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Procedure

  1. Choose General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable or Banks ® Periodic processing ® Archiving ® Banks then Archive.
  2. The Archive Administration: Create Archive Files screen appears.

  3. Enter a variant name and choose Maintain.
  4. You can limit the number of master records that are archived using the following selection criteria:

The system archives only those banks from the country or countries you specify here. If you do not enter a country, the system archives bank master data for every country.

The system archives all banks that have been in the system for the minimum number of days you specify here. The system calculates the number of days starting from the date the bank master data was created.

If you set this indicator, the system archives only those banks that have a deletion flag set. If you are using the Personnel Administration component, you have to set this selection.

  1. Having entered the selection criteria above, you can now maintain the following program parameters where necessary:

If the archiving program is started in test mode, archiving is only simulated. The system neither writes data to archive files nor deletes data from the database.

The detail log records information on each archived object. For more information, see Logs (FI).

  1. Enter an archive description.

A short text added to help identify the archiving session within archive administration.

  1. Choose Back.
  2. The system asks you whether you want to save your values. To save your data choose Yes.

    The ABAP: Save Variant Attributes screen appears, and you enter a description of your variant in the Description field.

  3. Save the variant by choosing Save. To return to the Archive Administration: Create Archive Files screen choose Back.
  4. Maintain the Start date and the Spool parameters for the archiving session.
  5. Once you have maintained the above selection criteria, start date, and spool parameters, you can execute the archiving session by choosing Execute.

To display the status of the jobs you created, choose Goto ® Job overview.

For more information on maintaining variants, see the SAP Library under Getting Started.

 

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