Starting the Delete Program (FI) (SAP Library

Starting the Delete Program (FI)

The delete program starts automatically when archive files are created if:

The Start automatically indicator for the delete program is set in general Customizing for Archiving, and
You have maintained variants for test and production runs.

Sometimes circumstances require you to start the delete program manually.

Example

You create an archive file and start the archiving program. The data records are written to the archive files, but the system terminates processing before the delete program runs. If this happens, you need to delete the archived data manually.

To start the delete program manually:

In Customizing for Archiving, define variants for the delete program.

Access archive management by choosing Tools ® Administration then Administration ® Archiving and then choosing the Delete function.

Enter the name of the archive file to be deleted and maintain the start date and spool parameters.

Note

If the delete program is not run, the data remains in the database. This means that when you archive, copies of files are created from the database, without data being deleted from it.