAP Customizing IMG under SAP Web Application Server -> System Administration ->Data Archiving -> Archiving Object-Specific Customizing.

Features

In the archiving administration (transaction SARA) you undertake the archiving of business partner data and then delete this data afterwards.

Activities

Via the pushbutton Write you can schedule and start the write program for the creation of archive files.

During the write program it is checked whether the business partners intended for archiving are still being actively used in the system. These checks are defined in the BDT event ARCH1. You can also define other checks here.

You start the deletion program to remove the archived data from your database via the pushbutton Delete.

Note

You must also make the following changes for the archiving of user-defined tables in Business Partner:

Creation of new function modules for the BDT events ARCH3 (write) and ARCH4 (delete)
Addition of the function module in the BDT (transaction BUS7)
Extension of the structure definition by way of an own table (transaction AOBJ)

Functions in the Business Partner Dialog

Status of a business partner

You recognize a business partner flagged for archiving, by a yellow marking in the hit list of the Locator.

If you select this business partner, you receive a message that informs you of the status of the business partner. We recommend that you no longer make changes to this business partner or that you reset the indicator Flagged for Archiving in the Business Partner dialog on the tab page Status.

Archived Data

You can find and display the archived data in the menu of the Business Partner dialog via Environment -> Archived data.

Also see:

Scheduling Archiving and Deletion